Just don't put your hands on my Despoiler.

Actually Viper416, there are a few Joe collectors down there. The JBL used to be full of 'em. Maybe not as many as Ohio, but surely, there was a rather large southern group. I'm glad you enjoyed the 1st theme week. If you have any suggestions for a theme for the next week, please let me know! I'm open to anything. The 2nd theme week project has been announced. I'm cool with doing the announcements but I figure that everyone else chooses what they want to do.

wait a minute, so Destro's son is black?? I just saw that avatar, and I haven't figured out yet if Destro himself is black or white, Isn't he Scottish nobility??

oh, im still kinda new here too, but welcome to the forum

Destro is white guy from Scotland who if I'm not mistaken was invloved with a black women and they had a son named Alexader. I don't know if Destro and Alexander's mother were ever married and I'm not real sure whatever happened to her. I don't think Alexander likes the Barroness being with his dad. Hope that clears some things up and by the way welcome aboard!!!

Hi, I sneak around pretty much all the boards. I post a lot over at the Joecustoms board. I really like General Hawks and Violentfixs' dio stories. I have my own website as I'm more of a diorama creator and customizer.

Hi Holesnipe. Jump on in!

Hi man. I hope see your pictures being post here too.

Well I've been around for a few months. I don't really post alot (although I should seeing all these great photos)
I live in Central New York currently I'm trying to finish up a dio story of my own, but I'm sure it will be nothing compared to the master Violentfix. Time seems to be my big problem. Hopefully I'll be able to finish it off. I missed the last theme week due to late hours at work, but I do plan on getting a couple pictures in for this weeks theme.
Anyway welcome to all the new members.

I thought I posted here before, but I could be gravely mistaken. Most GI Joe communities are too wishy-washy for me, but this is one place I had my eye on since its advent. I always thought to myself that this would be a hallmark site for the GI Joe fanbase and, in particular, the dio-story community. I wanted to kickstart things myself, but I'm severely lacking in resources required for such a task.

I'm 23. From Wisconsin. Moving soon, perhaps. I've been a big fan of Violentfix, that Tim fella that has a few dio's, Luke Ellison's photos are the pinnacle (looking forward to your dio-future), General Hawk, Sonneilon (I'm big into RTK/DW myself, Sun Ce especially), Hammerfel, many others. I feel extremely remiss for any omissions.

I hope you all will read my dio-stories someday. I have no terrain, real or artificial, in which to shoot any dio-stories. I have two inadequate digital cameras. I have no photoshopping programs. But, one day, I swear. I swear!

I have about a thousand questions and comments I'd like to ask the lot of you, but I'll take one step at a time. Thanks for having me as a part of your community. Bless you all who are able to share your appreciation for such a fine niche art with the rest of us. Such a grand part of this life!

Welcome CSD. Jump on in and ask all the questions you want!!! And please do since it always seems like my posts are hogging the area. And hey, check out our Theme Weeks and Targeting Range (Group project). It's a way a quick way to get involved and have fun.

How'd I miss this forum? Anyway, I post at yojoe.com under a different name (Bravo) (most other forums bore me, too much spamming and cliques). Actually, I was gonna use that name, but it said it was taken here, and I never remember registering here. So I thought of an old user name I used at a Masters of the Universe forum years ago. Lava Boss sound silly. But oh, well.

It's nice there's a site for plain ol' diorama pictures. Long ago (by internet standards) there was the Bivouac, but it changed hands became all about customs. And I used up all my yojoe.com photos space very quickly, too.

Y'know, I've asked around why more people don't take pics of their Joes or do dios. The general consensus was that it's not canon or official GI Joe. Just as fanfics dont' cater to e'eryone for the same reason. Which I think is a bummer. I would've thought that doing dios would be the ultimate medium for GI Joe collecting, y'know? Moreso than writing stories because it's visual. It's just a different medium in the end, but when I've posted my dios elsewhere, it's been a hard sell to get people to even look twice. Kinda weird. I would rather much chill at a place where people have a common interest. Sure, the JBL and JS are nice and all, but man, I dunno sometimes.

But everyone has their own interests in GI Joe and picture-taking for some just ain't their thang. But it is fun!

Funny. I'm much more interested in fan made dioramas and dio-stories than the current official comic book or the Sigma Six cartoon. I have almost no interest in written fan fic, I'm too much of the television generation, I guess. Gotta have pictures. :o Sometimes when I'm bored I'll do an image search on yahoo or google and I've found some obscure diorama/collection pictures. Like this guy's Goblin Cave's collection

You should see his other toys. Dude has just about everything under the sun.

