Thanks for the detailed reply
. I would make the main site like Figurerealm, where people can comment about them.
So the awards weren't held this year?
I bring you a few more recent-ish customs
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Here is the Cobra Empress, to be the queen of the new Cobra Empire! I saw the preproduction drawings of Hasbro, for a sort of Cobra Empress that in theory derived into Pythona. I saw them as very cool, and so I tried my luck with a cheap ROC baroness
WIP before painting;
Here it is Mayday, a comic character that was at the point of being released in GI Joe vs Cobra, but others were chosen instead. At the time I didn't know about the GI Joe extreme character of the same name!
Wolf; the villainous Wolf is the main henchman of Tarantula, a villain that appeared in Stormforce, a UK comic strip created to substitute Action Force when Hasbro bought the rights to it. As such, is very GI Joe-Cobraesque, and makes for wonderful 80s read. Tarantula rose to such popularity that had it's own personal comic strip inside the Battle with Stormforce magazine.
And finally, here is Mato-Grosso, mercenary for hire in Brazil, hired alternatively by Cobra Brazil, Shadowloo not excluding other gangs and freelance works
. He comes with false plant camouflage, automatic cannon, and dna-altered carnivorous plant he uses as trap. Sculpted within him is sound system on his chest, to confuse enemy with various sounds, and hand flamethrower. Inspired by the early 90s Joe figures that came with all sorts of large accesories, like Incinerator, Firefly, Cobra commander with his plane, etc.
Alas; I was always fascinated by the comicbook filecards, showing me Joes I never knew nor saw! with time, I went identifying them, but some simply didn't ring any bell nor matched the figures. I realized later, as my comicbooks were in Spanish, that the filecard for "Alas" (wings in spanish) corresponded to Airborne! I could see no similarity between the figure or cartoon with the illustration! it is so bizarre, that when I came over it again, I decided to do a custom of him in it's honour. In my opinion, the old ARAH figure is nice, but doesn't look at all to have red indian descent, hence in my joeverse, that is left out and is given to Alas, a new Joe.
I chose a 25th body, even if I don't usually, as was the only one that could give me the thin and tall look of the illustration.
SOS; this is a custom that started as a simply partswap, and decided to improve it and upgrade it with a repainted Corps head, which are really wonderful, by the way. A member of the British Action Force, specialist in rescuing in adverse conditions.
. I usually struggle with VvV, you need to think in the same vibe. And 25th I find it slightly challenging, to make them look Cobra-Joe enough, and not just Starwarsy.
