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CUSTOM COBRA AGENTS: TRIDENT AND MAJOR FLUX, ACTION FIGURE TOYS BY DSNG! [GIJOE CLASSIFIED VALAVERSE SCALE]

Time for Dat New Sh#T!! LOL!!

OK, I believe I've shared the pics of Major Clyde Flux [the white guy with the blue gear] on my Facebook , and at other sites. But the new Cobra Agent, Trident [the cool black guy in the gray suit], has never been shared.

Per my lore, Major Clyde Flux is peers with Major Bludd, the Cobra Agent. They were in the same military training academy. And Flux was a good guy, who later turned to the dark side ;) 

Trident is a stealth operative with a focus on counter-terrorism and infiltration. He is calm and calculating and he doesn't talk much. So it seems like he has a bad attitude. But looks can be deceiving... He also has martial arts training with various Japanese butsu-styles, which involves handheld weapons. And with his years of combat training, he can compete against Snakes Eyes or Storm Shadow, with the four large kunai blades that he has holstered on his suit.

The base body for Trident was the Valaverse Garisson Calvary. And I sculpted the new body armor for him, while adding several blades from ebay. The guns came from ebay as well, while I sculpted the lines on his mask. The backpack and assault rifle came from the Cobra Crimson Guard.

Plus in some of the pics, there is a dual-rocket antitank missile launcher that I bought from ebay, from a guy that goes by @Destroslab on Instagram. And that rocket launcher is similar to the top-unit used by Scrap Iron. But I modified it and added some upgrades - the twin automatic shotguns held by a magnet on its crown, so that it can swivel. Plus I added a laser-range finder to it, attached on the left side.

Thanks for looking! Don't forget to like and share!

     

     

- Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]

I ALMOST GOT INTO CRYPTOCURRENCY AND NFTS LAST YEAR, IN 2022! BUT IT WAS ALL A HUGE SCAM!

Honestly guys, I Almost got into selling my original digital art & my DSNG characters as NFTs, back in early 2022.

Thank God that I didn't.
And a few months after I decided not to, the huge CryptoCurrency crash occurred between February and April of 2022. And a lot of peculiar details about that online currency system came to light.

SO WHO STARTED BITCOIN? Listen folks, the original online crypto-currency, Bitcoin, is a Global Scam, fueled by greed... Because anytime you have a creator who starts a currency, and then he runs away so that his identity is never known, it's because he doesn't want to get sued if his sh#t hits the fan. Since 2008, No one knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is, not even the Feds. And he's the creator of Bitcoin and the concept of intangible crypto-currencies, aka the "tempting non-existent fairy dust internet monies", which a lot of millennials fell in love with. It presented people with a way to get rich quick, regardless of your education, knowledge, skills, or current financial portfolio.

SOME DETAILS ON THE NFTs And the online-based Non Fungible Tokens were an extension of a cunning way to get people to buy and use Bitcoin / crypto-currencies. And before you can buy an NFT, you have to create a digital wallet, and transfer your real money from your bank to the wallet, in order to buy the tokens that you want. But the purchased token / the NFT-art was never fully owned by the buyer... instead, you got a digital receipt - a link to something uploaded online, which anybody could view, and anybody could screen-capture and download. And it wasn't clear if you had paid for the actual Copyright, or the Trademark, or the right to use the drawn character / object that you'd just bought, for your own personal profit. And nothing was contractually documented, which could lead to huge legal cases in the future, between original artist and the NFT buyer.
And cryptocurrency is tied to a deregulated / independent banking system. So that means, the crypto-creators get to set the value of their equity / shares, behind the scenes, with no FDIC backing, and government oversight to keep them from over-inflating their Bitcoin stock value, or lying about their true collateral / financial reserves, while issuing you false stocks. That's already a Big Red Flag. 
But once the big corporations like Tesla Motors started getting into Bitcoin and buying that imaginary currency in the Billions, and even accepting it as payment for their electric cars, then it gave the Crypto-Scammers the tangible dollars that they needed to act like they were legit / truly successful entrepreneurs... but it also gave them their golden parachutes for escaping the crashing plane, when their "pump and dump" / ponzi schemes fell apart.
And FYI, Tesla Motors cancelled their Bitcoin car-payment acceptance plans, like a year later. And they also pulled out ALL their crypto-stock, which was between 1.2 to 1.5 Billion dollars. You don't do stuff like that, unless you don't trust the investment.

