The Devils Backbone

[Rick]

The Devils Backbone has been an important strategic stronghold for Al Qeda and other covert enemy forces seperating the forces of good and evil in the mountains of Afghanistan.

If the forces for freedom could take the ridge they could then have the high ground making an assault on these enemy forces much easier.

Task Force 118 (aka G.I. JOE) has been given this mission. Operation Backbreaker will be a joint effort using SEALS and the newly formed Team Whiskey Mountain/Desert Ambush Squad.

Death comes at Dawn

I have 3 in clear view and one still in the cave over.

Low Light: Eagle one what's your eta over?
Eagleone: 3 mintues over.

Low Light: Eagleone we now have all 4 in the open.

 

[Rick]

Low Light: Eagle One this is Low Light. I'm Engaging now

Pachung! Number One down,

Number Two is down

Number three is down,

And number four is down, I have you covered Eagleone

 

[Rick]

Let's go boys!!

GOOD LUCK GENTLEMEN!!!

 

[unclassified]

that is incredible..

 

[Rick]

Jessie: Dead.

Duke: Dead over here

Jessie: Let's check the others in fromt of the cave.
Buzz Saw: Be careful, I got you guys covered.

Duke: Clear on this side.

Jessie: Both dead here.

Jessie: Looks like normal shit, no boobie traps

Duke: Low Light this is Duke you copy?
LL: Copy over.
Duke: We're secure here. come when your ready over.

Low Light: That was easy. Too easy

 

[Rick]

Duke: Ok Buzz keep an eye out, our back up should be here soon. Jessie let's dragg these fuckers over there and see what intel we can get.

Jessie: Guys you here that?

Whoa, who's that!!

Let's go guys we got some bad guys to kill!!

To be continued,.......

Comments welcome

 

[Cloud Strife]

Dude, that is just all kinds of awesome! The pics are great, the dio is great, the customs are great, the story is great... Absolutely stellar job, man!

 

[Meddatron]

Everything Cloud said. once again super easy to follow without needing words. Dio is fantastic!!

 

[Dropshipbob]

Whoa, I don't know what to say Rick, beautiful work.

 

[Mandingo Rex]

Agreed. That kicks ass.

 

[darthdre758]

I have dreams of making something like this...but know I never will.

I live vicariously through this thread.

 

[CoBrAtHeEnEmY!]

thats one of the best ive seen

 

[thecorporation]

epic. Awesome sets, awesome shots, nice use of angles and focus, and that real shot fits in seemlessly! Seriously epic.

 

[Fled74]

Rick proves once again why he is the master.
Awesome, awesome work dude!

 

[Monkeywrench]

Amazing!! Your skills are impeccable, great story even with little dialog, you feel like your watching a movie. The customs are top notch, LL is just all kinds of awesome especially the accessories and amount of detail that you put in. Just a great dio all the way around

 

[Slaymaker]

I cannot say anything that hasn't been said already...this one is amazing. I too dream about being able to do something like this... WOW!

 

[Charade]

I almost didn't notice the subtitles between the pictures....they certainly weren't missed. Great storytelling, Rick.

That second picture is phen-fracking-omenal.

 

[xhairs]

that is killer cant wait for part 2

 

[SIC DETH]

Rick that a awesome story you tell!!!

 

[Rick]

Thanks Everyone!! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for all the kind words.

Hope you enjoy part Two and I added some pull back shots to see the sets.

You guys will laugh

 

[Rick]

Duke: We'll their our guys, but not the rest of our team.

Jessie: Yeah looks like SAD
Duke: Ok let's stay alive and keep an eye out and give these guys some cover.

Crash: OK SHIP, THAT'S EVERYONE, LET'S ROLL!!

Ship: THANKS FOR THE LIFT!! (giving the thumbs up)

 

[Rick]

Hector Delgado a native southern Californian loved the ocean growing up as a kid, but his family moved to Denver at the age of 6. He grew up as an avid outdoorsman and star High School athelete. Although he loved the mountains and all it offered he really felt a longing to get back to the ocean so when he graduated high school he left for SoCal and joined the Navy.

During his Navy days he was nicknamed Ship because of his vast knowledge of anything related to Navy vessels. Once the war started he began to feel isolated from action as most of it was being played out in the deserts and mountains of the middle east. Ship felt by joining the SEALs he would have a better chance of seeing real action and he knew his experiences in the Rockies would come into play and help him succeed in that environment. He passed BUDS his first try and was soon shipped off to Afghanistan. As a SEAL he earned a new nickname often being referred to as reckless as he would often get into bar fights while stateside as well as put himself and his teamates in danger as he would often take cray chances at exposing himself to kill the enemy. He would swear to his CO that he never started any fights just finished them. For this he was soon nicknamed Shipwreck.

When things started to get ugly as the world’s Nations were beginning to turn on the United States for not wanting to join the One World Alliance the top brass knew they were going to soon be stretched very thin while also needing to carry out more joint effort covert missions that were going to be highly secretive, sensitive and just plain dangerous so they decided to form a new task force called Task Force 118 code name GI JOE. They decided to start with SEALS for their initial team code named Whiskey.

Shipwreck was chosen as the most well rounded and experienced with great leadership skills to lead this team. A real GI JOE. To all his old time friends he’s known as Shipwreck, but to the newbies, he’s GI JOE.

He chose Mallory, Catfish and Oklahoma Chris as his 3 new original Whiskey team members.

Ship was worried though that his recklessness may put his team members in possible danger and although he was a natural born leader he knew he fell short on technical and operational knowledge and experience and felt he needed to find a better groomed leader. He knew he had to get Duke on his team and as the plans were made for operation Backbreaker, Task Force 118 command worked SEAL Team 6 into the plan so that Ship could make a job offer Duke wouldn’t refuse.

 

[Rick]

Catfish: Whew, i'm getting old, that was a helluva hike.
Majors: Fish you just need to shave and cut down on your wieght. lol

Duke: Ship?1 What the hell are you doing here. I heard you were driving around in that recruiters Taurus trying to pick up high school chicks?!

Ship: Real funny Duke. You only wish you knew where I've been.

Mallory: Come on maggots lets get set up!! Don't tell me the altitude is kicking your ass already.

Duke: What happened to the rest of my team?
Ship: Don't worry thir just fine. Playing video games back at the base.

Batman: Hey Majors, check this out.
Majors: Awe shit, gimmie that
Batman: What for you won't be able to read it?

Majors: F---- You!

Mallory: Ok guys I see LL. Let's keep an eye out for bad guys. Never know, they could have these Cobra Spec Op's floating around up here working security.

Duke, before we spread out I need to talk to you.

Ship: You've heard about Cobra right?
Duke: Yeah, we catch one o them?
Ship: No, but we know they are popping up everywhere and the shit is about to expand big time.

Duke: Yeah I figured. So what's that got to do with us and this hill?

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

holy motherf*@#er!...this is by far the best set you've ever done IMO...these are beautiful...it was VERY hard for me to pick a fave pic, as i love all the ones with dudes bailing from the chopper...i really dig this one though...very cool angle...

 

[Rick]

Low Light: Heyyy, Obi Won, why don't you give me a hand.
Mallory: Sure thing old man

Ship: Duke.... We're going to be tested like no other time in history. This war that's brewing will make WWII look like a police action.

LL: Ahh, Obi, did you see me use the force on those shots?! Ha Ha Ha (everyone laughs)
Mallory: Sure did, always said you were a good student.

Batman: 70's porn, ooff look at the hair pie on these chicks, Damn!!

As LL describes the 4 kill shots he's just made Mallory is keeping an eye on Ship and Duke's conversation. He's the only one of the other members that knows what's being talked about.

Ship: Duke we've been given a hell of an opportunity here to make a difference. There's big plans for this team but I don't think I can take it to the degree they want.

I want, no I need you to be our leader.

Low Light: Yeah the last one was f-ing funny. All that Haji soup went flying in the air. Hey, what the F.... are they talking about over there.

Duke; F.... yeah! I'm in brother
Ship: I knew you couldn't refuse. Let's keep this little talk just between us
Duke: You got it.

 

[Rick]

Batman: What do think? We gonna find some Cobras down in that valley?

Majors: I reckon so

I like killing snakes

Ship: Don't worry boys. They'll be plenty of slithery snakes to kill down in the valley.
Let's go gettem!!

 

[Rick]

My elaborate sets LOL!!

 

[loadedtomcat]

Looks like someone's rocking a pink webcam

 

[Rick]

yeah, my wife and kid. I hate that thing. I keep thinking Skynet, errrr Google is watching me

 

[MAJOR BLOOD]

Again, you need to be doing diorama comics Rick. The progression of your stories should be shared with as big an audience as possible. These are no exception. Only thing I would have liked to see was some gore. That would be the icing on the cake.

Seriously though, we need to get you doing a damn comic. I think you could make a bi-monthly edition.

 

[Rick]

Yeah I've been thinking about it, but don't really know how to go about it.

Plus I want to iron out some of the kinks in my story and characters before that also. I have so many ideas zinging around in my dome.

I have a team idea called the Crusaders I want to create that aren't part of JOEs but rather act on their own like Mercs or PMCs. They would have the blessing of the US Military but only be known by a few of the brass.

I'm not a overly religious man but these guys will be, bu will be very hardcore. I want to see what these new Unimax figs coming out later in the year look like before I start making them.

 

[Meddatron]

My elaborate sets LOL!!

All those great shots came out of that. WOW. holy hell, it's like magic. Well done my man, well done. thanks for sharing the behind the scenes pics.

 

[Rick]

Funny right. It's all about the angles, distance from set, the focus and light. I wish you could see the dangling light bulb.

Seriously anyone out there who wants to do dios just get a Costco folding table, the plastic ones that the legs fold and then the table folds in two (less than $50.00 I think). A sheet of 18 x 24 sheet of foam core at Michaels labeled skyblue.

That's your canvas, go create.

 

[Fled74]

Seriously anyone out there who wants to do dios just get a Costco folding table, the plastic ones that the legs fold and then the table folds in two (less than $50.00 I think). A sheet of 18 x 24 sheet of foam core at Michaels labeled skyblue.

That's your canvas, go create.

There you go, people. Get moving!

 

[Monkeywrench]

The last bunch of photos are badass agin!!

 

[footloose]

awesome dio.. ill have to do one of these one day..

 

[unclassified]

nice..