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Made a custom Musketeer from a vintage Action Man with some Simba and Ken outfits. The hat is from a stuffed Puss in Boots.
Sally LaSalle, Girl Reporter of "Maid for Adventure" fame, and Charles "Chas" Anderson on assignment for Hearst Movietone Newsreels.
ROCHobby 1/6 1941 MB Scaler (Willys Jeep) r/c vehicle
This is a portrait of my 1960's style GI Joe Green Beret figure.
The figure is a Timeless Collection GI Joe. The uniform is a vintage Hasbro Green Beret uniform (Pants and Jacket only). The boots, web-belt and scarf are from Cotswold/Elitebrigade. The M-16, Beret and Grenades are from the Timeless Collection "Green Beret Machine Gun Outpost" Set. His pistol and holster are from the GI Joe 40th Anniversary series.
The figure was placed in a fern covered area of my backyard, and photographed with a Nikon D3100, using a 35mm f1.8 lens.
A photo of the set-up is here: www.flickr.com/photos/cerebralpizza/21729190256/in/datepo...
Super Sandy and Hard Rock know the drill...
Super Sandy and Super Peggy were European exlusives in the Gi.joe line, called 'Action Team' in Germany and 'Group Action Joe' in France. Got this gal mint in box (yeah still have it ;) for €20,- several years ago. It's the Italian Polistill version. A steal imo :)
Poor Dr Evil turns to jelly immediately Professor Gangrene's daughter, Gonnie*, starts flirting with him.
Meanwhile, on his return from the toilet, Action Man is less than impressed to find Dr X chatting up his girl, Natalie Poole!
*you don't want to know what Gonnie is short for. She also has a sister, Clammie.
Two USN pilots coordinate prior to a mission in the fall of 1960.
The GI Joes are both Timeless Collection figures. They are wearing a mix of Hasbro and Cotswold reproduction items. And...HEY! I just found my Action Man Dog Tag!!! (That needs to go back to Action man.)
I've been working on a small carrier deck 'set'. I'm quite pleased with these first results.
Dr. Quinzel: “And with the book and its evil influence gone, Thistle Deep becomes just a regular forest.”
Selena: “Yes, of course.”
Dr. Quinzel: “So what would happen to Ivy then? The only reason she’s free is cause she can keep Thistle Deep unda control. This don’t sound like such a good solution fer her.”
Selena: “I’m wanted by authorities too, Harley. I certainly haven’t committed crimes to the extent that Pamela has but nonetheless I would use the necronomicon as bargaining power to have you, I and Pamela exonerated. Clean slate.”
Dr. Quinzel: “Most folks don’t know I’m Harley Quinn.”
Selena: “True, but you know the few that do could drop the hammer on you at any time.”
The arctic weather was no excuse for the Action Man to stay indoors. Mission first!
Note: Incidentally, for me the low temperature with hard wind was too much. I spent about fifteen minutes outside and almost froze my fingers off while shooting this. It's all Hoth out there, quite dangerous really!
This one works well with this thingy.
My latest project: A big version of the old-scool B.A.T. I had to do something terrible; cut off the nose of the Action Man I used for this guy :P Luckily the end result is pretty cool. The boots are a bit altered cause I found these more appropriate than the first ones I wanted to use, but the rest is pretty spot on compared to the original.
From left to right: Geyperman, GI Joe and Action Man
Check out the differences between the American and Spanish versions of the "Muscle Body" or "Dynamic Physique" (as it was known in the UK).
Superficially, Geyperman and GI Joe look very similar, but the bodies are held together in a completely different fashion, whereas Joe's feet and legs are attached to his upper body by a very thick piece of rubber, Geyperman's legs and feet are held together by plastic joint connectors and the lower body is attached to the upper body by a sturdy piece of thick black elastic, similar to a bungee cord. Where Joe's arms and head were originally connected to the trunk by rubber bands that eventually deteriorated with age, Geyperman's arms and head are again connected using specially crafted plastic connectors. The shoulder construction on Geyperman is more like that of the Talking GI Joe, although that is not visible in this picture. The difference in Geyperman's neck construction adds a little extra height to him, making him closer to 13 inches. Geyperman's feet are just like Joe's and his hands are similar, but he doesn't have the "deformity" Joe has where his thumbnail is on the wrong side of his thumb (a deliberate "mistake" made to trademark the figure). Geyperman's blue undies are very similar to Joe's but lack the "AT" insignia on the belt buckle (by the way, outside of comics and action figures have any of you ever seen underwear with a belt?)
