Thanks to HISS Tank.com boards member Orezona for posting up his custom Cobra Air Force Sky Rattler made from a G.I. Joe 30th Anniversary Celebration Sky Striker!
Sky Rattler
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by DESTRO under G.I. Joe Customs
Thanks to HISS Tank.com boards member Orezona for posting up his custom Cobra Air Force Sky Rattler made from a G.I. Joe 30th Anniversary Celebration Sky Striker!
Sky Rattler
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orezona says
I've messed around with a couple customs before, but never posted any of them before because they weren't anything I was super proud of.
However, as soon as I saw the new Sky Striker, I KNEW I wanted to make one for the Cobra Air Force. The Rattler gets its ass kicked by the Sky Striker and Conquest all the time and the Night Raven is cool, it's no F-14...
This is the only Sky Striker I have. Well, it's not a Sky Striker for the Joe team anymore!
First off, here's the vehicle:
The above shots were taken last night. I made a couple stickers this morning and just applied them (note: I already flattened down the pilot emblem sticker).
And here's the pilot: Undomesticated Polecat.
Recipe: Pay attention kiddos, it's really complicated...
Took the head off Ace and swapped it with the Para-Viper's along with his chute and webgear. Painted with Cadmium Red which looks more orange but meh, who cares.
Here's the back story on the Sky Rattler:
Cobra's Air Force has been plagued by nothing but defeat after defeat after defeat. Tired of spending more on parachutes than ordinance, Cobra Commander hailed Destro to alleviate him of his problems. In his typical high pitched cretinous voice, Cobra Commander DEMANDED that something be done to match or exceed G.I. Joe's air superiority over the battlefield.
Destro, being the savvy businessman that he is, looked at the current line up of jets for Cobra and compared their specs and performance history to the Joe's counterparts. Considering the time and investment involved in developing a completely new jet fighter/bomber platform, Destro did what cunning industrialists in the past have done to combat their manufacturing rivals: He stole the Joe's design for the Sky Striker!
After a daring nighttime raid by Firefly (who had been training on the operational specs for the Sky Striker for months), he managed to sneak onto a Forward Operating Base of the Joes and barely get a commandeered Sky Striker off the ground. It's a miracle (or from the Joe's perspective, terrible luck) that the jet made it to one of the M.A.R.S. research facilities (which had a landing strip) without getting shot down or simply crashing. With the jet firmly in his grasp, Destro employed his best scientists to reverse-engineer the Sky Striker...
Thus, the Sky Rattler was born!
With an armament nearly exact to the Sky Striker, the Sky Rattler is absolutely an equal to the Joe's main fighter jet in the sky and causing havoc where ever it's deployed. Add to the fact that it can be a carrier based fighter with bomber capabilities, and it's a mobile and deadly opponent for the Joe's pilots. Incidentally, the Joe's Ace is incensed at the copy-cat tactics employed by Cobra and is so enraged by the sight of the black winged bird so much like his beloved Sky Striker, his pilot skills are practically compromised due to his overly emotional response.
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Here's the back story on Cobra's newest fighter pilot, Undomesticated Polecat:
Undomesticated Polecat is actually the brother's sister's cousin's twice removed uncle's neighbor to Wild Weasel. The two have known each other for decades and there has always existed a very real rivalry between the two airmen. While Wild Weasel has been employed by Cobra for some time, Undomesticated Polecat scoffed at the idea of being in the cockpit of such a poorly preforming fighter as the Rattler. Polecat's preference was for higher speed and agility as well as being on a "winning team", though his scruples would never allow him to even consider a career working with the goody-two-shoes Joes. That, and he's drunk most of the time when not flying (and on occasion while actually flying, since his earliest experience as a pilot was working for U.S. Airways) so the dynamic wasn't exactly feasible for Polecat to work with people like the Joes.
After some time spent being employed by military dictatorships around the world as a fighter pilot instructor, Polecat was finally lured to the Cobra ranks when he heard of a newly developed fighter for their Air Corps. The sweet irony wasn't lost on him when he found out the F-14 based fighter was a direct rip-off of the Joe's most beloved aircraft, and with glee he agreed to take on a position as the first active duty fighter pilot for the new Cobra jetcraft.
Wild Weasel was of course furious to find out his much detested kin was now in charge of the entire flight wing of the Sky Rattlers, and even more so with the obvious reference to his own aircraft. In actuality it was Polecat's idea all a long to call the new fighter the Sky Rattler in the first place as a direct dig on his distant relative.
So now the Joes have two new foes to face in the skies: The firepower and high performance fighter/bomber abilities in the Sky Rattler and a capable pilot who will be training many more Cobra ranks to even the odds over the battlefield below.
COOOOOBRAAAAA!!!
KrymsynGardImmoral says
Love the screeching weasel symbol. The paint is sharp too, it looks great.
WJWitherspoon says
This is a thing of beauty.
Black Rose says
Simply Amazing!!! Love the back story & the hard work you put into this. Thanks for sharing this amazing piece of work.
Hyryx says
You have every reason to be super proud of her, she is F'N gorgious. I want one just like your's more then a starscream SS. Sh!t starscream who??? Lol, I really like that weasel decal. Your pilot is just bad ass.
Kolschey says
GREAT custom. One of the best I've seen in a while.
orezona says
I did have to make him into more of a polecat though with the white ears/nose and "bandit mask". That was fun to do.
Thanks on the compliments guys, btw!
spot138 says
"Undomesticated pole cat"? LMAO! Thats good!
Awesome job on the rattler too. That things nasty as hell!
MethaZord says
So,What do you use to make those stickers!!! and how in the fizuck did you get the "skystriker" Font and......Fu*k it, How much!!!
tkprime says
Epic!!!!!
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