I've had this idea brewing for a while. I want to do a long diorama--about 3 feet long maybe just a foot and half deep--a run down city street for either Apocalypse or Zombie set ups. .

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For collecting:
This past year I moved about 25% of what I owned, including joes, dc universe, misc. toys and comics.
It resulted in about 8 ft of space that I was able to hang posters up with, and made room for a place to display my customs in basement.
I expect more of the same, I foresee a lot of figures going out the door. I moved a lot of vehicles I decided didn't fit my collection, so this year it's figures. It's gotten to the point that I just don't care if I have some of it or not.

For customizing purposes, I have an idea for a theme, perhaps for the summer.

I'm also hoping to go back and make some more non-joe customs to tie in with characters I created as a child. I had two done but then got sidetracked with making more joes.

Going into next year, there's a few joes I still want to make to add to the collection, as hasbro won't make them. Mostly joes from 88-92. I've got several to finish up that have been lingering for months as I was devoting my time to something else.

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Okay, with so many people talking about scaling back and getting less stuff, I've got to add to my post about trying to acquire more vintage vehicles.

First, I think I need to hang out on eBay right after the first of January.

But also, I am going to convince myself to bite the bullet and preorder cases online. I'm tired of writing off numerous figures simply because I'll never see them in stores.

Not buying much of anything anymore (not that I am having any luck finding anything at retail lately anyway).

Finishing more customs and submitting them to the Gallery.

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I haven't done nearly as much as I wanted to this year except get caught up on some WIPs from previous years. After we move into our new place and get settled in I look forward to:
1. completing an OG jet that's been waiting to be finished.
2. completing a dreadnok patrol boat waiting to be finished
3. finish the other factions that are part of the "New Threat" series I have been doing
(Consortium, Gong Tau Tong)
4. a project that utilizes a Cobra Earthquake that I have been thinking about doing
5. a couple Transformers/Joe crossover projects that I have been envisioning
6. an OG watercraft (recently aquired the base for)
7. expand my small collection of 25th, 30th, ROC,POC Renegade collection

I've always customized ARHA, but would like to transition into the newer style figures.

Lookin' forward to this!

Gotta get my cave back straight after a major basement overhaul, cutting my area in half to make a playroom for the kids. Trying to get their half finished first though so reorganizing my stuff may have to wait until late January.

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1) Complete my 82-87 ARAH Collection (anyone have a Starduster they don't need?)
2) Learn to paint shoulders
3) Finish a couple vehicle projects I have had on the back burner
4) Use my paints before they dry out or become goopy
5) Learn what dasaffe means
6) Remember to buy more exacto blades

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Get the last few Night Vipers I want for my squad

Focus more on customs, like mastering 3d design for 3D printing
Refining my casting skills

In general, my goals seem to be roughly the same as everyone else - I want to make more figures and organize/use up/liquidate some of my fodder.

I made hundreds of figures between 2008 and 2012 but only maybe ten this year. I've enjoyed this hobby so much and I'd hate to fall completely out of practice with it. Next year, I'd like to finish the major sub-teams I've started over the years, like the Bronze Bombers, the Plague, the South American Joes, etc. After that, I want to focus on using up fodder that I bought specifically with certain characters in mind.

I also have a couple handfuls of figures waiting to be photographed. I'd like to work on my pic taking skills so that sharing the figures isn't such an exercise in frustration.

My 2014 Goals:

- Go to Con
- Obtain a few older Con Sets I want (Vacation in the Shadows and MARS Attacks)
- Finish some Army Builder plans
- Finish up some longtime custom projects like my Mega Marines, Rapid Deployment Team and Zombie hunters
- Build a light box
- Build custom diorama's for dio shots

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So many good ideas for the new year in this thread! Mine include:

1) Using my fodder/extra figures up! I have been buying way more than I've been using...
2) Collect the figures that I actually want, as I've given up being anything close to a completist, especially since Hasbro keeps making key figures as "exclusives" instead of giving up general releases of them.
3) Try to complete a custom vehicle or two; again, I've bought some fodder to do so, but have not done anything with it.
4) Make a diorama/custom playset for displaying and photoshooting purposes.
5) Sell off some of the multiple extra figures that I've gotten for customs that will probably never be made (refer to the first goal on my list).

