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07-06-2021, 10:55 AM | #1 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: midwest
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Grand Slam finishes my team of the Joe left out of the '97 Stars & Stripes Forever set.
The parameters for this set were to use '82-'86 pieces, like the original Kenner set did. However, I cheated here and there. Hawk uses a comic pack Hawk head. Steeler uses a Star Trek Decker head. Grand Slam uses an Infantry Division head. Grand Slam and Clutch are linked to each other by having cold color schemes. Ideally, I'd make a VAMP/HAL combo set in slate/black/grey. The other figures stand on their own, but I tried to make them look different than their original ARAH releases. Flash is the closest to the ARAH version, but the pads are salmon instead of sunset and the other gear is dark tan instead of brown. It was important to have Grand Slam and Flash have different color sets. They also have different waists as to not have entirely shared bodies. As much as I love ARAH figures, epoxy filling the shoulder rivets/elbow rivets/thigh screw insets really streamlines the look. It's only the last year that I started doing this to the shoulder rivets, which you can compare to Flash's, which I didn't. Last edited by Clockwise; 09-15-2021 at 05:38 AM.. |
07-06-2021, 12:42 PM | #2 |
Tiger Force member
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Location: Here with my boy , Jacob , and Mama:)
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Outstanding work!! They look fantastic!! Kudos my friend!
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07-06-2021, 09:47 PM | #3 |
ORZO
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: PA
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Really liking that color scheme for Grand Slam, gives him a different look than what I am used to but still comes across as Grand Slam and pops well. Looks great with the rest of the group too!
Wouldn’t have noticed the rivets being covered if you didn’t say something, would have just been staring at the pics trying to figure out why he looked a little different from Flash. Haha. Is a cool touch, I enjoy the rivets just from nostalgia value but covering them give it a little something different.
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07-06-2021, 11:16 PM | #4 |
Cobra Soldado
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Brazil
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The color scheme is very elegant in GS. I wonder how you keep the movement and cover the rivets.. do you by any chande put some piece of tape or plastic over the rivet before covering it?
Last edited by Letal; 07-07-2021 at 07:43 AM.. |
07-07-2021, 04:41 AM | #5 |
Red Shadow (Lobo) :D
Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: Ireland
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Really like what you did there Clockwise, awesome man, and really diggin’ covering up the rivets, never thought of that but works so well!
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07-07-2021, 08:56 PM | #6 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: midwest
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Thanks, guys.
I tried to have one strange color recipe in my set of S&SF figures, as a nod to how odd Scarlett's color were in the '97 set. Grand Slam gets the closest, but it looks fairly close to some of the Night Force figures, which is fine. I can't take credit for the idea of filling the screw holes/rivets. Years ago there was a customizer turning figures into statues. I can't remember his name and didn't write it down anywhere and can't find it now when I look, not a regular here or on joecustoms. He glued the figures in locked positions and then epoxied EVERTHING to make it look like a solid sculpture. Great concept. I just dialed it back to hiding whatever can be hidden without inhibiting movement. Most of the time the epoxy doesn't interfere with the movement underneath. On a few I've done, the shoulder epoxy piece will just pop off like a hubcap if it doesn't want to be there when the articulation point is used. But normally the epoxy just stays where it is. I have no idea how that works, but I'm not complaining. Last edited by Clockwise; 07-07-2021 at 08:57 PM.. Reason: spelling |
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