Amok Dreadnok Cobra custom figure GI Joe Hasbro 25th

This is Amok, a new Cobra dreadnok. I got the Roadblock 25th figure, which I thought was awful, and hence I customized him. I felt more Dreadnoks were needed, and at the same time I had a spare bike to repair, so was born Amok. 

"A Dreadnok with the urge of running around, recklessly, without objective nor reason, if you see him in your backmirror, run!"

Wild Boar 25th (G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary) Custom Action Figure

 Here is Wild Boar! another 25th version. Hasbro left the line with many gaps, hundreds of them really. I made his weird two-helmeted fashion, and gave him a weapon as the original never had one.

Again, I believe I got rid of another Snake Eyes from this world (far too many :lol:), to create this new character.

Cobra Temple Diorama GI Joe ARAH 25th VvV 3.75 1:18 custom Temple of Doom Golden Serpent

 A diorama I did a long time ago :) .

Predacon Lunartix Empire GI Joe Cobra 25th anniversary custom figure style

Here is a fun custom I did last year, this is Predacon, one of the aliens that was last introduced to GI Joe in about 1994 and left forgotten since. Not specially my cup of tea, but I must admit it is a cool character, although more in Star Wars if you ask me! the vintage figure is quite forgettable, for my custom I based on the blister art, which is quite menacing. Most complicated was engineering the arms articulations, so that all arms are fully poseable. I used a Venom body, which was curiously super articulated on arms, but nearly fixed legs, and combined it with a modern Thor.

 

Overlord (G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary) Custom Action Figure Retro collection

Here is Overlord, in 25th style. The 25th line stopped short of many figures, and hence customizing kicks in :) . I casted the original parts, of my vintage figure, as they are too complicated and expensive to find nowadays. I made a kitbash of dozens of differents figures, and even then I had to sculpt quite a bit of all the details.

Downtown GI Joe 25th Custom Figure Hasbro

This is Downtown, in 25th style. This one was a commission, as usually with one version of a figure I have enough, I don't much for upgradings. I followed a pic of a 25th version there is floating around on the net, sorry I forgot who made it. I used a Duke's head, which I thought at first it wouldn't work, but with some paint I think looked quite good. Then I was going to use the original vintage accesories, but first, they looked a bit puny and undetailed, and secondly I could not find them for the life of me without forking out almost a hundred bucks, or sacrificing the accesories of my beloved vintage figure. So, I thought better to engineer new accesories, more modern, with a heavier mortar and one, heavier projectile.

 

Headhunter Stormtrooper in 25th style GI Joe custom figure modern ROC POC 3.75"

Headhunter Stormtrooper; before this, I had only done 1 custom as a paid commission, for a friend in a forum. I started properly customizing joes, and then made a few customs for sale of Marvel and DC, which brought other commissions, but just last year a collector's who collects MOTUC also asked me for this. So I did them, first modern joe commission. The Headhunter is one of the few vintage Joes I am lacking! I toyed with the idea of buying one just to cast some parts, but saw it's ridiculous prices so I had to pass on the idea (I'll get it someday, damn!). This is one of those characters that changes a lot from blister artwork to figure, I based on the vintage figure as asked, but took some inspiration from the artwork, as some things if not would look plain silly in 25th form. Doing so many small spikes was a challenge! 

 

 

SOS Action Force GI Joe ARAH custom figure

SOS; this is a custom that started as a simply partswap, and decided to improve it and upgrade it with a repainted Corps head, which are really wonderful, by the way. A member of the British Action Force, specialist in rescuing in adverse conditions.

Alas GI Joe 25th Custom Figure Airborne Comic book order of battle Marvel

 Alas; I was always fascinated by the comicbook filecards, showing me Joes I never knew nor saw! with time, I went identifying them, but some simply didn't ring any bell nor matched the figures. I realized later, as my comicbooks were in Spanish, that the filecard for "Alas" (wings in spanish) corresponded to Airborne! I could see no similarity between the figure or cartoon with the illustration! it is so bizarre, that when I came over it again, I decided to do a custom of him in it's honour. In my opinion, the old ARAH figure is nice, but doesn't look at all to have red indian descent, hence in my joeverse, that is left out and is given to Alas, a new Joe.

 I chose a 25th body, even if I don't usually, as was the only one that could give me the thin and tall look of the illustration.

 

Cobra Empress The Coil Guard Cobra Serpentor GI Joe customs

Here is the Cobra Empress, to be the queen of the new Cobra Empire!

WIP before painting;

 

Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles custom figures 3.75 GI Joe style

And here are all the rest of custom figures I made of the TSCC show, using Indiana Jones, GI Joe and Star Wars parts. I had very limited parts at the time, so I had to make due with what I had :) . I am pretty happy how they turned out, considering they are now 11 year old!