Head: NS Cobra Claws w/NS Swamp Rat helmets
Chest/back: NS Iron Grenadier/Black Dragon???
Arms: Indiana Jones- Belloq
Hands, waists: NS Blowtorch
Legs: NS Wild Bill
Weapons: ???


Characters:

The bad guy cannon fodder of the Sgt. Savage and His Screaming Eagles line, the IRON Stormtroopers were cybernetically-enhanced German Soldiers placed in suspended animation. Wow, that's bad writing, Hasbro.

Design:

The Han Solo duster is the anchor piece. The other pieces are good excuses to burn through junk parts, which are thankfully hidden under the coat. I never thought those Belloq arms would be usable!

The original action figures had helmets over mostly exposed faces. This was nothing like the Joe Kubert package art, which featured fully enclosed heads. These customs go the Kubert route, mostly because I couldn't find two matching heads to use. Dee Jay heads would have worked the best, but I only had one. The final "faces" look a bit too Darth Vader with the blending of the Swamp Rat goggles and the Cobra Claws mask.

Colors & Paint:

Kenner quietly sidestepped the fact that they had made Nazi action figures by using black uniforms (or white for the arctic version). But I made the uniform and the coats grey. They're villains, why hide it? I did use brown for the upper chest armor and red around the neck, just to acknowledge the original figures- but not the silver, which would have looked out of place.

Sculpting & Modifying:

The fins and front lower edges were chopped off of the helmets. The tops of the heads were whittled down to fit the helmets, which were then glued on and smoothed at the joining edges. The bottom edge of the chest/backs were chopped off to shorten the torso to better match the legs. Same for the bottoms of the coats. The hand/wrist areas of the Blowtorch hands were chopped off and placed inside of the sleeve openings.

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