Hey, Chip! Looks like Dal is leading an invasion force!
It seems that
BAMComix, aka
Influence Man as he has come to be known on the Action Man Mobile Ops forum, has been on a roll lately when it comes to recruiting new members for OSF, assisted by
ThePhotogsBlog. Now that I'm here, I may as well post a more complete bio.
I'm known as
FIELD STATION 42 on Ammo,
Puuikibeach on Flickr,
the_dolly_dungeon on Instagram, and
davidd everywhere else.
My introduction to online toy and figure forums was the now-defunct Pinky-Street.com forum and later the Dollie Mixtures forum, also long gone.
Currently I am active on Figurvore, Dolly Market Forum, and AMMO, and occasionally on Dollieh Sanctuary. I've been a long-time member on Flickr.
I'm fairly new to the world of seamless TBL/Phicen figures. After briefly looking in to them a few years ago, I decided they weren't for me after reading about their fragility and the special care they required. More recently, however, it began to look like the quality and durability of the figures has improved markedly, and I pestered some of the members at the Figurvor forum for months with seamless figure questions. After joining AMMO, the influence of
Influence Man and others lured me further in to the murky depths of TBL/Phicen. Still, I wasn't entirely sold on them until this happened:
Resistance is Futile!At this point I own well over a dozen seamless figures, all TBL/Phicens.
In addition to my newfound interest in seamless figures, I have a fair-sized collection of "playline" dolls and figures, including Monster High, a few Bratz (yeah, yeah, I know, but the Bratzillaz glow in the dark!), and a smattering of other brands. Of course, being an AMMO member, my army of 1:6 military action figures is growing, mostly "Joe" types as I replace figures from my childhood, but also a few 21st Century figs. I'm also still somewhat active with the smaller-scale Pinky Street figures, and I have recently become involved with the 1:3-scale Smart Dolls.
I'm looking forward to exploring this forum to get an idea of what is happening in the 1/6 action figure world of today, to explore older topics to see how the genre has evolved over the past few years, and to pick up some photography, figure posing, and diorama-building tips.
I am already overwhelmed by the quality of the dioramas and customs I see on the OSF forum. If
EXTREME DIORAMA were a sport, there would be a lot of Olympic contenders among the members of this forum!
, came back in in my early 20s collecting Action Man again when I see he still had a following at toy fairs , along came 21st century and I got into the NAM figures , not much else has changed , I drift off when life and other hobbies grab a hold , but I keep coming back , it`s a very hard hobby to leave . 
