My Vintage GI Joe Man-Cave (all vintage, all the time!)

[silverc]

Hi Gents,

I wanted to show off my vintage GI Joe collection. I had a reasonable collection as a child in the mid 1980's, but sold, traded, and outright smashed it when I was about 10 (talk about dumb!).

I started up again about 10 years ago and have been steadily building it here and there, where I can find nice pieces for a good price. The last 3 years have seen the most expansion and I have also branched out into collecting catalogs, poster, newsletters, and other paperwork. My new thing is finding any foreign paperwork (I especially like the Action Force line).

The room takes up about half of the basement in the house. This collection was boxed up for years until last May when we moved, so it was great to get it out and on display. I made all of the display tables, shelves, and figure display.

A lot of the figures you see with the vehicles are customs that I did myself using beater figures that were in rough shape.

Thought you guys would enjoy some photos, so I took a lot of them...









Some Fan club posters



The Terrordrome!












1986-87 Cobra Vehicles





I love the AF artwork in the comic series.



I used to have a lot of 25th anniversary customs but sold most of them recently. I decided to keep my favorites, including a lot of the international ones.




The Flagg


Some Night Force Customs (Ripcord, Flash, Hit & Run)


Night Force Slipstream


More NF Customs. The Blades is a custom. Actually, the only authentic international figure I have (aside from some Funskool stuff) is the Argentinian Sgt Slaughter next to Blades.



Below the Flagg is a shelf that I have my 1985-88 era vehicles on:












Vintage Boxes (I started picking up a few more of these recently)




1983-86 Uncut Cardbacks & assorted paperwork











1986-88 Uncut Cardbacks (and more paperwork)






I am still missing a few triple win game pieces....




Figure display cabinet. This has hinged sides and slots in the shelves to slide in plexiglass, but I have not gotten around to doing that yet.

All of the figures are 100% complete, with cut filecards too.



















The Defiant! This is 100% complete, but I do have a few broken parts that I am looking to replace.




Shelf with 1982-84 vehicles



Remaining 1988 uncut cardbacks and more paperwork





My meager collection of uncut international cardbacks


Japanese filecards


AF Paperwork


Some Belgian stuff and Steel Brigade and Mobile Strike Force fan club papers:



Mobile strike Force Fan Club Newsletters (the empty spot is for the one 1983 newsletter I am missing):




1982 Vehicles


1983 vehicles


Some SNAKES (the Escape Armor and grey SNAKEs are customs)


Desert Joe Team customs


HQ




Eels


Cobra Desert Team


1984 Vehicles







The Ar Puro is a custom too


Cobra Urban Ops Attack Chopper


I am working on a custom SAS Dragonfly and a Red Shadows Dragonfly helicopter. They should be done soon but are waiting on stickers from Cobrastickers.

I also have a bunch of new custom figures in progress.

[paulitoy]

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Seriously impressive!

I love how neat and tidy everything is aswell, we clearly have something in common...

A mightilly impressive set up.

[Shaunyboy]

f*ck......MY.......ARSE.

[Dr Von Poopenheimer]

f*ck......MY.......ARSE.

When you're done with him you can have me if I can live in that room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Monkfish]

Agog in awe! (At not at the size of Shaunyboy and Poopenheimers' rings either.)

Hard to tell where the original stuff ends and the customs begin, they are that good. I really like the desert troops.

[paul463]

Totally amazing mate! I want a house with a basement too! Especially like the Flagg it looks cracking

[Thundershot]

Talk about shock & awe!

Truly awesome collection

[Red Laser]

You don't have much do you? That is one hell of a great collection silverc by time I got down to the actual bottom to post this I forgot your name.

[stkhlmdk]

That is one very very very impressive collection you have there, very envious at some of the things you have on those shelfs I am usually not much for customs but I do like some of the stuff you have on display.

[scoobydie]

Simply amazing, excatly what I would like to achieve in the long run display wise.
Nice to see it all out in the open, couple of velvet ropes and you`d be sorted
The filecard display method behind the figures is clever, better than keeping them in a box.