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Post by Stormavik on Aug 16, 2010 18:02:46 GMT -5
I had many reasons and desires to want to try my hand at a Cobra Viper. I thought it was one of the coolest Cobra army builders from Hasbro back in the day. I used the Cobra Viper a lot when I was a child, but things bothered me even back then. I did not like that every Cobra was a Caucasian, that they were all the same height, that there were no females in Cobra other than the Baroness and Zarana; basically that every Viper was identical. Both of these major issues were catalysts for making my own versions of the Viper. A couple of other things bothered me as well. I could never stand the original Viper V1 rifle, it looked too much like a laser rifle. I chose the Marauder NVR assault rifle because it is very realistic looking, but is clearly not any weapon currently in use that I know of. I also could not understand why a Viper with a full face shield need goggles. The last thing that I wanted to do was to remove unnecessary padding from the hands and all that red color. The red is gone, the padding is gone and now the Vipers in my JoeVerse are in a very dark uniform that would provide excellent camouflage at night. For more images visit my web-site at www.geocities.com/calvinnason/SRB_Index.html
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Post by Hawkeye on Aug 16, 2010 22:28:23 GMT -5
Thats an awesome update, Chuck. I dig the camo pattern and the new weapon
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Post by Xhairs on Aug 16, 2010 22:50:19 GMT -5
rock on bro.
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Post by NFC on Aug 17, 2010 9:36:00 GMT -5
MUCH better than the 1986 design. I never cared for that "classic" figure but your custom is totally believable to fit the Viper grunt troop class.
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Post by SGCaper on Aug 17, 2010 9:47:28 GMT -5
Awesome work as always. I really dig the color palette you went with.
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Post by daremo on Aug 17, 2010 11:20:31 GMT -5
Very cool! The camo on the pants is sweet looking. Excellent update.
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Post by Stormavik on Aug 17, 2010 21:53:35 GMT -5
Thanks for the comments. I plan to make a small group of the Viper to represent a squad. Who knows if I can stick with it long enough to make that many customs of this figure.
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Post by scopeuk on Oct 3, 2010 4:55:33 GMT -5
love the camo!
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