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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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06-04-2010, 03:50 AM
Loose Cannon
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Originally Posted by
oliverbox
Well, in a bit of good news for my on-going custom project - since a lot of the Wave 3 Alpha vehicles have shown up lately on ebay, I was able to get another Polar Sharc with Ice Storm. That means that I've been able to take the head from Ice Storm, design a custom body for him, and send him to Marine_Deadpool for paint as a member of my Marine Recon Unit.
And thanks to Blackrazor for the advice to include Link Talbot as a Corpsman for that unit - genius.
I think it's going to turn out really well. They all have custom (improved) bodies and I've selected parts to make them bigger (except for Mainframe). They're a pretty indimidating unit. Here's the roster for my Marines...
1. Lt. Stone (Extreme - I promoted him to Captain)
2. Gung-Ho (Trigate head) Master Gunnery Sgt.
3. Leatherneck (Trigate head) Gunnery Sgt.
4. Sgt. Slaughter (in 8-point soft cover) Gunnery Sgt.
5. Sgt. Stone E-5
6. Ice Storm E-5
7. Link Talbot - Navy Corpsman E-5
8. Hollow Point E-6
9. Mainframe E-6
Love this team Oliver. Stone has to be a Captain. Aren't the new MARSOC teams 14men strong? But great news on Ice Storm. The colors are too crazy for me to really want the figure, but I appreciate every character. Are you making him British SBS or something? Talbot as a Navy Corpsman is pretty genuis too. The SEAL teams must travel with a Corpsman right? I haven't seen the Trigate head for GH or Leatherneck.
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Originally Posted by
oliverbox
Loose, where did you get that picture? It cracks me up. It's a great picture, but that guy looks like, "Hey, who is taking my picture?"
I googled
Delta Force in Afghanistan
hoping I'd get a picture of a guy with a beard like V2 Mercer. This picture came up a few times either as Delta Force or as SAS. But I thought it was perfect for my vision of Mercer.
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Originally Posted by
oliverbox
Gentlemen, I've been disappointed by the lack of interest in our file card competition. There's no question that it was a good idea. In fact, I have wondered why we didn't think of it sooner: "the file card thread guys make new file cards" ... it's so crazy it might just work.
Evidently, the Tank is so weird these days that "G.I. Joe enthusiasts" are no longer interested - AT ALL - in file cards.
So, I'd like to move our discussion back to something more directly related to the old cards: I'd like to talk about Bull Horn. I know we've talked about him before - at length - and we've debated his status as a Marine or an FBI agent. I'd us to revisit the discussion, and let's also ask ourselves how much authority/cannonicity we give to the convention file cards.
Just trying to get us pointed back in the direction we started: exploring the file cards...
In the end it's your Joeverse so do whatever you want. The fact that he is not an officer holds a lot of weight as to why he would have been a Marine and not an FBI agent. Too bad they left out that hugely important fact either way. Plus you could make him into a Sniper, and sort of change the Intervention Specialist into some sort if INtellegence gathering MOS. Then add Blast-Off and Mirage and Mace and you got 13 right there. There has to be at least one more Joe who could be Marine-ified for a 14 man MARSOC team. Or heck make a custom guy!
I don't pay a lot of attention to the Convention Filecards anymore. But feel free to pick and choose. Why not. Beachhead got a great filecard out of the deal. I think the person writing them sort of gave up. This last batch was particularly poorly researched. I love the form of course, but Flint hasn't been an 11X since basic training. They did good with the NATO ranks though for Black Major and Lt. Dolphin. I got to figure a way to add him in since i don't see myself buying that figure. I think I'm done with o-ring. Love my Red Shadows though.
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