Dreadnok Raizuur

I did this custom for a contest on another site for creating a new Dreadnok or updating an existing one. I decided to create a new Dreadnok for this one and wrote up a little backstory for him too. Here's my background story for him:

"Growing up in a white-collar family in a fancy private gated community really had an adverse effect on young Rasputin V. Putin. His father Vladimir, was a former Russian K.G.B. agent until he and his wife Ivanna, a former stripper/prostitute, defected to the United States in 1981. Vladimir quickly got a very good paying job working for the Springfield Toasty Bakery, a government front that was spying on the recent activities of the terrorist organization known as Cobra.

After graduating from Springfield Prep Institute (a very ritzy and rich private school), young Rasputin started to lash out against any and all authority figures. One night while his parents were sleeping, Rasputin cut the brake lines on his dad's new Rolls Royce. The next morning Mr. & Mrs. Putin loaded up their beloved Rolls with luggage for a "vacation" they were going on (paid for by the government) to Langly, Virginia. While driving to the airport, they came up to a railroad crossing while the train was coming through and couldn't stop due to their son sabotaging the brakes the night before. Once word got out about his parents deaths, he was under immediate investigation by the C.I.A. and F.B.I.

Now on the run from the law, Rasputin took off for the swamps to hide. That night while he was grilling some muskrats he had killed, a group of strange men and a woman appeared and knocked him out. When Rasputin came to, he was surrounded by what he thought was a biker gang like the Hells Angels. What he was in the middle of turned out to be much worse. The man who seemed to be the leader of the gang introduced himself as Zartan. His brother Zandar, sister Zarana and the rest of the gang, Buzzer, Torch, Ripper, Thrasher, Monkeywrench & Zanzibar. They were known as the Dreadnoks and were mercinaries for Cobra.

After being initiated into the Dreadnok gang, Rasputin took the code name of Raizuur (pronounced Ra-zor) because of his love of sharp objects and he was mentored by Ripper. Raizuur dyed his hair bright blue and wore it in a mohawk with a pony tail, tattooed barb-wire around his head and collected the skulls of the muskrats he had killed his first night in the swamp and wore them as a necklace."

I sculpted his mohawk and pony tail out of greenstuff and then painted it bright blue.

I cut out spots on his vest to resemble rips in it and detail painted the vest after that.

I also had to carefully scrape the US Marine logo "tattoo" that is on Gung-Ho's chest off using the tip of an Xacto knife.

Since Dreadnok Ripper was his mentor, he used the same type of rifle as Ripper.....

(and I added details to it)

Custom Dreadnok Raizuur "recipe"

Head - Basso (2008 Star Wars 30th Anniversary Comic Pack {Mouse and Basso in Stormtrooper disguise})

Rest of figure - Gung-Ho (2007 25th Anniversary G.I.Joe Box Set)

Skull Necklace - Snake Eyes (2008 25th Anniversary Single Carded Figures, Wave 8)

Axe - Storm Shadow (2009 25th Anniversary Comic Packs, Wave 8 {Resolute Storm Shadow/Tunnel Rat})

Rifle - Ripper (2008 25th Anniversary Single Carded Figures, Wave 12)

Hair- Greenstuff

Paints used:

Tamiya XF-1 (Flat Black)

Tamiya XF-8 (Flat Blue)

Tamiya XF-7 (Flat Red)

Tamiya XF-10 (Flat Brown)

Tamiya XF-19 (Sky Grey)

Tamiya X-11 (Chrome Silver)
Tamiya X-14 (Sky Blue)