[HissHissFangFan]

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Originally Posted by YouNotCookin

I love deep dives like this. Good stuff!

Did we ever decide collectively on an official beret color for GI Joe? I love the idea that the Joes would be a special unit with their own beret color.

I forget where that thread went. Was waiting to see some ideas and try some. I actually think it's an interesti g idea of a unique Joe color beret, from a toyetic standpoint, and a military fantasy Joe verse standpoint. Alas, fee takers, and soon Eagle Force Returns will dominate and own the beret look, and my beret bing month is also coming to a close...

[jlw515]

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Originally Posted by HissHissFangFan

I forget where that thread went. Was waiting to see some ideas and try some. I actually think it's an interesti g idea of a unique Joe color beret, from a toyetic standpoint, and a military fantasy Joe verse standpoint. Alas, fee takers, and soon Eagle Force Returns will dominate and own the beret look, and my beret bing month is also coming to a close...

The problem with choosing a Team beret color is finding a generic color, which is probably why The Expendables went with black.

The basic beret colors already in use are: black, tan, maroon/red, and green; and you definitely don't want to use blue because then the Joes just look like a bunch of UN troops ;-)

My only thought here would be, besides black, would be to use a lighter shade of Green like an olive green or just use black but customize a uniform beret flash for the team.

Jason

[rob]

You could do a deep blue that gets close to black.
You could do black with some bright piping along the bottom seam.
Black/light green
Black/red
Black/yellow

[MadFlava76]

Amazing work. Some of the best custom figures I've ever seen.

[HissHissFangFan]

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Originally Posted by MadFlava76

Amazing work. Some of the best custom figures I've ever seen.

I always always appreciate comments like these. Thank you so much for the encouragement.

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Originally Posted by rob

You could do a deep blue that gets close to black.
You could do black with some bright piping along the bottom seam.
Black/light green
Black/red
Black/yellow

Hmm.i really like this idea, gets some color onto the figure without being too dominating. The muted beret would be less out of place on the figure color palette by using the the piping (and maybe the flash) to blend with the overall figure. Could work with vintage style figures and looks. Might be interesting to try on some other characters who dont beret...

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Originally Posted by jlw515

The problem with choosing a Team beret color is finding a generic color, which is probably why The Expendables went with black.

The basic beret colors already in use are: black, tan, maroon/red, and green; and you definitely don't want to use blue because then the Joes just look like a bunch of UN troops ;-)

My only thought here would be, besides black, would be to use a lighter shade of Green like an olive green or just use black but customize a uniform beret flash for the team.

Jason

Good thoughts and ideas. I do want to try the olive or green grey beret, especially on Stalker--seems like it would be ideal on him based on his color scheme, and since he's the beret OG. Then see how some other OGs look if it works on Lonzo. But also, I did try exploring the tan beret on Stalker the lasr few days. Though I'm content with retconning OG Ranger to the black beret, maybe tan is more appropriate for a more recent pursuit of Cobra. It's been a whole GENERATION between wouldn't you say? [Zartan nods]

Otherwise I think I'm going to try try a super dark grey first with color trim first, then try to lean a bit blue or red maybe even green. I just got in 3 more berets today.

Also wouldn't mind seeing others explore this--don't know how long I can go with this (remember that I originally wanted to get of all the berets).

[HissHissFangFan]

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Originally Posted by AWOL

Some berets have been used for evil.

Indeed...


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[dbritt]

When I was creating Marauder-based Joes, I had settled on a navy blue beret, to avoid the UN comparison.

[HissHissFangFan]

So last time I went on and on about Stalker's beret color, settling on black for its historical accuracy and the way it looked on his vintage green camouflage stylings, and how it wasn't too devianf from his original black.

Messing with a tan beret, the modern ranger color did interest me despite misgivings of blending modern tan with vintage green, so I had immediately started playing with ideas.

First idea was to try the tan on hasbro modern figure of Stalker, namely the POC/30th version complete with modern inspired digital camo and...dreadlocks. It was a sharp looking figure that seemed to hit all the right Stalker boxes without offending, except maybe the dreadlocks which were borrowed from the Resolute mold.

The greens were lighter than vintage, so I thought the tan wouldnt clash so bad, but the black gear did clash and a lot of it was switched over to a matching beret tan as well. I only wanted to do paintwork on the original figure concept test, no swapping parts, to see if the concept would have worked if released with just paintwork change:


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The tan color quite a different look, but works pretty well visually. Also with most Joe fans understanding that tan is modern correct, I think they would have welcomed that change to complete the update.

Putting the vintage inspired and modern style side by side really shows both the differences and the similarities. For me it kind inspired a crazy idea: Stalker and Son! Lonzo and Lonzo Jr. So comic booky I know, but given the source...Plus most accept Zartan having a teenage kid (whereas in my head the excellent Zanya figure is Zartan's ____.


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Also note that Pugsley took Stalker this direction and ten steps further with his modern ranger take, linked below. The only thing missing was an alternate modern helmet that one would see if image googling US ranger moodern.

https://www.hisstank.com/forum/g-i-j...t-stalker.html