Hack The Plastic: Budo (Marauder Task Force)

While we got not one, but 2 modern updates on Budo from Hasbro, neither one of them really impressed me. The first one was in the Retaliation line, and while the sculpt and detail looked great, a simple paint wash would have improved on this figure, not to mention the original head cast they had planned, and not the one we wound up with. It also functions better as a prop in a diorama than as an action figure. The FSS one while close to the original 1988 design, still commands a price tag on the secondary market that I can't bring myself to purchase one, and apparently the helmet is glued in place.

Borrowing a concept from fellow customizer AxonRey, I built up a modernized version of Budo using mostly Marauder Task Force parts. I threw in the Harley as a nod to his original file card bio.

Formula:

Helmet: Budo v1
Head: MCU Hogun
Everything else: Marauder Task Force
Harley-Davidson: Maisto

Paints used: Citadel, Model Masters.

Thanks for looking.