>>10653675as someone who mostly lurks the GI Joe thread since Classified took over, I'd recommend buying up the older 25th+ GI Joe lines. There's a shit ton of figures to choose from and there's a huge amount of compatible toylines you can add on.
Soldiers in 1:12 don't work and you can never do something like this. It just takes up way too much space and vehicles don't even exist in that scale.
Even on the shelf, you could put six to eight 1:18 figures without looking like a clusterfuck, but can only put four 1:12 figures before they start overlapping if they're posed in anything but standing straight up.
I do collect 1:12, but i'd rather buy higher end stuff. So I've been getting Mezco's One:12 GI Joes instead (all of a single figure has been released so far, because year long delays), since I'm not a fan of how most of Hasbro's current output isn't much of a step up from modern 1:18 lines.