| 45thdiv | 22 May 2013 2:46 p.m. PST |
These are really fantastic sculptures. link I am looking forward to these coming out. Matthew |
nnascati  | 22 May 2013 3:22 p.m. PST |
I just can't imagine spending that kind of money on collectible figures, and then using them for gaming. I applaud your insanity. |
| marco56 | 22 May 2013 3:40 p.m. PST |
These are 60mm right?I thought he was suppose to put out some 28mm but I don't know of what period.
Mark |
| (Stolen Name) | 22 May 2013 3:43 p.m. PST |
Works of art indeed ….now where did I put that lotto ticket? :) |
| 45thdiv | 22 May 2013 3:59 p.m. PST |
You know, I get that comment a lot. But I have seen what people spend on 28mm Figures. It works out to be more than I spend. I have maybe 100 figures. But I did not buy them all at once. Some of the guys I have gamed with in the past have vast colonial, ACW, Napoleoins, etc armies in the thousands. At 2 USA dollars a piece for bare metal, then the time to paint, or have the figures painted, well the price gets up there. I realize that we don't buy our armies all at once. There are years devoted to our interest in the period we are collecting and gaming with at the time. All hobbies are expensive. Sometimes I balk at the cost of what people spend on hobbies. I, myself, would not be too quick to hand over hundreds of dollars to someone to let me freeze my eyebrows off sliding down a snow covered mountain, yet millions of people do. These are people from all walks of life so I don't think that I can say that only wealthy folks do these things. This is what I think we save our money for. The joy that is our hobby of historical, sci-fi and fantasy miniatures, gaming, collecting, painting, sculpting. Please, do not take my reply wrongly. I totally understand your thoughts about my insanity. I too have them about what others spend on their hobbies. And, yes I have them about other gamers and what they spend on such wonderful terrain I see at the conventions. Seriously, those people are truly insane. :-) Matthew |
| 45thdiv | 22 May 2013 4:18 p.m. PST |
Hi marco66. John did the 28mm conquistador range, or maybe they were Portuguese . Anyway they were released about a year ago by Eureka. I don't know that he has plans to do any others. His 60mm stuff takes up a lot of his time. Matthew |
| nnascati | 22 May 2013 4:24 p.m. PST |
You misunderstand, I greatly envy and lust after your collection. I have a frugality problem, that simply will not let me spend a large amount per figure. |
| 45thdiv | 22 May 2013 5:13 p.m. PST |
I have that problem too. This is one I can't explain as to why I can open the wallet every now and then and buy a set or two. I really like them. I take them to conventions and let other people game with them as well. I really must have a screw loose. I was even thinking about the next Cold Wars convention. Should I run a game with these? The only draw back is packing them all away in the boxes to bring to the convention. That is just getting time consuming. I need a better way for them to travel. I need to also fix the corn rows I made a few years back. They did not survive the trip to Fall In. I know it's crazy, but I guess I am living a little as they say. You know what really gets me? The last time I ran a game at Historicon people just came by and looked. No one wanted to play. A lot of the comments were that they thought it was just for display. Matthew |
| 79thPA | 22 May 2013 5:45 p.m. PST |
After looking at some of your posts I have given serious consideration to buying and skirmish gaming (several years down the road) with JJ figures, maybe buying a pack a month. The problem with that is that a lot of his stuff seems to get retired fairly quickly and sold on the secondary market for 3 times the cost, so if you don't get it when it is available, you are screwed. |
| 45thdiv | 22 May 2013 6:55 p.m. PST |
One of the things that John has started to do is to no longer make them limited sets. When I first started buying these they were limited to maybe 400 sets world wide. A big hassle. Now there is no pressure to buy right away as they are no longer limited. as long as the molds hold out and the figures sell, they will be made. Now two years down the road there might be a higher cost due to manufacturing, but that is nothing that we have not seen in figures in the mainstream war gaming hobby. The pack a month is really a good way to go. You can work on some rangers and Indians or some French and British. There is another range that John does set in the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic wars. Plus there are some nice Scottish figures for Jacobite war. Take a look around the link at the top of this thread. You will see the entire range. There are USA distributors so you don't have to have things shipped from overseas. Oh, one more comment on these figures. They are really durable figures. The paint is sealed on well and the metal is strong. I have had figures drop four feet to the carpet floor and no broken rifles. I have had figures get knocked over during games with no chips. There is one warning I can give. The bayonets hurt if you jab your finger while trying to pick a figure up. They don't bend like 28mm figures. So the last game I stuck myself three times. Always reach for them from the side. Matthew |
| DerKrampus | 23 May 2013 6:17 p.m. PST |
Wish he sold them as kits… I would love to paint some up! |
| 45thdiv | 24 May 2013 6:20 a.m. PST |
I would like that too. I have seen people do repaints of figures so they fit as another unit. That blows my mind. |
takes a look at flexible roads made from long-lasting flexible resin.