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

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 20:34
by Double-Tap
wow, wow, wow,

excellent collection, thanks for the pics.

this is how i imagine my "den"
Bill

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

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 21:01
by paul463
Double-tap wrote:wow, wow, wow,

excellent collection, thanks for the pics.

this is how i imagine my "den"
Bill
Agree with you Bill I would love my Den to look like that too! I think we all probably dream of some place with a basement to do that!

Been looking at the Custom Blade and Hunter (again) and they are truely brilliant too!

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

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 21:07
by Shaunyboy
scoobydie wrote: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.
Right....now I've had time to calm down a bit. I think you have hit the nail on the head there Scoobs. I'm really impressed by most people's collection pics, but every now and then I see something like this. It's very close to what I hope to achieve with my own collection someday too. It's certainly a lot of stuff, but it doesn't look over the top in its scale.

I like the filecard display as well. as Scooby said it's really clever. Like most appealing art forms it's a good idea executed well.

Damn good to have you on board fella.

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

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 21:37
by ODB
Very nice.

You are lucky to have the space to properly display it all and I like the way you have all the 'paperwork' displayed too.

One day I wish to have a display like that too.

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

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 21:40
by silverc
Good to hear everybody likes the collection. I always wanted to display it properly, so it was neat and as organized as possible. I know there are a lot of people with many more items in their collection than I have, but have everything in disarray. It just doesn't suit me as well as having some level of organization. I do have some space constraints (the room is smaller than it looks in the pictures), but that helps keep the mass of plastic in check.

I used to have a few hundred 25th anniversary figures (both loose and MOC) and ended up selling almost all of them because did not have the space with all of the vintage (and I like the vintage better). I just recycled the funds into some more rare vintage pieces.

I also am a big Star Wars fan, and I used to have a lot of those figures too. I ended up keeping a much smaller amount, but kept a lot of the customs. The crown jewel of the Star Wars collection is a scale-model diorama of the Mos Eisley Cantina that took me 18 months to build. I will see if I can get some pictures of it up today or this weekend.



EDIT: Here's the link for the Mos Eisley Cantina:

viewtopic.php?f=24&t=6875

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

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 21:45
by gung-hoeddie
Fantastic utterly fantastic, I'm already thinking about digging out a basement!! The cobra desrt troops are superb.

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

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 22:25
by Sundance
my gob is well and truly smacked. that is an awesome collection and a very impressive display.

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

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 22:54
by Chopper
there's not much more I can say that hasn't already been said so in the words of my fellow countrymen....... sweet as, bro. Sweet as....

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

Posted: 30 Jan 2010 17:24
by Thundershot
gung-hoeddie wrote:Fantastic utterly fantastic, I'm already thinking about digging out a basement!!
Poor Annie..now she'll have to look after a canary & a (My little) Pit pony, when the basements finished & t'pit works closes down.

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

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 20:23
by Squad Leader
Jesus is this a museum somewhere :shock:

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