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IndyFanChuck
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Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY!
Congrats on having a baby. He will be your favorite prop!
lol
cheers:cheers:cheers:cheers
Congrats on having a baby. He will be your favorite prop!
lol
cheers:cheers:cheers:cheers
ave4uevoli
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY!
Thanks for the compliments guys - I'm busy working - updates to come this weekend.
Good eyes man!
Godzilla - ahhh.. one of my first loves... :love I always was stunned by the lack of godzilla stuff there was out there. There aren't too many things out there that are accurate/ cool enough to really be worth buying. I've seen a lot of giant green dinosaurs that just have a godzilla sticker on them.. it's quite sad.
So, models. I have no idea what these things are called. But the only one that I know for sure is the "big wrap" he's my favorite. It's so intricate and detailed, I have yet to see a godzilla model come close. (but plenty of sculpts out there by KOC and TsFacto are absolutely phenomenal..I just like the gracefulness of this one with the big wings and all) Original ones are hard to find now and pretty expensive - you'll find a bunch of recasts out there nowadays due to the popularity of the sculpt
Yuji sakai made the sculpt for the "big wrap"
with cgi (not my pic):
more views (not my pic):
Godzilla 2000 by Yamakawa (i think.. or it could be KOC)
Gigan and Godzilla custom diorama - For the life of me I forget where these sculpts came from. I can dig it up if you really need. I "think" the godzilla is a 2005 T's facto sculpt . The buildings and background are all custom. The Gigan is also from Ts Facto.
original gigan model (not my pic):
Hmm - godzilla 1998? grr - my memory sucks now. :unsure
My wife actually got me into godzilla - It's one of the few things in the basement she actually said I "had to" collect. haha:rolleyes
I actually have the full set of gashapon godzillas. Including the Yuji Sakai dioramas. The individually standing ones are called "gashapon" because they are toys that come in those little plastic bubbles. (I went through a buttload of bubbles to get all of them). Once you start collecting them you just can't stop - and after a while you just have to get them all. The company that makes them is HG (stands for High Grade). If you google/ebay "hg godzilla" you'll find them. HG has since released a bunch of re-releases for these. Still there are many out there that they haven't re-released and can only be gotten from the original individual bubbles.
After the gashapon "kick" I found out that they made miniatures of yuji sakai sculpts in diorama form. These things were so cool - so I had to get them all too... jeez, good thing I had a japanese wife who also loved godzilla because it was tough to email stores in Japan to see if they had specific ones that I was missing. These things are so details it's pretty damn amazing. (please excuse the cobwebs, this is a section that I haven't cleaned yet) (if you google/ebay "Godzilla sakai dioramas" you'll find them) (you'll also find 4 polystone dioramas there... don't really have a story behind those)
Gundam Seed Destiny Strike Freedom 1/60th Scale (lightning edition)
The gundam model was a just a fun model my wife and I picked up and built together. The friggin thing had posable fingers!! It was very detailed. I didn't finish it as well as most model builders. We left all the seems and didnt' fill them in or paint it.. It still came out cool in my opinion.
It's one of the few (i think) Gundam models that is this large and has lighting.
Thanks for the compliments guys - I'm busy working - updates to come this weekend.
Good eyes man!
Godzilla - ahhh.. one of my first loves... :love I always was stunned by the lack of godzilla stuff there was out there. There aren't too many things out there that are accurate/ cool enough to really be worth buying. I've seen a lot of giant green dinosaurs that just have a godzilla sticker on them.. it's quite sad.
So, models. I have no idea what these things are called. But the only one that I know for sure is the "big wrap" he's my favorite. It's so intricate and detailed, I have yet to see a godzilla model come close. (but plenty of sculpts out there by KOC and TsFacto are absolutely phenomenal..I just like the gracefulness of this one with the big wings and all) Original ones are hard to find now and pretty expensive - you'll find a bunch of recasts out there nowadays due to the popularity of the sculpt
Yuji sakai made the sculpt for the "big wrap"
with cgi (not my pic):
more views (not my pic):
Godzilla 2000 by Yamakawa (i think.. or it could be KOC)
Gigan and Godzilla custom diorama - For the life of me I forget where these sculpts came from. I can dig it up if you really need. I "think" the godzilla is a 2005 T's facto sculpt . The buildings and background are all custom. The Gigan is also from Ts Facto.
