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08-04-2014, 09:38 PM | #11 |
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Man, your customs are just plain ole AWESOME!!!
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08-05-2014, 04:37 PM | #12 |
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Nice!
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08-05-2014, 09:12 PM | #13 |
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08-05-2014, 09:20 PM | #14 |
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08-05-2014, 09:36 PM | #15 |
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I really like Duke. ,Ive always liked that head sculpt for him. Great work!
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08-05-2014, 09:52 PM | #16 |
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Wonderful set of figures! A real set of modern updates for the vintage looks. I especially love Cover Girl!
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08-06-2014, 12:11 AM | #17 |
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Everyone of the figures are awesome. I also like the updated file cards although there are some spelling errors and some errors similar to Hasbro's.
Duke: PMOS would be Special Forces and he would not have served as a 2LT in SF. Officers are typically junior CPTs for SFAS attendance. He probably would have been an Infantry Officer first making that his SMOS. Officer's would not be an armorer as a career field. Not sure if I like the promotion, I see him as a 1SG. The figure: I love the classic tan shirt look and shoulder belt with the updated parts and general appearance. (Personally, I hate thigh rigs - I tried wearing one in Iraq and tossed it for a belt holster for daily carry. Duty carry is typically a center chest mount on my vest) Ace: I don't know much about USAF career paths but I bet a AFROTC would not assess as a pilot. I could be wrong but every pilot or even aircrew I know graduated the Academy in Colorado Springs. You could add MC-130 too if he has an AFSOC background which the AC-130 leads me to believe. We retired the F-16 a few years ago once the F-22's came along. Probably should promote him to Major, all those airframes require flight hours which equal years in service. The figure: No complaints on parts, I just never got the lower part of the harness; are they relaxed and want to trip at the knees? Doc: I like the Chaplain concept for total spiritual and physical fitness support. Not sure about the USMA since he may be too old plus passing up a direct commission would actually set him back 4 years. The figure: great part choices, I picture him wandering the halls of Womack at Bragg. Torpedo: I picture him as an E-7 (Chief Petty Officer). Love the classified section. Check spelling on first mention of SCUBA. The figure: Awesome! What a practical use of any number of SE bodies. Wild Bill: 1st "Cavalry" Division aka 1st CAV. Could add the MH-6 and MH-60 (all variants) assuming he spent time in 160th SOAR. The figure: nice improvements on what I considered a pretty good version done by Hasbro a few years ago. Airborne: I just never got the "passed up JAG" - way too much money spent on Law school to not get paid for it. Plenty of JAGs jump from planes. The 75th RR has lawyers too although not as door gunners. If he went to Flight Warrant he would be qualified to fly something, I like that you put him in an Apache. Graduating top of ABN school is not really anything to brag about... The figure: Nice overall except for those unsafe leg straps again. Nice survival vest, it looks like it is over IBA. Gung-Ho: check those MOSs, those look like schools. Probably a plank holder of MARSOC. The figure: Awesome overall. My complaint is not your fault, it is Hasbro. They create a kick butt vest but then have someone wear it that cannot use the pouches to carry ammo for their weapon(s) system. Snow Job: again, check those MOSs, he is probably Infantry, assigned to the Olympic Training Center and served on various marksmanship teams and a Sniper School Instruction at Benning. The figure: simple and effective Cover Girl: I firmly believe no Joes are below the rank of E-6 by the time they complete assessment and selection then whatever training they go for to be a named Joe. I picture her also having some covert intelligence training where she can take advantage of her looks to gather intel. The figure: great parts, great paint although it may be the lighting but the jacket arms don't look like the match the vest portion. I do miss the 104th Inf patch despite it being highly unlikely she served there but maybe her grandfather did and it was his jacket. Tripwire: I love you kept him a clumsy guy. "Ordnance" SMOS could be Engineer or Infantry. Again with the rank. The figure: nice use of parts while keeping his basic, traditional appearance
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08-07-2014, 05:19 PM | #18 |
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This is really good work! Thanks for sharing the recipes.
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08-08-2014, 01:11 PM | #19 |
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Everyone of the figures are awesome. I also like the updated file cards although there are some spelling errors and some errors similar to Hasbro's.
