Hey Guys

Thanks for the info. I agree Tasmanian collectors are really hard to come by. I know there's another person on here called vandiemens, but it looks like he hasn't been here for a while.

Wow a collector from Hobart that's a girl? Just when I thought things couldn't get any rarer. If by chance you find her again, let me know.

I know what you mean about the weather Verno. It pretty hot down here too. We're expecting 36 on Friday.

I was looking at a heap of collections from a lot of people on here and I gotta say I'm impressed with some of the numbers I'm seeing. I don't have a recent photo of my collection, but I can tell you that l am currently celebrating my 10 year anniversary of collecting Transformers. My current total is at 728.

I will tell you I have a few rarities, such as the 2001 Botcon Exclusive of Arcee, The Matrix of Leadership statue (w/ gold lining on the base) and my first purchase of 2014 is coming all the way from New York, The Covenant of Primus, plus a decent collection of G1s.

I would also like to share with you a system that I have. When I get a new "acquisition" to my collection, I photograph the Robot and Alternate modes (and any others if necessary), then I store the photos on my hard drive (in it's corresponding folder, eg. G1, BW, TFP, 2007 Film, etc etc). I then open up an excel file I made that is a catalogue I keep. I've divided the document into sections the same way as the previously mentioned folders, then I put a price to the item (based on size, to make up for potential gain or lose in actual price). Each group has a numbers and price total, then at the bottom of the list I have a totals section, then a grand total.

I have rigged Excel so that every time I make an adjustment to a groups total, there's a cascading effect that alters the group total at the bottom, then to the grand total, then to my next milestone. This has become a great way to keep track of my collection and I hope you adopt this idea.

If you have had trouble following this, just let me know and we can discuss it further.

Apologies for the painfully long message, but I've been waiting 10 years for this. I didn't make a new years resolution, but if I did, finding tassie collectors was one of the top 2 choices. The other being to create my own Tranformers character.

Thanks for reading, talk later.

Tazahawkus (or just Taz is ok).