CLASSIC BANKS AND GOLD BARS.
Think of this: Back in the classic Wild West Era of 1600s - 1800s, the Banks had gold bars as their collateral, to give out loans and issue bank notes.

But with Bitcoin, there is no tangible collateral that's backing the digital currency, or the purchased online assets of wealth. Yet the online cryprto-exchanges gladly accept the "real money" to boost the value of their Bitcoin stock price. And the "real money" comes from you, the scam victim.

The founder of Bitcoin is a ghost; not a known millionaire, Hedgefund manager, or investor. He can't pay you back, if your investment of "real money" into the shares of his intangible "digital currency" fails... and neither can the other crypto-exchanges, unless they've got big tangible bank accounts behind the scenes.

Bitcoin is linked to the concepts "block-chain technology" and "mining". I won't go deep into those issues right now.But there are a host of other digital / crypto-currencies, which are based on variants of the same block-chain tech, like Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin etc... But if Bitcoin, the exemplary foundational block, is highly flawed, then every other digital currency, [unless they have stores of "gold bars" sitting somewhere as their collateral for the sake of protecting their customers from investment losses], is probably a Fraud as well.

As proof, a lot of crashes stated happening last year.And a crypto stock exchange company called FTX was caught up in huge fraud recently, with lost investor sums of like 20 billion dollars. And some experts said no, it was more like a 32-billion-dollar fraud... plus the rival company that exposed the FTX fraud, a group called Binance, is also facing some huge criminal charges from the Federal government now....
Anyway, that's all for now. I hope this blog post enlightens someone. And I'll just share some links, which go deeper into explaining Bitcoin, the NFTs [based on crypto currency] and the FTX collapse.
This 30 min video shows the rise and fall of FTX, owned by some dude called Sam:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BEJouWBgY
And Watch this 20 min video that explains Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ByO8ym-iF8

And this second 50 min follow up video, on the Scam of NFTs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORdWE_ffirg&t=2s

- Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]

I ALMOST GOT INTO CRYPTO CURRENCY AND NFTS LAST YEAR, IN 2022! BUT IT WAS ALL A HUGE SCAM!

Honestly guys, I Almost got into selling my original digital art & my DSNG characters as NFTs, back in early 2022.

Thank God that I didn't.
And a few months after I decided not to, the huge Crypto Currency crash occurred between February and April of 2022. And a lot of peculiar details about that online currency system came to light.

SO WHO STARTED BITCOIN? Listen folks, the original online crypto-currency, Bitcoin, is a Global Scam, fueled by greed... Because anytime you have a creator who starts a currency, and then he runs away so that his identity is never known, it's because he doesn't want to get sued if his sh#t hits the fan. Since 2008, No one knows who Satoshi Nakamoto is, not even the Feds. And he's the creator of Bitcoin and the concept of intangible crypto-currencies, aka the " tempting non-existent fairy dust internet monies", which a lot of millennials fell in love with. It presented people with a way to get rich quick, regardless of your education, knowledge, skills, or current financial portfolio.