Duke: PMOS would be Special Forces and he would not have served as a 2LT in SF. Officers are typically junior CPTs for SFAS attendance. He probably would have been an Infantry Officer first making that his SMOS. Officer's would not be an armorer as a career field. Not sure if I like the promotion, I see him as a 1SG. The figure: I love the classic tan shirt look and shoulder belt with the updated parts and general appearance. (Personally, I hate thigh rigs - I tried wearing one in Iraq and tossed it for a belt holster for daily carry. Duty carry is typically a center chest mount on my vest) Ace: I don't know much about USAF career paths but I bet a AFROTC would not assess as a pilot. I could be wrong but every pilot or even aircrew I know graduated the Academy in Colorado Springs. You could add MC-130 too if he has an AFSOC background which the AC-130 leads me to believe. We retired the F-16 a few years ago once the F-22's came along. Probably should promote him to Major, all those airframes require flight hours which equal years in service. The figure: No complaints on parts, I just never got the lower part of the harness; are they relaxed and want to trip at the knees? Doc: I like the Chaplain concept for total spiritual and physical fitness support. Not sure about the USMA since he may be too old plus passing up a direct commission would actually set him back 4 years. The figure: great part choices, I picture him wandering the halls of Womack at Bragg. Torpedo: I picture him as an E-7 (Chief Petty Officer). Love the classified section. Check spelling on first mention of SCUBA. The figure: Awesome! What a practical use of any number of SE bodies. Wild Bill: 1st "Cavalry" Division aka 1st CAV. Could add the MH-6 and MH-60 (all variants) assuming he spent time in 160th SOAR. The figure: nice improvements on what I considered a pretty good version done by Hasbro a few years ago. Airborne: I just never got the "passed up JAG" - way too much money spent on Law school to not get paid for it. Plenty of JAGs jump from planes. The 75th RR has lawyers too although not as door gunners. If he went to Flight Warrant he would be qualified to fly something, I like that you put him in an Apache. Graduating top of ABN school is not really anything to brag about... The figure: Nice overall except for those unsafe leg straps again. Nice survival vest, it looks like it is over IBA. Gung-Ho: check those MOSs, those look like schools. Probably a plank holder of MARSOC. The figure: Awesome overall. My complaint is not your fault, it is Hasbro. They create a kick butt vest but then have someone wear it that cannot use the pouches to carry ammo for their weapon(s) system. Snow Job: again, check those MOSs, he is probably Infantry, assigned to the Olympic Training Center and served on various marksmanship teams and a Sniper School Instruction at Benning. The figure: simple and effective Cover Girl: I firmly believe no Joes are below the rank of E-6 by the time they complete assessment and selection then whatever training they go for to be a named Joe. I picture her also having some covert intelligence training where she can take advantage of her looks to gather intel. The figure: great parts, great paint although it may be the lighting but the jacket arms don't look like the match the vest portion. I do miss the 104th Inf patch despite it being highly unlikely she served there but maybe her grandfather did and it was his jacket. Tripwire: I love you kept him a clumsy guy. "Ordnance" SMOS could be Engineer or Infantry. Again with the rank. The figure: nice use of parts while keeping his basic, traditional appearance I've been waiting for someone to comment on the file cards. Most of the MOS are based on old Joe filecards. I'll comment more in depth later. But as far as Doc rejecting direct commission, I based this on the history of my psych professor in college. He was a chaplain in 'Nam and rejected direct commission and through officer school. He said that since he was going into a war zone he wanted to be trained what to do in a war. Jason |
08-11-2014, 08:24 AM | #20 |
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Everyone of the figures are awesome. I also like the updated file cards although there are some spelling errors and some errors similar to Hasbro's.
Duke: PMOS would be Special Forces and he would not have served as a 2LT in SF. Officers are typically junior CPTs for SFAS attendance. He probably would have been an Infantry Officer first making that his SMOS. Officer's would not be an armorer as a career field. Not sure if I like the promotion, I see him as a 1SG. The figure: I love the classic tan shirt look and shoulder belt with the updated parts and general appearance. (Personally, I hate thigh rigs - I tried wearing one in Iraq and tossed it for a belt holster for daily carry. Duty carry is typically a center chest mount on my vest) *** The PMOS & SMOS are based upon Hasbro's original Filecard. Concerning the rank of CPT, I like Duke being an officer. It takes away all the inconsistency of the cartoon of him giving orders to those of higher rank. I've tried to balance out the rank system by having at least one person from each Dept. (Army, USAF, Navy/Marine) who is a CPT. - JLW*** Ace: I don't know much about USAF career paths but I bet a AFROTC would not assess as a pilot. I could be wrong but every pilot or even aircrew I know graduated the Academy in Colorado Springs. You could add MC-130 too if he has an AFSOC background which the AC-130 leads me to believe. We retired the F-16 a few years ago once the F-22's came along. Probably should promote him to Major, all those airframes require flight hours which equal years in service. The figure: No complaints on parts, I just never got the lower part of the harness; are