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Old 11-25-2018, 01:17 AM   #1
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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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Old 11-25-2018, 02:22 AM   #2
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Amazing work as always!
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Old 11-25-2018, 02:25 AM   #3
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damn son!!!!!!!
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Old 11-25-2018, 04:01 AM   #4
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Oh damn, that's a much more appealing-looking toy!

Also, on our similarly patterned names...
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Old 11-26-2018, 09:48 AM   #5
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Very nice!
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Old 11-26-2018, 10:33 AM   #6
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That’s fantastic
Love the work
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Old 11-26-2018, 10:36 AM   #7
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TurtleManiac, your customs Rock!
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Old 11-28-2018, 11:27 AM   #8
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Thanks you all for the kind words! Much appreciated!

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

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Old 11-28-2018, 04:16 PM   #9
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You sir are the best!
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Nice job , pal

I am very impressed.
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Old 01-02-2019, 02:44 PM   #11
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That's sweet work, bro. I'd have begged my parents for that toy when I was a kid.
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Old 01-02-2019, 09:27 PM   #12
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That's an awesome toy custom that you did of ol' rock head.
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Old 01-03-2019, 01:06 AM   #13
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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.
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Old 01-07-2019, 08:44 AM   #14
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How about a Granitor figure too?
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Old 02-26-2019, 03:39 PM   #15
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You sir are the best!
Thanks dude!

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I am very impressed.
Hey thanks!

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That's sweet work, bro. I'd have begged my parents for that toy when I was a kid.
Thanks man! It was quite a bit of work, but totally worth it! 😎

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That's an awesome toy custom that you did of ol' rock head.
Thanks! He was huge in the cartoon so I never understood why Playmates made him so small, like, shorter than the turtles...unacceptable! 😂

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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.
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.

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How about a Granitor figure too?
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.
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Thanks! He was huge in the cartoon so I never understood why Playmates made him so small, like, shorter than the turtles...unacceptable! 😂
Maybe he is one of those things that look bigger on television?

Love to see what you have coming up next.
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