Thanks to HISSTANK.com board member KrymsynGardImmoral for posting up new images of his custom G.I. Joe Modern Era Ghost Ninjas! Figures include:
- Forest Swordsman
- Ghost Ninja Assassin
- Tiger Claw
- Ghost Samurai
- Ghost Ninja Swordsman Apparition
Check out the G.I. Joe Modern Era Ghost Ninja customs after the jump.
KrymsynGardImmoral says
This is going to be a long update. I have been spending WAAAYYY too much time stalking Lucasclones and Luke Sprywalker on Facebook, and they have been a huge influence on my work for the past month, not just in theme and execution, but also in how prolific they both have been.
After the GI Joe convention set, Nocturnal Fire, spotlighted Night Force, I saw an opportunity to take the "Night Force" looking Roadblock from the Retaliation ninja Dojo 3 pack and adapt him in a similar manner that we did with the NJCC Salvo figure with some damaged NJCC Salvo parts. This is Night Force (NJCC) Salvo.
This figure is the first of my "Copying Spry and Lucasclones" Ghost Ninjas. I wasn't sure what colors I wanted to use for this first Ghost ninja, so I tried an "ectoplasm" looking greenish ghostly apparition. So, this is my "Ghost Ninja swordsman Apparition", appearing to Storm Shadow.
This next figure was inspired by the teal colored web gear from the Snake Eyes in the recent GI Joe Retaliation 3 pack. Initially the web gear was designed for a Pursuit of Cobra Jungle Storm Shadow that was meant for 2010 release but was canceled, although somewhat easy to obtain from Asia on eBay as a "prototype". I took the teal web gear and tried to copy the original unreleased Storm Shadow with a black, gray and teal color scheme and use it as a Pursuit of Cobra Ninja Ku. Ninja Ku was originally a black repaint of the 1984 Storm Shadow released in South America in the 1980's, and he inspired a SS repaint in the 25th Joe line.
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more next post.
KrymsynGardImmoral says
The next three pieces were created from parts made by a resin artist who goes by "the Mark Ultra". I've recently gotten into art toys, specifically resin art, and he is one I have bought from and traded with. i sent him a box of parts he wanted for projects, he sent me a bag of some of his resin figure parts, but in "kit" form, he had not assembled anything. The next three piece came from those parts.
I just call this "Alien overlord". The head and body were from TMU, the collar was scratch built.
This is a repaint with added parts of Mark Ultra's "Dave" astronaut figure that has been released in several colorways from both himself and as a collaboration with Killer Bootlegs. You can see, it is a combination of recast vintage Star wars and GI joe parts. I took an unpainted figure, added the mutated limbs and skull head, and repainted it in a similar scheme to the first Dave release.
This final collaboration was a cast of a kitbashed MUSCLE figure that was damaged, so I added the robot hand. Apparently the whole MUSCLE format is pretty big within this genre, I'm not very familiar with it but i saw a cool opportunity to paint up a fun figure.
All three.
Nekrosys says
WOW!!! Nuff said...
KrymsynGardImmoral says
OK, the next figure was an attempt to adapt a Chap Mei sniper figure to a modern GI Joe figure format. It isn't perfect, but close enough for me without dumbing down the paint job and sculpting the webgear from scratch.
With the original sniper figure
Back to the Ghost Ninjas, originated by the Concept case reveal at Joe con 2012 and popularized by Sprywalker and Lucasclones (who I was totally inspired by). This is my Ghost Ninja Assassin.
This is my most recent Ghost Ninja, I'm just calling it "Forest Swordsman". I assembled him from some reject parts, so he is really kind of a mess of joint rubs, but I like how he came out so I might remake him with better parts later.
KrymsynGardImmoral says
This was a super simple "Retaliation"-ish Low-Light. I just dry brushed the Snake Eyes from the 3 pack with a couple different grays, repainted a DG Shipwreck head, and added goggles, a marauder sniper rifle, and a cast of the retaliation Clutch vest from RaginSpoon. The red kneepads are leftover from a previous casting project.
This is Tiger Claw. there have been some pretty awesome versions of him done lately, I borrowed liberally from Bad Sociologist's version.
This last guy is a Ghost samurai WIP. I took the Wolverine Silver Samurai and dremeled him to death, then added all the parts to a DG Storm Shadow. I am still deciding on a color scheme but I am leaning towards red.
TheWilloughbian says
Nice! Real nice! Good variety of styles. I'm really digging on the "Alien Overload". Those Ghosts are looking pretty scary. The "Forest Swordsman" and "Ghost Samurai" are my favorites. And the rocket launcher add-on is just way too cool.
steve2477 says
Awesome customs. I love that V2 Lowlight homage.
TheLongestDay says
SWEET JEEBUS! Amazing work my friend - those ghost Ninjas and samurai are fooking awesome! Id buy a set of those any day!
figureware says
Great Work!
Troynos says
NF Salvo is bad-ass. Love it.
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