Head, torso, arms: DG Duke
Legs: 25th Snake Eyes
Bazooka, backpack: PoC Steel Brigade


In the 1990's Funskool, an Indian company, licensed GI Joe from Hasbro. Using official molds, Funskool released their own ''GI Joe International Heroes'' over the course of a decade and a half.

I tackled this project for several reasons. First, I found myself wanting to add some of these characters and wacky colored figures to my collection. It started with just a few figures but, after doing some online research, I realized that there were several more interesting figures in the line. As the project grew, I was rummaging through my fodder bins and I decided to use up as much of my older 25th parts as I could. So, this project became a big ''Spare Parts Brigade''.

Rumor has it that the famous ''Emerald Zap'', blue Snake Eyes, blue Short Fuse and red Stalker were all originally produced during Funskool's first product run in 1988. Their colors were so different from their North American counterparts that they were revised almost immediately. These figures (and a few others) are the rarest, hardest to find and most valuable GI Joe figures ever produced. If anyone has better info, please feel free to chime in. I still have a lot to learn about Funskool Joes.

''Emerald Zap'' was one of the first figures I made in this series. He is a simple repaint of the standard 25th OG13 figure, but I liked the bright green of the original so I tried to replicate it here.

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