Friday 30 November 2018

Serpent Fantatics Cobra Commander




Not much is known of the background of the man many call the Cobra Commander. What we can only tell is how he works and how he thinks. We know that he has deliberately started political and social conflict in a number of areas. He has amassed an army by recruiting displaced people, promising them money, power and a chance to get back at the world that hurt them. In return, he demands that they swear absolute loyalty to his cause. What is his cause? World domination.

Cobra Commander does not delude himself by justifying his actions as matters of principles or glory. He knows he does it for control and power. He is ruthless, hatred-personified and totally obsessed. A meticulous person, he likes to personally oversee vital projects himself, even engaging in military combat himself on occasion. Not much is known about him, he is a master of disguise and he has appeared as a goatee artist looking man with a son in a coma, in the Marvel comics. His appearance in the 12 inch G.I. Joe line shows him as a man with dark slicked back hair, his appearance constantly changing leaves him assumed to wear masks, even the commander can keep his identity from the people around him.






Next month I am planning on getting a bit of Scenery finished off mainly Walking Dead Barricades and a Post Apoc scatter piece thats been lingering way to long on the bench. Figures wise I am feeling a bit flat on all my normal projects.

So to do something different I am going to be painting up some Movie Heroes and Anti Heroes that I have sitting in the leadpile. Just because December tends to have a lot of movies on especially over Christmas so I think it will be good fun. I have feeling a lot of them will be from the 80's HA!

40 comments:

  1. Another great villain for COBRA, Simon. One of your best yet!

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    1. Cheers Bryan. Cobra Commander was a lot of fun todo. A lot of big areas of colour but once basecoated he flew along

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  2. he is fecking excellent, one of my favourites!

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    1. Cheers Fran. Yeah mine to I love him in the comics.

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  3. Fantastic work on the commander Simon, the plans for December sound interesting, look forward to seeing your pogress

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    1. Thanks very much. Cheers Dave more to get me doing some sort of Hobby stuff even if it is a bit random.

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  4. Excellent stuff Simon! Love the pose with the clenched fist. I always liked the masked CC better than the helmet CC, the mask always seemed more menacing to me.

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    1. Cheers very much Ivor. Yeah I was never that keen on the helmet either tbh. I have got a version of him with one to paint but not sure when I'll get around to it.

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  5. Fabulous figure again, Simon. Something about the simple hood is both ominous and iconic for this genre.

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    1. Thanks Dean yeah very much so. Pretty much all the Cobra stuff wears a mask of some sort.

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  6. A very trilling looking villain you've got there Simon :)

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  7. Great work on Cobra Commander mate - you have hit another rich vein of motivation with the latest Joes and foes. :)

    I am hoping that among your 80's action heroes and anti-heroes you can squeeze in some super-heroes and super-villains - so much so that I have some stuff to share with t
    you.... ;)

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  8. COOBRRAA!

    Very cool figure. 😀

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  9. Nice figure Simon...a couple minor changes & you have Darth Vader! He certainly strikes the same pose!

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    1. Thanks very much Terry. Yes I suppose it is a very similar pose to Vader.

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  10. Awesome sauce, Simon. He looks excellent :-) Very impressive group shot too!

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    1. Thanks dude. I felt he needed some of his minions about to boss around.

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  11. Wonderful stuff.
    It takes me right back to Saturday morning and running to the papershop.
    Cheers
    Stu

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    1. Thanks very much Stu. Its a huge nostalgia project for me.

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  12. A bit of a stunted pose imo, especially for such an important leader-type. However your ecellent brushwork makes him stsnd out as something special, especially in your group shot.

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    1. I don't see what you mean by stunted? The Commander stands just as tall as his bodyguards? Thanks.

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  13. Excellent! These Action Force minis just keep getting better.

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  14. Your did the eyes well. This is one mini in which bad work on the eyes can ruin it all. Nice work Simon.

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    1. Thanks very much. Yeah the eyes took a few attempts before I was happy with them.

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  15. That last picture speaks for itself, you nailed it!

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