I've been wondering, Pete, do you shelf display or do you make little dioramas?
I just do some minor shelf display. My goal down the road is to have all my figures displayed nicely displayed, something like this
http://www.theartofjoeonline.com/Presentation is key for me and not just jamming abount of figures into one small area.
As for army building, I thought I slowed down to a point where I didn't want any more. Originally, I was content in having just one army builder complete for the lesser popular builders I didn’t go nuts for like Frag Viper, Heat Viper, Techno Viper, Toxo Viper, Astro Viper etc. But I did have a bunch of incomplete army builders like the one mentioned above in which I managed to accumulate over the years.
The gasoline added to the fire was BHT shelves. One thing after another, I wanted to fill them with army builders (the shelves are no good for displaying my international stuff as it would get lost in the background). I wasn’t going to fill the shelves with incomplete figures. A Heat Viper or Frag Viper with no accessories looks like crap. So the past few months I have been trying to complete my incomplete army builders. So far so good. I just need to get some more Undertow accessories and play the waiting game to find some of the hard accessories like Bat attachments, Eel mouth pieces, Snow Serpent stands, Frag Viper hose etc.
I could do this as the international foreign figure market had really slowed to a crawl… for me at least. In my case, it’s feast or famine. The past few months, I found nothing that I wanted. Then all of a sudden MOC Funskool Snowjob, MOC Mexican Doc, MOC Mexican Torch and Argentina Topson (in real good shape) surface and I couldn’t pass them. Funny how people think Topson is really rare, I got news for ya, the other three MOC figures I mentioned above are a lot harder to get. I have been waiting for years to find Doc and Torch. Now if can find Bazooka and Shipwreck from the Mexican Commandos Heroicos line, I will have them complete (minus those stupid Star Bridgade aliens). Your are right about the foreign vehicles. Argentina, Mexican, Brazil, European vehicles mostly have minor differences from the domestic ones. I Just don't have the room to store them and will really only consider vehicles with major differences.