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MARCOS ALVAREZ JR. PROUD FATHER OF 3 AT AGE 30. MARCOS THE 3RD NATHAN 6 AND MY BABY GIRL ARIANA. I KNOW I STARTED YOUNG. I HAVE BEEN WITH MY WIFE NOW FOR 9 YEARS. IM AS DEDICATED TO MY JOES AS TO HER. THATS MEANS I REALLY LOVE MY TOYS. AS A KID I GREW UP MIDDLE CLASS I WOULD SAY, IN ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA.

I PLAYED AND COLLECTED TOYS FOR A MAJORITY OF MY YOUTH. SADLY THOUGH I THOUGHT I HAD TO GROW UP @ 13 AND STOPED COLLECTING AND GAVE MY JOES TO MY NEPHEWS (BIG MISTAKE CAUSE NOW THEY ARE ALL GONE ). WHEN I HAD MY SON IN 99 I REALIZED I HAD AN EXCUSE TO START AGAIN

MOST OF MY JOES ARE FROM RAH, WHERE I STARTED COOLECTING AGAIN. THIS SITE CAME TO ME ME BY ACCIDENT MESSING WITH MY NEPHEWS COMPUTER AND WHEN I GOT MY OWN I JOINED FIRST THING . I HAVE FOUND ALMOST EVEYONE HERE IS TALENTED, KNOWLEDGEABLE AND VERY COOL. I HAVE LEARNED ALOT AND TRY TO EMULATE SOME OF THE CALIBER OF SHOTS ON JOE DIOS. I HAVE ALONG WAY TO GO THOUGH.

i agree. this is a good step in the right direction.

See, I told ya! A little truth and honesty goes a LONG way towards earning respect and getting the veterans around here to help you out! Can't wait to see what you can do with a cam!

I go by the name Cap, which is short for Capolan, the fictional realm of Nick Bantock's great work, who is also the author of the Griffin and Sabine series.

My name is Eric, which I seem to share with quite a few fellow diorama artisans.
Been married now to another wonderful artisan, for 9 years. Prior to that I was married for 17. I have three kids, 27, 27(not twins, adopted), and 26. As you have guessed, I top the age chart at 47.

I've been doing diorama now for over two decades and counting. I'm a disabled fantasy artisan with a penchant for historical and fantasy portraiture. Been in art schools since grade school, but never worked in the field. Like many, been saddled with IT or computers to make sure the kids and family never went without.

My favorite dioramas to do were always the fantasy miniatures, which allowed me to create worlds from scratch. Whether of my own writing, or the realms of established fantasy(Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Lord of the Rings), if I can envision it, I can bring it to three dimensional reality.

I came to Joes through my son, who wanted some sets that were hard to find back in NYC. So I used the talents to make him everything from arctic realms, to covert headquarters.

Having made friends and acquaintences through the Joe hobby, this led to a very fulfilling but hardly lucrative hobby of building sets and terrain for my fellow Joe customizers. It probably all started when I had debuted the Hadley's Hope LV426 ALIENS diorama in which I recreated the township, operations, and environs of the movie for a entire round of my customs based on the movie characters. One thing led to another, and then I was making warehouses, operations rooms, labs, city streets, bridges, all manner of sets for Justin(General Hawk), Camper(dan), and Spin Doctor, all of whom have really great ongoing diostories. Soon thereafter, it was full on years after years of making everything from strip clubs, to entire Arabian and American cities, with full lighting and even shops with full items, such as Wowboy's Springfield City. Doing these were a labor of love, because you don't make much money with it because as I told many of my customers, were I to even charge for time, talent, and paint at minimum wage, no one could afford me. Also, doing this sometimes can often make you appear like a Foley Artist, where the actors and actresses get full credit, but the sound people are never mentioned or remember. Thankfully, a great many of the longer customers are pointing all eyes in this direction when people have stated
"Where on Earth did you get THAT???" Others like Wowboy, and Jedsoon, have always shared where they get their diorama. His Large Army Joe film won an award at an international film convention, and he sent me a news clipping from his local township, with a picture from the movie with my dio in it. That was very much a surprise.

Just recently I did a great back office and hallway for the JCW wrestling gents, and right now, for my good buddy and fellow Sword of Shannara reader, I am making backgrounds of the environs from the books, such as the castle interiors shown before.

Since I have been doing architectural projections for hobby for over 20 years, I brought that aspect to the hobby, years ago, where you apply specialized papers to commercial foamboard via adhesives, thus creating some very realistic looking sets. Since then, it has been growing in leaps and bounds. Sadly, one of my fellow friends in the Joe community was making a prediction that set building may be replaced in future years with digital bacgrounds, like those one can make in programs such as Vue, and Bryce. I hope not, because the hands on love of doing sets and terrain is passion, which I have loved sharing with many here and elsewhere for a long time.


Until then, I am just honored and happy to be amongst other set builders and fellow artisans.

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The official site: Diorama Rabbit

Diorama Rabbit

Also, some Elder Scrolls based dioramas and customs in two scales:

Morrowind Dioramas and Custom Action Figures

Well, I read my old post on here, figured I should update for all you new folks.

I'm Shane, I'm 26 from Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. I just moved here with Jenn as I lived in Nova Scotia for almost 20 years. It's been a big change, but it's been worth it. Right now I am the assistant manager of a toy store here, and we're expanding so it's exciting to be part of the team, but it's ALOT of work.
I've been a Joe fan as long as I can remember. I've always had them around, as my dad is military so I grew up with those ideals in mind.
I'm a big video game fan, I'm not too bad at poker and pool. I like music, movies and just relaxin.
That's me.

Welcome aboard Cap. At least I can say I'm not the oldest around here anymore!

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"The future's uncertain and the end is always near." - The Doors "Roadhouse Blues".

Hello all, My name is Mike.

I live in San Antonio, Texas. I have always been a huge fan of GiJoe, about a year ago I stumbled into the TriState forum. I saw a picture of Viloentfix's massive army builders and Dio's, and I was hooked.

If I remember my first major score on ebay was 12 Motor Vipers. "Sorry if I outbid somoen on that here!"

I think I am up to 60 now. I also have 112 TRU Vipers. My goal is 100 Motor Vipers, and I want to build a custom Terror Drome from Scratch.

My goal is to have it built by 2009. I want to take it to the Convention for display. "It's nice to have goals!" LOL!

I am also working on 2 dios right now.

Oh yeah, plus I work a full time job, full time student, married w/2 kids, and I work approximately 8 hours as an intern at Lackland Air Force Base office of History and research.

I truely do not get enough sleep! LOL!

I welcome any feedback on my pictures I supply here.

Thanks again!

Nice to meet you mike, welcome aboard!

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All my customs in one place....Da Talent's Customs

Here goes nothing.

I'm Kurt, and I'm one of the young'uns here at being 16 (But I have an old soul ) . My first action figures were the POTF2 Star Wars figures back in 1995/1996. I still collect Star Wars figures, as they have improved greatly over the years, I just wish I could find the new waves as they come out. I also was a huge Beast Wars fan. I now regret selling most of them . I got into joe stuff in 2002. I soon had a small collection. Then I discovered the superior vintage figures through the internet. My Joeverse at first took shape towards the Diostories people had on the net at the time, mostly General Hawk's. This was the only joe "media" I had to work with. Now I've read some of the marvel series and understand it all more.

As for me, I'm currently a student, I have all A's right now. I have a few friends, but none of them know about my hobby. I spend my free time here, taking pictures for the site, customizing figures, and of course playing with my figures.

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"It was long ago, and it was far away, and it was so much better than it is today."