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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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06-21-2009, 05:22 AM
zuludelta
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Just got done reading the new chart. I like it alot.
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Dick Marcinko's unit (the name escapes me right now).
SEAL Team Six? Red Cell?
Couple of new images/filecards tonight, with an underlying theme tying the characters together:
Armadillo & Skystriker
The theme, if you haven't guessed it by now, is "characters named after famous Joe vehicles." I don't know if it was carelessness on Hasbro/Larry Hama's part, but whatever the case, I always thought it odd that multiple characters would share names wtih some pretty iconic Joe vehicles (the Armadillo "mini-tank" and the XF-14 Skystriker). To add to the slight of being named after a pretty funny-looking vehicle, Armadillo had to suffer through the indignity of being referred to by the wrong name in his first and only prominent comics appearance (issue #80 of the original Marvel series). The whole issue, he's referred to as "Rumbler," who was a different character. I can see Heavy Metal being mistaken for Rumbler, since the toys shared certain parts -- the torso and the arms if I'm not mistaken -- but Armadillo and Rumbler didn't look similar at all (Armadillo was a distinct-looking figure, he might very well have been the ugliest GI Joe character pre-1989 in terms of facial sculpt... I never had one, but from the catalogs and pack-in brochures, he looked like his head was taken from the mold too early, resulting in a bad case of "melty-face").
Design notes:
- There was no way I was going to use Skystriker's original garish colours in this more realistic take on the team. Conveniently enough though, the USAF's new-ish Airman Battle Uniform utilizes a tiger-stripe pattern, so I was at least able to incorporate a recognizable element of the original's costume without having to abuse artistic license (not too much, at least).
- I tried to make him a "true" special operations aviation guy in his filecard. Not just a guy who pilots special operations-specific aircraft, but one trained in FID advising.
- As for Armadillo, I basically just tried to adapt the vague MOSes of the original filecard within current MOS structure. He naturally fit as a Cavalry Scout (given the armor and reconnaissance MOSes of the original), and I threw in water treatment specialist for kicks. One thing I've always wondered, are there that many Native Americans in the US Armed Forces? Off the top off my head, there seems to be a disproportionately large number of mainland Native Americans on the team (Spirit, Airborne, Armadillo, Dart, Sky Patrol Altitude... I'm probably missing at least a couple more) relative to, say, the number of Latinos (who are one of the largest visible/linguistic minority groups in the Spec-Ops community). Also noticed that he has one of those file names that seem to have been made up for pun-based laughs and/or ham-fisted irony (like Cutter's "Skip A. Stone," Hardtop's "Nicolas D. Klas," and Frostbite's "Farley Seward"). Philo is Latin for "love" and he has the distinctly Native-American surname of Make-Peace.
Anyways, their full filecards can be read by clicking on the links in my signature.
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