they relaxed and want to trip at the knees? ***Again, the ROTC reference is based on a Hasbro filecard. You're probably right on the rank of Major, but I just don't want any main characters with a rank higher than CPT in my Joeverse (besides Colton, Hawk, & Keel-Haul). The leg straps are kind of a X-Wing pilot homage. Thanks for the info on the MC-130. I'll add that to his final card. - JLW*** Doc: I like the Chaplain concept for total spiritual and physical fitness support. Not sure about the USMA since he may be too old plus passing up a direct commission would actually set him back 4 years. The figure: great part choices, I picture him wandering the halls of Womack at Bragg. ***I kind of based Doc's chaplain career on my psychology professor in college. He was a doctor of psychology and an Army chaplain. He first graduated seminary from Louisville before the Army. He went in as a Chaplain and said that he passed on direct commission to attend officer's school because he was going to 'Nam and said even though he was a non-combatant since he was going into a war zone, he wanted to know what officers were suppose to do in a time of war. After 'Nam he joined the Reserves and his last promotion was Colonel. He implemented a lot of the Chaplian/counseling programs for the Reserves. He was offerred the opportunity to promote to BG, but at that time his wife was taking cancer treatments so he passed on it. Pretty awesome fellow. I too picture Doc wandering the halls of a base. He's going to be more of the base surgeon in my Joeverse. - JLW*** Torpedo: I picture him as an E-7 (Chief Petty Officer). Love the classified section. Check spelling on first mention of SCUBA. The figure: Awesome! What a practical use of any number of SE bodies. ***Torpedo's rank is based on the Hasbro card. Not sure why they ever listed him as CW-4. I'm gonna keep it just because, but I will check the card for spelling errors. Thanks! - JLW*** Wild Bill: 1st "Cavalry" Division aka 1st CAV. Could add the MH-6 and MH-60 (all variants) assuming he spent time in 160th SOAR. The figure: nice improvements on what I considered a pretty good version done by Hasbro a few years ago. ***Thanks for the info, I will definitely add these. Concerning the figure, I thought the Dragonhawk Wild Bill was the almost perfect figure. He was just missing his boots and belt buckle. So I purchased the Tiger Rat Wild Bill in a figure lot from one of the over-seas ebay sellers. - JLW*** Airborne: I just never got the "passed up JAG" - way too much money spent on Law school to not get paid for it. Plenty of JAGs jump from planes. The 75th RR has lawyers too although not as door gunners. If he went to Flight Warrant he would be qualified to fly something, I like that you put him in an Apache. Graduating top of ABN school is not really anything to brag about... The figure: Nice overall except for those unsafe leg straps again. Nice survival vest, it looks like it is over IBA. ***Airborne was always portrayed as the gunner for the Dragonfly. I don't think his whole jumping out of planes persona really panned out in the comics. So, the best I could tell an Apache gunner is actually a co-pilot. So that's why the Flight WO school. I plan to use Airborne as an attorney in my Joeverse. When he's not gunning the Dragonfly (Apache), he's helping with legal issues for the Joes. - JLW*** Gung-Ho: check those MOSs, those look like schools. Probably a plank holder of MARSOC. The figure: Awesome overall. My complaint is not your fault, it is Hasbro. They create a kick butt vest but then have someone wear it that cannot use the pouches to carry ammo for their weapon(s) system. ***MOSs are based on Hasbro's file card. In reality they probably would just be "Infantry" and "Machine Gunner" but that gets boring seeing on too many cards. Thanks for the comment on the figure. It's a simple custom, but I LOVE it! I can't say enough about Ragin' Spoon's 8pt cover. It is removeable. - JLW*** Snow Job: again, check those MOSs, he is probably Infantry, assigned to the Olympic Training Center and served on various marksmanship teams and a Sniper School Instruction at Benning. The figure: simple and effective ***Again, MOSs based on some of Hasbro's file cards. I made this figure just as an homage to the '83 Snow Job. I really like the POC one best. - JLW*** Cover Girl: I firmly believe no Joes are below the rank of E-6 by the time they complete assessment and selection then whatever training they go for to be a named Joe. I picture her also having some covert intelligence training where she can take advantage of her looks to gather intel. The figure: great parts, great paint although it may be the lighting but the jacket arms don't look like the match the vest portion. I do miss the 104th Inf patch despite it being highly unlikely she served there but maybe her grandfather did and it was his jacket. ***You'r right about the arms and the jacket. The jacket that actually matches the arms didn't fit right. Eventually I'll swap out the arms. I've just got to find the right arms in my fodder box. The rank is based of the Hasbro file card (I think). Not sure if they had her as a Corporal or Specialist, which if I understand it right most E-4s are "Specialist" and "Corporal" is an E-4 with a better paycheck. - JLW*** Tripwire: I love you kept him a clumsy guy. "Ordnance" SMOS could be Engineer or Infantry. Again with the rank. The figure: nice use of parts while keeping his basic, traditional appearance ***I didn't mind the whole clumsy thing, but I hated the whole Zen monk storyline (or was that Lifeline - I think maybe their storylines are close). The SMOS is from Hasbro, but I like your suggestion. I think I'll change it to Engineer. - JLW*** Jason |
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