1988 Air Raiders Figure-Corus

When writing the previous post here, I realized I never put up pictures of one of the few figures we’ve seen of the canceled 1988 figures. One of the new rebel officers, he was luckily bought by fellow fan replicant01. I remember seeing him come up in an ebay post, mixed in with other figures……

Air Raider Figure Fan Art

Hey fellow Air Raiders, I just wanted to share some artwork I’ve done recently. We were fortunate in the past couple years to get figure sculpture sheets (done by Ron Rudat!) for several of the figures from both the first year of toys and even the canceled second year. Canceled Tyrant soldier Canceled Tyrant officer……

Air Raiders Figure Art, Part 3

I’ve had the opportunity to post some really cool figure sculpture sheets from the Air Raiders line. There were done by Ron Rudat for both the original 1987 figures and the canceled 1988 toys.You can find the earlier posts here: Air Raiders Figure Art, Part 1 Air Raiders Figure Art, Part 2 I realized recently that I……

Air Raiders Figure Art, Part 2

I put up an earlier thread going over the PrePro site and some Air Raiders stuff they had posted. The last piece is the one I’m most excited for. It’s a figure sculpture sheet for the almost forgotten 1988 line of toys. It was drawn by Ron Rudat and dates to November 17, 1986 which……

Air Raiders Figure art

Well, it’s been a while since I posted here! Sorry, life has been busy and oddly enough, working from home actually leaves me less time to do other stuff. Moving on, I have some great art that Ed Owens, the principle engineer on all of the Air Raiders figures and the Command Outpost, shared on……

Air Raiders figure sculpt

Years ago, Bill Merklein, a sculptor who is well-known for all the work he did on GI Joe, sold off all (or most) of the toy-related stuff he had worked on over the years. There were a lot of sketches of various GI Joe characters but buried in the mix were a couple other gems.……

Air Raiders Product Designer Notes

I just some odds and ends notes that I wanted to share about two Product Designers who worked on the toy line. Bill Cooke, designer of the second series Scout Patrol (see here) also mentioned how he helped create the rebel Command Outpost. I design developed and sculpted the mountain in clay then made a……