SOME DETAILS ON THE NFTs And the online-based Non Fungible Tokens were an extension of a cunning way to get people to buy and use Bitcoin / crypto-currencies. And before you can buy an NFT, you have to create a digital wallet, and transfer your real money from your bank to the wallet, in order to buy the tokens that you want. But the purchased token / the NFT-art was never fully owned by the buyer... instead, you got a digital receipt - a link to something uploaded online, which anybody could view, and anybody could screen-capture and download. And it wasn't clear if you had paid for the actual Copyright, or the Trademark, or the right to use the drawn character / object that you'd just bought, for your own personal profit. And nothing was contractually documented, which could lead to huge legal cases in the future, between original artist and the NFT buyer.
And crypto-currency is tied to a deregulated / independent banking system. So that means, the crypto-creators get to set the value of their equity / shares, behind the scenes, with no FDIC backing, and government oversight to keep them from over-inflating their Bitcoin stock value, or lying about their true collateral / financial reserves, while issuing you false stocks. That's already a Big Red Flag. 
But once the big corporations like Tesla Motors started getting into Bitcoin and buying that imaginary currency in the Billions, and even accepting it as payment for their electric cars, then it gave the Crypto-Scammers the tangible dollars that they needed to act like they were legit / truly successful entrepreneurs... but it also gave them their golden parachutes for escaping the crashing plane, when their "pump and dump" / ponzi schemes fell apart.
And FYI, Tesla Motors cancelled their Bitcoin car-payment acceptance plans, like a year later. And they also pulled out ALL their crypto-stock, which was between 1.2 to 1.5 Billion dollars. You don't do stuff like that, unless you don't trust the investment.

CLASSIC BANKS AND GOLD BARS.
Think of this: Back in the classic Wild West Era of 1600s - 1800s, the Banks had gold bars as their collateral, to give out loans and issue bank notes.

But with Bitcoin, there is no tangible collateral that's backing the digital currency, or the purchased online assets of wealth. Yet the online cryprto-exchanges gladly accept the "real money" to boost the value of their Bitcoin stock price. And the "real money" comes from you, the scam victim.

The founder of Bitcoin is a ghost; not a known millionaire, Hedgefund manager, or investor. He can't pay you back, if your investment of "real money" into the shares of his intangible "digital currency" fails... and neither can the other crypto-exchanges, unless they've got big tangible bank accounts behind the scenes.

Bitcoin is linked to the concepts "block-chain technology" and "mining". I won't go deep into those issues right now.But there are a host of other digital / crypto-currencies, which are based on variants of the same block-chain tech, like Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin etc... But if Bitcoin, the exemplary foundational block, is highly flawed, then every other digital currency, [unless they have stores of "gold bars" sitting somewhere as their collateral for the sake of protecting their customers from investment losses], is probably a Fraud as well.

As proof, a crypto stock exchange company called FTX was caught up in huge fraud recently, with lost investor sums of like 20 billion dollars. And some experts said no, it was more like a 32-billion-dollar fraud... plus the rival company that exposed the FTX fraud, a group called Binance, is also facing some huge criminal charges from the Federal government now....
Anyway, that's all for now. I hope this blog post enlightens someone. And I'll just share some links, which go deeper into explaining Bitcoin, the NFTs [based on crypto currency] and the FTX collapse.
This 30 min video shows the rise and fall of FTX, owned by some dude called Sam:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20BEJouWBgY
And Watch this 20 min video that explains Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ByO8ym-iF8

And this second 50 min follow up video, on the Scam of NFTs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORdWE_ffirg&t=2s

- Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]

CUSTOM COBRA JET VIPER ACTION FIGURE TOY BY DSNG! [GIJOE CLASSIFIED VALAVERSE SCALE]

Another new custom! This is my Cobra jet Viper! The base body was the regular Cobra Viper from GI Joe Classified line. The helmet and core backpack module came from ebay. And I had to turn the backpack into a jetpack with sculpt and plastruct, for the wings and the missiles. I also sculpted the arm-blasters that are attached to his forearms, along with the extra features on his boots. And the assault rifles came from ebay.

He was hand-painted with Tamiya paints. Thanks for looking! Enjoy and share!

 

 

- Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]

CUSTOM AGENT DLUXE [ SCARLETT ] ACTION FIGURE TOY BY DSNG! [GIJOE CLASSIFIED VALAVERSE SCALE]

Another new custom toy! Her name is Agent D-Luxe, aka Ms. Diana DelWinter. She is a Special Weapons And Tactics specialist, with additional expertise in aerial interception & paratrooper operations, since she also has a jetpack. The base body was Scarlett from GI Joe Classified. 

