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Was yours Action Man? Or GI Joe?

Dave if you make it a cobra jeep it needs a cold slither bumper sticker.

 Theophony wrote:
Dave if you make it a cobra jeep it needs a cold slither bumper sticker.

Oh my god yes awesome.

you're not helping me to decide Catachan

Oh c'mon Dave, awash in your Catachan camo scheme, manned by your rough and tumble Catachan trrops with their big blades strapped to leg or the roll bars......

Don't make it Cobra... you'll only be tempted to do more cobra stuff, plus it really would make a good Catachan jeep!

Go catchans Dave, you can put the drivers name, passenger name and gunners names on the sides like pilots have on their planes, and use their nicknames "torch, ripper, and slash" and cold slither can just be their favorite band of the 41st millennium.

I just give my two cents...

Go Cobra and build a special task force for your army called the "Jungle Cobras" and use It anyway in your army



P.S.: everything You did 'till now is inspiring, thank You

 dsteingass wrote:
Was yours Action Man? Or GI Joe?

Action Force GiJoe had not made it across the sea at that stage, although my dad being in the RAF used to get postings to German and pic up the Gi Joe at the PX on the American base

You could always go back to the dollar store and pic up another jeep and do both Cobra and Catachan versions

I already picked up two more of those sets

Thanks for the compliment SelvaggioSaky!

 dsteingass wrote:
I already picked up two more of those sets

Thanks for the compliment SelvaggioSaky!

Great all 3 options can be built now

Hows the job front going Dave ? anything looking hopeful fingers stilled crossed here for you mate

Not combining all three together?

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
I already picked up two more of those sets

Thanks for the compliment SelvaggioSaky!

Great all 3 options can be built now

Hows the job front going Dave ? anything looking hopeful fingers stilled crossed here for you mate

Or one jeep or each of the dreadnoks? Their custom weapons can ride shotgun .

 Theophony wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
I already picked up two more of those sets

Thanks for the compliment SelvaggioSaky!

Great all 3 options can be built now

Hows the job front going Dave ? anything looking hopeful fingers stilled crossed here for you mate

Or one jeep or each of the dreadnoks? Their custom weapons can ride shotgun .

The Jeeps but I am slowly working on building some Gi Joe based minis with a little work I might have a go at a couple of those guys once I sauce some parts

Yes, good conversion bitz always help, I have a source ones money flows again, a local place "Hoard o' Bitz!"

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Yes, good conversion bitz always help, I have a source ones money flows again, a local place "Hoard o' Bitz!"

Yes used those guys but the shipping costs now makes it less cost affective

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Yes, good conversion bitz always help, I have a source ones money flows again, a local place "Hoard o' Bitz!"

Yes used those guys but the shipping costs now makes it less cost affective

I'm blacklisted from them because They sent me the wrong parts once, and They sent bits to big for a regular envelope in a regular envelope. I even sent them photos of the ripped envelope that had been delivered empty to my house. They won't even respond to my emails. I even gave them positive responses on the first mistake when they sent replacements and told me to keep the wrong bits.

I won't use hem anymore and will continue to post this each time their name pops up.

I just can't find a Cobra Helmet bit anywhere...


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I don't think a suitable bit exists...

Time to try out the GS skills then mate

Wow, sounds like being stateside has it's advantages, and my bitz as I recall came boxed, seems I rarely have hard luck when I do order something.

GS time for the cobra helmets

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Wow, sounds like being stateside has it's advantages, and my bitz as I recall came boxed, seems I rarely have hard luck when I do order something.

GS time for the cobra helmets

I'm stateside too shaso, one came in a plastic baseball card box, it was cracked, but had all the wrong bits in it. The other was just a plain white office envelope, not even padded. But it was perforated by all the machines the post office uses, and no way one of hose cases could have been in it, or squeezed out.

If I remember correctly it took about a week to get a response to my first email.

Theo, when did they do this to you? I had like no problems just a few months back

This was 2+ years ago. I just tried to order some bits off ebay from them, but I am still blocked with no way to get into contact with them. It was back when I was sourcing my shoulder pads for my marine chapter. I spent the money with someone else instead. But their prices are good, and I would give them another chance if allowed. Everyone gives them glowing reviews, but I wasn't even able to ding them on ebay because they blocked me before I could write my review.

for cobra helmet I would grab some German WW2 28mm helmets (wargames factory bits) then file down the front of the helmet and carve it a bit to make the 'V' shape, then add a scarf/lower facemask from greenstuff. I think the Cobra helmet is basically like a german helmet shape, just cobra shape is a bit straighter and with less of a lip, you just have to file down the lip a bit.

I tried that with a Wargames factory German head already, the shape of it doesn't look right.

dang, I guess your only alternative is to heavily file/greenstuff using the WF one as a base and then mold it somehow. I very much doubt theres a helmet out there exactly in a cobra shape! Then again a good paintjob does wonders.

I may be wrong, but see if you can get Russian helmets they are more of the shape I think.

East German helmets are close, but the cobra helmets do come down lower than german style.


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Cobra! see, the helmet of the basic cobra trooper is just about to the base of the neck,

Tell you what would be real close would be the helmets worn by the rebel guards at the beginning of Star wars.

New style Cobra Commander