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Originally Posted by Madame Warlock

Been thinking about maybe making some custom Agents of SHIELD figs, in particular Mockingbird and Quake. I'm guessing GiJoes would be the best to use for this. Any suggestions for which figs in particular would work?

Movie Black Widow is compatible to GI Joe heads, and Renegade scarlet if you clip her ponytail makes for a great Maria Hill at least.

Not sure on Quake, but the same base body would probably work. For Quake though I'd say use the Black Widow body, but maybe use ROC Desert Ambush Scarlett's lower arms to give Quake those more metal gloves she uses. By painting those silver you can have an easier time on making the lower arms, but not sure on hands. Black Widow's hands might be good to use instead of the ROC Scarlett ones since they have a more texturized glove aspect to them for better detailing.

If you feel ambitious on top of that, GI Joe Wraith gauntlets make for great customs too if you reverse the gauntlet so the hand area goes towards the elbow and the elbow area goes toward the hand. Then use a nail clipper to clip the inside arm area to shorter. I have a lot of customs planned still that use Wraith web gear and ROC Desert Ambush Scarlett, but to do those customs it generally comes out to higher than I want to pay to make the custom figures right now.

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Originally Posted by Psycho Pirate

Edit: "Desert Ambush" ROC Scarlett is a great base. Pardon my brain deadness.

This body is amazing for customs but she's so hard to come by these days. Even on ebay her price has gone up considerably. I try to keep an eye out for them because I want to use that base for a lot of customs I still want to do. But none have stayed within my price range to buy them at.

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Originally Posted by OfficialHegarty

any tips about painting over figures I'm thinking of using paint from games workshop ?

Tamiya paints have been some of the best I've ever used. Decent price, and once they dry they're on there as strong as the plastic you're painting on itself. As long as you close them tight, they last a long time too without getting wonky with age like some Testor's paints do.