A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
The other day I showed you the Robocop action figure by Neca, and last night I snapped a few photos of another awesome action figure by Neca Toys — “Jungle Patrol Dutch” — from the 80′s classic, Predator. Such a great figure! Here’s Dutch stalking the alien in the early morning hours… or is he?!? Here’s [...]
It’s been a while since I took some action figure photos, so I hit the toy store the other day to see what I could find. Check out this awesome Robocop figure by Neca. That is the spitting image of Peter Weller! And here’s the full body profile. I love those pistons on the back [...]
With all the incredible LEGO blind bag minifigs starting to pile up around here, I felt the need to find a good way to display some of my favorites. The obvious solution is to build something out of LEGO, but I wanted something that would take up the bare minimum of space and not topple [...]
The last two posts showed how I made the forest diorama, and now it’s time to see it in action… G.I. Joe action figures fit right into the landscape. By adding a few sticks to the scene, the photo has more depth. A red light bulb was used to simulate the brake lights of the [...]
In the first part of this series, I showed you how to make the diorama base out of styrofoam insulation board, glue and paint. The fun continues here with the addition of the trees… Insulation foam is a great material for dioramas because it is so easy to work with. After doing a little yard [...]
Here I go again… I had some insulation foam laying around, and Ithought I could put it to good use. The base is 2″ thick foam board cut to a 2′ square. Liquid Nails was used to glue down pieces of pink 1″ foam board, to make the contours of a hill. Once the glue [...]
Firefly–everyone’s favorite saboteur… For this photo, I used a clear plastic ceiling tiles for the backdrop, and had some blue Christmas lights behind it, which cast a purplish tone on the figure. I held an LED flashlight directly above the figure to make it look like he’s standing beneath a spotlight. Here I go using [...]
I’m about ready to just call this G.I. Joe week on Cool & Collected, and it’s only Tuesday. I have just been having too much fun… Just by moving the light sources around slightly, I got some dramatically different results. I thought it might be fun to throw a vehicle into the scene, and this [...]
I’m having way too much fun photographing these action figures… I wanted to take some photos with more than one figure to get some more depth into the scene. A black plastic plant tray works great as a security fence. I lit this guy with a small LED flashlight, which gives a stark contrast to [...]
Some of the new G.I. Joe action figures are just too tempting on the store shelves, and I’ve been picking them up here and there only because I wanted to photograph them. I’ve also been wanting to play around with different lighting techniques with some of my toy photos, so here are a few images [...]
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