Head, torso, arms: Retaliation Beachhead
Legs: PoC Beachhead


"TIGER FORCE - a special unit within the GI JOE team - is called up for a secret and highly dangerous mission in the remote jungle!"

I've always liked Tiger Force. I can't really explain why but that subgroup has always appealed to me. Regardless, there are things about it that don't make much sense from a practical view of what is supposed to be a covert jungle assault team. Most of the figures from the original release in the vintage line followed that theme pretty well. International and later releases? Not so much. Same goes with the vehicles. My goal here was to recreate the original team but try to stay closer to the spirit of it's purpose. That means no bright colors. I've also cherry picked figures from later releases as well and added two new members, one of which is a new character. Instead of doing strait repaints of existing figures I wanted to try to go a different direction and tie in some of the other versions of these characters as well.

Tiger Force Beachhead was a really ugly figure. Maybe his color scheme was supposed to be a part of the convention story that year, but as a figure, I just wasn't into it. Still, I wanted to include the character in my Tiger Force unit. I was originally going to paint his torso, arms and head in the shade of brown I was using in subsitute of the orange but when I got the Retaliation Beachhead to use and looked at it more closely, I decided that I really didn't want to paint over the paint apps on his arms. So I ended up just painting his tiger stripes on without painting the those parts at all. He ends up not looking much like his original Tiger Force figure but that's fine with me. He also ended up being the figure that took the least work. Regardless, I'm happy with how he turned out.

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