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01-13-2020, 12:07 PM
DerStahlhelm
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I get what you are saying, but looking back at the history of previous Kickstarters, especially in light of how universal the OG-107 type uniforms were, I seriously doubt there would be a lot of variations
I would bet the tooling costs for figures is greater than the tooling costs for the gear. So for the American troops (Army, Navy, USMC), you could pretty much go with a collared shirt with chest pockets and baggy pants with side pockets and combat boots.
Where I think the variations could come is by offering the US figures with the long shirt/skirt piece (like with the WW2 figures). Then you could just remove the skirt piece to have a tucked-in shirt look. Plus they could offer two different arm types: (1) long sleeve and (2) rolled/cuffed sleeves. Then besides these minor differences, they could offer camouflage paint schemes.
I'm just kind of working off my suggested "Stretch Goals" but I could see the actual sculpting break down like this:
1. US Army/Navy/Marine sculpt - OG-107 style w/ shirt-tail/skirt. Some figures with long sleeves, others with rolled/cuffed sleeves. Even the ARVN soldiers used a type of OG-107 uniform (best I can tell)
*** The real "variation" here would be with offering certain figures with a bare chest and bare arms, which MJ has already verbally confirmed. They "could" offer the bare-chested figure with differently sculpted legs, but IMHO not necessary. So, I'm simply listing this one as a variant of choice #1. ***
2. NVA/Viet Cong - honestly I could also see this as one sculpt and just offer the NVA in green w/ accessories and the Viet Cong in black and tan/black w/ accessories. Maybe the NVA could have long sleeves and the VC short sleeves.
3. US Army Helicopter Pilot/Door Gunner - Flight Suit.
4. Australian SASR
With the WW2 KS, we saw the most variety of figures to date-- 7 different figures, which represent the "basic" WW2 look of each figures (too many people complained about "historical accuracy"). With the Vietnam KS, I see even less variety in the style of clothing besides color and/or camouflage patterns.
With the WW2 KS, we also saw the most variety of head sculpts to date -- 10 different sculpts. With the Vietnam uniforms being so close in basic designs, the head sculpts is really where I would like to see more variety. I'm thinking something like this:
1. NVA (Asian)
2. VC (Asian)
3. ARVN (Asian)
4. Sculpted prescription-style glasses (no mustache)
5. Short-hair w/ mustache Light Skin Tone
6. Short-hair w/ mustache Dark Skin Tone
7. Bald-head w/ mustache Light Skin Tone
8. Bald-head w/ mustache Dark Skin Tone
9. Short-hair w/ sunglasses and w/ mustache
10. Australian
The "Light Skin Tone" and "Dark Skin Tone" head sculpts need to be sculpted differently like how the current Sentinel and Vanguard head sculpts differ, unlike the painted variant "Trooper" heads.
I'm really putting a lot of thought into this KS as I see way more GIJoe customizing potential from this KS than any other to date.
Jason
I’d like to see both the regular utility uniform (2 pocket shirt, no cargo pockets on the pants) and the tropical uniform (four pocket shirt/cargoes). Maybe they could do one for army and the other for marines or air cav. Camo uniforms were made in both styles, though I suspect EDRL was probably only in the tropical cut.
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