Selva Profunda GI Joe vintage custom figure

 Here is a rework of one of my first GI Joe customs. Originally, it was just a recombination of parts with a bit of paint in Falcon's head. It had yellowed badly, and with hindsight he needed a revamp, so I gave him a full repaint, except for the accesories. I gave him some facepaint in the sort of Commando modern warfare.

Selva Profunda is the GI Joe specialist for deep jungle warfare in South America. Himself a native, he can work in the deepest of jungles, moving undetected and surprising Cobra, even in the furthest Amazonian jungle!

COUP D'ETAT GI Joe ARAH Vintage Cobra custom figure

This is Coup D'Etat, a custom I did about 5 or 6 years ago and just made pics lately. Coup D'Etat is a Range Viper that got stranded in a forgotten war in Central America, and guess what, he managed to get "elected" Presidente. His survival skills were so high, that he realised the only way to stay alive was to rise to the top and rule over all the country. Nobody knwos what happened with the rest of his squad, or which Range Viper he was, but he has now forsaken Cobra and he looks to create his own evil empire. His weapons are real gold plated, to have emergency fortune always at hand. In a lot came a damaged Range Viper head, that cried for something cool to do with him. And so it came about.

Dino Hunter GI Joe custom figure

This is Dino Hunter, a figure heavily inspired by Chad and Matthew's Jurassic Park line of customs (if I remember well, this was about 5 years ago). I liked very much the concept hence I did it with a few spare parts I had. The whole dino idea, even if a bit absurd, I dig it quite a bit, and would have loved that all Jurassic Park figures would have had Joe size and articulation.

Arumakan GI Joe ARAH custom figure

 

Here is Arumakan; a sort of south east asian Sumatran mercenary expert in gliders, having two gliders, one for silent attacks, and another jet one for powerful ground attacks. Sort of my hands went free on this one, but I am very happy with how he turned out. Name comes from the glider which was a paper plane.

Looter Cobra custom action figure gi joe arah vintage

 Looter; loosely inspired by Chad & Matthews customs of the possible "Jurassic Park" line in o-ring style. The design was cool, and I was looking for some inspiration, as sometimes is tiring to come up with new concepts :) . However, second versions of characters bores me, so I made him a brand new exciting character, Looter. Specialist in sacking old temples, tombs, any kind of valuable artifact, and also breaking in museums and private mansions. Knows everything there is to know about traps, curses and the like. He enlisted to Cobra to get access to more temples, to do more looting, as Cobra has the best database of lost temples and similar :) .

GRANITE Custom GI Joe Cobra vintage figure arah

Here is Granit, a custom that was inspired by a great custom, I think I saw on Chad/Matthews website (please correct me if I am wrong). I saved the image for years, and then I stumbled onto a "granite spray", a strange and wonderful item, that allows you to actually spray texturized granite onto something. The design is sadly flawed, as it is clogging continuously, but at least allowed me to pull out this custom :) .

The main idea is that he sports a new, experimental armour based in very thick granules that renders him virtually indestructible to small arms fire, and hence, if you have such a suit, the first thing you do is becoming a mercenary :) .

Thunder Ninja ARAH GI Joe custom figure

Thunder Ninja; canonic character, yes ;) . Browsing boredly through YoJoe, I stumbled upon the Micro force figures, and a design struck me as fresh, new, and basically, never seen before, Thunder Ninja. Tried to get more info about him but couldn't, I don't know if he appears on comics, but couldn't find anything. I thought it would be cool to make it into a ARAH figure. You can check his micro force figure here; https://www.yojoe.com/micro-force/13/thunderninja.shtml 

 

 

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 :) .

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.

 

Mato Grosso Cobra GI Joe custom figure ARAH vintage mercenary Brazil

Here is Mato-Grosso, mercenary for hire in Brazil, hired alternatively by Cobra Brazil, Shadowloo not excluding other gangs and freelance works :) . He comes with false plant camouflage, automatic cannon, and dna-altered carnivorous plant he uses as trap. Sculpted within him is sound system on his chest, to confuse enemy with various sounds, and hand flamethrower. Inspired by the  early 90s Joe figures that came with all sorts of large accesories, like Incinerator, Firefly, Cobra commander with his plane, etc.