more pics - more profit?

[Albie Bach]

What Fred and Peter have done is more than acceptable, I for one would much rather see a crappy picture/paintjob of a figure/model/code than none. So Fred & Peter show us some more, go on, you know you want to.

Thanks Gordon I'll aim to post some more crappy photos !    . 

[Techno]

Thanks Gordon I'll aim to post some more crappy photos !    . 

.....Yes Fred.....More crappy photo's as soon as you can.....  
Cheers - Phil.

[Hertsblue]

Seriously, though, I would have thought that they were ideal. OK, they don't match the existing pics of unpainted items, but they give the punter exactly what he needs - a good notion of what he would be getting. 

[petercooman]

I can't upload anymore though, as that was the only photo that was crappy 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I might have to do this later with some of the FPW range that Nik hasn't already got to (it's an arms race)! 

[nikharwood]

I might have to do this later with some of the FPW range that Nik hasn't already got to (it's an arms race)! 

Fill yer boots ML, fill yer boots...I'm all lurgied up & don't have the energy for this at the moment... 

[nikharwood]

I would like to suggest a possible solution:

1. Utilise your loyal customers to help you
2. Pay your customers a token say 10 foot or 5 mounted figures of their choice for each photo you use (£1.34 retail cost to you?) and no payment for those you do not
3. As you are paying for the photo, specify clearly how you want the figure portrayed i.e. white background with the figure black-washed, cropped to your specification and size. Basically ready to go
4. Set up a post-box for the photos such as a dedicated email address where all the pics will arrive for your perusal and can be stored or extracted from

I am sure there would be quite a few takers for this deal and you will at least get greater coverage with little outlay.

The problem I can see with this Rob is that your "little outlay" of £1.34 (which doesn't include postage costs of course) would, with 3000 codes needing pics, still cost Pendraken over £4k...that's a huge outlay, isn't it?!

[sebigboss79]

If people add nice pics to those comment boxes on the website, I should be able to pull them out and use them in the images as well.  

Another idea would be to "reward" such nice people with an annual bag of random figures....also to induce starting yet another range of the excellent merchandise that is offered.

[FierceKitty]

We seem very eager to spend Leon's money for him, n'est ce pas?

[Nick the Lemming]

I'm much more in favour of just doing it to help out. That way it doesn't cost Leon anything, and let's face it, it's not going to cost us anything either is it? I've gotten amzing service from Leon, so I'd be happy to return the favour and send a few pics in.

My only problem is that I only have figures that already have pics with them. I guess that means I have to order some more.

[Albie Bach]

Just done BR168 Policemen, rifles and BR169 Upper class civilians using a black wash.
I overdid the the blackness I think and the background is a bit dark but it was a piece of cake. No problem doing any new bits I've got in future for codes that don't have pictures.  

[Hertsblue]

Just done Malburian artillery, MAL14, MAL15 & MAL17 (Don't have the 9 pr.)

[fred.]

We seem very eager to spend Leon's money for him, n'est ce pas?

Well see it as a quid pro quo - he spends too much time encouraging us to spend our money 

I've got loads of photos - the hard bit is finding ones of just one code (or just Pendraken figures)

[fred.]

Chucked some more on, various WWII, fantasy accessories and random others

[barbarian]

quid pro quo
You may want to use Do ut des

[Rob]

The problem I can see with this Rob is that your "little outlay" of £1.34 (which doesn't include postage costs of course) would, with 3000 codes needing pics, still cost Pendraken over £4k...that's a huge outlay, isn't it?!

Hi Nik,

The £1.34 is the retail ((£4.00/30=£0.13333….) times 10 = 1.3333… say £1.34)

The actual cost to Pendraken of a giveaway figure may be difficult to precisely establish as it would vary on total annual company costs divided by how many figures they sell annually. The postage is probably the main cost obstacle.

Anyway it was just a suggestion for a token method of paying people, there are many other things that could be done. The point being, to say thanks for a good job if the piccy was deemed worthy of being displayed.

Quite rightly in my humble opinion Leon has set high standards and a consistency of style as the benchmark for his piccies. To keep to these standards he needs to be able to control the content being placed on the commercial pages. These web pages to us are a hobby but to Leon its more serious. As nice and accommodating as he is he will probably not want his web-site filled up with just anything.

I have just noticed that if I look at the WW2 pages for any nation, each code without a picky now recommends that I look at the recently added British piccies and for good measure suggests I should get nude and smell like Rihanna!  Is everyone seeing this or is it just me?

Quite amusing but I think it may be good manners to ask Leon if he is OK with this.

Cheers, Rob 

[GrumpyOldMan]

Hello Albie

Just done BR168 Policemen, rifles and BR169 Upper class civilians using a black wash.

Just had a look and the gremlins have extracted those from the store listing.

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

[Albie Bach]

Just had a look and the gremlins have extracted those from the store listing.

Thanks for letting me know. 
I now have a message saying Disqus doesn't support my browser (IE8), but as I am still using Windows XP I can't use IE9. I could see the pictures yesterday though, even when I signed out. I keep telling myself to get a new computer. 
Anyway, I've added photos on the forum here if you are interested http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,6685.msg66825.html

[nikharwood]

Hi Nik,

The £1.34 is the retail ((£4.00/30=£0.13333….) times 10 = 1.3333… say £1.34)

The actual cost to Pendraken of a giveaway figure may be difficult to precisely establish as it would vary on total annual company costs divided by how many figures they sell annually. The postage is probably the main cost obstacle.

Anyway it was just a suggestion for a token method of paying people, there are many other things that could be done. The point being, to say thanks for a good job if the piccy was deemed worthy of being displayed.

Yes, agreed - but it's still £4k if you take that and apply it to the 3000 codes that Leon needs pics of...that's simply not economical for a small business; I would argue that this is the main cost obstacle...

Quite rightly in my humble opinion Leon has set high standards and a consistency of style as the benchmark for his piccies. To keep to these standards he needs to be able to control the content being placed on the commercial pages. These web pages to us are a hobby but to Leon its more serious. As nice and accommodating as he is he will probably not want his web-site filled up with just anything.

Couldn't agree more. If we place content on the website, it's clear that it's from us, not from Pendraken because it sits in the comments section; as admin of the site, Pendraken can remove anything from there - or disable the function if they chose. Some really useful functionality is the ability to be able to push codes to social media effortlessly.

I have just noticed that if I look at the WW2 pages for any nation, each code without a picky now recommends that I look at the recently added British piccies and for good measure suggests I should get nude and smell like Rihanna!   Is everyone seeing this or is it just me?

Quite amusing but I think it may be good manners to ask Leon if he is OK with this.

I think you'll find that this will be targeted advertising powered by Disqus (which is the comment function); nothing that any of us have put there (mine is showing Foo Fighters at the moment) - this'll include personalised content as well as paid-for promotion through the core Disqus Discovery function - more here:
http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/666278-introducing-promoted-discovery-and-f-a-q-

[J.S.]

But do you really need pictures of every single code? I guess it would be a start to tackle the most popular periods first..like WW1, WW2, SYW or the late 19th century range. Pendraken has by far (! ) the most comprehensive selection for the 1848-1884 period and its a real pitty that there are no pictures to do this extraordinary range justice.