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  1. Mandingo Rex

    Rex's Tunnel Rat & Night-Ops Shipwreck

    This was a "fix-up" and a LBC kitbash, so I opted to toss them in together. I never really had a problem with the "squinty-eyed" Tunnel Rat until recently. I always excused the silly "He's Asian!" stereotypical/comically-squinted eyes because he's crawling around in the dark, but finally I...
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    Rex's Sunbow Falcon

    This is an oldie I dug back up because I finally broke down and got the amazing SDS (Slayer Design Studios) Lt. Falcon kit. The kit consists of a new head and larger neckerchief. Some of you may have seen the older version with the factory tard-face Hasbro head, but I finally got to the point...
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    Rex's Ultimate Rock N Roll

    I never cared much for the 25th Rock N Roll. He was a lame kitbash, with the only "cool" parts being his double-strapped bullet belts and his weapon. The tiny cranium was laughable with its beady little eyes, and the crappy Duke arms and rehashed greenshirt basic body that was already overused...
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    Old Joe Marvel Comic Commercials

    Someone at HT posted this, but I found it interesting because I'd never seen most of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXY8BMXDKSA It's the Sunbow-animated Marvel Comics commercials, but besides showing early animation with the wrong voices, the main thing that stuck out to me was that...
  5. Mandingo Rex

    GIJCC Dial-Tone Review

    Ah, Dial-Tone. One of the last "prominent" characters from the Sunbow cartoon to be made into 25th format. And what'd Hasbro do? They made him a her. Not a sex change or anything that, but a complete replacement as a woman. His sister. Dial-Tone was now Jill Morelli, no longer the Jack Morelli...
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    JoeCon 2011 Dial-Tone Review

    No no, not that Dial-Tone. The less-sought-after-non-carded-but-still-fairly-rare Dial-Tone from JoeCon 2011. The one in the Special Mission: Brazil 2 deco. (The better one, if you ask me.) So why is that? He's mostly a repaint of the ROC Zartan with 25th Airborne arms, 25th Dusty shoulder...
  7. Mandingo Rex

    Assault at the Jungle Ruins

    Dial-Tone intercepted an encoded signal from Cobra High Command that contained details about a top-secret prototype of the Night Raven that had previously been only rumored to exist. Previous sightings had been made by intel sources close to Rio de Janeiro, and a Joe team had been sent in to...
  8. Mandingo Rex

    JoeCon 2011 Claymore Review

    In the 80s, before repaints and kitbashes were really all the rage in Pawtucket's boardroom, Hasbro would sometimes toss together a few parts and make a Frankenjoe that was a new character. Sure, this was done early on with the Original 13, but once the non-greenshirt Joes starting flowing...
  9. Mandingo Rex

    JoeCon 2011 Wet-Suit Review

    A lot of folks were split over the JoeCon exclusives released by the GI Joe Collector's Club. Most were excited to see the 25th/modern construction to be used this year, but many were irritated about the availability of them, and especially the price. This is a set that I personally respected...
  10. Mandingo Rex

    The Deployed 1:18th

    Okay, so I had to do this silly "Flat Stanley" project for a cousin's kid, and while sort of annoying to do, it was partially fun. Anyways, long story short, it's sort of like the Amelie/Traveling Gnome concept. A figure that gets mailed around gets photographed and sent to the next person...
  11. Mandingo Rex

    Tutorial: Creating Dio Walls from Foam

    INTRO: Okay, so this isn't anything new, but something I am trying for the first "real" time in 1:18 scale, with the intent of recreating realistic diorama walls. I have worked with extruded foam before, nearly 10 years ago, in sculpting prototypes in industrial design courses in college, but...