original gigan model (not my pic):
Hmm - godzilla 1998? grr - my memory sucks now. :unsure
My wife actually got me into godzilla - It's one of the few things in the basement she actually said I "had to" collect. haha:rolleyes
I actually have the full set of gashapon godzillas. Including the Yuji Sakai dioramas. The individually standing ones are called "gashapon" because they are toys that come in those little plastic bubbles. (I went through a buttload of bubbles to get all of them). Once you start collecting them you just can't stop - and after a while you just have to get them all. The company that makes them is HG (stands for High Grade). If you google/ebay "hg godzilla" you'll find them. HG has since released a bunch of re-releases for these. Still there are many out there that they haven't re-released and can only be gotten from the original individual bubbles.
After the gashapon "kick" I found out that they made miniatures of yuji sakai sculpts in diorama form. These things were so cool - so I had to get them all too... jeez, good thing I had a japanese wife who also loved godzilla because it was tough to email stores in Japan to see if they had specific ones that I was missing. These things are so details it's pretty damn amazing. (please excuse the cobwebs, this is a section that I haven't cleaned yet) (if you google/ebay "Godzilla sakai dioramas" you'll find them) (you'll also find 4 polystone dioramas there... don't really have a story behind those)
Gundam Seed Destiny Strike Freedom 1/60th Scale (lightning edition)
The gundam model was a just a fun model my wife and I picked up and built together. The friggin thing had posable fingers!! It was very detailed. I didn't finish it as well as most model builders. We left all the seems and didnt' fill them in or paint it.. It still came out cool in my opinion.
It's one of the few (i think) Gundam models that is this large and has lighting.
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Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY!
Nice idea for the Vader helmet lineup.
TBH I'm seriously in awe of your basement and especially the entrance to it. :ninja
I have the Godzilla sakai diorama with the two worms (Mothra larvae?)...got it last time I was in Hong Kong. Nice to see the whole collection...
Nice idea for the Vader helmet lineup.
TBH I'm seriously in awe of your basement and especially the entrance to it. :ninja
I have the Godzilla sakai diorama with the two worms (Mothra larvae?)...got it last time I was in Hong Kong. Nice to see the whole collection...
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OneHotHemi
Active Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY!
Thanks for looking!
Thanks for looking!
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Redboykliq69
New Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY!
Wow...........wow.
Wow...........wow.
Galactifan
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY!
AWESOME collection!!!!
AWESOME collection!!!!
RoCKo
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY!
Damn Thomas, i´ve seen parts of your collection a couple of times but i never imagined it to be THAT big! WOW!thumbsup
if you ever need a babysitter, just give me a call and me and my fiance will leave Germany behind us and come over...
:love
Damn Thomas, i´ve seen parts of your collection a couple of times but i never imagined it to be THAT big! WOW!
thumbsupif you ever need a babysitter, just give me a call and me and my fiance will leave Germany behind us and come over...
:love
ave4uevoli
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY!
Okay - so I realized something... I have a lot of crap down in the basement. Boxes containing empty boxes, boxes containing plastic bags.. random parts everywhere.. ugh- I can't tell if all of it came from construction on the house or what... I do know that I'm missing my Batman begins Grapple Gun:angry I think one of the contractors swiped it. I remember I put it right along side my 89 metal speargun. Can't understand for the life of me why they didn't swipe that instead..
So this side of my basement is going to take longer than I thought - it's not just moving things around like the other side - it's a disaster. Plus I have a ton of items that I have to display somehow. After 7 years on this board I still can't figure out how to display my spiderman costumes and any other costumes that are spandex. sigh.
Okay moving right along.
I dug up my SS Tie bomber - it's not 1/24 scale, apparently the studio scale tie bomber was smaller in scale than other SS scale ships in the SW world. It's a smidge blue - but oddly it does match my SS tie interceptor painted by dymerski and also matches those cute little micromachines.
Started gathering my knight rider stuff together - so I put my screenused miniature with my die cast and my talking car. Thought they actually looked good together - I'll have to get a case for the actual miniature just to protect it and make it stand out a bit.
BobbyC's pam anderson. I got this painted - I got it off ebay - I don't know if it's original - I have no real details on it - I put it on a mannequin myself and never got around to painting it. I dunno. if Bobby had finished it himself - it would have looked much better... I think the unrealistic paintjob makes it less like pam anderson and more like just a hot girl. not sure what to do with it.
