I have some free time tonight and decided to share my G.I.Joe Convention FrankenJoe Contest Entry.

ATR Raptor

People didn't seem to take to my version of the character;

A former aerospace engineer who stole tech from various companies and began terrorizing the skies prior to the undead outbreak. A known enemy of the man known as Vulture, Raptor has surrounded himself with acolytes in various flight gear as well as a variety of highly trained raptors; eagles, hawks, and falcons.

A lot of people seemed to assume it was just a repainted 4" Vulture. It's actually not. The only Vulture parts are the backpack from the 6" 5 poa Vulture and the lower legs from the 4" Vulture. The torso, arms, and upper legs are from 3 different Firefly figures and the head is a cast of an old EEL figure, at least I think it's from an EEL. The harness is a modified Snow Serpent harness and the rifle is BBI.

Anyway, while people at con didn't seem to like him, I do and hope you do too.






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I love it. Brings the character into reality. I'd buy it

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Very nice!!!

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the view from behind sold me really nice detail work!

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Thanks all.

2Dark I based the paint scheme loosely on the Red Tailed Hawk. Glad you liked it.

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I think you did a great job of walking the line between a "bird" and a bird inspired paintjob. I fear I would have done yellow legs !

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Killer man! The paint job and concept are fantastic. I could see this in my collection for sure and yes I would buy this! Outstanding

I love it

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that's pretty hot. Is there a head under the helmet?

Also, I dig the color scheme. We have a pair of red tail hawks that nest in the trees behind our house.

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Sadly there is not. I'm still working on which head I want to use for the swappable head.

Thanks. Red tail hawks are my second favorite raptor, Peregrine Falcons are my first, so I wanted to pay tribute to that.

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This certainly make the character more formidable.

I'm still looking at this to duplicate in my own way.

Btw, that head is a cast of a Spytroops helmet that I believe came with Depth Charge.

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Nice custom, but what really stands out for me is how you painted the helmet. Especially the eyes are well done, they look very angry like most birds of prey!