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08-02-2010, 09:23 PM | #1 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Tonawanda, NY
Posts: 326
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I know this is A) not really great photography and B) not a phenomenal paint job, but I kind of like it. I had been looking at the Helix figure for a while wondering who she reminded me of when my wife just looked at her and said it looks like Huntress from "Birds of Prey", the series. I realized she wa right. I went out and bought another one, plus a second movie Cobra Commander figure (for the jacket...) and went about trimming away the details from Helix's outfit with both an Xacto knife and a Dremel tool.
Once the excess nernies were removed (keep the belt, ditch all the stuff hanging off it...) I just had to figure on a paint scheme. She always "looked" like she was wearing black, but in truth it's a very dark brown. But I liked the black so I worked on that and then just over-painted the chest area to simulate the cut of the outfit. The jacket was simply a matter of matching the paint scheme of the rest of the outfit. All in all, a VERY simple custom, but the result is amazingly cool, even with my crap-tastic paint-job (which I had to touch up a few glitches in Photoshop to correct for these photos...). I'd love to see someone else take the ball and run with it on this one. There's a REALLY AWESOME version of this figure dying to be made, but that was MY shot at it... Last edited by Shogi; 08-04-2010 at 12:48 PM.. |
08-02-2010, 09:24 PM | #2 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Tonawanda, NY
Posts: 326
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Just as a sub-note... I dropped her out of my second story window and no... she didn't land on her feet and walk away....
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08-02-2010, 10:41 PM | #3 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 269
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Good deal, man. I always did like that series despite the comic inaccuracies.
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