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08-11-2009, 07:46 AM | #1 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Boston
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I've been on a repainting frenzy lately -- no pics, sorry -- started by the need to repaint a yellowed, dirty Cobra Wolf. I liked the results so much I decided I wanted to repaint a RHINO, now that Target has them on sale. I had intended to do matte black, but since the DTC version already nails that (and since that makes it too much of a wannabe tumbler-style Batmobile, IMHO) I decided to use the rest of my white paint to make an Arctic RHINO. It ended up awesome.
Once I got started, I couldn't stop. I had an old Locust, that terribly bland, dull beige repaint of the Dragonfly released in 2000. I hated it and had been regretting getting it for years, esp. after comparing it to the more awesome choppers done by bbi or whoever it was that did the Black Hawk, Cobra, and so on. So I took a can of dark satin blue and made myself a Cobra Dragonfly. It's AWESOME. Had to sacrifice the already-applied stickers, but a few red cobra emblems in their place really brightened it up. Then I decided to pick up a ROC Gunship to repaint. It's a bland design, IMHO, doesn't really look like anything. But repainted blue and covered with red cobra stickers, it's fantastic. Having a proper Cobra army in rich Cobra blue is really, really satisfying. I kinda want to go on a yard sale/flea market hunt for older Joe toys in bad shape that I can trick out. Sorry I don't have pics for you guys -- I'm really just posting as an encouragement for more people to try this. I have no skill at this stuff, but a can of blue spray paint and a little room to work, and it does all the work itself. It just looks outrageously cool, and really rehabilitates otherwise mediocre toys. Law |
08-11-2009, 07:51 AM | #2 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: indianapolis indiana
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I was thinking of repainting a Ice Daggar in white.
It's gray just is not right for the snow |
08-11-2009, 07:53 AM | #3 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: indianapolis indiana
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How about a gunship in crimson red !!!!
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08-11-2009, 07:59 AM | #4 |
Banned
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08-11-2009, 08:05 AM | #5 |
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Join Date: May 2008
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Cool. I'm thinking about painting one purple and adding propellers to make it a helicopter. The purple would just be to make it look like it came from the late 80's and not the nano infested future.
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08-11-2009, 08:54 AM | #6 |
Cobra Soldier
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Boston
Posts: 94
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Yeah, the real problem with this addiction is the temptation to do every Cobra vehicle three times: once in black, once in crimson, once in blue. And that's not counting winter or desert decos....
Law |
08-11-2009, 11:08 AM | #7 |
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08-11-2009, 11:16 AM | #8 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Iron Station, NC 28080
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Cobra should always have the best toys anyway.
Since MARS industries is selling to both sides it would make sense that Joe and Cobra would get repaints of the same vehicles. |
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