Official Figure Pic One-Shot Thread

[Sgt301]

My youngest daughter loves to paint and when I asked her about blending colors she offered to paint Trooper Joe for me. She nailed the shades of the trousers and shirt perfectly. The patches and badge were done with the printer and super glue. The color of the head sculpt is too dark and I plan on getting another lighter one from marauders. I actually might have it packed away in the spare parts bin

 

[YautjaClanLeader]

That's a badass looking trooper. Nice!

 

[Sgt301]

Thanks, I really didn’t expect her to match the paint so well. After thinking about it I’m going to get her to try matching the neck color to the face instead of buying another head from MTF. I have my eye on a 1/18 2010 Ford Crown crown vic for the next phase.

 

[YautjaClanLeader]

1/18 Custom Female Helicopter Pilot.

Her flight vest is a Chinese kit I got from ebay. The rest is a mix of Marauders, Star Wars, and Joytoy.

 

[Sgt301]

Very cool looking pilot. I would love to see figures like this on a toy aisle en masse.

 

[YautjaClanLeader]

Very cool looking pilot. I would love to see figures like this on a toy aisle en masse.

I'm telling you - if I could start a successful 1/18 figure line with vehicles and make bank, I would do it. But sadly - it's such a unrealistic and unreliable source of income. It's a very niche market for a commodity that's only desired by a very select few. These days most of the vehicles and figures out there are so overinflated in price.

For example. A 1/18 F-18 or F-16 is worth anywhere between $800-$2000.

Back in the early 2000s those would have sold anywhere between $45-65 in retail value.

The only modern 1/18 vehicle that's produced/sold anymore is the Wayward Goat MARV or the Joytoy 1/18 Crazy SUV and ATV.

Anything else are old releases or stuff no longer in mainstream retail circulation. You are forced into the secondary market for any vehicles in 1/18.

Now the JoyToy stuff is way more affordable than it used to be. A single carded figure now typically runs about $20-30. Vehicles can be pricey, but that's the market.

 

[YautjaClanLeader]

Just got this baddie...

 

[Sgt301]

Air Cav! Scouts out!

 

[Sgt301]

It’s a great day for a cruise through the countryside in a vintage automobile…

 

[nacho]

Planet Green Valley fig?

 

[Sgt301]

Planet Green Valley fig?

Boris Ping figure, with a custom painted head from eBay. They ship from China and are a little slow arriving but I’ve ordered 4 or 5 and they always arrive and always look professional. Probably some prisoners who used to be artists before they were labeled as dissidents

 

[Videoviper]

Merry Christmas!

From Crazy Jawa’s Droid Depo!

 

[Sgt301]

Number 47 visiting the 2025 National Troopers get together and taking pictures in the parking garage sometime after his inauguration.

 

[Sgt301]

I tried my hand at meta AI to make a snowy scene. This has some potential for quick dio stories.

 

[nacho]

Nice! I bought a reversable green/blue screen just for inserting backgrounds if I don't have a suitable environment for a dio setup. I got a subscription to Leonardo.ai, and it has a lot of different image engines. I really like the anime one, as it makes backgrounds that look like they could be from sunbow or resolute.

 

[Sgt301]

There, I added a proper background. This meta AI is tricky to work with. I want to whip up a little dio story with my grandsons help next time he visits papa. He does this technology stuff better than me and he’s only 8. But his dad is a IT guy and lets him take apart computers just to put them back together again 🫤

 

[YautjaClanLeader]

Started collecting the Joytoy 40k figures. It's a wrap. My wallet is done...

 

[nacho]

Those are spendy. Where do you buy them? Never bought any, but I see them on the PO list at showz all the time. Might save you some $$$ to order directly from asia. (If youv'e never used showz, they're great. I've bought thousands of dollars of stuff from them).

JoyToy Source Action Figure Transformers Collection - Show.Z Store

 

[YautjaClanLeader]

Those are spendy. Where do you buy them? Never bought any, but I see them on the PO list at showz all the time. Might save you some $$$ to order directly from asia. (If youv'e never used showz, they're great. I've bought thousands of dollars of stuff from them).

JoyToy Source Action Figure Transformers Collection - Show.Z Store

I've been buying most of mine thru ebay and Amazon, as the price has been cheaper that way and free shipping. Prices for figures vary wildly; more popular ones can go for $65-100, while rarest ones are $80-120. Most of them are in the $30-45 range.

