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06-29-2021, 09:14 AM | #1171 |
ORZO
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Does look cool with Club Recoil and my Big Ben v4. Loved Recoil growing up, need to get the accurate helmet for my modern one. Was pretty iconic so bummed out the Club didn’t make it. Needs the baby blue gun as well.
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Hit, awesome man! A great addition to the bulldog Squad, fricking love what you did with him, doesn’t even look like you’ve used Marauder parts, looks a factory figure, totally awesome! Been meaning to get some heads myself but being overseas, its not worth it with shipping etc etc, have ta wait till I can muster up an build up a nice big order to get that kinda stuff from Zica.
Ha, love the dog on the skateboard too I’m gonna ask, is that the Endor base you customed up for the scenes, looks awesome, better than the Red Shadows convention base I own, though that ain’t bad either, but that base looks one better! Also, loving all the glorious pics, always looking forward to what you bring up next! Be great to see all your pilots completed, funny enough, I got my childhood Ace v.1 with helmet mailed to me with other Action Force vintage stuff from my folks from the UK the other week, funny though, I never owned the Skystriker as a kid lol? Yeah, I can imagine with shipping. Be nice if more of the independent toy companies could team up with some European distributors to help get things over there at more reasonable prices. I think I heard Boss Fight has or is working on that so hopefully. Haha, got two packs of skateboards for a dollar each at Target one day. Didn’t know what I would use them for, maybe just background items for Ninja Turtles but they were a “just in case” purchase. Haha, glad I grabbed them because worked great here. Always love the videos of dogs on skateboards so was a fun tribute. That is actually the original release of the bunker mold, I believe. It’s from my childhood Power of the Force 2 Endor playset. Not customized at all, just pure glorious 90’s paint. The tree piece used in the pictures is from that playset as well. Really great set, has gotten a lot of use over the years so always love when I throw it in a picture. I tried to get the Convention Red Shadows bunker before but so pricy. On the list with a few JoeCon items I didn’t grab right away so I’ll just live without due to prices. That’s awesome that you got your Ace back. Only o ring I have of Ace is the v3. Maybe one day I’ll get the original, he was pretty unique so would be cool to have if I find him at a toy show cheap. Haha, same, didn’t have the Skystriker growing up. The conquest and Vector Jet were my go-to jets until the Ghoststriker came out. My Joes mainly used Copters until then, the Tomahawk, both versions of the Locust and the Razor-Blade. Now I have a half dozen Skystrikers because of all the modern releases.
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06-29-2021, 06:22 PM | #1172 |
Red Shadow (Lobo) :D
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Hit, oh yeah he looks great next to your FSS Recoil and Big Ben v4, neither have I ever owned, they look pretty cook too! ;) wish I bought the FSS figures when they came out but they cost an arm and a leg, especially with International shipping on top haha, I have a few though like all the Action Force ones and Big Ben, couple of Slaughter’s Marauder ones etc, but should of bought more now thinking about it, these days mint on card ones some of them are at joke prices lol... not that I care on MOC figures much, prefer loose.
Talking Boss Fight, yeah they have a deal with an online UK store, not everything they sell is on there though... just wish Zica would, would like to get deep into that stuff! With Marauders they’ve stopped shipping to Europe now too, just like they had with the UK months back which sucks, but the US shipping is pretty cheap so I can afford to use a US AddressPal forwarding company to use a US address and they send then to me, which works out a bit more and takes a bit longer but its not much change in that way thank goodness. Bargain at Target those skateboards, awesome ; D great tribute Aaaah yeah I see that now with that Power of the Force one, just thought they was more grey like that pic on the box, yours looks more green or I am color blind lol. Oh yeah again, I know, some of that FSS stuff an Joecon stuff goes for stupid prices! Yeah good to get Ace back lol, I do have some part ones too, many o-ring pilots also, need to get more modern, dude, I had the Conquest too, mine would of been different though than yours, was still Action Force when that was released in the UK, so had AF stickers on it instead of the Joe ones you would of had. Cool, actually never had a Ghoststriker, got one cheap and coming though! As for a Tomahawk, one day lol! Last edited by LEEE777; 06-29-2021 at 06:25 PM.. |
06-30-2021, 10:19 AM | #1173 |
ORZO
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Yeah, had I not been one what all-in from the start, there’d be a ton of stuff I wouldn’t have now. Bought most things as they came out until ROC, then I was choosy with ROC and POC a bit. During a lull in Joe product, circled back and grabbed a lot of that stuff for good prices before everything soared. Then JoeCon I would just bite the bullet right away to have stuff within a week of the show and ordered all Club stuff except maybe the female cobra troopers because Marauder Val’s were cheaper and looked cooler.
