Base Vehicle - True Heroes AB-115 Shark
Booster Rockets - Godzilla F/A-18 Strike Jet
Stickers - Toyhax.com

The Joes were under-equipped in 1982. Sure, they had a tank, a jeep, a motorcycle and some field artillery, but they couldn't fly anywhere, and the water was out of reach as well. To remedy this, I have three custom vehicles planned to fill in the gaps: a transport plane, a landing craft and a utility helicopter. I envision these as being part of series 1.5, released after the original 1982 figures but before the 1983 run was available. The transport plane is the second to be completed, using a True Heroes AB-115 Shark, which is based on the C-130 Hercules which featured so often in the Marvel run of Joe comics. I cut the carrying handle off of the top and added some seats to the cockpit and the cargo bay. The original is in grey, so I gave the fuselage a few coats of green drab paint (Krylon Ultra-Flat Camouflage), and used the custom sticker set from Toyhax.com for this plane. The original toy has no windows - just empty spaces in the windshield and portholes, so I added some clear plastic windows using Plastruct Plastic Weld. To make it stand out from a regular C-130 I added some booster rockets near the back of the plane in order to give it short take-off capability, which is appropriate for a clandestine unit like GI Joe. Two custom pilots complete the set, named Merlin and Sparrow. The STORCC would have had the same price point as the 1983 Headquarters Command Center, and would have been worth the same number of Flag Points (8).