Cobra Officer (Female)


Well, let's start where it all began for me. late 2007 I started customizing some of my Star Wars figures a little bit and then got into the G.I.Joe 25th Anniversary line and the rest is history as they say.





My fisrt G.I.Joe custom was a female Cobra Officer. I used a Scarlett figure from the 25th Anniversary G.I.Joe Box Set from 2007. Popped her hair off and cut off the small grenade attatched by her shoulder. Took off all of her gear that was supplied with her and scrounged up an extra blue Cobra Officer helmet from a 25th Anniversary Wave 1 Cobra Officer and an AK47 rifle from an extra 25th Anniversary comic pack "Scarface" Cobra Officer. These first customs I did only involved mionor dissasembly and parts swapping. Later on after more experience, I started to delve deeper into the custom possibilities.





I used Tamiya Flat Blue (XF-8) Acrylic Paint and Tamiya Flat Black (XF-1) Acrylic Paint for the colors to make her into a Cobra Officer. After a couple light coats of paint were applied and dried, the finishing touch was a red Cobra sigil sticker placed on her chest. To get the sticker to sit properly and adhear to the contours of her chest, I placed the sticker where I wanted it to be and used a hair dryer held a couple of inches above the sticker and figure to heatup the sticker and make it more plyable. The heat softened the sticker and allowed it to be smoothed out and form to the contours of her chest.



Custom female Cobra Officer "Recipe"

Head - Scarlett (2007 25th Anniversary G.I.Joe Box Set)
Upper/Lower Torso - Scarlett (2007 25th Anniversary G.I.Joe Box Set)
Upper/Lower Arms - Scarlett (2007 25th Anniversary G.I.Joe Box Set)
Hands - Scarlett (2007 25th Anniversary G.I.Joe Box Set)
Upper/Lower Legs - Scarlett (2007 25th Anniversary G.I.Joe Box Set)
Feet - Scarlett (2007 25th Anniversary G.I.Joe Box Set)
Helmet - Cobra Officer (2007 25th Anniversary Single Carded Wave 1)
Rifle - "Scarface" Cobra Officer (2008 25th Anniversary Comic Pack {Crimson Guard/Cobra Officer} Wave 3)

Paint:
Tamiya XF-1 (Flat Black)
Tamiya XF-8 (Flat Blue)