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05-10-2008, 09:11 PM | #1 |
Plastic-Curves.com
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Hello everyone.
I recently was turned onto your site via Seibertron.com. There were three toy lines in the eighties that I absolutely loved. Transformers, G.I.Joe and Masters of the Universe. The 25th anniversary figures got me back into G.I. Joe, with my first purchase being Zartan. I'm not a completist, but hope to have every major Cobra character. Anyways, enough about me. Ever since pictures of the cast of G.I.J.O.E. started popping up online, I had decided to take my Photoshop skills and tweak the images. At first it started out with just adding color to the bland uniforms, and eventually creating "new" characters from scratch. I thought as my first post I'd share these with you. As I create more, I'll post them. Hope you'll enjoy them. My first attempt at "fixing" Scarlett (Added color to the bland uniform): It was the first picture I'd seen, so I didn't have a good idea of the various armor separations. It was good enough at the time. I then tackled my favorite character, the Baroness: I was glad they had dressed her in black leather, but from the test shots I thought they missed too many small character defining details. I lightened her skin, darkened and reddened her lips, blackened her hair, added back the fingers to her gloves, added her cobra belt buckle (from the toy), added her cobra chest emblem, and most importantly, gave her glasses! (Photos have since shown that they did eventually give her glasses.) My next attempt was Duke: Again, I didn't think black fit the character, so I made a version using his traditional tan & green and one featuring browns. Notice I also added his army paratrooper insignia that is normally on his figures. I do have more to post, but I'm going to space them out a bit so you can get to comment on them if you wish. Last edited by Bamphalas; 05-18-2008 at 09:00 AM.. Reason: Change title |
05-10-2008, 10:11 PM | #2 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Hey, it's cool! Great work!
Perhaps the movie characters can have the colors of the 80s figures be reflected on the powersuits as a salute to the original costumes. Well it's just a wish and I don't know if Hasbro will still make any last minute changes. |
05-10-2008, 10:19 PM | #3 |
THE ULTIMATE COBRA WEAPON
Join Date: May 2008
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Wow Great Job The Scarlett Is The Bestand The Duke Really Needs That Im Not Crazy About Them Making Evry Joe Member In A Black Suit They Need To Use Sum Of Ur Ideas
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05-10-2008, 10:20 PM | #4 |
SurveillancePort.com
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Very nice indeed. Welcome to the Tank! Thanks for sharing your work with us!
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05-10-2008, 11:02 PM | #5 |
VALKYRIE
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Duke looks neat in that pic...gives off a Serpentor vibe. Its better to have colored uniforms, since it brings out most of the detail that is obscured by black.
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05-10-2008, 11:18 PM | #6 |
Cold Slither's Roadie
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Whoa...that is amazing, I like it! It fulfills the need for a "modern" look, but it nods to original color schemes. Great work!
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05-11-2008, 08:03 AM | #7 |
Plastic-Curves.com
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Thanks for the comments, guys! Glad to be here.
Now for Hawk: He's probably the one that needs the least "correction". Still, I am not fond of the black and greys the costume designer likes. So, I gave him green camo pants and made his jacket brown. I beefed up his jacket arms a bit so he wouldn't look so wimpy. He normally wears what looks like a flight jacket, so Hawk always looked like a big guy to me. I didn't think he should go into a fight wearing medals and ribbons, so I opted to not add those in. |
05-11-2008, 08:40 AM | #8 |
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Thanks for the comments, guys! Glad to be here.
Now for Hawk: He's probably the one that needs the least "correction". Still, I am not fond of the black and greys the costume designer likes. So, I gave him green camo pants and made his jacket brown. I beefed up his jacket arms a bit so he wouldn't look so wimpy. He normally wears what looks like a flight jacket, so Hawk always looked like a big guy to me. I didn't think he should go into a fight wearing medals and ribbons, so I opted to not add those in. Wow,Hawk looks a 1000X better in those colors.Can you get rid of the berret? |
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05-11-2008, 09:30 AM | #9 |
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The hawk is the best so far.
Im not crazy about the baroness because she looks kind of dead with that make up. There is no helping duke. Hawk looks sweet.
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05-11-2008, 10:19 AM | #10 |
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I'll add that to my to-do list. You're probably right he'd look better without it or even with a different hat.
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