Another interesting one was this

My World (Star Rome)

Reminds me of what my brother and I used to do, integrate all these action figures into one strange world.

My problem with fanfic is that people get really technical. If you get 10 people on a JOe team, the writer has a tendency to tell us (the reader) what f'n weapon they are, the history of the weapon, what it looks like... I mean, it drives me bonkers sometimes. I tried writing my own, made it a few chapters and then lost energy. I would rather play and pose my Joes and make stories (you gotta figuer, when we played with them as kids, we had stories in our heads, even if they were incredibly lame and/or simplistic).

I guess I'm more interested in people's universes and how they do stuff than seeing the written word in black and white.

I've always enjoyed doing dios and taking pics of Joes, and I've always enjoyed looking at other people's pics. Taking Joe pics has been a hobby for a lot of years. It always makes me laugh when I recall how, when pre digital camera I would take my films to the one hour photo place, and get weird looks from the staff when they would pull out the pics to check if it was the right film. I felt like asking, "What, you never seen little plastic men fight a war in someone's back yard before?" :)

I can understand you man. Sometimes I'm around my backyard or on front of my home and neighbors or just someone walking stay looking at me as I'm from the outerspace. Huahuahuahuahuahuahua!

Luke gave me on one of his posts a nice idea for answear any question. "I'm shooting a catalogue."

Believe me, I've used that one too. "I'm shooting a catalogue." OR, "I'm a photography major." OR, "It's for class..." Course, any semi-smart person walking by would say, "and you are using a 5.0 megapixel kodak z730 why? Shouldn't you be using a (insert $3000 camera)???"

lol

I've had plenty of weird looks, but no-one has actually asked yet what I was doing. It's funny you should mention that catalogue excuse, because that's the one I always have at the ready. I guess it's just one of the things us Joe people have to put up with...all our neighbors think we're kooky! :D

I enjoy having a big back yard XD
Allthough my parents think I'm weird/sad... and I get funny looks/comments/insults at school when I'm reading Dio stories. I've never really had need to defend myself, and if I did... I'd end up standing tall and proudly saying "I am making comics with G.I. Joe figures!"... and then the people will ask "what's G.I. Joe? Oh it's the suped-up Action man!" (like they do at work, heh).

If I did venture into the outdoors, I don't think "I am doing a catalogue" would work for me, as I'm only a young-un :(

How old are you Raven for be in school?

I'm tellin' ya, if you look young, you can say that it is for class! Be it high school or college! :D

Sonneilon, you're the only other guy besides myself I've seen use Sun Ce as an avatar (I hung out at JBL/JS for awhile). Anything you post is far from hogging any area. If you think you're hogging the area, then hog away!

My questions read more like a grocery list. Websites? Cameras? Settings? Photoshopping? I have a few rough story arcs bottled up in my head, but no medium or resources in which to distribute it. Plus no places to shoot, unless I wanted to make it fully digital. I'd be afraid of how that'd look though, especially when these other dio-stories feature settings and locations that add that extra impact to any given scene. Some of you fellas do a great job with your sets -- keep up the good work!

I've never had any of these problems maybe it's because I've been shooting in remote out of the way locations away from the public.

Just turned 18 on the 1st :D

Cool to know that there is another younger Joe fan here! I'm only 21 myself! :D

Greeaaaaaaaat, and here I am fast approaching 30 :(

Just for the record, I'm 31. I only know that because my wife reminds me of my b-day and Kody occasionally says, "mom's 33, and your 31..."

Sun Ce is my fave DW character. I have yet to pick up the expansion that recently came out; Empires2 or whatever. I tend to favor Wu for some reason. *shrug*

Anyway, ask away. make that grocery list if you want.

Websites. I don't have my own website. Sure, I have a wonderful geocities site, but man, you look at my pics 3x in a row, you've just exceeded the f'n bandwidth. So I post my dios over on JoeDebriefed. They had a bug earlier and I pulled ALL my dios off. I'm too lazy to put them back up too. It's a fanfiction site but the key is to plug the dio other places. Btw, I post on JoeSightings and JoeBattlelines.

