Head, gear: Recondo
Torso: Viper
Upper Arms: Taurus
Lower Arms: PoC Recondo
Legs: 30th Stalker
Vest: Viper modified with chest plate from JvC Recondo

"TIGER FORCE - a special unit within the GI JOE team - is called up for a secret and highly dangerous mission in the remote jungle!"

I've always liked Tiger Force. I can't really explain why but that subgroup has always appealed to me. Regardless, there are things about it that don't make much sense from a practical view of what is supposed to be a covert jungle assault team. Most of the figures from the original release in the vintage line followed that theme pretty well. International and later releases? Not so much. Same goes with the vehicles. My goal here was to recreate the original team but try to stay closer to the spirit of it's purpose. That means no bright colors. I've also cherry picked figures from later releases as well and added two new members, one of which is a new character. Instead of doing strait repaints of existing figures I wanted to try to go a different direction and tie in some of the other versions of these characters as well.

Instead of just repainting the 25th Recondo, which I didn't think I really needed, I decided that his would be a good opportunity to bring in some influences from other versions of the character. Trying to incorporate his JvC chest plate into the figure somehow turned out to be a challenge and didn't turn out as well as I hoped.