Head, gear: Bazooka
Torso, arms: Captain America Crossbones
Legs: RoC Heavy Duty
Vest: PoC Recondo
Hat: Spytroops Crosshairs


"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've already got the classic version of Bazooka in ME style so didn't feel the need to own another in different colors so I decided to take some inspiration from his later versions, particularly his Battle Corps version. Working with the Crossbones torso was different than Joe type torsos in that instead of being two pieces glued together, his torso is a solid piece made of softer plastic with ports embedded in it to accept the male plugs of the arms and lower torso. The torsos of Star Wars figures are constructed in this fashion as well which makes Crossbones rather interesting.

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