Ah, the days when pajama boys would be taught their rightful place. :trollface:
Official Figure Pic One-Shot Thread
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Ah, the days when pajama boys would be taught their rightful place. :trollface:
I switched to imgur last year because photobucket won't even run on my phone or tablets due to their malicious ads. Maybe one day I'll go in and pull down all my old photos from photofuckit.
Imperial Intelligence Report #3890:
To: Grand Moff Tarken
Subject: Operation Bate Droid
Operation Objective: Plant a droid programed so the rebels think it is one of theirs. Once he has inflintrated the rebel HQ, make sure he makes contact with and is paired with former Rebel Sergeant Jyn Erso, who our intel reports was demoted to private for her activities on Planet Scarif. Once he has been paired with her, plant false intel in the rebel matrix. Make them think that we have a weak prescence on the planet IV. Then, ensure she is sent on a solo mission, using our agent disguised as a rebel General to order her on. Make her think that she will get a promotion for stealing our top secret TIE Bomber. Once she is on Planet Rigus 3, use the droid to spring our trap.
Operation Status: Successful. She is now our prisoner and will soon be converted to our side.
Subject name: Erso, Jyn
Rank: Private
Status: Prisioner of The 732nd Heavy Infantry Legion on Rigus 3, under the command of Gen Porcus.
To: Grand Moff Tarken
Subject: Operation Bate Droid
Operation Objective: Plant a droid programed so the rebels think it is one of theirs. Once he has inflintrated the rebel HQ, make sure he makes contact with and is paired with former Rebel Sergeant Jyn Erso, who our intel reports was demoted to private for her activities on Planet Scarif. Once he has been paired with her, plant false intel in the rebel matrix. Make them think that we have a weak prescence on the planet IV. Then, ensure she is sent on a solo mission, using our agent disguised as a rebel General to order her on. Make her think that she will get a promotion for stealing our top secret TIE Bomber. Once she is on Planet Rigus 3, use the droid to spring our trap.
Operation Status: Successful. She is now our prisoner and will soon be converted to our side.
Subject name: Erso, Jyn
Rank: Private
Status: Prisioner of The 732nd Heavy Infantry Legion on Rigus 3, under the command of Gen Porcus.
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a pic from the newest episode of my diostory Cobra attacks (EP27 Agent Provocateur)
Rey visits Unkar Plutt's junk shop on Jakku. I recently finished this dio enough to shoot it. Still may add to it. I even made the little "portion" on the counter, though angle makes it hard to see in this shot.
Hi all,
New to the board. Here are a couple pics from a Vietnam diorama I did.
New to the board. Here are a couple pics from a Vietnam diorama I did.
Just a bad angle of a kitbash Jem. Mara jade/peg bundy head with a boss fight femalebuck. The head is loose in the picture so it looks longer than it is. Early attempt at cloth clothes too.
A pic from the 28th & 29th episode (Homo Homini Lupus) of my action-figure-video-comic in YouTube "Cobra attacks" (link of the episode: https://youtu.be/R6Np8VfD5MU )
They're definitely not the greatest army builder figures out there. The helmet is too big, and falls off all the time. The arms have trouble getting a proper angle to hold the weapon, partly because the parts for the arms and torso don't go well together, partly because the bulky back pack straps block movement, and also because the ends of the gauntlets are not part of the hands, and block their swivel movement. They're more frustrating to work with than most other Cobra troops because they have all the problems that reek of frankenjoe part bashing.
None of this is helped by the fact that their aesthetic does not fit what you would expect of Cobra. If it were not for the fact that they wear a mask, you could easily mistake a Rock Viper with a GI Joe, and since several joes actually do wear masks such as balaclavas, there's very little indication they're Cobra. This of course is a fault of the original figure this attempts to recreate.
Perhaps it is a bit cliche, or cheesy to expect Cobra soldiers to always wear blue, black, or red, but the camo and equipment that come with this figure don't seem unique to Cobra. They could have at least slapped a different helmet and head, say like that of the 30th Cobra trooper or a Resolute trooper, or even the Renegades trooper (just paint the porn-stache on) in matching colors to the camo, and the distinct helmet and mask that covers just the nose and mouth would have been enough to solved the problem, or just use a 30th Viper helmet.
Either way, this figure is an oddity, it sticks out from Cobra ranks both visually and in the role of a mountain trooper. It use to be hard to buy multiples of due to scarcity in the wild and the fact that the figure just isn't good enough on it's own to justify buying on the after market (although loose examples on Ebay seem to be cheaper than most other cobra forces).
None of this is helped by the fact that their aesthetic does not fit what you would expect of Cobra. If it were not for the fact that they wear a mask, you could easily mistake a Rock Viper with a GI Joe, and since several joes actually do wear masks such as balaclavas, there's very little indication they're Cobra. This of course is a fault of the original figure this attempts to recreate.
Perhaps it is a bit cliche, or cheesy to expect Cobra soldiers to always wear blue, black, or red, but the camo and equipment that come with this figure don't seem unique to Cobra. They could have at least slapped a different helmet and head, say like that of the 30th Cobra trooper or a Resolute trooper, or even the Renegades trooper (just paint the porn-stache on) in matching colors to the camo, and the distinct helmet and mask that covers just the nose and mouth would have been enough to solved the problem, or just use a 30th Viper helmet.
Either way, this figure is an oddity, it sticks out from Cobra ranks both visually and in the role of a mountain trooper. It use to be hard to buy multiples of due to scarcity in the wild and the fact that the figure just isn't good enough on it's own to justify buying on the after market (although loose examples on Ebay seem to be cheaper than most other cobra forces).
He/they just appear to belong to another faction altogether. They are fitting of neither JOE or Cobra.
B.A.T.s. Still the coolest JOE figure.*
Nice shots and group of figs. That humvee needs some weathering.
*IMO, of course.
Nice shots and group of figs. That humvee needs some weathering.
*IMO, of course.
I always found ebay a good way to get rid of figures you don't want. Depending how much you care about the price.
(Looking at the guys offering me $3 for 2 fang boat drivers, cheap bastards
)
Eh, I'd pay like $13 for an individual figure if I really wanted to fill a niche role in my collection or get a highly specific character, but squad building for that price is a little hard to justify. Granted it's currently the cheapest option I know and cheaper than going full MTF, which I've wanted to do put never had and extra Benjamin laying around to dump on a 4 man team of expendable Cobra goons. It's always sort of been the problem I've had (especially with Arctic weather stuff) in the first place. I'm chintzy by nature. If I built another squad of BATS through eBay, it would be cheaper to go for the newer ones that came in the new 3-packs rather than the arctic ones. If Hasbro does another 50th wave that is online exclusive, there might be a new BAT (not holding my breath on that).
The good old days of scraping up brand new GI Joe figures at local retail for anywhere between $5-$8 have been long gone. This feels like when 21st Century Toys went out of business 9 years ago, and all the WWII stuff vanished into the night forever. I think both are the result of brand mismanagement.
The good old days of scraping up brand new GI Joe figures at local retail for anywhere between $5-$8 have been long gone. This feels like when 21st Century Toys went out of business 9 years ago, and all the WWII stuff vanished into the night forever. I think both are the result of brand mismanagement.
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Friends don"t let friends, buy the SDCC Collect's vault or else this might happen.
What to do with Funko figures with little articulation.
What to do with Funko figures with little articulation.