Head, legs, gear: Tripwire
Torso, arms, armor: RoC Flash
"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.
Originally Tripwire was going to be the only figure in my set that I cheated out on and just make a straight repaint of, especially since I never bought his figure to begin with and instead was planning to make my own interpretation. The more I thought about it though, the more I still wanted to do something a little different anyway. After looking at some other figures trying to get some ideas and find suitable parts, I decided that RoC Flash would suit my purposes well.