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06-16-2016, 06:00 AM | #1 |
Cobra Viper
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Prologue Day 3: Mission Brazil - Cobra "COBRA’s secret temple is under attack by GI JOE. COBRA COMMANDER has dispatched his most ruthless mercenaries to defend the temple and repel the GI JOE team’s assault. Includes SKULLBUSTER, CRYSTAL BALL, VANDALO, OVERLORD, INTERROGATOR, NINJA-KU and SCRAP IRON! Other figures sold separately." Packaging by Sam Panico Skullbuster by bucky Late into the project, someone (I don't recall) made a great suggestion to expand the prologue into the main story by adding more teams. an excellent idea, I had several characters in mind right off the bat. The roster kept changing as I tweaked things here and there, and OB came up with an awesome color pallete for the Cobras that was an homage of sorts to the 2002 Jungle themed Viper. I went to the store to get the same paints he had to try to match the look across the board, which while it sounds easy, is incredibly difficult. SkullBuster was one of the figures I had on the original roster, and tying him into the theme helped set him apart from the regular version. I went in my own direction for the figure as opposed to what we've seen in the past. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Crossbones head Torso: Dusty 50th Arms: Dusty 50th Legs: Jungle Viper Web gear: Dusty50th/Maverick MU Crystal Ball by bucky The body in use for this Crystal Ball has been set aside for years now, for the purpose of making a Crystal Ball custom. I just never got around to it. A couple of reasons were the head and shield, the gear was always changing. I just could never find a good recipe that I liked. I revisited the wip for the project here, and inspiration struck when I happened to pop that head on the body. I knew I had found my Crystal Ball head. A little sculpy later, I moved onto the gear. I ended up with a SW Gungan warrior figure and gear set for that purpose. The real challenge was the shield. I just couldn't replicate the original. Joecustoms member Nova shared a picture of what he used for an updated shield years ago, which came from a Sigma 6 figure. That lead to the idea that Crystal Ball has evolved from a silly hypnotist joke of a character to a creepy black magic occult type of character. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Retaliation Roadblock with Sculpted hair Body: Roc Neo Viper Web gear: Gungan Warrior Weapon: Shield from Sigma Six mini figures Vandalo by bucky Who is Vandalo? Originally a repaint of Gristle from South America, he kind of seemed like a no brainer for the project. An easy add in. But he wasn't easy. Instead of coming up with a new take, my first couple of attempts basically kept remaking Gristle, which didn't fit the theme or the idea. Strange as it sounds, it was a struggle, as I kept remaking Gristle over and over again, to the point where I almost dropped Vandalo out. Once I got past the Gristle look and idea, and went off in a direction that was different than the original, he fell together and I liked how it looked, and added him back into the project. The figure, despite being fully painted, was one that I got very lucky with in that he retains an incredible range of motion with no paint chipping. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: LotR Legolas with Visor added Torso: Retalliation Snake Eyes V1 Arms: Retaliation Firefly Legs: Crimson Guard/Resolute Trooper Web gear: Arctic Enake Eyes Overlord by Oreobuilder Once we settled on a Mission Brazil Cobra team, we went back and forth about whom to include on the roster. We really wanted to make Major Bludd, but the caster that was to supply some of the parts to bucky wasn't going to be able to deliver in time, as it was to be a shrink of the Sideshow Major Bludd head. Fortunately, we had a plan B. I quickly threw together Overlord with a similar recipe that I had used years ago for a Group Project. I modernized it a bit and gave it a color scheme inspired by the Club’s 2006 version. Overlord is not a character that many people make customs of, so we liked the idea of including him in the set. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: VvV Crimson Guard with added monocle Helmet: Resolute Cobra Trooper Torso, upper arms: 25th Destro Lower arms: 25th Iron Grenadier Upper legs: 25th Zartam Lower legs: RoC Neo Viper Interrogator by Oreobuilder Once we decided to spin off Mission Brazil from Resurgence 3, we wanted to create a Cobra 7-Pack. We started brainstorming about possible team members. I had a WIP build of the Interrogator since 2013. Originally, I was going to include him in my Battle Corps Month project. He did not make the cut at the time, so I dusted off the figure and re-thought the color scheme. Since we were creating a unified color pallet for the team, he needed to fit in but be different at the same time. For some reason, I felt that a khaki uniform, inspired by my Eagle Force General Mamba custom, worked for the character so I started there. I decided to include the Battle Copter accessory as homage to the original figure. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head, web gear: DTC Interrogator Torso, arms, lower legs: 25th Crimson Guard Upper legs: 25th Viper Weapon: POC Shock Trooper Battle Copter: Retaliation Ultimate Cobra Commander Ninja-Ku by Oreobuilder With a setting like Brazil for a mission, we looked at all South American exclusives as inspiration. The original Ninja-Ku was released in Argentina in the eighties. We imagined that Cobra created a sustained a network of mercenaries and agents in South America and calls upon them to support their forces when needed. Even though Hasbro released a Ninja-Ku Storm Shadow during the 25th Anniversary, I thought he could use an update with modern parts. The recipe is pretty straight forward using a couple of different recent Storm Shadows. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Retaliation Kamakura Torso, Arms: DG Storm Shadow Legs, weapons: Retaliation Storm Shadow Scrap Iron by Oreobuilder Bucky came up with the idea of a ‘’Mission Brazil’’ GI Joe team early in the project. At first, it was going to be of the missions for Resurgence 3. As it evolved, we decide to make Mission Brazil its own thing. We expanded it by adding Cobra. To fill the roster, Sam suggested that we make it a ‘’Cobra’s Most Wanted’’ mercenary type of squad. I’m pretty I’ve mentioned somewhere that Scrap Iron was one of my favorite figures growing up. As such, I enjoy making customs of the character. For this version, I knew I wanted to make a jungle version, but I did not want to simply repaint a 25th anniversary style recipe. I wanted to modernize his gear and armor. For the colors, I proposed a jungle themed pallet to bucky loosely based on the Club’s Operation Flaming MOTH and the 2002 green Viper. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: 25th Scrap Iron Torso, upper arms, legs: 50th Lowlight Lower Arms: POC Destro Weapon: POC Viper Next: Join us starting July 1st for the final chapter on the Resurgence saga... Last edited by PHX Customs; 06-19-2016 at 07:19 AM.. |
06-16-2016, 06:00 AM | #2 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Several Places
Posts: 340
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Prologue Day 1: Mission Brazil - GI Joe "COBRA COMMANDER has hidden the plans to his ultimate weapon in a secret COBRA Temple deep in the Amazon Rainforest. GENERAL HAWK has deployed a GI JOE strike team to investigate and retrieve the secret data. Seven team members are included: BREACHER, EAGLE EYE, TANGO, BROADSIDE, MONGOOSE, GROUNDPOUNDER and BULKHEAD! Other figures sold separately." Packaging by Sam Panico Eagle Eye by bucky For a Prologue to the main story, Mission Brazil was to be a team of Joes like the original Arah line, with unique color schemes. I had some ideas in my head, and one of them was to do repaints of Resurgence 1 and 2 characters to tie in with our homage to the original line. Repaints that were practically the same builds as the previous versions (as much as I could) while adding a few tweaks here and there. While the original Mission Brazil was straight up repaints, it did feature a kitbash in the form of Claymore. As you go farther into the original line and into the new century, some repaints had new parts mixed in. I went that route with the set for those reasons, and not having all the original pieces to replicate the figure. One of the figures I wanted to make in repaint form was my favorite, Eagle Eye. I had all the parts to make another and jumped at the chance to do him again, in a slightly different uniform scheme than you usually see in Mission Brazil. I kept the colors of Dial Tone throughout the whole build. Thanks to Avacs Lab and Angry Nomad customs, I was able to get a duplicate helmet and shield instead of scratch building one or tracking a shield down. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Storm Shadow Retaliation/Avacs Lab cast Torso: Poc Duke with belt and pouches added Arms: Retaliation Snake Eyes Legs: Poc Firefly with holsters added Weapon: Angry Nomad Customs Shield, Marauder Gun. Breacher by bucky Breacher first debuted in Resurgence 1, a creation of Oreobuilder. I thought he'd be a fun character to tackle as a repaint for Resurgence 3. Remaking someone else's custom in repaint form is deceptively hard. I stayed as true to the original build as I could, except I used different lower legs, and used a different shield. The build took longer than almost any other custom, as I had to disassemble the figure more than once to sand more joints down. As simple as this build looks, it was a pain in my butt His look is based off Leatherneck's colors. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Renegade soldier Torso: Renegade soldier Arms: 30th Hawk Legs: Renegade soldier, Retaliation Duke Web gear: Resolute Roadblock Weapon: Various Tango by bucky Tango (from Resurgence 1) came to Mission Brazil kind of late in the game compared to everyone else. I was struggling to find another character that could be on the team and that I could find the parts for. I had to gather the parts up for him in the end, I had a jungle themed character staring at me in the face and didn't put 2 and 2 together for the longest time. I made him an homage to the Dial Tone colors. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: BBTS Burnout Torso: BBTS Burnout Arms: BBTS Burnout, WWE elbow pad Legs: PoC Destro, Poc Duke Web gear: Poc Recondo Weapon: Cast hat, various Broadside by bucky During Resurgence 2, Broadside was kidnapped in the prologue story by Cobra, that was written by Joecustoms Alum Charles Cushman (aka Raptor). If you followed along with the story that was being told, you learned that he was experimented on by Glitch and transformed into a Cobra, and was the driver of the DeBugger that was created by KeepItCleanCustoms. A fun way to bring him back to the team (after his rescue at the end of Part 2), drastically different due to his encounter with Cobra and Glitch. The idea that I wanted to finish his storyline was the catalyst to creating the Mission Brazil set. I built the figure first, the head came later on. I used a 50th Hit N Run head due to the lack of hair and wanting to try sculptings some, and for the scowl, as I wanted to convey the anger in him. I cut up alot of random kibble to make the electronics on his face. For the hair, I used some green stuff. His color scheme is meant to mimic Wet Suit from the original Mission Brazil. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Hit N Run 50th Torso: RoC Duke, Poc Beach Head Arms: Rock duke Legs: BBTS BBQ Web gear: Raginspoon Cast Mongoose by bucky In creating this team of repaints by my friends at PHX, I didn't want to leave Dusty79 without a figure. He creates some amazing work, and I looked at Mongoose as being the entry that represents his contribution. The figure differs slightly on the build due to parts availability, but I still feel as though it's recognizable as to whom it is. His color scheme is meant to mimic Mainframe. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Retaliation Soldier with Star Wars Helmet, scope added Torso: Retaliation Airborne Arms: Retaliation Airborne Legs: Wild Weasel Web gear: Retaliation Lift Ticket Groundpounder by bucky Of all the figures that we've made, there are two Joe characters that I see as the "face" of Resurgence. Eagle Eye and Groundpounder. One represents the concept of a soldier in the future, and one represents the soldier of today. In my mind, they are best friends. There was no way I was going to make this team without the two of them. They also represent the only two Joe characters to appear in every installment. The original concept behind Resurgence was a "what if" this was really at retail. Throughout the line, we've had rules in place to keep it in check and keep that theme going, whether it be the G slightly to PG filecards to the names of the characters in the presentations. Groundpounder is a character that if this line were real, he'd be one of the "faces" of the line. The character is painted in Mission Brazil Claymore colors. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Dollar General Duke Torso: Ultimate Duke Arms: Ultimate Duke Legs: Ultimate Duke Web gear: Pit Trooper Weapon: Unknown Bulkhead by bucky Bulkhead was a figure I had a great time creating for part 1. The look, the color, the filecard by Trekker, everything just seemed to click on the figure. I was excited to bring him back for the Mission Brazil set, as he was a favorite of mine and garnered alot of positive reviews from Resurgence 1. I didn't tweak the build at first, but tried the Leatherneck vest on him and liked it enough to swap that in place of the original's Flint webgear. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: BBTS Bull Torso: Retaliation Roadblock Arms: Upper Roadblock, Lower Low Light Legs: BBTS Red Dog Web gear: Leatherneck Next: GI Joe gets help from and unexpected ally… Last edited by PHX Customs; 06-18-2016 at 07:33 AM.. |
06-16-2016, 06:01 AM | #3 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Several Places
Posts: 340
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Prologue Day 2: Mission Brazil - Iron Grenadiers "DESTRO’s forces are on the move! DARKLON and his detachment of IRON GRENADIERS attack Cobra’s temple hidden deep inside the rainforest to steal secret data files and discover COBRA COMMANDER’s ultimate plan!" Packaging by Sam Panico Darklon by Oreobuilder At first, the Iron Grenadiers squad was only to be four Troopers. When we realized that our story worked better with 7 figures, I needed to add some members. I went back and forth about whom to include on the team. While browsing the net, I stumbled onto the Bronze Bombers version of Darklon called Crazeblaze. I immediately imagined him in Iron Grenadier colors. I had a WIP sitting around in my fodder pile, so I updated the recipe and everything came together nicely. I did not stick to Crazeblaze’s color scheme, I made some adjustments and added some red to tie Darklon into the team. Filecard by G1Trekker Head: AVAC cast Torso, upper arms: RoC Neo Viper Lower arm (r): Retaliation Firefly Lower arm (l): 25th Destro Legs: PoC Firefly Gun: Star Wars Clone Trooper Iron Grenadier Trooper by Oreobuilder I planned to make Iron Grenadiers last year for Resurgence 2. However, my recipe hinged on Marauder Task Force parts and when those were delayed, I moved on to other figures. When my MTF order arrived, I played around with the parts and made this latest version. The