Picard stuff - Phaser SE edition: a fun little addition to the picard stuff
Picard Borg - armor from houdiniguy here on the boards.
picard - captain - head is resin - suit from ebay, took me a while to find something of quality - head painted and finished by John Allred. There's some PVC piping holding the head up and a lot of stuffing for the suit. (clearly self finished)
Silicone Picard - from ebay - already finished - didn't really accurize it since I got it. The head cold use a repaint, just got it to round out the collection - but not too pleased with it.
Blade Stuff:
Screenused hero sword - all metal, with a metal handle too - apparently pretty rare to find one with a metal handle (but i dun really know) after a few years of looking at screenused props I've seen a lot of "hero" swords pop up from Blade... very annoying - they must have had a lot of them. Case by screenused.com a very very very nice case.
Next to the sword is an autographed portrait of wesley snipes. (you guys said I needed artwork or something on the walls - i'm working on it)
Screenused Stunt shotgun gun - replica metal blade II buckle and metal edta darts (one on the plaque from SD Studios here - others purchased from Rumsfield)
oh and a replica mac gun - base is an airsoft gun
screenused blade trinity suit: complete with battle vest, trenchcoat, vest, sword harness, inner shirt, pants (not shown). I know I know - I need legs. The head is a Russ lukich sculpt - I haven't seen these fly around anymore.
Blade II - replica vest, replica trenchcoat. Screenused shirt (signed by wesley) and screenused pants (they have holes in them from where they were draining his blood on the table) - Howard S. head sculpt.
Blade I - Replica vest ( i believe researched and made by garybarth here) with another Russ Lukich sculpt. Purchased a while ago from Well Paid Killer here. One of my first of many great transactions - ahhh the memories.. :$ I have attached factory X's sword harness to the back of this as well as Factory X's metal sword.
National Treasure stuff: (glasses and medallion from Tripoli)
Ben franklin glasses - medallion - and the best part of the collection, RelicMaker's Meerschaum pipe and box. I think I lost the little piece of paper with the red print on it :cry - Don't know what really happened here.. I didn't jump on the ball on the presidential journal, or the brick or other amazing props people had on this board...I chalk it up to a brain fart.
MIB stuff -
Richard Coyle's MIB I - neuralyzer with a unobtanium noisy cricket from redshirt. Both of them light up, have batteries, are made of metal, and are outstanding. Some minor things I noticed, the noisy cricket's spring is loose for the cocking arm, and it doesn't have the "grate" pattern around the green light area. (dont know which is more accurate)
Oh - the little worm guy is a latex replica (about 1/2 size) from ebay.
Okay - so I realized something... I have a lot of crap down in the basement. Boxes containing empty boxes, boxes containing plastic bags.. random parts everywhere.. ugh- I can't tell if all of it came from construction on the house or what... I do know that I'm missing my Batman begins Grapple Gun:angry I think one of the contractors swiped it. I remember I put it right along side my 89 metal speargun. Can't understand for the life of me why they didn't swipe that instead..
So this side of my basement is going to take longer than I thought - it's not just moving things around like the other side - it's a disaster. Plus I have a ton of items that I have to display somehow. After 7 years on this board I still can't figure out how to display my spiderman costumes and any other costumes that are spandex. sigh.
Okay moving right along.
I dug up my SS Tie bomber - it's not 1/24 scale, apparently the studio scale tie bomber was smaller in scale than other SS scale ships in the SW world. It's a smidge blue - but oddly it does match my SS tie interceptor painted by dymerski and also matches those cute little micromachines.
Started gathering my knight rider stuff together - so I put my screenused miniature with my die cast and my talking car. Thought they actually looked good together - I'll have to get a case for the actual miniature just to protect it and make it stand out a bit.
BobbyC's pam anderson. I got this painted - I got it off ebay - I don't know if it's original - I have no real details on it - I put it on a mannequin myself and never got around to painting it. I dunno. if Bobby had finished it himself - it would have looked much better... I think the unrealistic paintjob makes it less like pam anderson and more like just a hot girl. not sure what to do with it.
Picard stuff - Phaser SE edition: a fun little addition to the picard stuff
Picard Borg - armor from houdiniguy here on the boards.
picard - captain - head is resin - suit from ebay, took me a while to find something of quality - head painted and finished by John Allred. There's some PVC piping holding the head up and a lot of stuffing for the suit. (clearly self finished)
Silicone Picard - from ebay - already finished - didn't really accurize it since I got it. The head cold use a repaint, just got it to round out the collection - but not too pleased with it.