After adding the base paint of black, I sculpted her body armor, for her gauntlets, torso, knee-pads and boots. Her hair was sculpted as well, using a small pixie haircut base that was red, which came from another toy. Her guns came from a guy that I trust on ebay [Liselome], and her arm-cannon was sculpted, while its held by a magnet to her forearm. The handgun on her right thigh came from Snakeeyes, as did the dagger holstered on her left thigh. The silver ammo crates in the background are custom made, and they can open up, for storing weapons.

She was hand-painted with acrylic Tamiya paints and Decoart paints. Thanks for looking, enjoy and share!

     

      - Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]

CUSTOM CAPTAIN SLITZ - AGENT OF COBRA DREADNOKS GIJOE CLASSIFIED [MARVEL LEGENDS SCALE]

Finally got around to taking pics of this original custom guy, which I teased last year back in November 2022. His name is Captain Slitz, or just Slitz. He is a ninja-type merc and he is a ruthless agent of Cobra, who works with the Dreadnoks. 

The 6-inch scale base body was Mustafa Ali from the WWE elite toy line. His body armor was sculpted, along with all his gear and his backpack holster - which holds two blades from the Baroness toy. His twin barreled machinegun was custom made, from weapons I bought on ebay. And his sword is from Taskmaster.

He was hand-painted with Tamiya paints. And I included my custom Ripper toy [7-inch scale]  in the photos as well, for a size comparison. The Ripper was based on the Roman Reigns WWE Elite toy. 

Thanks for looking! Enjoy and share!

   

   

- Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]

FIVE PECULIAR THINGS THAT DC COMICS FANS DON'T THINK ABOUT!

As a fan of comics and movies based on the superhero genre, I've realized over the years that you have to turn your mind off and enjoy the surreal escapism provided by the visual or live action entertainment, in order to fully enjoy the media presentation.

That means that you won't think: "Damn, this is weird" or "This is stupid", when you see something fantastic on the movie screen, or on your smartphone / tablet. Instead you'll just accept and enjoy it as entertainment, and rightfully so. 

But as I've grown older [I'm in my 40s now], there are some things that I have realized when watching the superhero animated / movie presentations, which cause me to pause and think about what I'm seeing.

I'll just list about 5 things, and they're all tied to the DC Comics / DC Movie Universe, and the powers of some of the Justice League members, namely: The Flash, Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman and Green Lantern.

1. The Flash should be one of the most powerful heroes on the roster. With real super speed, you can punch Doomsday in his throat and pull out his esophagus. Actually, that's an instant kill, for any powerful opponent. If the throat is armored, then just aim for the eyes and stab deep enough to hit the brain matter. No supervillain will survive that.

2. Wonder Woman is Bulletproof, as a Top Tier Female Amazonian and a female counterpart to Superman. So she doesn't need those bracelets for deflecting bullets. It's a waste of time... hell, she's actually showing off. Plus you don't need a "lasso of truth", to get criminals to confess. Just grab them by the balls and crush their nuts. Trust me, they'll talk.

3. Honestly, The Joker is needed as Batman's main villain, but he's way overrated. Why, you ask? Because he has not had a single day of martial arts training. And he has no military background, and no Special-ops or weapons training. He doesn't lift weights or go hard in the gym, to build up stamina, strength or endurance. Yet he can go blow-for-blow against Batman, in many comics, before laughing and escaping. But Batman has got elite training with the League Of Assassins. So ain't no way in hell that the Joker can step up to him and win, ever. But unfortunately, they need each other like a balanced "yin and yang".

4. If Superman can shoot up into the sky while holding any powerful opponent like Doomsday, and travel beyond the Mesosphere and Thermosphere [50 to 90 km upwards], get to space [300 km upwards], and just release his opponent, then that villain will freeze and die in space. And there will be world peace... imagine that. Last time I checked, Doomsday still breathes oxygen, as does Darkseid. So ain't no way in hell that they can survive, if you zoom them up there, and just leave them there to die.

