Head: Renegades Duke
Torso & arms: Kickstart
Thighs: Renegades Law
Lower legs: Retaliation Beachhead
Vest: RoC Thunderblast
Pistol, silencer, knife: PoC Cobra Trooper
Rest of gear: 25th Tiger Force Duke

"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.

Originally I wasn't planning on doing Duke since I felt his official release was fine as it was but after I thought about it more and started putting together some of the other figures, I decided that the official figure wasn't going to fit in as well with the rest of the team and I needed a better and more updated version instead. Originally I planned to use the vest that came with Renegades Duke along with the head but couldn't get it to work which led to the Resolute vest instead.