Saw Marauder stopped, that’s cool that there’s a reasonable workaround. Make the cheapest custom fodder so be tough to move forward without them. Haha, any change of color is due to time or sitting in the storage locker for years. Looks brand new to me still, that POTF2 stuff really held up well. Helps that I was more displaying them than playing with them by the end before I got out of toys for a bit. The Ghoststriker is AWESOME! I still need to find the nose cone to mine. The Tomahawk my brother had so got a lot of time with that as a kid, now I have the modern release and Tiger Force one. Always been one of my favorite vehicles.
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06-30-2021, 10:32 AM | #1174 |
ORZO
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This is one I never knew I needed until I saw that recent Snake Eyes Deadgame premium figure preorder pop up. I knew I didn’t want a larger scale red Snake Eyes.....but I kept looking at it....and looking at it....until finally it became, make one yourself or place the preorder! Since I’m apparently never gonna pass up painting a bright color, I chose the first option.
So haven’t read the comic yet but from what the artist said on the recent Hasbro Pulse stream, he made it sound like Snake Eyes was a straight up war machine in his story so I chose to go into this one with that mindset, I wanted a red Snake Eyes with a lot of ways in inflict damage. Easy build, just the Retro Collection Snake Eyes as the base. I went with a fire red paint and after mulling silver, I found a metallic zinc paint in my bin so I thought that would be a fun change up since I never used it before. So all of his accents are that color, visor, knee pads, etc. I wanted to strap on more gear than any Hasbro webgear I had would allow so I went with the tried and true Marauder straps and chose what I thought was a cool batch of weapons for him. The final touch was due to another Hasbro Pulse stream, Henry Golding was straight up giddy over Snake Eyes’ sword in the new movie with the gold accents and since that is another figure I’m trying not to pick up, I decided to give this Snake Eyes a similar style sword so I grabbed some gold and black paint and made it happen. End result......LOVE it! A red Snake Eyes, didn’t know I needed one but now I know.....haha, so cool looking, not sure who he’ll team with but love him on the shelf. Might just be the Snake Eyes I leave on the Arashikage stand. Snake Eyes (Deadgame) With some of the other colors of Snake Eyes: And then just walking through any Cobras foolish enough to engage:
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06-30-2021, 10:46 AM | #1175 |
Crimson Guard
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Oh wow (Deadgame) SE looks so badass man! I want one!!!
Loving the new customs as well, they are awesome!
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06-30-2021, 11:11 AM | #1176 |
Red Shadow (Lobo) :D
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Yeah, had I not been one what all-in from the start, there’d be a ton of stuff I wouldn’t have now. Bought most things as they came out until ROC, then I was choosy with ROC and POC a bit. During a lull in Joe product, circled back and grabbed a lot of that stuff for good prices before everything soared. Then JoeCon I would just bite the bullet right away to have stuff within a week of the show and ordered all Club stuff except maybe the female cobra troopers because Marauder Val’s were cheaper and looked cooler.
Saw Marauder stopped, that’s cool that there’s a reasonable workaround. Make the cheapest custom fodder so be tough to move forward without them. Haha, any change of color is due to time or sitting in the storage locker for years. Looks brand new to me still, that POTF2 stuff really held up well. Helps that I was more displaying them than playing with them by the end before I got out of toys for a bit. The Ghoststriker is AWESOME! I still need to find the nose cone to mine. The Tomahawk my brother had so got a lot of time with that as a kid, now I have the modern release and Tiger Force one. Always been one of my favorite vehicles. genuine in germany crossword Yep :P Dudeeeeee, I so had that red Rob Liefeld Snake Eyes on my want-to-do-list haha, cool! I know a lot of Joe fans don’t like that version of SE’s which I don’t understand because its stunning, red suits SE’s more than any other color bar black of course, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hasbro knocks one out, probably only for the Classified line though, love it bro, and love all them shots, you made the comic book come to life! |
06-30-2021, 11:50 PM | #1177 |
Knuckle Massage!
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I was waiting to see who would do a 1:18 Dead Eyes first and yours come roaring out the gates! lol I loved that color scheme when seeing the BBTS offering & now seeing it here I want yours to show up at retail so I can have him too! Red is my fave color (I am wearing red right now lol) and your Red Snake Eyes is a 2021 customs fave!
