Head: Chap Mei
Torso/Arms/Legs/Waist: Shipwreck v1


Another recruit to my naval characters for the Joes. I had a spare Shipwreck body from a job lot of parts I'd bought on E-Bay for my Action Force customs, and I just added the head and painted him. I somehow got it into my head that he's the naval officer who makes a brief appearance in issue 40 of the Marvel comic ('Hydrofoil', one of my top two or three stories). For those of you in the US Navy or with connections to that institution, my apologies; I'm well aware that his colour scheme bears little resemblance to any realistic officer, but I decided that it worked anyway. I gave him his forename and named his ship after Bart Mancuso, captain of the USS Dallas in 'The Hunt For Red October'. The codename was the biggest problem; I couldn't think of one for love nor money, until I took my cue from the Transformers range, with one of the triple changers, a robot who became a jet, and more significantly, an aircraft carrier.

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