Some UniverseAsunder Customs

[AdrienVeidt]

Most people go for the SS uniform look; but that's not the uniform he wore when I was growing up. Rather he always wore the basic green jumpsuit, the way Kirby drew him. Also, I like my bad guys to look like they're actively engaged in being worthless bastards, not dressing up to make a speech.

 

The Red Skull was born Johann Schmidt in a southern German village, the son of an illiterate, drunken peasant named Hermann, and his long-suffering wife Martha. Martha died in childbirth, and Hermann tried to drown the newborn Johann, blaming him for the death of his mother, and committed suicide the next morning. The infant was rescued by a local doctor, who delivered the infant to an orphanage.

 

Schmidt ran away at age seven, and grew up in and out of prison for petty crimes ranging from vagrancy to theft, constantly beaten and victimized by other thugs. His smouldering anger was given an outlet when he first encountered Hitler; Schmidt was working as a bellboy in a hotel in which Hitler was staying. Hitler was in the middle of berating his general staff, and boasted that he could make "this bell-boy" into a more effective Nazi.

 

Schmidt was given military training, and made into the perfect S.S. soldier. Upon his presentation to Hitler, however, Hitler grew enraged, screaming, "Anyone can make a soldier!” Hitler took Schmidt in hand for personal training as a special operative, giving him the identity and mask of the "Red Skull".

 

When it became obvious that the Nazis were losing the war, the Skull hatched a desperate plan, along with his cohort the Ultra-Humanite. They were going to capture Captain America and replace his brain with Schmidt's brain. Luring Cap to Berlin with a planted leak about the Spear of Destiny being out of Hitler's hands on its way to a secret bunker, Cap was ambushed and taken prisoner.

 

Unfortunately, Cap awoke from his stupor just as the Humanite's bonesaw was cutting into his flesh. Struggling free, the lab caught fire and both the Skull and Humanite were buried in the rubble as Cap fled. Due to the experimental nature of the chemicals and gasses the Humanite used in his brain-swapping surgeries, they were both locked in a pocket in the rubble and they slumbered in stasis for decades.

 

A construction crew were astonished to find the two criminals when digging out the site for an office building; but unable to prevent their escape. Taking the sample of tissue left on the bonesaw, they fled into the night...

 

 

 

 

 

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Fearing the disproportionate number of metahumans in the West, especially America; the Russian Federation initiated Project Red Rocket. Anton Vanko headed up the project: to build suits of armor, each equivalent to a One Man Army Corps.

 

As head of the project, Vanko leads the Red Rocket Brigade as the Crimson Dynamo, and often teams with the Oktober Guard for testing purposes if not actual missions to protect Russian interests around the world.

 

 

 

 

 

I built these guys off the awesome RevolTech Dougram figures, with some CRAPS heads and the helmets and upper torsos off some flightsuit Gen Hawk figs (or the orange Roadblock versions, to be precise).

 

I'm looking to get another pair of the Dougrams to make another pair of Red Rockets (it's difficult to have a 'Brigade' with just one guy, no?); and I'm thinking of making one of those a chick.

 

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Taking a break as grillmaster on this Independence Day; CharBroil models his spiffy new dudes. Due to BF2100's directive to fieldtest new materials and weapons, CB's been given a suit treated with Reed Richards' 'unstable molecules' to test their feasibility in commercial industry and civilian firefighting.

 

 

 

[JFAK075]

Great custom, as always. Out of these the Red Skull is my favorite.

[zweiman]

that charbroil is downright badazz. keep it up!

[Bekker]

They all look great....wouldnt change a thing.

[falcon7]

Great customs. Good story and pics.

[AdrienVeidt]

Thanks, gents.

 

I've been trying to rewrite the Marvel, DC, Joe, Star Wars, and StarGate universes as if they'd always been the same universe - which I call my Universe Asunder. I'm also tossing in smatterings of the Hellboy and Image universes here and there.

 

While it's nowhere near a complete or official thing; I've thrown up some notes and ideas about it here: http://adrienveidt.homestead.com/UniverseA....html#anchor_57

 

If any of you have the time and inclination; I'd be pleased to hear your thoughts on it all.