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Tuesday 24 October 2017

How Pin Up Model Tamika Rawson Made Carboard Boxes Sexy


I'd probably be right in saying that most people have never heard of Tamika Rawson, she's the extremely pretty lady in the photo below.She's actually an Australian pin up model and full on Metal Gear Solid fan as well apparently. 



Tamika visits the studio to see how the development of her image was used in-game.

Tamika Rawson also happens to be the curvy model used for various gravure posters in the latest Metal Gear series, in particular Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (or more specifically, its HD and 3D ports), and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. 
Everyone knows the Metal Gear Series is famed for is wacky in-game assets for Snake to utilize on his daring missions behind enemy lines, but its the good old cardboard box that wins through. Ever caused a huge full on manhunt and enemy base alert in Metal Gear Solid?, fear not, just hide in the trusty cardboard box which you could equip to avoid detection almost anywhere.
The box is such an iconic asset in the entire series they even created a collectors...Metal Gear Solid V Phantom Pain...box to celebrate it.

 The iconic Metal Gear Solid cardboard box has been a mainstay of the series.


Snake (Desert), Snake (Rocky/Sandy), Kazu (Woodland), Kazu (Urban)

In MGSV The Phantom Pain the trusty cardboard box came in a selection of camo's that Snake could use in the field, in the main Motherbase, the area in MGSV where all of Snakes research and intel was being developed you could 'research' the box and adorn it with different covers. Two of the most popular being the saluting soldier and the other was a bikini clad Tamika Rawson which could be used to distract enemy guards long enough before drawing your tranquilizer dart gun and shooting said enemy soldier in the face with it.

Pin up girl Tamika distracts the enemy troops on the side of a box.

To date the MGSV Phantom Pain has sold in excess of 6 million copies which means that bikini clad Tamika Rawson has been responsible for the distraction and shaming of countless millions of 'highly trained' enemy soldiers.


As modern day video game espionage goes, the cardboard box in the Metal Gear series has been an instrumental asset in counter terrorism and interdiction missions and its services to maintaining world peace should not go unnoticed.

 Tamika Rawson Twitter

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