I am going to build up a small group of Cadian Guardsman Infantry and then collect space marines. In the universe the space marines are pretty rare while there are billions of human Guardsman holding the lines against the forces of chaos, aliens, and mutants.

Due to the limitations of Cadians only having the command squad pictured above, there aren't a lot of Infantry options. So I'm going to supplement some of their numbers by making custom Marauders, Inc Guardsman.

Then I will collect opposing forces; Chaos Marines, tyranids, Necrons, T'au, etc...

 

[Sgt301]

Started collecting the Joytoy 40k figures. It's a wrap. My wallet is done...

My wallet is in denial

 

[Videoviper]

Happy Asian New Year!
The year of the Snake!

 

[YautjaClanLeader]

My wallet is in denial

I wish my bank account could identify as loaded.

 

[YautjaClanLeader]

Now I'm getting into the 40k custom stuff...

 

[nacho]

Those are nice. My sympathies to your wallet.

 

[Sgt301]

Now I'm getting into the 40k custom stuff...

I just realized that this is a Colts uniform from the future

 

[Videoviper]

Both versions

 

[Videoviper]

Bubo

 

[nacho]

He looks like ancient Roman Hasselhoff!

 

[Videoviper]

Star Wars Peli Motto,
As you can tell I haven’t order the streets of Tatooine yet.

The cyclops is a new custom also.

 

[Sgt301]

Somewhere near the German and French border, the road to victory 🫡

 

[Videoviper]

VV jr helped me with this one


When darkness falls across your town
And the big bad monsters come around
When skeletons rise up from the ground
It's Garmadon (oh yeah)
You feel the fear creep in your bones (ooh)
You feel the earth shake in your toes (ooh he's bad)
You pee your pants and you run back home (ooh)
It's Garmadon
Tell them my name nerds
Garmadon (the underworld king)
He's Garmadon (I eat lightning) (ooh)
Garmadon (listen to my skull kid sing)
Garmadon (oh yeah)
Garmadon (ha ha ha ha)
Oh he's so strong (how strong?)
So strong we wrote this song (fear my name)
He's Garmadon (oh yeah)
Can't you see that no one is greater than me
I kill anybody who disagrees
And having just two arms was lame
So I grew two more and I changed the game
Now I got four ways to punch you in the face
It's Garmadon (I sleep on blades)
He's Garmadon (I use fire to shave) (ooh)
Garmadon (I'm on an evil crusade)
He's Garmadon (oh yeah)
Garmadon (Ninjitsu surprise)
Oh Garmadon (look into my red eyes)
He's Garmadon (you know my name is)
Garmadon!

 

[Videoviper]

Heir to the Empire

 

[nacho]

That's a great set. Haven't opened it yet... not sure I'm going to, but the Zahn books are what brought me back to the franchise in the 90s.

 

[Videoviper]

It’s the figures I wanted since the 90s.

Screw that post-2015 crap

 

[nacho]

Hot Wheels premium Skystriker.

The scale is... tiny? These will probably work well with that Jada 3-pack of tiny, not-quite-micro-machines GIJoe diecast vehicles (HISS, SnowCat, VAMP MkII). Sadly, I suspect this is a one-off since they'd already done the tooling for a Top Gun tomcat a couple of years ago. Not sure we're likely to see anything more from the franchise. But they're pretty nifty anyway, especially as little desk toys go.

 

[ThunderDan19]

I have been on the lookout for these at WM with zero success so far. I also have one in my cart on AMZ as a round up item to help get me to the magic $35 free shipping number, so I'll eventually have it.

Like you mentioned, it should fit in nicely on my shelf at work with the other Joe mini vehicles I recently picked up super cheap from Ollie's as well as the mini Millennium Falcon and Starship Enterprise my kids had gotten me through the years, oh and the Sgt. Slaughter mini me on card.

 

[nacho]

I got mine for $4/ea at JCarDiecast, but they're sold out now (that's probably why). Of course, they didn't have free shipping, but even paying for postage, they only averaged about $6/ea.

The last Premiums I bought at WM a few weeks ago were nearly $9. I almost fainted when I got home and looked at the receipt. It's kinda nuts how all over the place non-mainline HWs can be.