Someone has lost the plot He has bid on four lots - £376 for 32 painted plastic figures. 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-72-20mm-8x-Painted-American-US-Airbourne-Section-WW-2-Rapid-Fire-FOW-Wargame-/191246241082?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item2c872a0d3a

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-72-20mm-8x-Painted-American-US-Airbourne-Section-WW-2-Rapid-Fire-FOW-Wargame-/191246255650?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item2c872a4622

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-72-20mm-8x-Painted-American-US-Airbourne-Section-WW-2-Rapid-Fire-FOW-Wargame-/191246267523?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item2c872a7483

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-72-20mm-8x-Painted-American-US-Airbourne-Section-WW-2-Rapid-Fire-FOW-Wargame-/191246285975?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item2c872abc97

I think you could buy about 2,500 Pendraken figures or that! About a regiment's worth in 1:1!!

Well the people into giantist scales do seem to have lost their brains.....

IanS

12 Bids ?

Has someone forgotten where the decimal point goes?

Well, they're nicely painted - but nothing to justify that sort of money. Another aspect of the "more money than sense" syndrome, I suspect.

Having played EVE Online for almost a decade now I've come across all sorts of scams to manipulate the in-game market, I often wonder if these sorts of listings are Real World(tm) examples of the same sort of thing ... or if some people really do have too much money and not a shred of the sense they were born with.

You have something worth a fiver. You create listings for twenty quid. After a while you slip in a listing at a tenner and someone buys it thinking they're getting it half price. As a simple example.

Perhaps they'e undercoated in gold?

His stuff looks to have gone for daft prices - there were a dozen Airfix Aussies done for the desert went for £42 the other day. Makes me think I pitched my Late war Brits at too low a start price! From the look of all his listings it's a spray > flat detail > army painter dip & spray. Nice result but not at those prices!

They are daft prices. The painting looks basic with an army builder dip as Toxic says.

To add, not that I've anything against that method - I sell (and use!) a fair amount of work on figures with the technique - produces decen tabletop gaming minis in good time. However, I couldn't bring myself to charge the prices he seems one getting :S

To be fair to the seller he started the  bidding at £4.99, I just think he got lucky with a lunatic bidding.

I have had a couple of items go for daft money over the years.

Those revell models are lying here in my boxes 

I could be giving them a basic paintjob and getting rich! I have about a thousand of the guys!

Bet ya if i would paint them and list them next week i would get 7,50£ 

Time to dig my ESCI stuff out

Well, I just hit about £17+postage for a box of the Airfix late war Brits, if that helps your decision!

 
Cheers - Phil

The method the person has used to paint these looks like a method I saw used at the Benno's figures site by an Italian chap there...I cant remember the exact details but its not quite a dip but something slightly similar

"Auction fever" can strike at any time. Back in the seventies one of our club members paid £52 in a bidding war for a single 25mm general figure (admittedly beautifully painted) at a Society of Ancients auction. At the time that was the equivalent of a month's pay for the average drone. And he was a postman by trade.

Ouch... I hope it won many games!

Fenton - I don't like the "dip & pray" approach so I tend to brush on if I use te shade technique - it's more controllable. I also tend to use a B&Q equivalent that's a/ affordable, and b/ can be cleaned with water. I find life's too short for turps

Quote from: toxicpixie on 20 July 2014, 01:03:56 PM
I find life's too short for Turks

Well, it's true the Poles often beat them....

Quote from: toxicpixie on 20 July 2014, 01:03:56 PM
Ouch... I hope it won many games!

Fenton - I don't like the "dip & pray" approach so I tend to brush on if I use te shade technique - it's more controllable. I also tend to use a B&Q equivalent that's a/ affordable, and b/ can be cleaned with water. I find life's too short for turps

I brush it on as well...the method I was referring to isnt a varnish shade it was something else entirely..Sadly the forum was redone and all the previous posts lost