Sir Sid's Finest

Crash Crew and Ski Patrol are both VAM, Carded set is obviously Vintage Joe

Very cool sid, lovely examples my friend

Thx Dal

Ski Patrol has always been one of my favourites, and always looks so much better with a set of fatigues underneath

I'm in love with your RCMP. The Joe ones are great but it is the VAM one that does it for me. I really am going to have to put that on my wants list. I always wanted to save up for it on the star card but never really got enough new AM

Ski patrol is one of my fab figures. Have you got basic fatigues under the white stuff Sir Sidney?

Yep I have a set of basic fatigues under the Ski Patrol outfit Mark, makes it look so much more realistic.

Glad you like the RCMP's Mark

I have 2 Joes and 2 VAM

Superb display pieces.

sirsidneyruffdiamond wrote:

Yep I have a set of basic fatigues under the Ski Patrol outfit Mark, makes it look so much more realistic.

I'm going to nick that idea Sir Sidney if you don't mind. I've got one more set of basic fatigues in my spares :-)

What a great figure, and also a fab idea of the fatigues under the snow suit, think i may also pinch that idea, i never thought of doing that!!! this is why i love this forum so much, so many good ideas  

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I am absolutely loving your collection, SirSid! You have a nicely balanced collection of the best of the GI Joe and VAM universes.

I am in the process of building my JoeRoom -- finally -- and so I am scrutinizing your space. We're gonna have to talk about this.

The Mountie is one of my favourites too. I have done a fair amount of research, and am on the hunt to either dispell or confirm the existence of a 3rd GI Joe Mountie version. I hope you can help me out with that.

I guess I'll have to start a couple of threads and hopefully you will participate in both.

Are you in Ontario?

I will definitely be participating and thank you for your very kind comments.

I live in the GTA, just east of Toronto.

sirsidneyruffdiamond wrote:

2 VAM, 2 Joes

Very nice collection!

Thank you kindly.

We have a free online ads site here in the Colony, it's called kijiji, don't know if there is a similar one in the UK.

I have managed to pick up some nice Joe pieces from it.

A few weeks back I saw an ad for a boxed Sea Wolf at $200.

I called to the guy's house today, what a great experience it was. A fellow collector in his mid 40's who by his own admission collected too many different themes.

He had vintage Joes, Evel Knevil, Scalextric ( his favourite ), 1981 Z28 Camaro with a 350, 5.7L ( my favourite ...lol ), comics, and lots of other nice things.

He had decided that he needed to focus more on some of his stuff and let other stuff go.

Fortunately for me he decided to let his GI Joe's go.

He had about 15 Adventure Team Joe's, but unfortunately most of them had hair loss issues.

So I did a great deal for $300 and walked away with a superb complete boxed Sea Wolf plus 4 figures.

Wow! i wish that would happen hereagain. Haven't seen any 'Joes in the wild in these parts since the great migration down to the US when the dollar was way higher.

fantastic sid !! and boxed too, amazing find my friend ! well done mat  

Well nice, i'm liking the White Sea Wolf, I went to the V&A museum of childhood, yesterday and they had a white sea wolf there, and it looked in very good condition, would love to own one, your very lucky and i'm very jealous!!

That is so very cool Sid

Well done mate

What a bargain, that's a nice sea wolf:D  Well done mate.

A great new addition to your collection Sir Sid, looks fantastic mate!

Lucky Bugger!!!!!

Thanks guys, I'm delighted, and it gets better

here are 3 of the 4 figures I got with it.

Superb Sid

and better

at the bottom of a pile of Joes was this great red headed bearded adventurer wearing a distinctly non GI Joe outfit

Danthecoat wrote:

Superb Sid

thx Dan

the guy might have some more stuff worth buying