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Re: B.I. Joe: A Real Imagination Hero!
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Tue, 27 May 2003 22:56:39 GMT
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Hey, wasn't G.I. Joe that guy one steroids who appeared on increasingly
desperate comemrcials when I was 5? :)
This is great, Jamie & Gil. The cards are great, the artwork is great, and
the models are great. Who did the artwork?
Good job. Can't wait for the bases.
-JHK
I love the job you did on the models. The use of SNOT is great. I
especially like the great streamlined look of the first
In lugnet.space, Gil Shaw writes:
> Greetings!
>
> Several months ago, Jamie Neufeld and I were chatting about the toys of our
> youth and how they were some of our earliest inspirations for our Lego
> builds of today.
>
> In these conversations, we talked often about G.I. Joe and how the detailed
> vehicles of that line were so captivating. We searched out a few sites and
> found that some G.I. Joe in Brick sites were around...all of them
> interesting, some of them truly exceptional.
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> However, as .spacers with an eye for vehicles, we thought we could bring our
> own building styles to recreate some of these gems of our youths. As a
> result, the product of our collaborative efforts...B.I. (Bricks Infantry)
> Joe: A Real Imagination Hero!!
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> http://home.cogeco.ca/~bijoe/bijoe_home.htm
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> A big thanks go out to Jeff Byrd for his incredible small arms foundry, the
> Little Armoury hosted at FBTB.net, and to Greg Hyland (www.lethargiclad.com)
> for inspiration and reference concerning the artwork. Check out the
> Mission page for more background.
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> As Jamie and are a primarily .spaceheads, I've posted here. Apologies if
> the initial offerings aren't exactly space oriented, but as the Hasbro line
> went increasingly sci-fi, so will our line.
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> Please let us know what you think!
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> Cheers,
> -Gil & Jamie
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| Thanks John! Yep...that was prolly Sgt. Slaughter during the waning years of GI Joe popularity. They didn't go quietly... The artwork is done my myself with the help of a scanner and some patience with Photoshop. A very slow learning curve, I assure (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.space)
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