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Subject: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Dec 24, 2017 5:21 pm
Hi all, After stupidly selling my childhood collection of VAM, I have been buying back my favourite pieces over the last few months. I finally have some time over the Xmas break to get all those new pieces organised, and I thought the best way to celebrate this was with a comic inspired by the wonderful work I've seen on here. Anyway, here's the first instalment. Hope you enjoy it!
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Dec 24, 2017 5:44 pm
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Dec 24, 2017 5:59 pm
blackbrazen I really enjoyed reading resurrection part one. My favourite two Comic Panels were the last two, they made me laugh. Looking foreword to reading the next part of resurrection.
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Dec 24, 2017 6:20 pm
Awesome!
Can't wait for MORE!
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Dec 24, 2017 7:26 pm
Brilliant!
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Dec 24, 2017 7:57 pm
Brilliant BB, love the photoshopping/comic skills- Looking forward to George getting the unit back together again !!
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ghost recon Painted Head (Hard Hands)
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:43 pm
Cleverly done & great viewing it.
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Mon Dec 25, 2017 10:26 am
I managed to finish Part 2 of my little tribute to Warlord and Commando comics over the last few days. Really enjoying using Comic Life...really intuitive and easy to use!
Thanks for looking!
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A superb part 2 well done, fantastic comic strip story
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Jet- Medic
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sat Jan 06, 2018 1:57 pm
I love this, really well done and great story. The smiling faces make me laugh, looking forward to the next instalment. It always amazes me what some of you guys can do on the computer.
blackbrazen Eagle Eyes
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:43 am
Well, it's harder to get time for hobbies now that work has begun again after the winter break, but I finally managed to get some time to devote to VAM! Here's Part 3 of the story of my resurrected collection!
Thanks for looking!
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Jan 14, 2018 6:06 am
Bloody Marvelous -- you can say that again!!!
great story, wonderful sense of humor and those smiling heads really get me!
Excellent work!!!
inntruderr61 Moderator
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Jan 14, 2018 6:24 pm
MORE MORE MORE!
Wowser great comics blackbrazen!
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Sun Jan 14, 2018 7:56 pm
Fantastic comic! great humour and effects! looking forward too seeing more mate
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Mon Jan 15, 2018 9:58 am
I really enjoyed reading this comic a lot.
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Another great episode, and a unique way of showcasing your collection. Those smiling faces do look good, makes me smile myself
blackbrazen Eagle Eyes
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Subject: Re: Blackbrazen: Resurrected Collection Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:41 am
Thanks for the kind words everyone! It's such a laugh making these comics, so I'm glad others appreciate them too! I have recently managed to get hold of a blue pants eagle eye VAM. I had a nice one back in the day, but sadly he went the same way as all my other Action Man stuff. The one I acquired was in excellent condition – all the plastic was clean and in perfect condition, and the joints were stiff. Sadly however, he had that affliction that seems to have affected quite a few of the blue pants boys – for want of a better word, he was rather ugly! He had the high gloss complexion, the manic shell shocked eyes, the eyebrows halfway up his forehead, and the bright pink lip gloss that seems to have been so common among those chaps. I'm afraid he also had the worst mullet I've seen since the early 1980s. This was how he looked when I received him:
As I said, he was in excellent condition, so I decided to give him a little bit of a makeover. I started with a very fine sandpaper to take the sheen off his skin. I removed his eyebrows, and also the paint from his lips and scar. Then I gave him a bit of a haircut, changing his hairline on his left temple and trimming his mullet so his hair ended just above his collar. I also pared back the plastic on his right upper eyelid, which was drooping a bit. That done, I painted back on some eyeliner on his upper lids and new eyebrows in the correct location, using a dark brown matt Tamiya enamel, which seemed more appropriate for a blond bloke than the jet black gloss that he'd had before. I also gave a very light pink tinge to his lips and scar using thinned red clear enamel. The result:
Much better! He looks much more normal and ready to be welcomed into the BBHQ Team. ...Now I just have to work out a way to introduce him in a story!
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