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Yeah, they didn't do a single bit of retooling for the "HISS III". I much prefer the original design in a blue repaint over the HISS 3 design, but I didn't need them to rename it that either when it clearly has little to do with a "III". In reality, it's a zero-burger. If I get one, it'll be...

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I'm guessing they're waiting on Pulsecon to do the next round of big reveals, while simultaneously trying to not undercut "enthusiasm" for the movie figs that are just starting to drop.

They quit producing during the pandemic, and now shipping lanes are jammed up with product that couldn't get out of china for a year. Hasbro is just treading water until the holidays, as toy sales are not that brisk this time of year anyway. I assume by Q4, things will start looking more like...

That mortar that comes with the officer makes me think Short-Fuse can't be too many waves away...

So, apparently we're getting Retro Grunt, Cobra Officer, and a blue repaint of the HISS with Rip-It (HISS driver repaint). Grunt looks very classic/basic as he should. The officer looks good too, but the display sample has the red logo on the package artwork. The figure has the correct silver...

Adding camo to the vest after cutting away all the extra junk also helps hide any imperfections caused by errant/dull exacto work. The eye just glosses right over it.

Variant Duke (i.e. sans gold) and upcoming Amazon Roadblock should help even things out a bit. Both of those are massive improvements to the original releases. It feels like Hasbro is slowly getting the memo, as the more classic the decos and the better the distribution, the more well...

Unless I decide to stir my figure bin with barbed wire, nothing is going to hurt that decal.

I put a little touch of putty on his bicep just to fill in the ribbing, a touch of grey paint, and a cobra waterslide decal, easy-peasy for the ARAH look.

He will not. Super7 ultimates are 7" scale, so he would tower over your other cobras. Apparently I'm just starting a 7" collection I suppose... (insert head in hands emoji) It's beyond baffling. I don't even know who would want a display of these things, carded or open. They're such a...

I predict you'll want to ditch the collar when you're done. It's just too much, as if he's wearing a neck brace like Rosco Coltrane... QUACK!

So while I like the Super7 ultimate figures, I'm not 100% blown away. I'm going to order them because I think after a few waves come out and you have two solid teams of animation accurate figures, that's when they'll really shine. Even ignoring the scale difference, one rando toony Super7 next...

According to the folks on tfw that track such things, he's been going in and out of stock all week. I don't think people missed him because of the website nonsense, it's just that people don't army-build named characters, especially the one that deviates the most from his ARAH looks more than...

Vallejo makes a chipping medium that is really handy to make rusty spots and chipped edges and such. Basically, you dry brush a little rust color (and let it dry), paint over it with the chipping medium (and let it dry), then paint over it with your top color (and let it dry). Then you go back...

Abso-f#$%in-lutely. Give him an AK while you're at it. I even made a little officer "v" for his helmet out of thin styrene, and painted over most of the red on the armband. Edit: I recommend tamiya silver. It goes on like butter, as opposed to the odd gloppy mess of model masters.

New COD troop pack... I assume it'll be $15 when it's available from actual amazon and not a 3rd party scalper.

That looks weird AF. Of all the 1:18 KS campaigns, that appears to be the most half-baked one yet. Every figure looks like a 90yo woman.

All of my sets are 1:12, so I can't really say. I find all the 1:12 dios to scale very well to 6-7 inch figures, but I don't have the bar set to give you an apples-to-apples comparison.

Even as a kid, I wondered exactly how that worked. I finally came to the conclusion that it was the same pseudo-science that allows Colossus to be made of "organic steel" and still move like a human with skin. Mostly it's best not to think about it. The same way I never understood how a...