Mod Cornor: T-1
 

Greetings!

Found a Terminator T-1 at Walmart today, for about the price of a figure. So, being impressed with the many photos of folks using the T-1, I bought my own. But, it really needs to be customized for use as a COBRA item. The Joes have their Pack-Rats, COBRA needs their own, and they don't really have anything like that except for BATs.

Usually the color for modding something into a COBRA vehicle is black or blue. Black seems too simple a color--details get lost. Blue might not fit right for a T-1. All I know is it's gotta be customized, but I'm at a loss for which direction to take it. Ideas anyone?

How about a camo paint job? You could do woodland or urban or whatnot depending on where you're most likely to use one.

The camo sounds good. Although woodland doesn't sound very Cobra-ish. If camo, maybe city/urban. I do like the suggestion.

However, I am also not familiar with Cobra vehicles after 1989. If any were in camo, could someone provide a photo or link?

I think camo for that era would be "Fun House Orange," "Plum Crazy" and "Hideous Neon Yellow (Now with 30% more Hideous)." I have the same problem, I think Urban would fit in with its look and its tracked-ness.

I love how if you make the thing roll, the turret swivels back and forth like it's hunting for hew-mons!

I started painting it. So far black as a base coat. Not sure which camo will be the final result, or if it'll be simply blue/black combination.

I'm going to slightly squad build the T-1's and a few Endos, but mine will remain as the forces of Skynet.

For a Cobra camo scheme, black makes a good base. I would use a light and dark shade of blue, and probably grey as the colors. Theoretically, you could leave portions of it unpainted and utilize the metal look it already has!

Black actually looks really nice on it. I bought a second one today and will probably keep that one black.

T-1's look well in a convoy of HISS's. Set three HISS tanks and two black T-1's and it's very nice.

So now my thoughts are more complex. A T-1 would look good painted in desert colors, heavily weathered.