Blade Stuff:
Screenused hero sword - all metal, with a metal handle too - apparently pretty rare to find one with a metal handle (but i dun really know) after a few years of looking at screenused props I've seen a lot of "hero" swords pop up from Blade... very annoying - they must have had a lot of them. Case by screenused.com a very very very nice case.
Next to the sword is an autographed portrait of wesley snipes. (you guys said I needed artwork or something on the walls - i'm working on it
)
Screenused Stunt shotgun gun - replica metal blade II buckle and metal edta darts (one on the plaque from SD Studios here - others purchased from Rumsfield)
oh and a replica mac gun - base is an airsoft gun
screenused blade trinity suit: complete with battle vest, trenchcoat, vest, sword harness, inner shirt, pants (not shown). I know I know - I need legs. The head is a Russ lukich sculpt - I haven't seen these fly around anymore.
Blade II - replica vest, replica trenchcoat. Screenused shirt (signed by wesley) and screenused pants (they have holes in them from where they were draining his blood on the table) - Howard S. head sculpt.
Blade I - Replica vest ( i believe researched and made by garybarth here) with another Russ Lukich sculpt. Purchased a while ago from Well Paid Killer here. One of my first of many great transactions - ahhh the memories.. :$ I have attached factory X's sword harness to the back of this as well as Factory X's metal sword.
National Treasure stuff: (glasses and medallion from Tripoli)
Ben franklin glasses - medallion - and the best part of the collection, RelicMaker's Meerschaum pipe and box. I think I lost the little piece of paper with the red print on it :cry - Don't know what really happened here.. I didn't jump on the ball on the presidential journal, or the brick or other amazing props people had on this board...I chalk it up to a brain fart.
MIB stuff -
Richard Coyle's MIB I - neuralyzer with a unobtanium noisy cricket from redshirt. Both of them light up, have batteries, are made of metal, and are outstanding. Some minor things I noticed, the noisy cricket's spring is loose for the cocking arm, and it doesn't have the "grate" pattern around the green light area. (dont know which is more accurate)
Oh - the little worm guy is a latex replica (about 1/2 size) from ebay.
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Darth Niob
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY! Pics pg 1,2,& 3
Unbelievable collection:love
Unbelievable collection:love
Simmon M
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY! Pics pg 1,2,& 3
I've seen most of Thomas' collection in person and it is museum-like in both scope and presentation. I was there for a little while and couldn't absorb half of what I saw!
Ask him to show off his life sized R2 and Stargate stuff ... simply to die for!
I've seen most of Thomas' collection in person and it is museum-like in both scope and presentation. I was there for a little while and couldn't absorb half of what I saw!
Ask him to show off his life sized R2 and Stargate stuff ... simply to die for!
DivineHeresy
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY! Pics pg 1,2,& 3
Love seeing your amazing collection.
Sorry to hear about your BB Grapple Gun, I hope you do find out what happened to it.
Love seeing your amazing collection.
Sorry to hear about your BB Grapple Gun, I hope you do find out what happened to it.
propologist
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY! Pics pg 1,2,& 3
no offense , but it's really weird to see a Pam Anderson Full sized figure in your room. great collection and even better display cases etc.
no offense , but it's really weird to see a Pam Anderson Full sized figure in your room. great collection and even better display cases etc.
TomGLFan
Well-Known Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY! Pics pg 1,2,& 3
Brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT collection!!! And many congratulations and blessings on your imminent fatherhood. I can only tell you that it was the best thing that ever happened to me, and as a toddler she was an angel about leaving the majority of my collection alone when asked! Now at age 17 she just steals my sonic screwdrivers!
Brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT collection!!! And many congratulations and blessings on your imminent fatherhood. I can only tell you that it was the best thing that ever happened to me, and as a toddler she was an angel about leaving the majority of my collection alone when asked! Now at age 17 she just steals my sonic screwdrivers!
ave4uevoli
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY! Pics pg 1,2,& 3
Well that's cuz you weren't around long enough! You're always welcome man. By the way folks - That's the guy I've been trying to emulate these past few years. His pics of his lifesized bust collection got me sucked in... and I've been addicted ever since.
Thanks Gene - yea - my wife and I are worried about that a bit... but that's what the secret bookshelf door is for. Hopefully she won't even know that there's a basement until... i dunno... college :lol
Whoa - you were reading all of that?! :eek Thanks for taking the time to do that - I actually DID find it! Apparently I had stashed it away in a little box on the bottom of all that messy craziness. So woo hoo!
