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04-19-2009, 08:07 PM | #4891 |
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I use the red Resolute Troopers as the Officers and the Officer Figure as a Captain-type level.
My Resolute are 4-man Units, 3 Blues and 1 Red. So the Officer Figure would command maybe 4-5 4-man units. I want to outfit each Blue differently, but need to get more parts to do it. I want 1 to have a machine gun, have the gun, just want a backpack from Roadblock for ammo. Another will have a LAW rocket, so need the backpack and gun from Bazooka. Another will have a communications backpack.
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04-19-2009, 08:10 PM | #4892 |
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How about Black boots to go with his shirt. I still think he looks great but why the desert camo? How about Tiger stripe Camo like the Seals wear. Or good old woodland to show how old school he really is?
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04-19-2009, 08:11 PM | #4893 |
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I actually debated with myself for quite a bit over what colour to use for Flint's beret. I've always wanted to see him with a proper green beret to match his SF background, but there was also a big part of me that wanted to keep the black beret out of faithfulness to the original design. The rationalization for the black beret being that most SF operators don't wear their green berets in the field anyway (if they have to wear a beret, most simply wear the Army-standard black beret with a "subdued" SFG flash so that they can blend in better with conventional forces). But if I went in that direction, then I'd probably give Falcon a black beret as well, just for consistency's sake (I'm really anal-retentive about certain things ), and that would just look odd. In the end, I went with giving Flint a green beret, seeing as how my interpretation has retained enough of the original's elements, I think, that it's still unmistakably him.
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04-19-2009, 08:13 PM | #4894 |
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Quote:
I use the red Resolute Troopers as the Officers and the Officer Figure as a Captain-type level.
My Resolute are 4-man Units, 3 Blues and 1 Red. So the Officer Figure would command maybe 4-5 4-man units. I want to outfit each Blue differently, but need to get more parts to do it. I want 1 to have a machine gun, have the gun, just want a backpack from Roadblock for ammo. Another will have a LAW rocket, so need the backpack and gun from Bazooka. Another will have a communications backpack. |
04-19-2009, 08:17 PM | #4895 |
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I need 3 more Blue Troopers. I have 2 Red Troopers and 3 Blue right now, along with the 1 Officer. So I need 3 more Blue to make up a 2nd unit.
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04-19-2009, 08:18 PM | #4896 |
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It's not technically desert camo... the patterns I've been using on many of the Army Joes is called digital ACU and is the current standard camo pattern for the Army... according to the engineers at the Army's Natick Soldier Systems Center (the guys in charge of developing these things), it's a universal camo pattern that obviates the need for separate camo patterns for desert, woodland, and urban environments. The boots as well are in earth tones, as the current Army policy for footwear colour is moving away from black and more towards subdued, desaturated hues. Black clothes and footwear show up more readily on the IR spectrum, apparently (that's also why the ACU camo pattern doesnt have any black on it, unlike the old woodland patterns the Army has used since at least the Vietnam War).
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04-19-2009, 08:21 PM | #4897 |
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I want to see a Big Ben
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04-19-2009, 08:26 PM | #4898 |
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More on camo patterns:
The Marines also have their own version of ACU called MARPAT (although they'll probably claim that the ACU is the Army's version of MARPAT). It's similar in its non-repeating digitized pattern, but comes in more color ranges (there's a version that is slightly more greenish besides the standard earth toned pattern, as well as a whitish one adapted for arctic environments). Not to be outdone, the Navy has their own two-toned blue camo pattern which they use on the NWU (Navy Working Uniform). The funny thing about the NWU is that it's mostly just to keep up with the fashion trend and have Navy personnel in the same "digitized" camo as their Army and Marine counterparts: the pattern is largely cosmetic and non-functional... there aren't very many natural environments that are actually blue... and even when Navy personnel are on sea, they're on ships anyway (which are largely gray), so wearing the blue NWU actually makes a sailor stand out on a ship's deck more than if they were wearing, say, gray coveralls. |
04-19-2009, 08:32 PM | #4899 |
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Silly Navy, lol
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04-19-2009, 08:49 PM | #4900 |
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He's actually the only post-1989 character I'm including in the reference bible (and possibly Topside). I always liked the idea of the Joes having a liaison/adviser from what's arguably the world's premiere Spec-Ops unit. I'm thinking of making him and Back-Stop as NATO observers or somesuch (yeah, in my Joeverse, Back-Stop is with the Canadian Forces as a member of JTF2, which is basically the Canadian version of the SAS).
Alternatively, I've toyed with the idea of making a separate "Action Force" team designed along the lines of Tom Clancy's fictional Rainbow Six NATO joint counterterrorist unit, composed of American and non-American special operators. The team's composition would include updated versions of Big Ben (United Kingdom), Back-Stop (Canada), Taurus (Turkey), Daina (Czech Republic), Schrage (Germany), plus an American Joe who would thematically fit in with an international counter-terrorist team (Super Trooper? Claymore?). |
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