Army Builder Collection?

THE Mike™ · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:53 am

Does anyone on here have a nice collection of complete Army Builders? Would you be willing to take a picture of them so I can use them in this months JoeCanuck.com newsletter??.... You'll get the credit for them coming from your collection.

PM me if you can help.

Thanks!
Mike

PS - The image MUST be from your own collection. Please don't send me someone else's collection. :-/

ZombieGuide · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:23 am

5 pages of my Joe collection, use whatcha want:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... Id=1267623

Patrick A. Riley · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:18 am

100 Imperial Guards (not all shown with their silly flags, but they do have Marauder weapons)
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa94/eddiegilbert/100imperial001.jpg
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa94/eddiegilbert/100imperial.jpg

25 Motor Vipers (didn't have accessories, but again, they do have Marauder weapons) ;-)

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa94/eddiegilbert/25motor003.jpg
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa94/eddiegilbert/25motor001.jpg

bearcatcc · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:58 am

Is it just me, or has army building really scaled down in recent years? While I know that my own personal army building has slowed down to a crawl, I also note that I don't see it being debated as much online, or see everybody posting their massive armies. Either that or I myself am just not paying as much attention any more, even though I still love looking at other folks' set ups. I don't really have any nice looking pics of my stuff handy right now (nor do I have that kind of army built up, either).

A solid hundred Imperial Guards is pretty impressive looking.

bearcatcc

Bandalero · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

wow Pat, you really love imperial guards!

And I tend to agree with bearcatcc but I'd venture to say it's lack of distriubution preventing collectors from collecting those massive armies. At least where I am the big box stores receive 1 box of a wave weeks (sometimes months) apart. That just doesn't work for the collector who's only other option is to turn to the secondary market and pay those mark-up prices.

I don't know what the article is about in next month's newsletter but I'm looking forward to it now!

Patrick A. Riley · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:08 pm

Bandalero wrote:

wow Pat, you really love imperial guards!

It's easy when the Procession packs were clearanced for $4.00/ea on Amazon with free shipping :-D

I may also have 100 of the Troop Builder 6-pack BATs soon...

Spin Doctor · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

I know for me the army building instinct has evolved from a "gotta have the biggest" compulsion to a more obsessive "gotta have them balanced and structured" kind of thing.

When the 25th figures came out, I knew right away I was done buying/collecting/customizing new sculpts. But I had more than 25 each of the Vipers, BATs and blushirts, plus about a dozen each of the environmentally/technically specialized troops. I know that's not a huge army by the standards of some of the old school builders, but when O started selling them off -- limiting myself to keeping only as many of each as I could realistically use in my dios -- I realized how unnecessary those extras were.

I currently build squads of five, plus squad leaders and one each of the technical specialists ( Televipers, etc.) per squad. I keep to just one squad for the environmental troops and do two for the backbone builders (Vipers, BATs, blueshirts). And even this feels like a lot when I get them out all at once).

I don't see how folks can claim distribution is hindering their building habits. Based just on the stores I visited this past weekend, I could double my Viper and Blueshirt forces in a single day. Aren't these figures warming pegs everywhere?

THE Mike™ · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:02 pm

Image I originally wanted became available. Thanks guys. :-)

HOPEFULLY next Monday we'll have the newest issue out.

PaidLoad · **Joined:** Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:52 pm

what's the image?

pluv · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:37 pm

PaidLoad wrote:

what's the image?

I'm guessing you'll have to read in order to find out. Dun dun dun.

starviper · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:49 pm

bearcatcc wrote:

Is it just me, or has army building really scaled down in recent years? While I know that my own personal army building has slowed down to a crawl, I also note that I don't see it being debated as much online, or see everybody posting their massive armies.

bearcatcc

I would still do unspeakable things for 25A BATs.... and I still have zero.

PaidLoad · **Joined:** Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:52 pm

starviper wrote:

bearcatcc wrote:

Is it just me, or has army building really scaled down in recent years? While I know that my own personal army building has slowed down to a crawl, I also note that I don't see it being debated as much online, or see everybody posting their massive armies.

bearcatcc

I would still do unspeakable things for 25A BATs.... and I still have zero.

i'd have to agree, mainly b/c it's not as cheap to do any more. plus people who didn't want to go the vintage route piled on with the easy army building from the VvsV line, and that took a lot of the "fun" out of it. that, and people ran out of cheap bookshelves

THE Mike™ · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:34 am

pluv wrote:

PaidLoad wrote:

what's the image?

I'm guessing you'll have to read in order to find out. Dun dun dun.

TOOL · **Joined:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:06 pm

Here are some pics of my army building.

http://community.webshots.com/user/tool77?vhost=community

narceron · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:51 pm

I hope it isn't the guy many many members of this board ridiculed last year when he came out of seclusion to show his 1000 man cobra army, lol.

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