there are two reason why I don't owe so many figures, apart from money: risk of crap painting and storage problems...the very problems the guy seems to experience
How old are these figures, I haven't seen anyone use green bases in forever... Could be something he did on his own though. It saddens me to see them all in a box that haphazardly. I mean, I don't exactly have the money to buy a battle-chest right now, but I'm at least going to do something protective for them.
Christballs. He's probably selling because he got carpal tunnel from trying to paint it all. You can see he tried his hand at painting a good number of those models and actually got them to tabletop standard.
I feel like I just watched an episode of Hoarders.
I don't understand how yo can buy that many model's and then sell them. I'm sorry but what is the guys aim here? To recoup money or to just get rid? I just think it's pure idiocy to buy that much then get rid of them.
They don't call it plasti-crack for nothing. I know people who have entire cupboards full of unassembled stuff. and boxes full of half painted minis, while they still buy more stuff to work on new projects.
If he owned a store and every time someone quit he bought them out for very little then amassing this over a few years wouldn't be that hard - the thunderhawks I would guess were bought to complete it.
Quite why I cannot guess, but maybe the guy wanted a seriously over the top display
He could have been buying them part painted off people also, would explain the seemingly haphazard look of the "collection"
They don't call it plasti-crack for nothing. I know people who have entire cupboards full of unassembled stuff. and boxes full of half painted minis, while they still buy more stuff to work on new projects.
Honestly I don't know why he is selling. I sent him an email but the response I got was... well, not really lucid to be honest, so I figured to steer well clear from him.
It actually hurts to see how he treats those models - barely assembled, not painted, thrown into cardboxes like that. Goddamnit man, you paid so much money for it - Treat it with some respect!
It really is like an episode of hoarders. I dare say the painting skill all looks about the same which suggests its one strange bastard who is really painting all of this (poorly).
I can't even imagine the type of disposable income which would be required to amass such a Smaug-like mound of warhammer miniatures. There's some Dutch guy who slumbers on a pile of warhammer figures.
The only things I can imagine are:
1) he's wealthy, has a short attention span, and megalomaniacal factors
2) he's a GW manager who buys his own stock to keep his store in business
3) He's a mental case spending his assistance checks on warhammer. (I posit this sadly having worked in a FLGS where the 1st of the month a dude would come in and basically blow his welfare check on comics and collectables. Every month.)
4) maybe it's somebody collecting second hand armies, repainting them and reselling.
I fear it's number 3.. I tried to contact him once as he also had 5 chapters (Yes chapters i.e. 1000 marines each) + several titans from armorcast and GW for sale, but the responses I got were just downright weird. It is a shame though, seeing as how he treats the models and how little fun he seemed to have had with him.
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