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07-01-2021, 12:27 AM | #1178 |
Customizer of 80s Toys
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Snake Eyes is black.....period. You must stop these crazy things you are doing....LOL.
Smooth paint job for real. I have no idea the story as I haven't read a Joe comic since the original ARAH run ended. Cool shot with all the Snake Eyes too.
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07-01-2021, 09:33 AM | #1179 |
ORZO
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Dang, you’ve had/have plenty of Tomahawk’s then over time, me never having one I’m ashamed to be a Joe fan now haha, yeah its a cool vehicle! Not sure if they ever sold the TF version over here in the UK/Ireland but I know the original was, too expensive for a lil kid though lol at the time. Think it was still Action Force then so probably would of had the Action Force logos on it, I’ll go and see....
genuine in germany crossword Yep :P Dudeeeeee, I so had that red Rob Liefeld Snake Eyes on my want-to-do-list haha, cool! I know a lot of Joe fans don’t like that version of SE’s which I don’t understand because its stunning, red suits SE’s more than any other color bar black of course, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hasbro knocks one out, probably only for the Classified line though, love it bro, and love all them shots, you made the comic book come to life! Wish the new ones had a better way to strap the guys to the chairs, I’m using those invisible rubber bands Hasbro uses to tie guns to hands to get my guys to stay in their seats. Haha, I knew I was having one, just wasn’t sure if Hasbro would announce a Retro collection one or I’d be painting it myself but that red Snake Eyes was mine! I saw the trade paperback version of the Deadgame comic is coming in November so I’ll order that to finally check it out. I just have so many black & gray Snake Eyes figures that the red was a breath of fresh air for me so I was fine with it in the comic art but then loved it once they showed the premium figure. Quote:
I was waiting to see who would do a 1:18 Dead Eyes first and yours come roaring out the gates! lol I loved that color scheme when seeing the BBTS offering & now seeing it here I want yours to show up at retail so I can have him too! Red is my fave color (I am wearing red right now lol) and your Red Snake Eyes is a 2021 customs fave!
Thanks, appreciate that! Haha, green is my favorite color, haven’t done Snake Eyes in that color yet, seeing Flint’s reaction below to me painting Snake Eyes red.....maybe I do need green one as well! Quote:
Haven’t read it yet either but Liefeld was talking about him during the last Pulse stream and he sold me on the concept. Looking forward to getting the collection of issues when the book is released in November. Haha, thanks! The red and zinc came out looking really good on these parts so I’m 100% happy with this one. Then super fun fight pics to take and love seeing all of these different colored versions of Snake Eyes together. Can’t wait to finish Goggles & Ninja Force versions so I can do a group shot of the original Snake Eyes ARAH versions.
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07-06-2021, 10:01 AM | #1180 |
ORZO
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Up next is another like Iron Grenadier Destro and Ninja Force Storm Shadow where I knew if Hasbro sent out the 6” Classified version it would be hard for me to pass up if I didn’t already have an adequate 3.75” version. So because the Classified Alley-Viper seems near, I stopped procrastinating and finished the MTF version that I started a while ago.
Inspiration for this one came from Kuh_Rupht’s awesome MTF version of the character. Been a while since I got to take a look at this guy.....so badass! Forgot he dropped a wash on it to dirty him up a bit. Definitely worth checking out. https://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-j...-viper-kr.html So ever since seeing Kuh Rupht’s, knew eventually I would need to tackle this one, kind of needed to anyway since I already made a pair of v2’s and v3’s so I couldn’t just have one of the original. Easy build. Started with the orange Marauder MTF and gave it a full orange paint job. Then started mimicking the camo pattern with a bright blue and blacked out the boots and gloves. Grabbed a vest that I haven’t really used before to give him a different look, then grabbed some accessories I felt would mimic his original gear and hit them with bright blue, orange, black and brown paints. Final touches were trying to give him a backpack that sort of resembled the original’s and I borrowed the weapons from my childhood o ring’s version for the time being. I was originally giving him a Marauder made helmet but since I had an extra of the maroon version that I got out of a dollar bin years back, I decided to paint that up to really push him over the top. Alley-Viper With the original three versions from the ARAH run, like that I unintentionally gave them different helmet builds: With my other modern Alley-Vipers: And doing a quick strike against Checkpoint Alpha:
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