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Stormavik's
Historical
Custom Collection
Last Update 18 Sept 2012

Oktober Guard

G.I. JOE

Cobra

Dreadnoks

This section of my website is dedicated to my interest in customizing 3 3/4" ARAH G.I. JOES. I had made my first true customs
as a teenage boy. Simply because I wanted to have the Oktober Guard in my JoeVerse. As a result I made every character that
was in the Marvel comic series at that time. Since then my reasons have changed. When I first picked up customizing again in
1999 it was once again to make the Oktober Guard, however I soon decided that a lot of the figures and vehicles from the ARAH
line of G.I. JOE could also use some work to make them more realistic. This became my goal. I decided to make the most
accurate and realistic figures possible, yet I wanted them to be identifiable as ARAH G.I. JOE and as their original characters.
To this day I have made over 60 custom figures and 18 custom vehicles. A few of which have been destroyed and replaced with
newer customs. I have chosen to stay with the ARAH version of G.I. JOE as the medium of choice for figures because I
sincerely believe that this is the most accurate human representation that Hasbro has ever produced. I do not think that Hasbro
has caught the human body in any of their other G.I. JOE lines. The JvsC, Valor vs Venom, DTC, 25th Anniversary Rise of
Cobra and Pursuit of Cobra lines all have faults that in my opinion can not be ignored. I love to customize and I love the artistic
release. I hope you enjoy the hobby as well. I have broken down my customs into four major categories, The Oktober Guard,
the G.I.JOE Team, Cobra and the Dreadnoks.