Cobra Heli-Viper and a little bit of modeling putty.


I came up with Red Sky after once again going through the excellent Osprey Military books on the actual Soviet Army, and realized that the helmets worn by Red Army paratroopers in certain areas greatly resembled those of Cobra Snow Serpents. Of course that headsculpt was also used for the Heli-Viper. So I decided to repaint a Heli-Viper into the new Oktober Guard Paratrooper known as RED SKY (which I think is a cool if slightly punnish name). The red star on his uniform was actually sculpted on using some resin-like modeling putty. I used three different colors of tan paint for the uniform (no easy feat in and of itself), since that seems to be a color somewhat associated with the Guard. Red Sky is sort of the team's Snake-Eyes. He's constantly masked, reportedly has a severely scarred face as a result of a parachuting mishap, and has a nasty temper that's probably worse than Snake-Eyes', who at least has his ninja training to keep him in check.

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