Camera. I currently use a Kodak "easyshare" Z730 5.0 megapixel. It works for what I need it for. Sure, I'd love a Canon or Nikon but this is what I got for X-mas and it does just fine. I'm still learning how to use it. Keep in mind, as Dave says, "Macro is the dioist's best friend."

Settings. Depends on what I'm doing. Usually I just leave it on Auto, turn off the flash and have the MACRO on. *shrug*

CGI Programs. I don't have Fireworks or Photoshop like most people. I rely on a really old Photostudio (Canon, came w/ the scanner over 6 yrs ago) and MS's PictureIt 7.0 which came with the computer. Both have their strengths and extreme weaknesses. lol. We all do what we can with what we have.

As for no places to shoot, seriously, a lot of us just go outside. Some go the park, the forest nearby, wherever. But for my dio, 90% of is indoors so I've been building my own sets. I tend to use wood for a lot of it simply because we have a plethera of 2x4s laying around. Plus we got rid of some shelves in the house so that allowed me to build the Lobby for Transformation. But I took Luke's advice and started using foamboard (and a lot of it at that). I'll do a 'making-of' in the future when "Transformation" is all finished.

oh hey SD, I just remembered... Phu up until a few days ago, only had a webcam. So he actually shot a lot of his pictures either in his bathroom or on a table NEAR the computer. Seriously. He shot with a webcam and the grittiness made his pics actually look REALLY cool. The limitations we have only ask us to be more creative in how we do our stuff. My buddy in Japan told me that parts of Terminator were done with a cigarette, styrofoam and a plastic cup. :D

It's because they're the best :)
Zhou Tai, Sun Shang Xiang AND Gan Ning... the other armies are hopeless :)

I always liked using the 2 sisters.

I have to admit tho, Shu and Wei have Yue Ying and Zhen Ji... ;)

But what about Diao Chan or Zhu Rong... surely you can't forget about those XD

ooooooooh... The amazon..... She was so hot in DW4. Wasn't quite as hott in DW5, imo. As for Diao Chan, she seemed too dainty for me. Zhen Ji's got the cutting personality, y'know? :D

Since this has turned into a discussion on Dynasty Warriors, I'll just mention that I'm a Wei man, myself. There is no defense against Cao Ren and his super shield-gun!

Fighting...urge...to...gush...about...Dynasty Warriors!

I'm trying to finish a Huang Zhong musou. I want to get his 4th weapon first, but beating Xiahou Yuan with a time requirement while Xiahou Yuan is super charged to get Huang Zhong's 4th weapon is a bit of a tall task. Huang Zhong is almost maxxed out, maybe I can try then.

Just finished Zhen Ji and Lu Xun's musou. Looking for new Wei and Wu recruits!

Sorry gang. DW is something of a must with me. I'm actually going to be playing RTK IX tonight. As much as I love DW, there's no toppin' RTK ;)

Anyhow, thanks for the dio tips. Whenever I start, it'll be from scratch, so your guys' input is greatly appreciated.

tijuanajoe
 

hello everyone,

wuzz up, i am new to this ultra cool site and new to joe collecting, altough I have been collecting, customizing and diorama building star wars for 10 years, i hope to see a lot of cool pictures and fan fic dio's in this site as well as maybe get to know a couple of you guys!!!!

your amigo.

Tijuana Joe :D

Hey man, welcome! :)

SIte's been picking up quite a bit lately, so you stopped in at a good time. I'm sure we'd all love to see some of your work; bring on the dios! ;)

thank you buddy
 

hey thank you buddy, here is a link to my collection, altough I have not taken any recent photos as to include my joe stuff, but as soon as I take them hopefully by this weekend I will let you know.

enjoy.

http://community.webshots.com/mypho...security=WdMqHI

:)

Am I the oldest one? I'll be 35 in August. :eek: I was too old for this when they first come out in the 1980's. I didn't care then. But my boys are 5 and 2, so I have an excuse to have toys around.

The 5 year old is remarkably careful with them. The 2 year old...well, he's 2. Most of the time he pushes my spare APC around with a troop or two. But occasionally he brings me one and says, "Broke, broke." I can fix most injuries, but not broken hip joints... :confused: oh well!

never too old
 

hey buddy I an 33 and feel better than when I was a kid as I as well as all of you can afford pretty much how many and as many as we can, as well as have the knoledge to take care of them.

I would love to see pictures of your collections as I am learning the site and am still having some trouble navigating this cool new info.

You're safe, man. I gotcha by a few years. :(