5. Green Lantern should be able to conjure a nuclear bomb, with a controlled fusion reaction. Honestly, he should. And that would be the end of Brainiac and his mothership, or any other alien invader. Heck, generating a variant of green kryptonite should also be possible... 'cause it's green damn it! :)

The Honorary mentions: I think Aquaman should have gills, and Cyborg should have the greatest portable Lithium-ion battery known to mankind.

All right, that's all for now. 

Relax, this was all written with fun, humor and good will!

You may say I'm thinking too much. But I can't help it. I write sci fi books that are over 500 pages long. Hence I have to think, so that my books will actually make sense to me and to those that read them!

You can check out some other archived articles below!

- Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]

THE MAN OF STEEL 2 MOVIE HAS PRACTICALLY BEEN CANCELLED, AS JAMES GUNN REMOVES HENRY CAVIL FROM THE SUPERMAN ROLE

 Recently I heard that there won't be a Man of Steel 2 movie, per the removal of Henry Cavil as Superman, by the new Studio Director / Project Overseer, James Gunn - who is rumored to be working on a reboot of Supes, as an "indirect origin story", per the first meetings with characters like Lex Luthor and Lois Lane. 

And Gunn seems to want to commence a 10-year DC movie universe plan... Truth be told, firing Cavil is already a very bad sign. Most fans liked / respected him, and with all the "Multiverse BS" that can be spinned into the Superman storyline, there was a way to still use him. Honestly, anyone stepping in to direct the DC Movie Universe should take it as "one movie at a time", and not focus on a 10-year plan with multiple movies, like 1 or 2 per year I think.... just too many uncertain factors with that long-term strategy, since 1 or 2 bad / political movies can tank everything and make the fans walk away. That sort of ill favor has been befalling the Disney Plus Series [for the Star Wars and Marvel shows] in recent times...

Anyway, via social media, Henry Cavil said he's moving on to produce and star in a Warhammer 40K series for Amazon. So I wish him the best of luck.
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The new fans can check out this archived blog article, with classic art of Superman and Batman by me, and also art by Jim Lee: OVER HERE
And the archived blog article with Batman's many girlfriends is over HERE- Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]

CUSTOM BULLHORN BIKE WITH SGT SLAUGHTER VALAVERSE / GI JOE CLASSIFIED SCALE!

Had this one done some time ago, just been too busy to post it. The base model for the bike was a WWE Motorcycle. And I had to do a ton of sculpt work to upgrade it, while adding custom blasters to the front and custom exhaust pipes, a custom seat, and three nitro capsules, attached on the frame-panel behind the front wheel. After adding the weapons, I painted it with Tamiya and Americana paints. 

Most toy fans will know that the Sgt Slaughter was not custom made, since he's from the Valaverse Action Force line. The first Skull Bike I made from the same base model was posted Here! Thanks for looking, remember to Like and share the Link!

   

    - Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]

CUSTOM RIPPER AND ROAD PIG COBRA DREADNOKS GIJOE CLASSIFIED [MARVEL LEGENDS SCALE]

New customs on deck! Here is my version of Ripper and Road Pig, from the Cobra Dreadnoks!

The Road Pig was made a few years ago, while the Ripper toy is new. Plus the Skullbike is new as well. The toys were created in the 6-inch scale, although these big guys are closer to 7 inches. Road Pig was made using  Marvel Legends Nuke [the process was shown over Here].

And Ripper was made using WWE Elite Roman Reigns. I had to recolor the torso and face, before sculpting his body armor, the straps, the gauntlets and all of his gear. The removable red glasses were also custom made. The guns came from fodder and ebay. 

The Skullbike was made from a WWE motorcycle. There was lots of sculpting and adding of different elements, both plastic, putty and scratch-build. 

The blog article showing the customs for Zartan, Zarana and Zandar is over Here. Thanks for looking! Enjoy and Share!

   

    - Article written by the artist & author of the DSNG Sci Fi Series [http://dsngsfm.blogspot.com]