ayoldguy1
Freaked Out
Hello, all!
I'm from the New York area, brand-new to collecting figures of any sort. I kinda stumbled upon the hobby via a post on a video-game news site previewing the Hot Toys Raiden figure - my jaw dropped after seeing (to me) the amazing detail that could be realized at this scale. I started to do a little research on the manufacturer, and stumbled upon this whole world of action figure collecting, esp 1:6 scale...
So I recently purchased the Hot Toys War Machine Mark II Diecast figure, figuring (pun intended) that this would be a one and done; that I'm no real collector and I'd be happy with that. But once I held that amazingly detailed piece of art in my hand... I just had to have more... so...
here I am now, down the rabbit hole ;-) ! I've gone and preordered the following and am looking forward for them to arrive (eventually):
Hot Toys Iron Man Mark XLII Diecast
Hot Toys The Dark Knight Armory (Batman only)
Hot Toys Raiden
I noticed that a common piece of advice to beginners is focus - try to have a focus to your collection, however big or small. I'd like to try to start with a 1:6 focus, mainly Hot Toys (I find their detail to be AMAZING) figures, mainly the 'icons', that 'speak' to me. I think with that focus and above 4, the collection's starting to take off and will make sense. Now I just need somewhere to display these toys...
Anyway, thanks for reading/welcoming, great to be here!
I'm from the New York area, brand-new to collecting figures of any sort. I kinda stumbled upon the hobby via a post on a video-game news site previewing the Hot Toys Raiden figure - my jaw dropped after seeing (to me) the amazing detail that could be realized at this scale. I started to do a little research on the manufacturer, and stumbled upon this whole world of action figure collecting, esp 1:6 scale...
So I recently purchased the Hot Toys War Machine Mark II Diecast figure, figuring (pun intended) that this would be a one and done; that I'm no real collector and I'd be happy with that. But once I held that amazingly detailed piece of art in my hand... I just had to have more... so...
here I am now, down the rabbit hole ;-) ! I've gone and preordered the following and am looking forward for them to arrive (eventually):
Hot Toys Iron Man Mark XLII Diecast
Hot Toys The Dark Knight Armory (Batman only)
Hot Toys Raiden
I noticed that a common piece of advice to beginners is focus - try to have a focus to your collection, however big or small. I'd like to try to start with a 1:6 focus, mainly Hot Toys (I find their detail to be AMAZING) figures, mainly the 'icons', that 'speak' to me. I think with that focus and above 4, the collection's starting to take off and will make sense. Now I just need somewhere to display these toys...
Anyway, thanks for reading/welcoming, great to be here!