[Mr Hebime]

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Originally Posted by Hit & Run

Fantastic job! I may be placing another MGR order soon

[Jinx723]

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Originally Posted by Hit & Run

Oh well, guess I’m gonna have to buy me some more Blue Germans.😉

[stljoe]

Great idea. And they all look production quality too.

[AF80sFAN]

Great idea for a Cobra Naval Crew, there are so many possibilities with these blue Germans.

It made me chuckle but when I first saw the below picture I thought Commander Pelarnis was pointing a gun at Cobra Commander's head.

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Originally Posted by Hit & Run

[Hit & Run]

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Originally Posted by paokole

This Cobra nautical or navy crew is out of this world!!! I'm totally with you, it's imperative that your convention Cobra Commander is surrounded by capable and badass associates! Admiral Kerilia as his right hand looks fantastic as the rest of the team.

You took the blue German blank and created some really cool stuff here. Great work!!

Thanks, I appreciate it! Really loving this group, plus it’s great that my painted Cobra Commander matched so well to these unpainted new German builds.

Really happy with the group, especially Admiral Kerilia, just so cool looking with the hat.

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Originally Posted by Matt82

Those Cobras look fantastic! I was on thr fence about grabbing some blue Germans, but these have me convinced that I have to grab at least a few.

Thanks! I knew I was getting the blue Germans, assumed three was more than enough though. Didn’t expect not to have one just all geared up un-modified. Great figures even without paint, definitely would recommend at least grabbing one.

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Originally Posted by Mr Hebime

Fantastic job! I may be placing another MGR order soon

Thanks! Haha, I’m trying so hard not to order more! Added stuff to my cart and it was already over $100....must stay strong!

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Originally Posted by Jinx723

Oh well, guess I’m gonna have to buy me some more Blue Germans.😉

Haha, sorry! Always works out that way, I probably forced myself to buy at least one more to display with my other Germans.

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Originally Posted by stljoe

Great idea. And they all look production quality too.

Thanks! Making them in navy blue, didn’t need much paint to make them perfect cobras!

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Originally Posted by AF80sFAN

Great idea for a Cobra Naval Crew, there are so many possibilities with these blue Germans.

It made me chuckle but when I first saw the below picture I thought Commander Pelarnis was pointing a gun at Cobra Commander's head.

Thanks, I appreciate it! Came together really quick once I got the Admiral built. Wasn’t planning for all three to be a squad, along with my Commander, but can’t complain when they look this great together!

Haha, went back and looked, does look like that! He knows better than that because this Cobra Commander is more Resolute than Sunbow.

[Hit & Run]

Up next is one I probably looked past hundreds of times on my YoJoe deep dives but since I was really digging to find uses for all of my Contractors, I finally stopped and really checked him out. Then I realized that he was an original Tracker repainted.....and I loved Tracker growing up, so I immediately started working on him.

Night Force Action Man is not one I ever expected to make but he’s one I really love the look of. Really easy build here, started with the new Contractor and then just worked on parts that would help mimic the original figure’s design. Originally was doing an 86 best but it looked a little bulky on the body for whatever reason to I switched gears and grabbed one of the dozen white with blue accent vests I still had from the original marauder KS in my bin. Full orange paint job, then I added the green accent before finally trying the logo by freehand. Adding the circle around that failed miserably so I went with a cleaner look with just the lettering. A little different from the classic logo but I like how it turned out. Then I painted the hair & eyebrows black (since I was out of black hair heads) and finished off the look by adding the stripes to his face & arms.

Night Force Action Man





Gave him this 2000’s vehicle since I never used it before:



And sent him off into action:

[Flint_rocks]

You made me have to look him up. Shame lol. As usual yours looked like the vintage figure who again I had never seen before. What is the story with Action Man? I know he came in the SDCC pack with Leoric, but no idea who he is or what that version is about.

[Steel Brigade]

Action Man for the win!!!! Keep diving brother, you always come up aces! I was just looking at that figure yesterday for a possible build and H&R ALREADY delivers!

[stljoe]

Very nice. And, as usual, a fun little dio-story to go along with it.

[Hit & Run]

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Originally Posted by Flint_rocks

You made me have to look him up. Shame lol. As usual yours looked like the vintage figure who again I had never seen before. What is the story with Action Man? I know he came in the SDCC pack with Leoric, but no idea who he is or what that version is about.

Haha, don’t feel too bad about looking this one up because I was right there with you until I started working on the custom. I never knew anyone reused the Tracker parts.

My take was this Night Force version is the original or Classic version of Action Man, then the story put together for the blue outfit version was that this younger guy broke into the Action Man headquarters and they recruited him to be a successor. Didn’t look it up until after I did my pictures so was cool that it matched up with what I had in my head.

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Originally Posted by Steel Brigade

Action Man for the win!!!! Keep diving brother, you always come up aces! I was just looking at that figure yesterday for a possible build and H&R ALREADY delivers!

Thanks! This was a fun one just because I wasn’t familiar with it at all, I even did the vest and all of the accessories in all orange at first because I didn’t pull the picture up again and was like, “wait, he has all of these other paint apps!” Haha.

Can’t wait to see how yours turns out if you choose to move forward with him. I still need to do a good Tracker so seeing another version of this build would be awesome. Plus I doubt we’re gonna see all that many night Force Action Man customs. Haha.

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Originally Posted by stljoe

Very nice. And, as usual, a fun little dio-story to go along with it.

Thanks! Really fun pictures to take because it did end up towing the line between photo shoot & full blown story. Definitely one that would have been easy to add a few lines of dialogue too and expand out on. Maybe in the future! Haha.