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Buzzer was built for the Joecustoms.com group project "Mirror Universe". Here is my summary of the figure from the site:

Buzzer was a fun character to make - I basically took all the stereotypes I could think of about Australia (even though he's British) and ended up having a Mad Max type character in my head. However he still needed to be Buzzer, so I ran with the idea of instead of being frustrated and angry at society and joining the Dreadnoks, he was fighting injustice to make things right. Taking the idea of 'one man making a stand' I developed the idea of him touring the outback and tagging along with a Biker gang - the Dreadnoks. They were attacked by GI-Joe, and the survivors banded together to fight them, but instead of direct violence, Buzzer convinced them to use their natural talents and smarts in a sort of MacGuyver / Mad Max hybrid.

With this hybrid in mind, I gave him a more classic leather jacket look, drawing not only on real bikers, but on everything from Stone (an Australian biker movie) to The Simpsons (both the Australian episode and the episode where Marge is kidnapped by the bikers). I took this process a step further by deciding to use the big boot and giving his jacket have the classic one sleeve look. He still needed to be recognisable as Buzzer, so without the tan vest he needed the pony-tail. My original version plan had him with a buzz cut (hence the name and bio reference), but this was more fun, so I sculpted one on the Mirage head, as it had a similar facial structure. I modified the explosives on the Beachhead leg into a pack of cigarettes and cut off the grenades, keeping the weaponless theme.

For colours I went with a black jacket, and was considering black pants, but that would have been a bit much so he got jeans, though his boot was done in black and gunmetal. The pants were dry brushed with white to give the denim look, and his hair was painted yellow and given a brown wash. His right arm is not fully painted - the underside is still the classic ARAH skin tone, but to match the tone on the face I painted the top to give him a 'truckers arm' (if he was driving in Australia his right arm would be in the sun). He was missing something and didn't seem complete - I realised he needed glasses! I toyed with regular spectacles, but the mirrorshades worked so much better.

Unfortunately I couldn't get a 1/18th 'last of the V8s' or an Interceptor (or a similar car to paint up) to go with the MAd Max motif, so I picked a good, solid bike - not a chopper, but still appropriate. I wanted it to look normal and inconspicuous, so I didn't mod it at all, even though it is 'smart'.