Sorry for the multiple posts, but for some reason, as I get enough text filled into the little box we're supposed to post in, my screen gets all jumpy and it's hard to add to posts. I don't know if it's my computer or the boards... anyway.
Finding this lil' back story brings back some memories... Basically when Trigate was around, they had a story called 3060, it was something like a game that took place around the year 3060. I wasn't too sure what was going on, and the guys in charge never really explained too much, but it was kinda open ended so you could add your own story to it.
Anyway, thiswas years later after a bunch of wars and such, so in my part of the story, after nukes were dropped on America, most Americans that survived were moved down to Mexico and South America. This was a story I had scribbled down for a long time, but was more GI Joe meets Terminator/Transformers and I kinda edited it to fit their story to enter the contest. In
my story, there wasn't orcs or Goblins or anything like that, but in theirs there was.. so They kinda became my Antagonists or "bad guys" in the story. I even started a playset for it using an old Batman Batcave... I'll have to dig it out, maybe finish my vehicle I started for their team and the other bike(though, I doubt I'll finish the other bike, maybe I'll do the "new" HG45...
Anyway, it was kinda cool finding this and kinda makes me want to dig out my notes...
The concept came from a little thought I had... Take a 1:18 scale die-cast bike, cut off the wheels and add some jet looking things to make a hover bike... that's simple, right? That's all I had in mind, didn't know
how I was gonna do it till I sat down and started tinkering with my bikes.
I was looking at my misc fodder I had laying around, everything from car model parts, to SW vehicles.. and I was stumped, till I ran across a Spawn figure...
When I saw his shoulder pads had lil' jets in them, it all started to fall in place.. I started hacking and dremeling away at the poor guy and pretty much used everything but his head, legs and hands.
The body turned into the "engine" of the hover bike, and then I attached the die-cast bike seat to it... then a leg on the back, then, the shoulder pads on the sides, dremeled into the body, and I actually had them working and were able to swivel up and down and fold in and out for awhile(you can still see joints in the front view of it).. but it was too flimsy, so I had to lose the "articulation" lol..
Anyway, after that, it was just adding parts here and there to make it look used and worn. I wanted the characters to basically "live off the land" while on the job, so I added a bed roll, some back packs and straps, the monitor to watch late night porn... J/K.. I dunno, but I thought it looked cool.. so I added it.
Anyway, I came up with the name cause at the end of it all, I probably used 10 glue sticks on that baby holding it all together.. something that I didn't start out wanting to do, but kinda needed to cause of time.. so that's where "HG" came from, "Hot Glue".. lol.. shhhh... don't tell the companies bidding on making them though...
As for Commander Jarvis Vasquez... I pretty much had an image of what I wanted in my head, and usually when that happens.. it never turns out that way, lol.. but surprisingly.. this one did.. almost exactly how I wanted... it was kinda scary.
The Parts for Vasquez, while not as intense as the Interceptor, still took awhile to get right...
Head: Old GTG or Trigate I cant find anymore, lol
Helmet:
Trigate Headgear #2Torso & Arms and belt: Star Wars Imperial Knight
Crotch: 25th Destro
Upper Legs: Wild Bill/Ace modded
Knees: Crimson Guard modded
Legs: Beach Head modded
Rifle: SW Senate Guard rifle
Binoculars: Luke? I dunno, SW though.
I had the basic look down, but I wanted the legs to better match the armored upper body, so I sculpted on thigh armor to kinda match the look and then sculpted the knee pads cause the bare knees looked weird and then I had to build up the lower legs cause they looked skinny after all that, lol.. then I filled in all the joint and screw holes cause I hate those.
I went with a green/Brown look cause out of the 4 test figures that were sacrificed while making him(don't worry, they were old crappy figs that I couldn't even give away a couple months ago).. out of the different color combos I tried, I liked this one the best, kinda the opposite you normally see(Green uniform, brown armor).. so I think it worked well..
I almost messed up big time and said screw it and threw the towel in, you can see the mess up on one of the legs, I had the figure on the table and spilled Acetone on the table and of course it went right into him... luckly only one leg was touching the area, but it still slowed me down having to repaint that leg and of course it not looking right in the end.. but time was up...
Oh.. and as I was getting ready to take pics, I noticed I never pained the boots, lol.. so I did some dry brushing here and paint wiping there and then said screw it and had to take the pics.. I think it turned out alright in the end...
There, I added all that, so in case the other site purges their boards or something, at least I have it somewhere...
Thanks guys... I use Rit Dye, stuff for clothes. You boil some water, plop it in and then put the figures in... same thing I did with these babies for my friend's Bday present...
I found this older pic on page two and on another site I found the actual breakdown per figure so. I had to post it with the customs it goes too:
Parts list...
Doug:
GI Joe Bazooka Body, arms, upper legs
Wolverine, Weapon X knees and lower legs
John Cena shoes
Custom cast hands
Fit Finley modified head
Dr. Henery Jones glasses
The only real major mods I did here was to shave off a part of the lower legs to make them look like legs, and then sculpt on the "shorts" bottoms, also sculpted on some socks and then "shaved" Fit Finley's hair and slowly(took like a whole hour) stippled the stubble hair on.
Dancers...
Britney, the Gamoreean Dancer:Custom Cast Gamorrean Guard head(2 GI Joe Scarlett pony tials turned sideways for her pigtails)
Yarna body, sanded boobs down and sculpted belly and shirt
Sculpted fur neck piece
Sculpted added fur on skirt
sculpted(hate them) feet
She wasn't that hard to do, mainly the sculpting on the fur, then at the last min I remembered about the feet, but my sculpting compound was getting hard, so it was ahrd to work with, not really happy with the feet, but I had to move on. The figure was then dyed in Rit Dye so it would retain it's color and not chip, then layer after layer of drybrushing for detail.. the drybrushing might chip or rub off over time in the joints, but the green dye should help hide it. The hair was a last min attempt to cover the horns, I'm not a specialist on Gamorreans, but I'm sure the females don't have horns, so I added it and hot glued the hair pieces into place and they turned out awesome.
Ima Trapp, the Mon Calamari Dancer:Mon Cal head
Hands and legs cut off and fuzed to the Yarna body, then sculpted to match up
sculpted shellfish boobies w/shell from a Mon Cal shield for her top
This one started off easy, popped the head on, but then I found another mon cal figure, and he had massive lobster looking feet, so I had to attach them to the Yarna body, then the same with the arms, but then they looked silly human arms leading to lobster looking arms, so I sculpted onto the human parts to match up with the rest.. then the chest, like the others I didn't a slew of six boobied dancers, so I saw the shield, thought it'd make a sweet breast/belly plate then sculpted up the boobs to match the body and meet up with the plate.
This figure was also dyed before painting, then layers and layers of drybrushing, again, hopefully if some of the paint does come off at the joints, the dying will help hide it, here's hoping he just sets it on a shelf and doens't let the kids play with them, lol
Feeda, the Rodian Dancer:Head and hands random Greedo figure
Body Yarna, with sculpted belly, is that a lil' rodian dancing in her belly, or one too many Bantha burgers?
modified skirt
This one was probably the easiest out of the custom dancers.. I basically dyed the body and then sculpted on the belly(again, to change them up a lil).. added the head and hands and then painted her up.. I did notice I forgot to paint her eyes.. so hopefully one of these days, I can fix that.
PS~~ I got the text box thing to stop jumping around on me, I clicked this compatibility view icon on i.e. and now it works fine.
