All parts and submachine gun - Stalker v1/v1.5
Backpack - Airborne (accessory pack)

I have a lot to say about Stalker. This custom is just a repaint of the original, the swivel-arm version (although you'll notice it has a v1 waist, I've found v1.5 waists really hard to find for him.) I painted his beret black, since he's not Special Forces and therefore should not be wearing a green beret. Rangers have been allowed to wear black berets at times, so it's a more appropriate colour.

I also repainted his eyes. This was the first time I've tried using a Pigma Micron pen instead of paint for the eyes. I think it works really well, because it's a lot easier to control than a paint brush when painting tiny details like that. If you're going to try it, you'll want to only use it over plat/matte paint. I experimented with various paints and it doesn't like to sit on glossy paint. Also I normally use a brush-on clear coat over my paint, but with the ink I had to use a spray-on one, because even on flat paint the ink doesn't necessarily dry completely.

Stalker was actually the first Joe I bought with my own money. It would have been v1.5, since it had swivel arms. I had received Grunt and the RAM as gifts already, and saved up my allowance after that. I was 6 years old, so even thought the figure cost only $2.75 (IIRC) at the local K-Mart, at $0.25 a week it took some time to have enough.

For accessories I gave him a pack appropriate for an airborne ranger, the Accessory Pack version of Airborne's ruck, with some painted details. He also has his M-32 "Pulverizer" submachine gun, which you probably know is not a real gun. However, in doing research on the real-life basis for some Joe weapons, it seems pretty clear to me that it's a modified version of a Heckler & Koch MP5. If you look at an image of an early version of that gun, the MP54, you'll see that it has a "waffle" style magazine before the more familiar curved ones were introduced for the MP5, and this matches Stalker's weapon. A lot of the details on the body of the gun bear remarkable similarities to the Pulverizer (such as the triangles above the trigger), but the stock is different and the barrel is shorter. So in my Joe world, the Pulverizer is a modified MP5, with a longer barrel and adding the stock of an M76/Swedish K. Since Grunt is a small arms armorer, and would go on to get an engineering degree, we can say it's a modification of his that was adopted by Stalker, and also later by Duke when he joined the unit.