I just realized the other day that I never really finished my new-sculpt Tripwire, so after reading the old Marvel back-issues, I decided it was time to give Trippy some 25A love.
At first I was going to just sell my extra 25A Flash (had no use for it), but then I figured out this no-brainer based on Trippy's 2001 paint scheme:
I always thought the Mine-Detector thing was lame, and in his first appearance, TW actually blows some "LASER BLAST" up, so I decided to make him more of a demo guy than an EOD guy (although he's still a klutz.) That's a MJ P-90 he's holding - wanted to give him some firepower. The weird-looking Flash head looks like someone named Tormod Skoog for some reason. I need to change his hair color though - maybe dark brown or black.
Then I started realizing that despite my constant praise of the comics, some of the early books were actually quite goofy -- Torpedo wearing full wetsuit & flippers while fighting Cobra at the Treasury building, etc. -- Gotta love the mandatory toy placement artwork & whatnot. But there were a couple of issues that showed SnowJob without his snow gear on. So I slapped this LBC together using the Obi-Wan head from my 25A SnowJob custom and the Comic Pack Breaker body.
And finally, I was so disappointed in CP Hawk - the head was just too small. I had the same problem using the ARAH Comic Pack Hawk's head on customs in the past - it too was a pea-head. The SE-based body is the smallest out of all the 25A figs, so most of my customs are bashed together using different parts to give them some height. Still, the simple head swap between ARAH CP Hawk & 25A CP Hawk was a must, just because Hawk was like the 2nd figure I ever owned, so I needed to pay homage to that.
And here he is next to my much larger (about 6'2" in true 1:18 scale) Clooney-Hawk. I'm still waiting for the perfect head for him (the other ARAH CP head is a little too weird looking for me.)
I'm working on a few more - but work has been a real [LASER BLAST] lately, so I haven't had a lot of time to work on customs. But I figured I'd at least share these real quick while I had the time.
Cheers!
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