Hello,
My name is Matt and I am brand new to the boards. I will be uploading a huge basemet dio project witin the next few days. I started working on this in late 2001 and I am finally near completion. I have been patrolling all the sites(here, joecustoms, generaljoes and other amazing sites) for the past few years and have seen that many of you are amazing at 'dio stories.'

I, however, am not good at the dialogue thing and went with an all-out war theme. The one I'll be uploading is the penultimate armageddon-level war between the Joes and Cobra led by Osama Bin Laden. I took aspects of the TV show, comic books, the scene from the battle of Stirling in the movie Braveheart, and modern warfare ideas and fused them together. The only undercurrents of the story that needs to be prefaced are:

-Stormshadow, beachhead, billy, kamakura and Snake Eyes are a small band of infiltrators storming into the base of the terror drome

-Cobra has 2 nuclear missiles, 32 suitcase nukes and biological agents stored inside a non-descript new york city warehouse,

-Zartan assasinates a deckhand on the Flagg on his way to the bowels of the ship to destroy the flagg by exploding it's own ammunition.
Other than that, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Highlights to whet your appetite before you see this:
In addition to many original figures/vehicles/playsets, I have personally customized joes and cobras(including more than a dozen crimson guards) and numerous custom vehicles(including a crimson rattler- I really like that custom). My favorite custom figures I made are the Cobra de aco, Cobra Mortal, Cobra Invasor, Billy and of course, Osama himself.

Included will be a 7' long custom Flagg aircraft carrier I fashioned out of a shuffleboard table, wood for the deck, and the huge rolling command center thingy adjusted, painted and propped as the control tower.

two mountains(one an arctic battle)

a 7' winding waterway with 50 pounds of sand on the sides for the beach, and a bridge being traversed by Cobra artillery and viper forces

a custom 3-leveled base(disguised as a NYC warehouse) that the terrorists use to launch the nuclear strike

a terror drome fully stocked with the cabal

ravens, a whale being overrun by eels, 2 morays(1 customized), 2 custom cobra mini-subs,

original Joe HQ


BATS cutting through fences and overwhelming the defenses of Joe HQ

barbed wire, roads, fences
trees, grass, weeds, a swamp,

numerous ninja,

literally hundreds of figures in real-time, battlefield snapshot action


numerous planes(rattlers, skystrikers, etc) and trouble bubbles and fangs and dragonflies engaged in aerial combat and/or bombardment

BATS, old vipers, new vipers,

mobats, vamp, wolverines and numerous ground attack vehicles

and intricate placement of snipers, hand-to-hand combat, artillery shelling, and many minute features which add to the realism of the battle.

Needless to say, I have used more than 20 tubes of epoxy and have become quite comfortable with a dremel in the past 5 years.

My brief Joe-Bio:
I started collecting in 82, stopped in 86 and started again in 1997. When I got back into it in the late 97 a friend of a friend was selling all her son's joes. I bought everything she had and, amazingly, her son started where I left off in 86. I have scoured eBay in the past years and have picked up boatloads of figures/vehicles/ weapons, etc and customized alot of the less-perfect ones and amassed an army both sides of the war would be confident to go to war with.

There are at least 600 figures and at least 100+ vehicles engaged in this melee. I have to display the last few dozen figures that are floating and will start taking photos in the next 24 hours. I will upload by the end of the weekend all of the shots taken.


I really hope you enjoy the battle as much as I have enjoyed putting this together for the past 5 years.

Man...
I've just had a heart attack.
You'd better be doing it in chapters, as it sounds like too much to take in in one go!

7 ft long flag!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE MUST SEE.

This should be awesome, can't wait !!

I can't upload anymore pictures. What should I do?

Amazing how much dust I have down my basement. I can see it on the Flagg's deck and on the strafing rattler. Also- sorry for the wires in the pictures- they are metal and hold the aerial vehicles from the ceiling to the ground.

Is there anyway for me to get more space to upload more pictures?
I took over 200 pictures tonight and really want to share the detail with all of you.

That pretty much sums up the dio. If you happen to see 2 figure of the same character(like 2x cobra commanders in the terror drome)The original figure is the commander and the battlefield black version is just some random battallion commander. Also- there are 2 storm shadows in proximity to each other. The one with the dragon pants is just some random ninja.

Please let me know what you think.

I haven't finished the mountain with the holes in it(it's actually a desk). Eventually I'll get around to it. I didn't get a cahnce to display about 70 figures and when I do I'll re-take the photos with them in it.

I increased the max space you can use. Your stuff is sweet!

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Thank You. It's an honor to hear that from someone whose work I have admired for years. It's been a long 5 years since I started this project and it seems I'm finally coming to the end of major construction.

I just finished the bottom floor of the warehouse and it looks cooler than in the original photos. I'll upload as soon as I'm done with it.
Matt

I am in the process of finalizing and re-shooting my basement dio. I will hopefully be able to upload by this weekend. Does anyone have any photography tips for a protruding-thumb photographer?

I must be retarde, because I cant find your pictures of your basement dio one JoeDios and its driving me insane!!!!! I want to see it!!!

Please tell me where to find it
thanks