Here's another non star wars figure...
A friend of mine collects and customizes transformer figures. And a while back we had a conversation about gi-joe transformer cross-overs when he informed me that cobra commander was in fact in an episode of transformers... I had heard of this, and until recently had forgotten about it. I looked it up and actually wound up watching the (horrible) episode on youtube...
found here:
wiki article on the episode provided screen shot:
my figure interpretation:
in the episode "old snake" doesn't have any visible weapons... but while I was looking through reference photos I found several previously made customs of the figures using a similar recipe to what I decided upon and I liked the look of the storm shaddow trench coat bottom. It worked well with destro's torso.
I (luckilly) had ONE ROC destro in my fodder box... and once I located all the pieces I started putting him together. I had plenty of other parts to choose from, and it was as simple as putting a CC's legs (no paint needed) and finding the correct arms. The arms I decided on were paris persuit snake eyes'. They had the perfect trenchcoat look (as that's the way they were made to look!).
I repainted the figure best I could to match the cartoon images...
but to me it wasn't really saying Cobra Commander... so I gave him his signature sword hanging from his belt. I know it's not seen in the toon, but I figure oh well.
OH, and the hat is a modified cad bane hat. I just trimmed the brim into a circle and cut the little notch in the front out to match the "floppy hat" look of "old snake's".
"They just don't make terrorists like they used to."