Action Man shares a similar chest/abdomen to Joe and Geyperman, and the heads of the vintage figures were attached to the bodies in a similar way to how Joe's head attaches, but the similarities end there. Action Man's arms, legs and feet are all held together by plastic connectors, but these are of a completely different design to the ones used in Geyperman and the end result is a figure that looks far less natural "in the buff" with many visible joints and seams. His arms and legs are also slightly less thick and muscular than Joe or Geyperman and he is slightly shorter than either of them. His arms are quite a bit longer and his hands are thicker (and therefore more durable) and also has his thumbnail on the correct side of his thumb. Oddly, his feet are significantly smaller and of a totally different design from the other two figures in this shot. His blue underwear are similarly unique and features the Action Man logo on the buckle. His overall skin color is quite different from Joe's. His upper and lower body is held together by a thick plastic o-ring with a plastic connector running through it to each of the legs, which may ultimately prove more durable than either the rubber or elastic used in Joe or Geyperman.
Feast your eyes on this lot my fellow Gi.joe/ Action Man fans: An awesome haul I made from a Dutch auction site, and payed only €45,- for it.
It has so many cool stuff:
2 vintage patent pending soft head Joes.
Boxed (but unfortunately incomplete) Desert jeep with instruction sheet.
All the manuals and some folders.
a bunch of complete uniforms:
Desert fighter (from the jeep).
Russian infantry soldier (only missing the bipod from the gun).
British infantry.
Grenadier guard
Frogman with dingie.
Action pilot.
Tank commander (only missing the sticker on the helmet).
And a few near complete:
German infantry.
Mp.
And some loose bits.
All uniforms are first wave and in great condition :D
I'm as happy as a kid today :P
The Sea Adventurer and Land Adventurer are on a backyard patrol in their Empire Toys Jeep. This would have been what my Adventure Team ground transportation looked like in 1975. The Sea Adventurer is wearing a "knockoff" LJN Jungle Outpost uniform.
How thoughtful of Mego Conan; a Goblin head for Sandy Obitsu (which, judging by the niff, he's been keeping in the back of his closet for the past few weeks)... Conan's not overly impressed with Sandy's gift for him either; a new tie.
As for Pinky, she got her wish for a rugged Action Man adventurer.
(though next Xmas she'll be asking for a re-stringing set to repair him!)
I have a LOT of them!
This is because in the early 2000's Hasbro released 4 Adventure Team Timeless Collection sets that all came with the same figure - a brown haired, blue eyed Man of Action with Kung Fu Grip. This was likely the reason why the GI Joe Collector Club never came out with a reproduction of this AT member like they did with all the other members from the 1970-74 run.
Did I say they were all identical? Well, that's not completely true, one of them, the figure that came with the Wal Mart exclusive " 8 Ropes of Danger" set had bright red hair and blue eyes. You could pretend he was a clean shaven Sea Adventurer if you were willing to overlook the fact that his eyes were the wrong color and his hair the wrong shade of red.
In 2007, Wal Mart again gave us another variation on the MOA, this time in the form of flocked 40th anniversary figure.
I decided to reflock one of these figures with blonde hair to make him a little different, and alos because his flocking was starting to rub off. The one on the far right is not technically a GI Joe at all, he is a custom figure from Cotswold Collectibles I ordered about a year ago so I would have my own version of the hard to find blonde "hard hands" variant of the MOA.
I plan to someday come up with bios for all the different characters who served as the "Man of Action" for the AT as I see most of these figures as representing different individuals who served as the MOA at different points in time.
This figure began life as a spare vintage Land Adventurer head I had lying around after using his body to complete my Bulletman figure. I experimented with reflocking him myself, but the hair color wasn't a good match in the repaired parts of his beard. He sat on my desk at work for about a year, then I decided to have it done professionally and make him into an Action Man Adventurer by putting him on a tan Cotswold body, and Idea I got from Adventurer Josh (thanks, man!).
His clothes are also from Cotswold, but I'm not happy with them and ordered the proper blue turtleneck and light blue jeans that the AM Adventures with gripping hands would've worn. So he is still something of a work in progress.