Check the bottom of this post for 25A Hawk!
Ok, this'll probably be it from me for a while (too much stuff I gotta do & I've been spending all my time with these guys).
First up is my favorite Joe (can anyone guess why?): Flint
The 25A Flint was just too tall and the head sucked. I had already made my "definitive" Flint several months ago, but he was pretty beat up and his head kept popping off. So I took the 25A Flint Arms & Torso, grafted on some SE legs (to shorten him by a bit), then added some BBI Gloves, my old Flint's head, and a new camo job on his legs and there you go! Oh, and FYI -the Flint/Duke holster swaps out perfectly with SE's knife sheath. GungHo's holster needs a lot of mods to fit (found out the hard way.
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And before you all start telling me "it's just not Flint without the beret", let me tell you something -- as a real-life Warrant Officer who has to wear that damn beret to work every day, I can tell you first hand that Flint would NEVER want to wear that piece of "LASER BLAST". It is the most impractical piece of headgear in the inventory and it has no use in the field or when you're indoors (the 2 places where Flint spends the most time), so he's hatless for now. The first person that [LASER BLAST] about him not having a beret will get a visit from my buddies down at Bragg
Side-by-side with the original you can see how he's a little shorter now:
Then of course, I had to make a Grunt. Especially after Spin Doctor's awesome version (which I subconsciously copied for my Jason Bourne custom.) Plus, Grunt has always been one of my favorites.
This next guy just happened when I was messing around with head swaps. I figured he looked kinda like Eric Bana in BlackHawk Down (who played one of the only "fictional" characters in the flick - "Hoot" was based on several different Delta Operators, and I loved the character.) So he's gonna be "Hoot" or somebody based on that character.
And the whole gang (and yeah, I know Stalker's got a beret - I'll fix that when I can sculpt a decent head for him....)
And finally, I've been working on this for a few days. It's still a WIP, because I'm not happy at all with the paint job on the uniform or the face (I still can't paint eyes worth a "LASER BLAST".) For some reason, this was always my favorite look for Storm Shadow (although the "action attack" figure pissed me off.) I used the GTG Stormy head because the 25A v2 one was so tiny. He's still got a ways to go, but I wanted to share:
Enjoy!
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EDIT: -- ok, realy quick - lemme show off my 25A version of Hawk. Normally, I like a younger-looking Hawk (since he's still a light-Colonel in my 'verse.) But I got this BBI head a year or so ago and was going to use it for Hawk, but scrapped it. Now it's time to let him out. This head gives Hawk a rugged, mature, but not haggard look, IMO. I went with this uniform scheme because I figure he's moved beyond the basic look (and I'm running out of SEs
), and he wore stuff like this back in the comics before pinning on his star. Recipe is identical to my Flint - I tried to make a better chest-holster so it wouldn't look so much like a painted Duke, but my attempts failed, so this is what I'm settling on. You'll notice I haven't made a 25A Duke custom. It's not because I think that Duke is perfect right outta the box, it's just that so far, I'm only making 25A customs of my favorite characters. Duke's already got a new-sculpt custom that's working just fine.
This Hawk won't wear a leather jacket because he's the kind of guy that thinks only pretentious Patton-wannabes would wear crap like that. He's a soldier, not a peacock.
Next to my original Hawk:
