Parts
Head-Tatum head
Torso,Arms-One of the dress down Tatum Dukes
Upper legs- 25th Wild Weasel
Lower Legs-25th Dusty
Helmet-Don't remember
Vest-Renegade Duke I think.

BattleForce 2000. I feel like you either fall into the camp of "loved it" or "hated it". I rarely here fans say "it was alright". I fell into the camp of "loved it" thought it was a great concept but not executed all that well. As a kid I picked and chose the vehicles as some of them were truly cheap, poorly planned, and horrible looking. I did like what Hama did with them in one of my favorite comics (issue their introduction). From what I remember they were a bunch of expert technicians and soldiers field-testing the weapons of the future...that's pretty damn cool. You could see these guys being the only Joes to have access to Area 51 and Black Book projects. That is what I went for when I started thinking about redesigning these back in 2011. The personal challenge of updating the team also included doing it with parts I had readily available and would include very minor sculpting (if any). I wanted to make a series of figures that any customizer could make if they simply had the parts handy. I had hoped that Hasbro or the Collector's Club would take note at how easy these characters could be made with a little effort. I had continued to tweak them all the way up until Jeffrey "Icecreamman" Valeriano asked me to join the All Star Event. This gave me the final push to finish them up. I wanted to go with the idea that they were that Special Ops type team as opposed to "Future Force".

Probably the character design I've always liked the least and therefore wanted to strip it down to the most basic form. This was just a weird figure. A headsculpt that looked just like Charbroil. Really square chest. Armor that just didn't make much sense to me and a color palette that never really worked. I looked at some images of special forces guys in Afghanistan and Iraq from the early 2010s and saw one of them that didn't have on the traditional fatigues but had a dark blue shirt under a tan flak vest. That helped to make this color look fit for me more. I ended up throwing in the black tactical pants as that I've seen and felt like a good fit. I didn't like the spandex look of the original figure but felt that cloth pants with pockets, wrinkles and such would work well for my update. In the end gave him a very grounded helmet as I did not want to copy the look of the vintage one at all. Tatum's head sculpt seemed like a good fit.