Wow!
 

Excellent work: congratulations!

She's looking good.

This looks great!

For those wondering about quality. I am about 99% certain that the manufacturer producing these is the same the produces the Black Major's figures. So expect about the same quality as those figures. I will also inspect each figure and will not sell figures that have defects.

I hope to have a release date around Christmas.

One more update here since I forgot to add some information last time. The price of these figures will be at around or under $10 each.

These are the 3 figures that will be produced and the colors they will have. I had to modify the colors because the colors had to be Pantone. This forced my to lighten up Shooter's uniform because there are very few really dark Pantone colors. I've also determined Shooter's uniform is fairly light based off the comic panels I have seen.

Amber and Shooter will have the regular head and the Joe Trooper will have the helmeted head (not pictured). I took great liberties with Amber's design, but it's a good way to make an actual character as well is release the sculpt in dark grey.

I will be putting up a Kickstarter for each additional repaint I come up with to determine if there is enough interest to have them produced as well. The only two I have right now are repaints I've shown earlier, they are alternate uniform Scarlett, but I darkened the colors and the Shipwreck coloring. If you have any other ideas for repaints let me know so I can make a Kickstarter for them.

something is telling me that this project is a NO GO.....IE the other colors of Shooter......
http://www.joecustoms.com/forums/vi...hp?f=10&t=35767 Don't know if anyone else has heard of this Kickstarter project but only 5 days to go and only 3 backers?? :rolleyes: Don't think it was posted ANYWHERE except on JoeCanuck.....

I've got two things here. First is very disheartening news, at least to me. I am not sure how to deal with it. First thing, this may be the last time I work with this manufacturer as they cannot follow simple instructions. They continue to acknowledge directions I give, but then do not do them. Because of this there are two glaring problems with this figure, after tooling has been completed.

One is the waist piece. I'm not sure what or why, but they changed it while making the tooling. It wasn't perfect to begin with but they completely reverted it back into a diaper crotch design. Aesthetically it doesn't look good, and functionally it will make sitting the figure down difficult.

The other problem which to me is much more severe is the arms. I've been assured for a while that the swivel joint would be added to the figure. Now that the tooling is complete, it is still not there. The figure is now a straight arm figure. That too me is unacceptable.

This leaves me at somewhat of a cross roads. I would either have to pay to have the prototype reworked and then repay the tooling cost which I don't have the funds for and then wait another month for it to finish. Or proceed as is with two glaring problems looking at me. At this point I really do not know how to proceed.

With that said the second thing I want to talk about probably no longer looks attractive. I put up a one week Kickstarter to test interest in repaints of this figure. The first is a generic commando. The next I will be doing will be an arctic ops figure.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...figure-commando

Here is a picture of the first test shot of the figure from the tooling. You can see the two glaring problems, as well some of the smaller ones which I was expecting to have. I guess the silver lining is that Shooter was around 4-5 on my to do list. I elected to not do my more desired figures first so that I could work out the kinks to make the future, more desired, figures perfect.

The main figure and the two repaints posted prior will be happening. I'm just looking into further repaints.

I've put up a Kickstarter for 5 repaints of Shooter. This does not include Shooter itself or the Joe Trooper and Amber repaints. If you are interested in those three figure you will have to wait until their release to buy them.

Each $10 contribution will get you one of the 5 figures pictured in the project. You can choose which figures you want, there is no limit to any one figure. Production of Shooter is beginning very shortly. So this project is only 2 weeks long, as I have to make a decision on whether to do these figure before production ends.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...hooter-repaints

The repaint project is 2/3 funded with 24 hours to go. I've added Shooter as one of the contribution rewards. So if you would like to "preorder" Shooter, Amber, or Joe Trooper you can do so with a $10 contribution to the Kickstarter. Also, there is no limit on how many figures or how many of each figure you can choose as rewards.