USCM Armor Upgrades

Years ago, probably close to 10 years, now, I got a couple sets of 1:6 scale Colonial Marine armor from Dorgmal Snow, who was casting them at the time.

I assembled the kits best I could at the time.


I also grabbed one of the recast sets of the EVA kits which were done up in a blue chocolate chip camouflage pattern.
I painted them all OD and rigged up some belt sets and called it good enough for now, then I kind of stuffed them away.



I'd been slowly adding to my Marine squad over time, I have 8 or 9, now.

I felt it was time to revisit the old sets and see what I could do.

I stripped everything, my Dorgmal sets were rigged with electrical tape, hot glue and elastics.

I redid all the webbing and repainted everything...and voila.






One of the Dorgmal sets, I rigged magnets in (I'm using those almost as much as hockey tape these days) to allow for the use of a backpack...which I realize now I don't have proper photos of, but here's an old one that gives you the gist.


And I just had to repaint some pulse rifles, too.

Excellent work on the upgrade. Is that a new head or one of the old ones repainted? Magnets are magical, and can come in very handy, either as an additional support, or to attach things impermanently.

Thanks man!

That's a new head, I thought he'd look pretty good in a Marine helmet..but he's just a little to big for a perfect fit.

Well, he looks good sans helmet anyway.

Yaay, I love what you did. Although that blue chocolate chip (blueberry chocolate chip?) looked kinda cool, but your repaint is most striking and intense.
Is that your Private Joker on Pic three? Combinig your Full Metal People with Colonial Marines? Colonial Mother and Colonial Boy?

That last pic of the suit with the headphones looks like he is an invisible man wearing the suit, haha

The repaints look very nice.

Too bad that HotToys largely neglects the Alien franchise now. I would love to have some well-designed hard-plastic 1/6 Aliens in my collection. As I feared that the rubber Alien figures that HT released ages ago would degrade in a few years, I never picked them up when I had the chance.  

Thanks guys!

oOo a Colonial Marine version of Full Metal Jacket would definitely be pretty fun.

It's definitely a shame the 1:6 Marines and the rest of the Aliens universe is so neglected, there's such room for expansion. It'd be nice to see those old Knock Off sets, Alien Killer, make a comeback. It'd be kinda neat if Neca made some 1:6 Aliens, or some armor sets.

Wry nice repaints. So cool that you got the Dorgmal Snow items. Awesome stuff.

Thanks Mark! Yeah they're great sets, I wish he had done the helmets too, though,