Blood for the Baron!

Where have we been? We have never been away. You have just never seen us. That is the way we have wanted it. You cannot see Shadows in the Darkness. Thus you cannot see one man among many. We have been invisible, living alongside you. Biding our time. Waiting for the right moment. We are your doctors, your dentists, your politicians, your lawyers, your teachers, your servants. We are the man stacking shelves in the supermarket. We are the man sweeping the streets. We are the woman serving your meal in the restaurant.

We are your brother, your sister, your mother, your father. We are you. You have never noticed us. Until now.

Now is our time. You will never know we have struck. Until it is too late.

BLOOD FOR THE BARON!


Baron Ironblood:


Parts:
Helmet: Cast from POTF2 Grand Moff Tarkin head and original Baron Ironblood helmet
Head: POTF2 Grand Moff Tarkin
Body: 25th Anniversary GI Joe Crimson Guardsman
Mauser C96: Golden Compass Tartar


Black Major:


Parts:
Hat: Cast from CORPS! Police Officer
Head: Good To Go Customs Head #43
Figure: 25th Anniversary GI Joe Beach Head


Red Lotus:


Entire Figure: Takara Microman Street Fighter Chun Li
Dragon Claw: ARAH GI Joe

BIO: Red Lotus is the last living member of the Koga Ninja Clan. She is a lethal individual. Uses an alkaloid poison in her lipstick and under her fingernails. Her dragon claws are impregnated with concentrated poison from the Fugu. Utterly ruthless. The only person she counts as a friend is The Black Major. It is rumoured that they have started a passionate affair.


Professor Alberich:


Entire Figure: Marvel Legends Showdown Mole Man

BIO: Rumoured to have been born at the beginning of the 20th century. His parents named him Alberich after the Nibelungen dwarf. Fascinated by the Nazi doctrine of racial purity, his greatest ambition, to join the Waffen SS was thwarted because of his looks and his short stature. He was noticed by the heirarchy for his medical genius and was made an SS Doctor and head of the Institute of Genetics. The first people he experimented on were his parents, blaming them for his lack of height and looks.


Red Bear:


Ushanka: Sculpted
Head: Chap Mei Pirate
Figure: Xyber 9 Willy with vinyl for bottom of coat

BIO: Grigori Piotrvitch is the great, great, great grandson of Grigori Rasputin, who he was named after. Captain in Spetznaz. Olympic and World Champion weightlifter. World's Strongest Man three times in succession. Chess Grand Master. Doctorate in engineering. He was court-martialled by the Russian Army for brutality, but was aquitted on a technicality. Unfortunately, a steroid abuse scandal reared its head not long after, and the verdict was recalled to one of guilty. He escaped from a military gulag and was recruited by The Black Major. Now Field Commander of The Red Shadows legions.


Dagon:


Head/Arms/Legs: POTF2 Bossk
Torso: POTF2 Admiral Ackbar

BIO: When Baron Ironblood found the Kraken under the ice at the Antarctic, he found it very difficult to control. Many Red Shadows were killed in attempts. He and Professor Alberich travelled back to the cave system and found many more Kraken in alcoves within the cave system. They also found a capsule containing a much larger slightly different specimen. When they transported it back to the Baron's South American laboratory they manged to revive it, and after several weeks, communicate with it, something they had not managed with the Kraken. It proclaimed itself as the Dagon of myth, leader of the Kraken race. Dagon has pledged his allegiance to the Baron, taking command of his aquatic forces. But The Major, Red Bear and Red Jackal all remain suspicious of Dagon's true motives.


Red Jackal:



Head: VvsV Destro
Torso: PIT Viper
Arms: Sgt Airborne
Waist/Legs: Spy Troops Overkill


Red Laser:



Head: Cobra Viper V13
Arms/Torso: Razor Trooper


Red Vulture:



Head: Chap Mei Ninja
Arms/Torso/Legs: CLAWS Commander


Red Shadow Officer:


Red Shadow Sergeant:


Red Shadow Trooper:


Red Shadow Squad:



This is a temporary pic of the group. I still have three figures to do yet:

Next Red Shadows figures:

Red Wolf:


Head: Razor Trooper
Body: Lanard Space Force


Red Shadows Heavy Assault Trooper:






Parts:
Head: Sand Scorpion
Body: Lanard Space Force

BIO: Heavy Weapons Troopers are the elite of the Red Shadows forces. They are given specialist training in anti-armour, hostile environment and special tactics by The Black Major, and are put through rigouros physical training by Red Bear. Their helmets are linked directly to their goggles and give them full range of vision through the UV and IR spectrums, along with super-enhanced night vision, electronic distance enhancement and aim-assisted fire control for weponry.

LOVE Professor Alberich. The Shads definitely need a mad scientist.

I really like the updated Red Wolf in that second batch but my favorites are Black Major and Baron Iron Blood

Thanks. With Red Wolf, I was going for a slightly different concept, but when I saw that Lanard figure, envsioning him in red, I immediately thought of the Aliens from the Gerry Anderson series UFO. I thought about going with a green tinted visor, but after trying out a couple of green glass paints on some acetate, I decided against it.

The Heavy Assault troopers are fantastic!
The whole collection is a great modern take on the Red Shadows, Kraken is a definate improvement

Well, that is my Red Shadows finished for now.

I have almost finished an Action Force custom. I will be posting it tomorrow with any luck, with several more to come. Updated looks for old characters, with one or two new characters to come.

These are really ,really great. I might have to try that Baron Ironblood out thought.

vega-1 wrote:These are really ,really great. I might have to try that Baron Ironblood out thought.

Let me know if you need one of those helmets. They are solid resin. I still have the mould.