{"id":3818,"date":"2021-03-07T03:04:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T03:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2021-03-07T03:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T03:16:55","slug":"gi-joe-set-naestor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=3818","title":{"rendered":"GI Joe Set – Naestor"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2019 Greg Brown and Cotswold Collectibles<\/strong><\/a> created Naestor<\/strong>.\"\"<\/p>\n

He created a green figure, (head and hands) with red flocked hair. He had an outfit and a chest piece made.<\/p>\n

My job was to create his gear.<\/p>\n

For some time now, I was hoping to find a use for my Arctic Blaster<\/strong>, a weapon I created as an intense heat ray used to melt through ice walls, for Arctic adventures.<\/p>\n

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The weapon was pretty cool, but the handles were weak. They couldn’t really be printed any stronger. So I had to redesign it just a tad to fit a screw along the shaft to the body. It worked well.<\/p>\n

But of course for this set I had to make a black and green version:<\/p>\n

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Since it is a fairly heavy piece of plastic, I knew I couldn’t just let a 12″ figure hold it, the arms would fall. So I created a neck strap which solved that problem.<\/p>\n

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The weapon was intended to be held by the gut, with two hands, the body then being able to brace the kickback from a heavy energy beam.<\/p>\n

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I used the GI Joe Collector’s Club<\/strong> figure of Darkon<\/strong> as a test subject. (Don’t worry, he’s ok.)<\/em><\/p>\n

But we wanted something to make it stand out.<\/p>\n

JET BOOTS!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who wouldn’t want Jet Boots!?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I set out to make small jets that clip onto tall boots. Simple, really.<\/p>\n

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And that was Naestor.<\/p>\n

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And if anyone tries to convince you the name Naes<\/strong>tor contains my name backwards… well that’s just silly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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