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Description MASK (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand). If you never heard of them they are a highly trained international special mission team that wage war against their polar opposites VENOM (the Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem), an international terrorist group dedicated to wealth and power by force. Both teams use illusion as their ultimate weapons in their goals and each team possess ordinary vehicles that can become high tech war machines.

This is the MASK Coast Patrol which was part of the Adventure Packs series that never made it into the cartoon but was featured in some issues of the great UK Comic series.

Matt Trakker, code name The Hunter is the leader of MASK. Trakker uses the Coast Patrol rapid deployment unit to protect the shores from VENOM and other threats. The lightly armored raft carries two Hyper Photon Torpedoes than can track enemies anywhere they go in the water. The high speed outboard motor can pivot up to reveal a hidden laser cannon and the anchor doubles as a throwing weapon and grappling hook.

Trakker wears Dolphin mask, which emits ultra Sonics on various wave lengths that can disorient an opponent, deafen them or shatter glass of any thickness. Dolphin mask makes an air tight seal around its wearer and can be used as a fully functional diving helmet with its own air supply. The mask also contains special filters that can extract breathable oxygen from water when submerged to replenish its wearer’s air supply.

I was mostly concerned with showing off Matt Trakker in his Coast Patrol uniform and mask than showing the raft itself in action so I decided to make it a night landing on a lonely coastline at night to show off the stealth of the small craft. I didn’t want to go with another full moon picture so I put in a light house as the light source besides the clear starry night.
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Comments: 23

mtrakker85 [2013-05-02 21:59:50 +0000 UTC]

great work!

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MJMJR In reply to mtrakker85 [2013-05-03 00:21:29 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I have more MASK art in my gallery if you're interested. Also please visit my group MASK Fans United. I think you would like to see what some of the other fans on here have submitted.

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Colourbrand [2011-08-08 16:51:35 +0000 UTC]

Dolphin sounds a bit like Backlash here....

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MJMJR In reply to Colourbrand [2011-08-08 22:06:45 +0000 UTC]

It's pretty much just like Backlash but in a different package.

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Colourbrand In reply to MJMJR [2011-08-08 22:28:51 +0000 UTC]

Thought so.

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MJMJR In reply to Colourbrand [2011-08-09 00:23:29 +0000 UTC]

Still I do like the way it looks. I think it is also supposed to act like a SONAR device but I need to reread the issue with it.

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Colourbrand In reply to MJMJR [2011-08-09 07:04:18 +0000 UTC]

Cool!

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buckroger13 [2009-04-29 20:45:15 +0000 UTC]

Awesome man! I love this. I had the figure, but never knew what his mask did. Thank you. I hope you plan to do more of these!!

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MJMJR In reply to buckroger13 [2009-04-29 23:12:09 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much! I've drawn nearly all of the characters from the series, it's just finding the time to color and upload them all that's the problem. I'm also going to do action scenes with their vehicles when I get the time.

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buckroger13 In reply to MJMJR [2009-04-30 00:44:19 +0000 UTC]

cool! Which is your favorite?

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MJMJR In reply to buckroger13 [2009-04-30 11:00:34 +0000 UTC]

It's really hard for me to pick a favorite since as a whole I love all of them. But if I have to I would say Buddie Hawkes and Gloria Baker are my favorites out of the MASK team and Sly Rax and Vanessa Warfield are my favorites from Venom.

My favorite vehicles are Hurrican, Pirana, Shark and Outlaw.

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buckroger13 In reply to MJMJR [2009-05-03 01:06:43 +0000 UTC]

I agree with your picks of MASK agents. (I don't know why Gloria, knowing Kung Fu and all the powers Aurora had, wasn't in on every mission) Venom is Floyd Milloy and Rax. (Again Floyd wasn't used as much as he could have)

Vehicles: Thunderhawk, Outlaw, Volcano, Vampire
(i like them all really of the originals: I never cared for the Race series or the split seconds)

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MJMJR In reply to buckroger13 [2009-05-03 02:25:38 +0000 UTC]

I think the main thing that kept Gloria out of a lot of missions was her specialty and vehicle revolved around water. Though she was shown as being co-pilot to Gator and Thunderhawk on occasion. The only major drawback of the UK Comics was Gloria was never in them, though it didn't stop fans from submitting fan art of her and Shark.

Floyd Malloy was awesome, I always liked Buckshot mask and Rax was great simply because he was the Wile E Coyote of VENOM. How he lived through half the accident he had was amazing.

I thought most of the Racing Series stuff was good since Trakker, Gloria and Brad were all linked to racing in some form or another, but the Racing series cartoons in general were just terrible. It went from being like GI Joe to Wacky Races and all of a sudden wanted terrorists are allowed to race for charity and everyone knew each other's identities.

The Split/Seconds could have been great, but some of the splits were just terrible and made little sense though I did love the idea of the Hard-Light clones.

