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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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04-07-2009, 01:07 AM
zuludelta
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Updated versions of some of the last few images I posted, taking into consideration some of thunderdan19's suggestions (click on the Joe's name to view the pic):
Beach Head
notes: adjusted the cut of balaclava and recoloured the M4 as per thunderdan's suggestions. Still kept the brown all-weather boots, though.
Recondo
notes: fixed head proportions
Leatherneck
notes: added M203 grenade launcher to his M4
Iceberg
notes: added blue-grey tinting to his accessories to better match his original toy colours.
Flint
notes: beefed up his forearms. Still kept the shotgun, though, despite thunderdan's suggestion to use an M4 Masterkey (assault rifle + underbarrel shotgun combo). It's an excellent suggestion, but in my mind, the pistol-grip shotgun is an important element of Flint's visual make-up, and losing that element is just a step too far in terms of improvisation for me with regards to redesigning the character.
Also, some new images of the Joe team's anti-armor specialists, Bazooka and Zap:
notes: they're both armed with the Carl Gustaf 84mm recoilless rifle, known in the US Army and USMC as the M3 MAAWS (Multi-role Anti-armor/Anti-personnel Weapon System). It's also known by its other name, M3 RAWS (Ranger Anti-tank Weapon System) in USSOCOM equipment listings.
I debated with myself for a while on how to depict Bazooka... the football jersey is a bit goofy, but outfitting him in standard ACU camo would be too much of a departure from his most recognizable look, IMO (I know there was a woodland camo version of Bazooka a few years ago, but for most people, Bazooka will always be the guy in the red jersey).
In the end, I went with the jersey, but tried to make it relevant to the character... I switched the jersey colours from the orignal red and blue to maroon and gold, which are the official colours of the University of Minnesota football team (the Golden Gophers). Bazooka, according to his filecard, is from Hibbing, Minnesota; and a plausible explanation for him wearing a football jersey to battle is a sense of loyalty to his alma mater and maybe just a little superstition (you know how some athletes always wear their "lucky" jerseys or jock straps or socks or whatever to big games). I figure an elite unit like the Joes would tolerate some manner of of generally harmless eccentricity in one of their premier anti-armor specialists.
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