Thats my Word! Video Games & Gaming

Video games like movies & music can invoke nostalgic feelings of where you were or what you were doing at a specific time in your life. For instance: I remember going to Darryl & Martin's house on 27th street to play Intellivision football,or the battles we used to have at Blimpies across the street from Paterson NJ city hall in the 80's. How about Donkey Kong on Colecovision,007/Rogue Squadron/Mario cart on N64 or chilling in Whistler B.C. with my peeps playing the Tony Hawk Pro Skater DEMO back in the day,to name a few great memories! Nowadays on any video game site you have hundreds of thousands of people claiming to be the most knowledgeable,have the best opinions,or just claiming to be experts. But where is their credibility? Credentials? Before i start to blog about a subject,best believe i would show proof of my background knowledge on that subject. So here is one of my favorite video game franchises from my personal collection.                                                                                                       

Socom US Navy SEALS has a special place in my collection. Not only was it one of the first PS2 games to go online,it was part of the NAVY which i served in for 9 years. Although i was not actually a Navy SEAL,i did do Carrier ops (workups) with west coast SEALS off Coronado California. So i was ecstatic about a Navy game being developed and was on it from day one! I even bought the Final Fantasy bundle JUST for the PS2 Network adapter! Fast forward to 2011 and a new SOCOM game release. This new SOCOM (4) is more of a reboot/overhaul of the series. It plays like MAG 3rd person (remember that third person mode in Call of Duty Modern Warfare?). It also has elements of GRAW (Ghost Recon Advance War fighter) & Uncharted 2 Drakes Fortune. I beta tested the new SOCOM 4. Here is video footage of my game play:

That's My Word! "Hobbies"

Kitbash definiton: Kitbashing or model bashing is a practice whereby a new scale model is created by taking pieces out of commercial kits. These pieces may be added to a custom project or to another kit. For professional modelmakers, kitbashing is popular to create concept models for detailing movie special effects. For the hobbyist, kitbashing saves time that would be spent scratch building an entire model. Hobbyists may kitbash to create a model of a subject (real or imaginary) for which there is not a commercial kit.

I do 1/6 scale or 12 inch modeling/figures. I spent 9 years in the US Navy on an Aircraft Carrier(Mechanic VA 52),Conducted Carrier ops with west coast SEALS (aboard CVN 70) & toured the Western Pacific (Westpac) twice! This gives myself & others a little edge in the military arena when it comes to "Attention to Detail". These figures were put together from scratch,right down to the nude body & headsculpts(Loading toys). Lieutenant Simon"Ghost" Riley is an English character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He is the second in command of Task Force 141, and is seen wearing dark sunglasses and a skull patterned balaclava. Also from Modern Warfare 2 we have:John"Soap" MacTavish the Scottish main character and primary protagonist in the Modern Warfare games. Soap is outfitted from the FAVELA mission.                     

Metal Gear is one of my all time favorite games,so i had to put together a couple of figures. For Snake Eater Vietnam/Cold war Snake: Custom head from ebay,clothes,Stinger launcher from 21st century, Body & wetsuit from BBI. Weapons,Harness (stabo rigg) & boots-Dragon models ltd. Metal Gear Solid Snake began as a used Konami figure purchased from a friend (Cloud General). I removed the Head & gear then replaced the body with a BBI and added another pair of gray BDU pants over his origional. Solid Snake's harness is from Hot Toys Chris Redfeild figure & Socom pistol were both purchased from Urban Samurai Hobbies(USH). I also collect commercial figure releases as well as Robots like Transformers(tfw2005) & Hiphop related/Vintage toys. Big thanks to USH & the incredible,inspirational OSW(onesixthwarriors.com). Stay tuned for more to come! Thanks for checkin,PEACE!                             

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