Custom MCU Figure – Colonel Chester Phillips (“Captain America: The First Avenger”)

Hello world! Here’s a flashback to an earlier era in the MCU with a showcase of Colonel Chester Phillips, Captain America’s commander during WWII :

US Army Colonel Chester Phillips was the director of the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) during WWII, a unit formed to battle against HYDRA, the Nazi special weapons division. Colonel Phillips recruited Howard Stark and Dr. Abraham Erskine into the SSR, and he was in command of Project Rebirth, a program using Dr. Erskine’s research to create super soldiers to fight in the Allies’ war effort. However, shortly after Steve Rogers was successfully transformed into a super soldier, Dr. Erskine was assassinated by HYDRA, leading to the termination of the project as the super soldier serum could no longer be recreated. Colonel Phillips was skeptical of deploying Steve Rogers into combat since he only got one super soldier when the original plan was to create an army of them. But Rogers proved him wrong when he single-handedly led a successful rescue of captured soldiers from a HYDRA base. With a special operations team lead by Captain America, the SSR proceeded to target and destroy HYDRA facilities throughout Europe, and Colonel Phillips suits up in his combat fatigues as he leads his men in the final assault on the HYDRA Headquarters.

Recipe:
Head – Custom cast head bought over eBay
Rest of the body, accessories – Purchased from Marauder Task Force

Marauder Task Force has a line of 1:18 scale WWII US Army figures and accessories, and when I found the cast head of Tommy Lee Jones on sale on eBay, I decided to combine them to create a custom MCU Colonel Phillips as he appeared during the final battle in “CptA:TFA”. I think the cast head was originally meant to represent Agent K from the  “Men in Black” series, but he’ll also work for a custom Colonel Phillips. The colonel rank on the helmet was cut from a piece of sticker.

For comparison:

MCU Colonel Chester Phillips and “MIB3” Agent K

No prize if you know.

Rogers gets a pass.

Sending HYDRA to the gates of hell.

Just one more:

“I’m not kissing you.”