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[grepdogg]

great stuff! thanks for sharing, keep em coming

[latinjoe22]

Here's something I did in order to "practice" before doing another Tiger Force custom project for a great buddy of mine. Sorry about the bad focus on them pics. The camera got soaked during the summer and it was never the same since... I'm therefore going to have to shop for a new camera soon (or hope I can get one for X-Mas LOL). In the meantime, this is as good as it gets.

It took me about an hour to do. It's not finished (needs some touch-ups) but it's almost there and not looking bad at all. Oh yeah, I'm a huge Tiger Force fan too, and I know someone who's also as much of a Grunt fan here on the boards, perhaps the biggest that I know (looking at you third canucklehead in line at the 2007 Canadian joe meet!) and it's one of the reasons why I made this one. Enjoy

[dodge822]

good looking custom their LJ, keep it up

[morgardee]

Wow. That really works. Great job!

[latinjoe22]

Thanks guy. Don't know if many of you noticed it by now, but I tend to give a second chance to the very underappreciated accessory pack weapons by equiping my customs with them whenever there's opportunity.

One of the reasons that I did this custom was because I wanted to infuse brown into this cutom's color palette, on what better way of doing it but with a very common second generation duke backpack and leatherneck machine gun, complimented with touches of brown enamel paint that just happens to match in heaven with the natural color of the accessories.

I try, whenever it's possible to do it, to choose a paint color that will match as close as possible the original colors of the accessory pack weapons:

Here are a few past projects I did that to illustrate this intent:

[pdaat]

Tiger Force and O13.  Two of the best things about Joe.

[latinjoe22]

Tiger Force and O13.  Two of the best things about Joe.

Does anyone want to see more Tiger Forced original characters down the road? It's been on my mind lately. I have several original spare parts so I can easily make any of these:

Zap
Clutch (would actually go very well with the Tiger Sting come to think aboot it)
Short Fuze

[Sundance]

Tiger Force Ripcord, eh?

[morgardee]

I have 2 challenges for you:

Tiger Force Mutt
Tiger Force Blow Torch (That should be a tough one to pull off  )

[latinjoe22]

Tiger Force Mutt was already done as a convention character therefore he's a low priority right now.

Tiger Force Ripcord is a good idea, since he was originally planned to be re-released in the Tiger Force sub-team by Hasbro back in 1988-89 at the same time as Sabertooth and Wild Bill. A very similar variation of Sabertooth finally saw release years later in the TRU Tiger Force 5-pack but this time they changed the name to Wreckage if memories serve.

I'm currently revisiting the concept for one of them (Ripcord, Mutt, Sabertooth or Wild Bill). It'll be done to go in the typical colors of the convention Tiger Force characters.

@Morg: Blowtorch will be the toughest challenge anyone has ever given me  . It is with distinguised honor that I would accept, but I'm missing only the arms and legs and a face mask. If anyone can provide them, you know the drill!

[nighthawk]

I'd love to see a TF Blowtorch.  He's one of my favourite figures so seeing different versions would be sweet.

[grunt 4 mvp]

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!

Much love for an underrated character. 
TIGRUNT is the bomb! Love the homage pose that you chose too - nice touch.
Cyber-timbits are hurtling towards you in a very imaginary way.