Head: Star Trek The Motion Picture: McCoy cast
Torso, upper legs: '84 Firefly
Arms: '91 Red Star
Waist: ???
Lower legs: '84 Scrap Iron
Backpack: ARAH Recondo battle pack

Design:

The GI Joe Collector's Club convention set featuring Tiger Force sparked my interest in Sabretooth. Sabretooth was an unproduced figure, which would have used the '84 Firefly body as a new character. Head-to-toe repaints seldom work as new characters, as Hasbro proved when they used the Sabre Tooth concept to create Wreckage in 2003.

Here the chest/back and upper legs of Firefly have been used, but different pieces have been rotated into the recipe to help the figure stand apart from Firefly. With a very limited amount of replacement early ARAH heads, I had planned on using a modified Torpedo head. But the Firefly chest paired with any masked head is still too similar to Firefly. The McCoy head is a great piece of Mego sculpting, and only predates the early ARAH line by several years. The bulky Red Star arms balance out the chest/back, which looks puffy when used with many ARAH arms- and the rolled-up sleeves/no gloves also look different than Firefly.

Colors & Paint:

Based on the catalog prototype, but with a lighter green for less contrast against the yellow. The Hasbro prototype used burnt orange on the ski mask and the leg holsters. I matched the leg holsters to the dark blue of the webgear and pushed the burnt orange down to the fabric parts of the boots. As best I can remember, there were no indications in the Marvel run that Firefly was a red head, so the McCoy head became a ginger to further downplay any Firefly vibe. The grenades are a nonsensical blue, again to push away from Firefly.

Sculpting & Modifying:

The head is cast and reworked at the base of the neck.

Thanks for looking.