AUBURN – There’s not as much camouflage as you might expect.

Rick Montminy’s G.I. Joes wear safari outfits, pilot gear, fancy military dress and the occasional drab green coveralls. Half of them sport stylishly trim “life like” beards and hair. In the 1970s, the toy best known for soldiering became more about edge-of-your-seat adventure.

It’s Montminy’s favorite Joe era. That’s why he started collecting.

He has about 300 12-inch figures in his basement.

Most of the toys on his shelves were part of the 1970-to-1974 Adventure Team run. Joes were sold in sets, like “Secret of the Stolen Idol,” “Capture of the Pygmy Gorilla” and “Secret of the Mummy’s Tomb.” They had helicopters and rugged six-wheelers and accessories like a blue mummy’s tomb and a little plastic gorilla thumping his chest.

Montminy, 34, has stacks of faded original toy packaging that, in most cases, his toys didn’t actually come in. It’s another dimension of the collection.

There’s also a body parts trunk with stacks of naked Joes and extra pieces he can use for trade or reconstructive work. (Say, for instance, he buys a Joe missing a hand; he can just pop on a spare.)

Over the years he slowly inherited his uncle’s G.I. Joes, and had some himself as a boy. Others have been found online, at flea markets and at yard sales. A map on his wall that he’s stopped updating is dotted with pins marking where his Joes have come from: Hawaii, the Philippines, Denmark, the United Kingdom, France, Japan.

Montminy bought the only woman from that era, G.I. Nurse, four years ago on eBay. He found someone online that made vintage boxes and ordered an exact copy of the one she would have come in. He took it to Staples to get it shrink-wrapped, and to the untrained eye it looks like new.

She came with crutches, bandages, splints and a “plasma bottle,” presumably for fixing up fallen Joes.

The nurse is rare because she didn’t sell much back then.

“Nobody wanted to collect it,” Montminy said. “When you were a kid, no one wanted a girl.”

He started the local G.I. Joe collector’s club six years ago. Members take turns meeting at each others’ homes every month and showing off the latest finds, like a several-hundred-dollar Navy plane snatched up at a yard sale for $25.

People walking into the basement usually have two reactions, he said:

“Wow” and “Where to start?”