recipe is not exactly what I had in mind at the beginning. I had to compensate for the larger hips ball joints by filling the sockets with hot glue. Filecard by G1Trekker Head, sash, belt, sword: 25th Iron Grenadier Torso, arms: Retaliation Cobra Commander Legs: Marauder Task Force Ferret by Oreobuilder Ferret was in the works to include with a vehicle for Resurgence 3. However, plans for the vehicle changed and Ferret ended up having no place to go. Once I decided to make the Iron Grenadiers squad, Ferret found a new home. For the custom, I wanted to have strong ties to the vintage version, so I stayed true to the original colors. For parts, I picked what I could find that best resembles the original’s torso accessory. I am not 100% sold on the barbecue chest, but it does the job for now. Filecard by G1Trekker Helmet: AVAC Cast Torso, arms: 30th Barbecue Legs: 25th Snow Job Iron Grenadier Commando by Oreobuilder At first, the Iron Grenadiers squad was only to be four Troopers and the Ferret. When we realized that our story worked better with 7 members, I decided to add the Darklon and another member. I went back and forth on whom to include. Should it be a new character or a named character? I finally settled on another troop builder. I based the figure on the Club’s 2005 o-ring Iron Grenadier. Filecard by G1Trekker Head: 25th Iron Grenadier Everything else: 50th Night Viper Next: Cobra joins the fray… Last edited by PHX Customs; 06-18-2016 at 02:10 PM.. |
06-16-2016, 06:01 AM | #4 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Several Places
Posts: 340
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Prologue Day 3: Mission Brazil - Cobra "COBRA’s secret temple is under attack by GI JOE. COBRA COMMANDER has dispatched his most ruthless mercenaries to defend the temple and repel the GI JOE team’s assault. Includes SKULLBUSTER, CRYSTAL BALL, VANDALO, OVERLORD, INTERROGATOR, NINJA-KU and SCRAP IRON! Other figures sold separately." Packaging by Sam Panico Skullbuster by bucky Late into the project, someone (I don't recall) made a great suggestion to expand the prologue into the main story by adding more teams. an excellent idea, I had several characters in mind right off the bat. The roster kept changing as I tweaked things here and there, and OB came up with an awesome color pallete for the Cobras that was an homage of sorts to the 2002 Jungle themed Viper. I went to the store to get the same paints he had to try to match the look across the board, which while it sounds easy, is incredibly difficult. SkullBuster was one of the figures I had on the original roster, and tying him into the theme helped set him apart from the regular version. I went in my own direction for the figure as opposed to what we've seen in the past. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Crossbones head Torso: Dusty 50th Arms: Dusty 50th Legs: Jungle Viper Web gear: Dusty50th/Maverick MU Crystal Ball by bucky The body in use for this Crystal Ball has been set aside for years now, for the purpose of making a Crystal Ball custom. I just never got around to it. A couple of reasons were the head and shield, the gear was always changing. I just could never find a good recipe that I liked. I revisited the wip for the project here, and inspiration struck when I happened to pop that head on the body. I knew I had found my Crystal Ball head. A little sculpy later, I moved onto the gear. I ended up with a SW Gungan warrior figure and gear set for that purpose. The real challenge was the shield. I just couldn't replicate the original. Joecustoms member Nova shared a picture of what he used for an updated shield years ago, which came from a Sigma 6 figure. That lead to the idea that Crystal Ball has evolved from a silly hypnotist joke of a character to a creepy black magic occult type of character. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Retaliation Roadblock with Sculpted hair Body: Roc Neo Viper Web gear: Gungan Warrior Weapon: Shield from Sigma Six mini figures Vandalo by bucky Who is Vandalo? Originally a repaint of Gristle from South America, he kind of seemed like a no brainer for the project. An easy add in. But he wasn't easy. Instead of coming up with a new take, my first couple of attempts basically kept remaking Gristle, which didn't fit the theme or the idea. Strange as it sounds, it was a struggle, as I kept remaking Gristle over and over again, to the point where I almost dropped Vandalo out. Once I got past the Gristle look and idea, and went off in a direction that was different than the original, he fell together and I liked how it looked, and added him back into the project. The figure, despite being fully painted, was one that I got very lucky with in that he retains an incredible range of motion with no paint chipping. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: LotR Legolas with Visor added Torso: Retalliation Snake Eyes V1 Arms: Retaliation Firefly Legs: Crimson Guard/Resolute Trooper Web gear: Arctic Enake Eyes Overlord by Oreobuilder Once we settled on a Mission Brazil Cobra team, we went back and forth about whom to include on the roster. We really wanted to make Major Bludd, but the caster that was to supply some of the parts to bucky wasn't going to be able to deliver in time, as it was to be a shrink of the Sideshow Major Bludd head. Fortunately, we had a plan B. I quickly threw together Overlord with a similar recipe that I had used years ago for a Group Project. I modernized it a bit and gave it a color scheme inspired by the Club’s 2006 version. Overlord is not a character that many people make customs of, so we liked the idea of including him in the set. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: VvV Crimson Guard with added monocle Helmet: Resolute Cobra Trooper Torso, upper arms: 25th Destro Lower arms: 25th Iron Grenadier Upper legs: 25th Zartam Lower legs: RoC Neo Viper Interrogator by Oreobuilder Once we decided to spin off Mission Brazil from Resurgence 3, we wanted to create a Cobra 7-Pack. We started brainstorming about possible team members. I had a WIP build of the Interrogator since 2013. Originally, I was going to include him in my Battle Corps Month project. He did not make the cut at the time, so I dusted off the figure and re-thought the color scheme. Since we were creating a unified color pallet for the team, he needed to fit in but be different at the same time. For some reason, I felt that a khaki uniform, inspired by my Eagle Force General Mamba custom, worked for the character so I started there. I decided to include the Battle Copter accessory as homage to the original figure. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head, web gear: DTC Interrogator Torso, arms, lower legs: 25th Crimson Guard Upper legs: 25th Viper Weapon: POC Shock Trooper Battle Copter: Retaliation Ultimate Cobra Commander Ninja-Ku by Oreobuilder With a setting like Brazil for a mission, we looked at all South American exclusives as inspiration. The original Ninja-Ku was released in Argentina in the eighties. We imagined that Cobra created a sustained a network of mercenaries and agents in South America and calls upon them to support their forces when needed. Even though Hasbro released a Ninja-Ku Storm Shadow during the 25th Anniversary, I thought he could use an update with modern parts. The recipe is pretty straight forward using a couple of different recent Storm Shadows. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: Retaliation Kamakura Torso, Arms: DG Storm Shadow Legs, weapons: Retaliation Storm Shadow Scrap Iron by Oreobuilder Bucky came up with the idea of a ‘’Mission Brazil’’ GI Joe team early in the project. At first, it was going to be of the missions for Resurgence 3. As it evolved, we decide to make Mission Brazil its own thing. We expanded it by adding Cobra. To fill the roster, Sam suggested that we make it a ‘’Cobra’s Most Wanted’’ mercenary type of squad. I’m pretty I’ve mentioned somewhere that Scrap Iron was one of my favorite figures growing up. As such, I enjoy making customs of the character. For this version, I knew I wanted to make a jungle version, but I did not want to simply repaint a 25th anniversary style recipe. I wanted to modernize his gear and armor. For the colors, I proposed a jungle themed pallet to bucky loosely based on the Club’s Operation Flaming MOTH and the 2002 green Viper. Filecard by G1Trekker Parts: Head: 25th Scrap Iron Torso, upper arms, legs: 50th Lowlight Lower Arms: POC Destro Weapon: POC Viper Next: Join us starting July 1st for the final chapter on the Resurgence saga... Last edited by PHX Customs; 06-19-2016 at 07:20 AM.. |
06-16-2016, 06:02 AM | #5 |
Cobra Viper
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Overflow
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06-16-2016, 06:03 AM | #6 |
Cobra Viper
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Overflow 2
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06-16-2016, 08:35 AM | #7 |
Domesticated Arms Dealer
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Can't wait to see this!
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06-17-2016, 06:01 AM | #8 |
Cobra Viper
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We are up and running with Day 1. GI Joe is there!
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06-17-2016, 08:55 AM | #9 |
Monster Maker
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Vancouver, WA.
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Awesome! Looking forward to this!
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Personal sculpting blog: http://monster-zer0.blogspot.com/ Hisstank threads I've started about sculpting... General Sculpting http://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-jo...ut-sculpt.html RTV mold http://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-jo...-tutorial.html The last thing you will hear is the cracking of your vertebrae, One... By... One! |
06-17-2016, 09:18 AM | #10 |
B and H Comics
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Texas
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I love these ! Thanks for doing this the past few years, i look forward to them every day, it is a nice little treat every morning.
Not going to lie, I am a little jealous I don't have these guys in my collection. Using the original sets colors was an awesome idea. |
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