Cobra Assault Systems Pod

[firefight]

Well well, Fancy seeing you here Firefight fans and it's not even Friday-(unless you do happen to be reading this on a Friday of course). You want to see this A.S.P. custom then? Of course you do.

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If you thought that I was just going to post a simple A.S.P. repaint custom then you don't know firefight. If my sneaky ruse is undetected by Red Baron then I think his tail feathers might get a bit ruffled when he finally sees this.
Hi Baz

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Now I don't want to sound double cock(pit)sure of myself but I think that this has his Z-Force jet well within it's sights and is good enough to
grasp[*][/i] the September COTM. [*]sorry I thought I had run out of those too. We'll have to wait and see but at the very least he should get some flak for his wife helping him. -is she the true talent?

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Unfortunately Cobrastickers.com don't do replacement A.S.P. stickers.(it's a long story, people didn't want to put their fisto in their stinkor or something like that). No one was willing to yield four cannon shields either; maybe they were just aspic (jelly.)
It can rotate through 360 degrees on the swivel base but it can't pivot up 90 degrees like the original could. Still, mine's got more guns and a canopy to keep the rain off, so swings and roundabouts really. In a nod to the original there is a removeable (magnetized) generator cover.

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Rolling along on the asphalt highway to the danger zone? (yeah I know it's a table)
So you probably want to know what I used to help create such a jazzy custom? A lot of blood, sweat and tears. Oh yeah, plus half a Dragonfly, the lower half of an A.S.P., another set of A.S.P. guns, Coastal Defender radar dish, Shadow Trak driver compartment, Devilfish rear panel, Swamp Skier skis and a shampoo bottle lid.

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Somewhat ironically, like finding the right kind of shampoo, it took quite a while to find a suitable part for the "neck" section linking the cockpit "head" and swivel base "shoulders".

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Drilled through and bolted it together.

So there it is.
The Cobra Assault System Pod:Twin Snake.
My debut bid at COTM glory in all of it's glory.
cheers,
firefight.
ps. Before he asks, yes it's tasty, a bit like asparagus meertoh.

[humby248]

Absolutely brilliant! Well done. Did you have a scrap Dragonfly and wanted to come up with a use for it? I have a few scrap vehicles that are missing so many parts its not worth sourcing so I'm always trying to come up with uses for them.

[firefight]

Absolutely brilliant! Well done. Did you have a scrap Dragonfly and wanted to come up with a use for it? I have a few scrap vehicles that are missing so many parts its not worth sourcing so I'm always trying to come up with uses for them.

Thank you. The Dragonfly had a lot of broken parts on it, lots of bits snapped off here and there. I've managed to recycle the lion's share of it; I've another custom in the works that utilizes some more of it's carcass.
cheers
firefight.

[stkhlmdk]

Awesome work, remember to put it in COTM thread so we can place an appropriate vote

[The Baron]

Now THAT is what customising is all about. Bloody brilliant!

[Double-Tap]

Wow!!
That's really clever.
Great job.

[SteveD]

Works well doesn't it! I like it!

[Thundershot]

Paint it red!

[Red Baron]

Great custom firefight. Fantastic to see wrecks and spares come together in a new way.

Oh, and yes, my wife deserves all the credit for my work- she has to put up with a child as a husband. Look forward to seeing you win COTM

[firefight]

Thanks fellas! I'll start work on my COTM acceptance speech now shall I?

Paint it red!

No can do I'm afraid T-shirt. It would look pretty cool as a Shadows vehicle, Red Scarab I could call it perhaps. I've made my colour palette choice however, and I'll stick with it to the bitter end.

Great custom firefight. Fantastic to see wrecks and spares come together in a new way.
Oh, and yes, my wife deserves all the credit for my work- she has to put up with a child as a husband. Look forward to seeing you win COTM

thanks Baz! May the best man child win!
Now, I'm not discounting all the other customisers without good reason; for example:
Dark Horse is probably far too busy to enter. I imagine he's still decorating Castle Gayskull. Sorry I meant Grayskull (that was a typo).
Humby- too busy plagiarzing my Diamondback custom.
Wolfman (Wolforrest)- he's still growing, still learning, he's not big or bad enough yet.
cheers,
firefight.
ps. Who blabbed to Red Baron? Some guy with a boner for Skeletor I'm guessing..