Head: PoC Recondo
Torso: CP Gung-Ho
Upper Arms: Croc Master
Lower Arms: Tunnel Rat
Legs: Bazooka
Vest: Marauders


"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.

I know you're probably saying "Gung-Ho was never on the original Tiger Force team". When I started this project I decided that I wanted to include 2 new members on the team. One of them was to be an existing character and the other a new character. After looking through various figures trying to figure out who I wanted to do, I came across the 92 version of Gung-Ho. The uniform on that figure included a vest that had a tiger stripe-ish pattern on it. He was practically a Tiger Force figure already. I had also been thinking of doing that version of the character too. Seemed like a no-brainer to me. It took some doing trying to figure out how I was going to tackle it though. At one point I had even tried doing a conversion of his JvC torso to use since it had the open jacket which I figured would work as a vest well enough. Unfortunately that didn't work out so I had to try something else. That was when I decided that I would just use that vest from Marauders over a 25th Gung-Ho torso. This allowed me to keep his chest tatoo which I didn't think I could reproduce in paint well enough.

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