Top Secret - Operation Dropkick - Did/Does your Action Man have a name?

More great additions Jay!, Mcatomic is very cool! as is your Brig.Gen. Morrison

Great 'take' on an old favourite! Does Mcatomic have a first name yet cos he looks like a Hamish to me!

somekindajoe wrote:

Great 'take' on an old favourite! Does Mcatomic have a first name yet cos he looks like a Hamish to me!

Hamish McAtomic , does have a certain ring to it ! cheers Steve ,that's his name from now on !

Inspired by GIBri's ID cards, I thought I'd have a go too

Thanks Dal!!!

Fantastic ID card!!! You'll need them for the whole CH5 now.  

I made my ID cards quite a while back. I couldn't find the link to the original site, but it looks like there are a lot of similar sites now. Some of them a lot better than the one I used.

gibri wrote:

Thanks Dal!!!

Fantastic ID card!!! You'll need them for the whole CH5 now.  

I made my ID cards quite a while back. I couldn't find the link to the original site, but it looks like there are a lot of similar sites now. Some of them a lot better than the one I used.

Thanks Brian! I used comic life to make mine

Not only do your guys have names Dal, they have documentation to prove it!!

somekindajoe wrote:

Not only do your guys have names Dal, they have documentation to prove it!!

Very cool Dal!!

Thanks Rich!

So anymore names guys for your vam?

All my guys are sort of just named Joe...
I'm bad with names...

Thinking outside the box a bit about some of our VAM characters I was wondering what sort of back stories we could dream up about where they have been for the last 30 years? While their plastic toy bodies languished up the loft, what do you imagine the characters we imbue that plastic toy with were up too?

I see Cliff as always having been active with shadowy, clandestine government departments involved with skull duggery against the nations enemies.
Joe was probably an instructor at a special forces training camp or maybe running a private security firm hiring mercenaries out to the sort of dodgy government agencies that Cliff was working for.
Hank owned a Koni-Tiki bar on some paradise island like Bali, but it just a cover while he ran a smuggling ring and got up to other assorted mischief.
Bruce had gone 'Walkabout' and ran a small (20 gazillion acre) sheep farm near Woolabrawong in Australia.

What were your guys doing?

somekindajoe wrote:

Thinking outside the box a bit about some of our VAM characters I was wondering what sort of back stories we could dream up about where they have been for the last 30 years? While their plastic toy bodies languished up the loft, what do you imagine the characters we imbue that plastic toy with were up too?

I see Cliff as always having been active with shadowy, clandestine government departments involved with skull duggery against the nations enemies.
Joe was probably an instructor at a special forces training camp or maybe running a private security firm hiring mercenaries out to the sort of dodgy government agencies that Cliff was working for.
Hank owned a Koni-Tiki bar on some paradise island like Bali, but it just a cover while he ran a smuggling ring and got up to other assorted mischief.
Bruce had gone 'Walkabout' and ran a small (20 gazillion acre) sheep farm near Woolabrawong in Australia.

What were your guys doing?

most of my guys were waiting to be ponced from you guys lmao

What a great idea for a thread! I would say that the CH5 disappeared into seclusion, possibly thinking they were the only vam left. Due to injuries sustained in the line of active duty, Jake, Pepe and Goldie were put into cardboardgenics with their broken limbs after a fierce campaign against terrorists trying to take over BAM HQ!. So it was left to Tom and S.J to hold the fort. They took the reigns and organized various sorties for the other nine survivors.
S.J organized black ops missions for the sas trained fella's, while continually searching for someone to help re build his commander and fellow soldiers. BAM HQ became a mobile unit not really attached to any Army, Navy or Air Force division and so became mercenaries. They even tried to maintain the small fleet of vehicles. They survived for many years until they were rediscovered and put back into active duty .

At present, two Action Men are stationed at ActionYankee Headquarters, a third is still training in the U.K. and will be deployed in December.





They're both 40th, and the chap yet to come is also 40th.

Great stuff action! a third addition will be a great asset

Nice photos and good characters, especially your character intel card Dal!

Some of my recent photo story characters included a pilot called: Cockney 'Alfie' Joe, a MAM cameraman called: David 'Snapper' Bailer, and the star of the story called: Giles 'Action Man' Jackson. I need to digitally remaster my photo story (Parachute Day 2) to a smaller photo size of 1024x768, this should prevent photobucket from automatically resizing the photos and causing horrible blurring, i will then repost the photo story. I might try loading it via flickr in it's original size, but they are complicated to use.

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clivvers @ Equal Rights for MAM 2016.

My Troopers so far...



Rufus Stone... enigmatic Victorian time travelling gun for hire. The head honcho...big cheese...numero uno. The leader of these rag tag guns for hire.

Gus aka Grumpy.... explosive/demolition expert. Ex SAS...he does smile occasionally..honest.

Tom Maverick... water/seabourne infiltration expert. Has a bit of a knife fetish. Ex Navy SEAL.

Dave.. the last remaining survivor of an ill fated mission. Ex Para.... vehicle expert. There isn't anything that flies, sails or drives that he can't operate and repair.

Steve..Ex SBS. Jungle warfare expert and first class tracker.

Paul.. also ex SAS... expert sniper and one of the best hand to hand fighters in the business. The armourer for this motley crew.

'Big' Carl....ex Green Beret. Heavy weapons guru. Steve's best friend.

Sean Stevens: You know him, soldier extraordinaire. Member of Her Majesty's Elite Task Force, AKA: The Blue Berets. Presently on a mission to uncover a Undevian Nationalist Camp on Dragon Mountain, an "entry" examination to see if he's got what it takes to join the "Black Beret Brigade." If you thought the Blue Berets were elite, you have yet to see a Black Beret do his job.

Sgt. Clint McTavish: Born in England, raised in the U.S., Sgt. McTavish joined the U.S. Army shortly before the Civil War in Bang Sathanthi, and is stationed there much of the time. He is a heavy weapons specialist, and is an expert at the 81mm Mortar.

Sgt. Christopher Church: INFORMATION CLASSIFIED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Here's one of the heads that Lui sent me, head only. He's now on a Cotswold Body.

Great figures guys and names!

Good update AY, i like the detailed intel on the character

This thread is so great, maybe it should have it's own subforum/topic! (To keep everybody's organized)

clivvers wrote:

Good update AY, i like the detailed intel on the character

I've got dossiers for all of my Action Men, and I'll see about uploading them all tonight after work.