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Predator movie customs

Post by blaster_e11 » Sat Sep 08, 2007 9:08 am

Here's my 1st try to add wrist articulation to a fig

base fig is a BBI combat command with painted face (no more mustache) and arms (to hide the ugly black elbow articulation)

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since i couldn't manage to unscrew the damn torso, i cut his wrists and try to add some articulation. Otherwise i'd have just switched the arms.

I think it turned out ok for a 1st try (i don't have a dremmel so it was a pain to make the wrist articulation :roll: )

lmk what you think about him
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Post by grunt1 » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:25 am

Looks like he's right out the movie (and about to get zapped by the predator).. ;)

Nice work. Was there ever a predator done in 1:18 or 3 3/4 ?

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Post by blaster_e11 » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:48 am

takar made some very nice 3"3/4 alien and predator figs from the AVP movie

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Post by aferguson » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:26 pm

Hot Toys made a bunch of 4" Alien and Predator figures a few years ago and last year released several of the Aliens Marines plus Ripley. Most are pretty expensive now but Ripley and Drake are still reasonable.
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Post by blaster_e11 » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:00 am

i thought hot toys only made Aliens (the cameron movie) snap kit figures

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Post by aferguson » Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:27 am

no they also made alien vs. predator figures a few years ago. 4 diff't predators and 4 diff't aliens.
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Post by blaster_e11 » Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:04 pm

aferguson wrote:no they also made alien vs. predator figures a few years ago. 4 diff't predators and 4 diff't aliens.
cool, how do they compare to the takara preds ?

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Post by blaster_e11 » Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:53 pm

update :

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on the last pic you can see my WIP Dutch custom

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Post by Razor17019 » Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:58 pm

"If it bleeds, we can kill it"


Nice customs.

What about Jesse "the body" Ventura?


21st Century needs to jump on this:
Action/TV/Movie Stars that have gone into politics:

As already mentioned, Arnold and Jesse
-Ronald Regan (wasn't he in some WWII pics?)
-Fred Grandy (Love Boat's "Gopher")
-Hillary Clinton (Terminator IV: Kill Bill)
-Clint Eastwood (Was or may still be Mayor of Carmel, CA)
-Fred Thomson (TV star)

Anybody think of anybody else?
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Post by blaster_e11 » Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:08 pm

Razor17019 wrote:"If it bleeds, we can kill it"


Nice customs.

What about Jesse "the body" Ventura?


21st Century needs to jump on this:
Action/TV/Movie Stars that have gone into politics:

As already mentioned, Arnold and Jesse
-Ronald Regan (wasn't he in some WWII pics?)
-Fred Grandy (Love Boat's "Gopher")
-Hillary Clinton (Terminator IV: Kill Bill)
-Clint Eastwood (Was or may still be Mayor of Carmel, CA)
-Fred Thomson (TV star)

Anybody think of anybody else?
i was more planing to make a dillon custom, gotta find a appolo creed head (maybe purchase it from JFAK)

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Post by blaster_e11 » Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:05 am

here's an update pic of Dutch

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Post by scope uk » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:16 pm

Nice customs hope to see the rest of the team! :D
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Post by blaster_e11 » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:36 pm

thanks buddy

gotta finish these two guys and then i'll try dillon (i've ordered a body and a head)

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Post by blaster_e11 » Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:25 pm

they're almost finished and they're starting to look cool

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Post by popeye357 » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:49 am

Damn, that dutch has some big arms! what did you use for him?

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Post by blaster_e11 » Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:01 am

that's a Gi Joe Major Barrage fig painted with a GTG custom head

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Post by blaster_e11 » Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:53 pm

another team member on the way : blain

here are the pics :

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Post by alf » Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:52 pm

Man those first team member look really good.
And thank you for the tip I will now look with a new eye Major Barrage.

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Post by blaster_e11 » Fri Nov 02, 2007 3:15 pm

thanks buddy

and good luck on finding a Major Barrage, it's a pretty expensive fig

that's why i use 25th anniv figs for my customs now (blain is a gung ho head on a roadblock body)

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Post by blaster_e11 » Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:37 am

here is the 1st pic of my try on Blain, still gotta finish paint details and give him old painless (and a MP5) but he's almost done

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recipe :

head : 25A Gung Ho (modded)
Body : 25A Roadblock (modded)

gear : 25A RB's harness (modded) and backpack, BBi MP5 and hat and MJ Minigun

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Post by scope uk » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:27 am

Great work Blaster! am looking forward to seeing him with old painless! if you are using Marauder inc's one you can easily add elastic straps to the back pack.

Looking forward to the rest of the team! :D
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