Blood for the Baron!

Ha ha, yes! It was for that very reason that Mark chose NOT to put the Marine's hand in the air when he took the picture

Yep, I do believe Hasbro released a Dress Uniform version of Gung-Ho, but the inspiration here was definately Gaucho; What would he have looked like if made soley from Palitoy parts? Andy1672 and I agreed that the US Marine tattoo hinted towards an earlier career with the American swabbies before he joined Action Force, hence this version. Yep, would have made a great Wave 1.

By the way, A Few Good Men (which features this uniform heavilty at the beginning) is on ITV tonight!


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PS. Thanks for all the kudos... but Mark did the work

I love the idea of straight limbed versions of the articulated figs. Interesting twist, and well executed SC!

Does anyone remember Mr Bronson out of Grange Hill?

he played Hitler in Indy

what's more my mate once got him to ring me on a prank call pretending to be Mr Bronson ranting 'Trrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeee!!!' except I didn't have a frikkin clue who it was

he was interviewing him and it was in response to me getting Brian Blessed to ring him and rant Voltan to him at work

Space Commander wrote:Gaucho... courtesy of my pal, Mark!




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lovely level of detail, what others are in the works?

Dave Tree wrote:he played Hitler in Indy

what's more my mate once got him to ring me on a prank call pretending to be Mr Bronson ranting 'Trrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeee!!!' except I didn't have a frikkin clue who it was

he was interviewing him and it was in response to me getting Brian Blessed to ring him and rant Voltan to him at work

Surely Brian Blessed didn't need a phone? He could have just shouted and your mate woudl have heard?

this is the first of my Wave 2.75 What If?? Palitoy.
this is the second firefly i've made. sprayed the first with varnish but it went all warped but managed to salvage the head and legs-
FIREFLY


just need to darken him down a bit with an ink wash. currently working on about 5 other Wave 2.75.
hope you like,
Bill

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Wave 2.75

HA!

SteveD wrote:I love the idea of straight limbed versions of the articulated figs. Interesting twist, and well executed SC!

Does anyone remember Mr Bronson out of Grange Hill?

i grew in the same town he lived in, we used to shout so much abuse @ him!
he was also in star wars.

starcrossedhk wrote:

SteveD wrote:I love the idea of straight limbed versions of the articulated figs. Interesting twist, and well executed SC!

Does anyone remember Mr Bronson out of Grange Hill?

i grew in the same town he lived in, we used to shout so much abuse @ him!
he was also in star wars.

What a career! Star Wars, Hitler, and Grange Hill.

By coincidence, he was in Auf Weidershen Pet (forgive the spelling if I got it wrong!) the other night... in an episode where the chaps went to see The Empire Strikes Back!

Dave Tree wrote:
lovely level of detail, what others are in the works?

Not a "Hasbro-As-Palitoy" figure this time, more of a "Kenner-As-Palitoy" figure next, although any other "Hasbro-As-Palitoys" I'd love to see. I'm nowhere near ready yet, but I'm working on the prototype Paratrooper (as featured in your catalogue, Dave ... and seen in the AF-3 mini-comic. Sadly I can show you pictures of neither until the archive section is up and running again).

Think I'll have to get Mark to paint it again, his efforts are much better than mine!


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