Head: Taurus
Torso, webgear: Retaliation Cobra Trooper
Arms: PoC Cobra Commander
Legs: RoC Desert Ambush Duke
Backpack: RoC Arctic Snake Eyes

"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.

Hasbro's Hit & Run from the Attack on Cobra Island pack is decent but there are many things that could have been done better. Regardless I was happy enough with it...until I saw the version that was in their concept case at JoeCon 2012. While not terribly exciting or inovative, it did a far better job of being Hit & Run than the previous attempt. This inspired me to do a little more with my Tiger Force version. I aproached this figure as if I were doing my own interpretation of a normal v1 based Hit & Run. I just ended up painting him in his Tiger Force uniform instead. At one point I was planning on using the same head Hasbro did but wasn't very happy with it. Looking through my fodder at the bald heads I had, I came across the Taurus head. I looked at it and thought that it might work very well after a nice shave. I'm rather pleased with the end result.