Has anyone here thought about building an army of figures that aren't technically "Army Builders"? Like Colored Shockwave has his Army of Shockwaves.....does anyone else do that? I have always wanted to army build airborne troops like Ripcord and CrazyLegs, or even Army Build Hit-N-Run, but I've always been too busy army building Vipers and the like!

Actually, I'm doing a little bit of that with the 2003 Torpedo; he makes a great generic spec ops type. Thought of doing the same thing with Footloose, minus the goofy hat.

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I think Eric and I had this discussion when I posted a Spy troops SnakeEyes body with a VvV Duke head. This is a variation as instead of armybuilding, it would be uniform building with each guy with his own distinct personality/headsculpt.

And there are a few heads/bodies that work for this type of troop/small squad building. Put a v1 DialTone head on a v1 Falcon body and you have a Special forces officer reminiscent of modern day looking Bernie Montgomery (IMO).

I have 4 or 5 Footloose v1 guys and they look good all in a line or moving in a team fashion toward a helo. If you see them all from the front, it looks like "the Clone wars have begun."

I'm going to save up a bunch of money for the awesome cobra troops that are part of the 25th anniversary, so I will now build on to my army.

I am ordering a comic pack firefly off ebay, so no one worry about my griping for army builders!!!

You did read where those (the 25th anniversary figures)are going to be 4.25" tall right?

ive herd that before. is that for sure, because half a inch is a big difference for a joe. if they are ill probably just get destro, gung ho and roadblock. they need to be bigger

I have an army of VvV Gung Ho's. Of course it's only because he came with the Vipers.

Low Light v1 body. It's a perfect example, to me, about spec ops uniform. I would swamp some heads. But for infantry, jungle spec ops my call would be Falcon v1.

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Like some other fans, 2002 Mirage and Big Bens...not planned, but I actually got to the point where I enjoyed armies of them. Big Ben's work as generic guys, them all ammo belts is a bit strange. But the original real Big Ben had brown hair, these guys black...made it easier. Mirage was a bit harder, my guess the Joe rookies idolize Duke or Hawk enough to look like him. I also have a few Road Rebel Big Bens, which is an underpainted, but nice kitbash armor crewman.

A few other extras...none really make decent armies.

I used to find Shockwave V2 on clearance back in the 1990's, had a few of him. Never really thought to swap heads.