ragacin
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Hi,
Well I got a bug up my hiney to do a custom Predator figure and tried to decided between several, and finally settled on old Gort here. It started life as your average Chopper Pred, bought off eBay cheap and complete. I kept what I needed and sold off the rest of the parts, so the base figure cost me oh $12.00
. Then I purchased a set of the 7 custom 1/6 helmets on eBay for the Gort helmet, and again, I am selling off the remainder on eBay. Last item I purchased for the figure thus far was a recast Argonauts Predator 2 vinyl figure from an eBayer in Thailand. OK, OK before the pitchforks and finger pointing starts about the immorality of recasting, buying recasts, condoning recasts yadda yadda, I did it simply because I was not going to pony up $200 for a genuine Argonauts kit and then destroy it by slicing it up. Simple as that. Not only for the cost, but it would really be a waste of the art form. I would be destroying a kit that someone else would be glad to have and build up like it was intended. OK, off the high horse. . I had owned a Argonaut kit in the past and knew it would be the right size for the project. And for what it's worth, for $25 shipped from Thailand, the kit wasn't bad at all. I have seen some custom P2's done using the Kotobukiya statue, but it was just a little to small IMHO.
Anyway, for those you are unsure who Gort is, he is one of the hunting party at the end of Predator 2 in the ship. His helmet design was actually made for Predator 1, but the director went with the more simple helmet, which increased the shock value when the actual face of that Ugly MoFo was shown.
So here is the start. I have quite a ways to go yet, and I will post progress pics along the way. I also plan on buying some leather strapping to make belts and lacing and pouches.
Here are the pics, first up, non-descript Joe Predator in his jammies.
And with the armor on. I don't plan on using the skirt, but didn't want him to be showing off his stuff as I hadn't completed the codpiece yet.
Well I got a bug up my hiney to do a custom Predator figure and tried to decided between several, and finally settled on old Gort here. It started life as your average Chopper Pred, bought off eBay cheap and complete. I kept what I needed and sold off the rest of the parts, so the base figure cost me oh $12.00
. Then I purchased a set of the 7 custom 1/6 helmets on eBay for the Gort helmet, and again, I am selling off the remainder on eBay. Last item I purchased for the figure thus far was a recast Argonauts Predator 2 vinyl figure from an eBayer in Thailand. OK, OK before the pitchforks and finger pointing starts about the immorality of recasting, buying recasts, condoning recasts yadda yadda, I did it simply because I was not going to pony up $200 for a genuine Argonauts kit and then destroy it by slicing it up. Simple as that. Not only for the cost, but it would really be a waste of the art form. I would be destroying a kit that someone else would be glad to have and build up like it was intended. OK, off the high horse. . I had owned a Argonaut kit in the past and knew it would be the right size for the project. And for what it's worth, for $25 shipped from Thailand, the kit wasn't bad at all. I have seen some custom P2's done using the Kotobukiya statue, but it was just a little to small IMHO. Anyway, for those you are unsure who Gort is, he is one of the hunting party at the end of Predator 2 in the ship. His helmet design was actually made for Predator 1, but the director went with the more simple helmet, which increased the shock value when the actual face of that Ugly MoFo was shown.
So here is the start. I have quite a ways to go yet, and I will post progress pics along the way. I also plan on buying some leather strapping to make belts and lacing and pouches.
Here are the pics, first up, non-descript Joe Predator in his jammies.
And with the armor on. I don't plan on using the skirt, but didn't want him to be showing off his stuff as I hadn't completed the codpiece yet.
Can't wait to see more pics of Gort in progress. 
