I will be working on some new photo/dio stories soon. I needed a few characters for them including Recondo and Pathfinder.
Originally I had no intentions of customizing the Assault on Cobra Island Recondo, but once I got him in hand there were some issues that just begged to be fixed. First, he’s a jungle trooper with no knife or machete? The original figure had it on the left leg, so I added one. Then, if he’s a jungle trooper why is he wearing full leather combat boots instead of Jungle boots. I fixed that too. Although the paint matching looks off in the pics; he’s near a perfect match in real life. I also had to repaint his hat and do some detailing to his gun so that they didn’t look like translucent plastic. I also gave him a working holster.
Pathfinder is one character I really don’t like. Why? Because so much about the original figure design is stupid. To start are his weapons…
Who wants to hump all that ridiculous junk around to get tangled in the flora of the jungle and/or swamp? The noise of the bush hog weedeater would give away your position to the enemy and if he had to wade through waste deep water what would he do with that ridiculously heavy backpack and hip mounted machine guns? In addition, he has no knife or sidearm. But my rant doesn’t end there, oh no! If he’s slogging through the jungle and swamp why doesn’t he have his pants legs bloused? Can we say leech bait?!? So yeah… STUPID!
My custom is a simple one but cuts down on the ridiculous weapons. He’s still dressed like a tourist, but he is what he is…