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buckroger13 In reply to MJMJR [2009-05-12 21:22:52 +0000 UTC]

Good points. The split-seconds usually had one cool vehicle and the second (usually the wheel assembly) was useless. The best was probably Julio's Fiero (I forgot its name)
Gloria should have been Co-pilot all the time when Shark wasn't needed OR she could have piloted Thunderhawk when Matt was in Rhino or Volcano. (Speaking of which, I wanted to see Lavashot in action and I thought Ultra Flash was lame. Why couldn't Spectrum cover that power since it had EVERYTHING else?)

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MJMJR In reply to buckroger13 [2009-05-13 00:33:00 +0000 UTC]

Julio's Fiero was called FireForce. I think the worst Split-Second vehicle was Bruce Sato and Dynamo, which I used to have as a kid. It was a dune buggy that became a helicopter and what they call an "assault cart" It was literally a frame with four wheels and two small guns. If you split the frame apart it became two turbofan jet packs.

Gloria was in a decent amount of episodes but only had a cameo in the racing series. When you think about it, it's retarded since she was MASKs resident race car driver who did it for a living. Of all the characters that should have been featured in that series, it should have been her.

Ultra Flash did more than blind people, it also shot out lasers. Spectrum was more like an investigative tool than anything though it did have that neat energy glider mode and shot out a huge laser beam.

I already have a character profile of Matt in his Lava Shot uniform. I plan on posting it when I get it colored.

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buckroger13 In reply to MJMJR [2009-05-13 02:48:17 +0000 UTC]

Sweet (referring to Lavashot)
Don't worry I've seen all the episodes and have them on DVD. Fireforce- thank you. The other lame one, which I also had was Afterburner; somehow the dragster shooting its nose off and the shuttle having one missile was too lame. I did want to see Volcano use its metal=tearing wheels on a Venom vehicle, but the show didn't feature it. If it did have one improvement was to make Outlaw have a laser cannon instead of a giant grapple hook.

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MJMJR In reply to buckroger13 [2009-05-13 10:21:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, Afterburner was pretty lame. It was like they really stopped trying with the Split Seconds series and it really kind of pissed me off that they included Gloria Baker in that series instead of producing her in Shark. So many fans wanted that vehicle and they just totally blew it by not making it.

I know in the UK comics they showed Volcano shredding vehicles with it's wheels and actually crushing them.

I actually get the grapple hook on Outlaw since the front end of it is essentially a scoop that they reel victims into. It sort of reminds me of something you'd see in Mad Max.

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buckroger13 In reply to MJMJR [2009-05-13 21:45:12 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I never thought of the grapple that way. (of course I didn't get Outlaw until a couple years ago.) Thank you, I can't believe I didn't think of something like that.
Yes I never understood why the toys never made Gloria or Shark, Shark would have been easy to make, plus Gloria could have come as a copilot to another vehicle. Of course I also didn't get why Kenner put Alex and Buddy with Boulder Hill and not as copilots with Rhino and Firecracker. Plus Kenner could have made Blackout and the action figure packs could've included the nameless Venom agents who wore a general mask.

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MJMJR In reply to buckroger13 [2009-05-14 00:23:47 +0000 UTC]

No problem. To this day there are still people who customize Porsche 928 models kits to look like Shark and try and pass it off as a prototype or limited release from the toyline.

Buddie and Alex also came in a figure two-pack so you didn't have to buy Boulder Hill. And later one in the Racing Series of toys Buddie got the Towtruck Wildcat and Alex got the Tollbooth called The Collector.

Blackout was a cool vehicle and it would have been a good excuse to make another VENOM agent to pilot it had they made it or one of the nameless Venom Henchmen. Those guys were awesome!

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buckroger13 In reply to MJMJR [2009-05-14 00:28:53 +0000 UTC]

I still have Wildcat and Collector. (I thought it was unfair for Buddy not to have his own vehicle in the originals as Hondo had two, so I let Hondo have Firecracker and Hurricane and Buddy, in Penetraitor garb, had Wildcat.) I gave away most of my collection of the racing series and the split seconds. The only other racer I had was Manta. (which should have been with the original collection)

(i heard that rumor on Shark)

What deviations would you be willing to do?

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MJMJR In reply to buckroger13 [2009-05-14 00:34:40 +0000 UTC]

Buddie was always considered Hondo's co-pilot on whatever vehicles he drove until he got Wildcat.

I actually bought back most of my MASK collection on eBay. My mother sold or gave away most of my stuff when I was a kid.

I'd be willing to draw most anything. Like I said send me a note with the details of what you want and we'll discuss it. You know how to use the notes system, right?

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buckroger13 In reply to MJMJR [2009-05-14 00:42:59 +0000 UTC]

No i guess I don't. But I would be willing to do it. (Kenzoe is planning to do one for me, but it doesn't hurt to have more. You do cool stuff)

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MJMJR In reply to buckroger13 [2009-05-14 11:00:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I look forward to seeing your request.

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