Yes - It may be out of place - it may be weird... but when your wife says "Lifesized pam anderson? I guess I'd be okay with it." You jump before she has a chance to change her mind.ninja
Thank you thank you - Yea - I still have one more week! The doctor says any day now....
So onto more stuff!
I bought mannequins - they were too big. I was going to put all of my batman stuff on them but being nearly 6'2" I'm afraid they'd look weird. Soo, I'll be using them for Master Chief, Iron Man, blade stuff and UD replicas batsuit which I would like to be the tallest one because it's, so far, the coolest one.
Also got a Idol Pedestal - I have to get some fake moss to put on it. Plus, hopefully, I'll get my Gobler idol soon so I'll be able to finally close out this part of the Indiana Jones collection. For now, I present the HOLY ORANGE! All BOW! The pedestal is from COW - made by a great guy Al Landron.
UD Replicas TDK suit - Yup - it looks even better on a mannequin. Yes, I'm getting the boots and I'll be getting a cowl and cape (if the damn prices of them go down a bit! GRR :angry)
SD Studios managed to dig up and find a J2 kit. He finished it just like the movie. (not chrome, but painted). Has a working trigger but no electronics. Beautifully done!
Put this guy on one of the mannequins I couldn't use. Figured I might as well display it since it was stuck in a box. This is the screenused suit used in Blade II by Asad (played by Danny John-Jules). This suit was used when the vampire messengers broke into Blade's warehouse and offerred him the truce key. thinking of getting myself a pair of Oakley Overthetops and completing the display with a head. Foam Rubber handguards, arm and leg details.
Well that's cuz you weren't around long enough!
You're always welcome man. By the way folks - That's the guy I've been trying to emulate these past few years. His pics of his lifesized bust collection got me sucked in... and I've been addicted ever since. Thanks Gene - yea - my wife and I are worried about that a bit... but that's what the secret bookshelf door is for. Hopefully she won't even know that there's a basement until... i dunno... college :lol
Whoa - you were reading all of that?! :eek Thanks for taking the time to do that - I actually DID find it! Apparently I had stashed it away in a little box on the bottom of all that messy craziness. So woo hoo!
Yes - It may be out of place - it may be weird... but when your wife says "Lifesized pam anderson? I guess I'd be okay with it." You jump before she has a chance to change her mind.
ninjaBrilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT collection!!! And many congratulations and blessings on your imminent fatherhood. I can only tell you that it was the best thing that ever happened to me, and as a toddler she was an angel about leaving the majority of my collection alone when asked! Now at age 17 she just steals my sonic screwdrivers!
Thank you thank you - Yea - I still have one more week! The doctor says any day now....
So onto more stuff!
I bought mannequins - they were too big. I was going to put all of my batman stuff on them but being nearly 6'2" I'm afraid they'd look weird. Soo, I'll be using them for Master Chief, Iron Man, blade stuff and UD replicas batsuit which I would like to be the tallest one because it's, so far, the coolest one.
Also got a Idol Pedestal - I have to get some fake moss to put on it. Plus, hopefully, I'll get my Gobler idol soon so I'll be able to finally close out this part of the Indiana Jones collection. For now, I present the HOLY ORANGE! All BOW! The pedestal is from COW - made by a great guy Al Landron.
UD Replicas TDK suit - Yup - it looks even better on a mannequin. Yes, I'm getting the boots and I'll be getting a cowl and cape (if the damn prices of them go down a bit! GRR :angry)
SD Studios managed to dig up and find a J2 kit. He finished it just like the movie. (not chrome, but painted). Has a working trigger but no electronics. Beautifully done!
Put this guy on one of the mannequins I couldn't use. Figured I might as well display it since it was stuck in a box. This is the screenused suit used in Blade II by Asad (played by Danny John-Jules). This suit was used when the vampire messengers broke into Blade's warehouse and offerred him the truce key. thinking of getting myself a pair of Oakley Overthetops and completing the display with a head. Foam Rubber handguards, arm and leg details.
DivineHeresy
Sr Member
Re: collection showoff- 2 weeks before BABY! Pics pg 1,2,& 3
Yep, lol.
Glad to hear you found it. :thumbsup
Yep, lol.
Glad to hear you found it. :thumbsup