-Todd
Shakka85

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My collecting goals are zilch to none. I still have an amount on my card that hasn't been paid in full yet.
I'm still selling my stuff for over a year now. Gotta do what I gotta do.

Priorities.

a little update to maybe motivate some of you slackers...

1) Workshop Organization 70% complete. Spent last weekend sorting fodder and accessories into different bins where they best belong. The bins I'm using won't necessarily be the final place they end up, storage-wise, but if I upgrade soon to a uniform bin system, I will be ready to roll in advance. Found a few more piles o' crap that need sorting, but the worst of it is done.

Also re-arranged my desk and my shelving to allow for easier access and hopefully easier to avoid another pile of clutter.

I have two boxes full of stuff I need to move. Figures not wanted by myself or my son, accessories that I find I never use, or are completely redundant. More on getting rid of that, when I'm done purging.

I also have been consolidating some other loose boxes of "LASER BLAST". I know you know what I'm talking about. Boxes filled with random bits of plastic where you say "I have no idea what I'd use that for, but I'll find a use someday". About half of that stock has been pitched, and the rest neatly consolidated into a box I'll never open, and will pitch two years from now (hey, I'm baby-stepping).

I started some individual large bins to contain the contents of different dio sets (most of my dios get set up movie style, rather than playset style). Now I can pull out Joe's Cantina from one box, or Adventure Team HQ from another, with ease.

Loose fodder figures still need some work, as to the best way to store and remember what I have. Likewise on figure parts already disassembled. That's probably my biggest customizing offense at the moment - the number of perfectly useful parts exiled to my bin for lack of organized access to them.

My in-package figures were taking up too much space, so I limited that to one single box. I don't collect MOC, but I'm prudent enough to know that if I ever decide I don't need a figure later on, it will get me more back on resale if still carded. So I did my best to identify the figures that might hold value, and gave them the box, then tore open the rest, to be stored loose in fodder bins, and thereby save space.

This year I also plan to have some built-in shelving installed in the basement, which will give off the appearance of even more organization. and give me a lot more room to work with. For now, this effort should keep me from wasting time when that day comes.

2) This will be an ongoing thing. I haven't added to my props since I posted that, but I "re-discovered" many useful ones I had forgot about, whilst working on #1...

3) Prepping for a massive round of ebay sales. Have a big stash started at the other end of the basement. Can't put a check in this box til I get off my ass and list them, but I see a light at the end of the tunnel. Oh, and I suspect I'll move those boxes of loose parts I talked about above outside of ebay, just to get it out.

4) I got a couple done after that posting, but I need to ramp up that effort this year for sure.

5) the way I rearranged my desk will help me keep the focus. Also, I can turn my smallest son loose in the basement now (couldn't when it was such a mess) which will add to the productivity as well. The last thing here that would help is if I could keep my desk free of clutter other than what I'm working on that minute, but Magic 8-Ball says "not likely"

6) This should probably refer to "2" big projects. "1" of them is now almost complete. The second will be hitting the work bench for completion soon thereafter. I need to have one big dio/vehicle in progress at a time only. I'll never fix my ADD when it comes to figure customizing (I actually attribute some of my magic to that anyway). But for the big stuff, I have to make myself finish one before I start the next.

7) This referred more to a custom verse project (figures AND story) and not a particular item. I'm feeling some inspiration, so I'll at least make progress on it this year.

8) I so WANT this one to happen...

Anyway, I'm mainly updating this based upon the overly cocky presumption that I was the only one working to knock out the whole "get organized" thing already on New Year's Day. Was up til 3am last night because I was making too much progress to want to stop.

Now let's hear from some others of you making progress of your own.

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I haven't bought any figures in the last 2 days, so I'm on track so far.

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