General Traag 1987
 

General Traag based on his appearance in the first season of the original TMNT cartoon. The original 1989 General Traag figure was about the same height as the turtles and looked completely different than his cartoon appearance, so I decided to customize it to be toon accurate. Took the original Traag figure and repositioned head/limbs and made taller, and completely sculpted over the whole figure using Aves Apoxie Sculpt. Painted the figure with enamel and acrylic paints. Gun is from 1992 "April" figure, and sculpted a new holster for it with Kneadatite. Also sculpted an additional gun with apoxie trying to replicate the cartoon gun, my first attempt at sculpting accessories. So here he is, Krang's #1 Rock Soldier, General Traag.

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Amazing work as always!

damn son!!!!!!!

Oh damn, that's a much more appealing-looking toy!

Also, on our similarly patterned names...
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Very nice!

That’s fantastic
Love the work

TurtleManiac, your customs Rock!

Thanks you all for the kind words! Much appreciated! :tcool:

General Traag sculpt done ready for paint, more work in progress pics on Flickr, link below.

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You sir are the best!

Nice job , pal
 

I am very impressed.

That's sweet work, bro. I'd have begged my parents for that toy when I was a kid. :tgrin:

That's an awesome toy custom that you did of ol' rock head. :tthumbsu:

Nice work! I enjoyed the General Traag figure as a kid, but realized as I got older it looks almost nothing like the cartoon version. I also never got the random snakes, bugs, and spiders they placed all over some of the figure's sculpts, like this one.

How about a Granitor figure too?

Thanks dude!

Hey thanks!

Thanks man! It was quite a bit of work, but totally worth it! 😎

Thanks! He was huge in the cartoon so I never understood why Playmates made him so small, like, shorter than the turtles...unacceptable! 😂

Thanks! Me too, I guess the Playmates toys were a totally seperate universe from the cartoon, in which General Traag is the turtles height and has creepy crawlers all over. I’m guessing it probably had something to do with being able to fit the figures in standard size packaging. Poor Leatherhead really got butchered.

Granitor is definitely on my “to customize” list, but not sure how soon that would be, so many other characters I wanna make first, and he would probably be more work than Traag.

Maybe he is one of those things that look bigger on television?:P

Love to see what you have coming up next.