[Minis?] Would you pay for this?

[Napftor]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3107551894&category=2537

Follow the link to this rather interesting Ebay offering. At $300, definitely not. I don't care how much effort this guy put into it. If it's so carefully crafted (yada yada), why sell it? Trying to capitalize on/profit by Mr. Parkinson's work like this seems so...wrong?

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Nope.

 

[Bagpuss]

I wouldn't buy it but neither does it seem wrong the chap has obviously put a lot of work into it.

 

[haiiro]

There are all sorts of other things I'd rather spend $300 on, but I'm with Bagpuss: this took a lot of work. It's actually pretty cool.

 

[Zerovoid]

Well, it is certainly a cool diarama, but judging from the larger pictures on the sellers site, the paint job is not worth that price. It looks very good, but not top notch. This is from comparison with the prices for the painting service on www.portent.net Even if it was, I wouldn't pay 300$ for that, because I can't justify spending that kind of money on somebody else's work. For me to display something like that and be proud of it, I would have to have made it myself, otherwise it means nothing.

 

[Sanackranib]

paint job

I would have to say "no". I can paint that well or better and while the castle is cool, I 'de never get to use it.

 

[Zaruthustran]

For $300, you could buy all the castle brick molds from http://www.castlemolds.com , plenty of the dental plaster to cast the bricks, paint, and the mins used, and still have enough for all three revised core rule books.

-z, who thinks castlemolds are really, really fun and really, really easy to use.

 

[The Padre]

For $300, you could buy all the castle brick molds from http://www.castlemolds.com , plenty of the dental plaster to cast the bricks, paint, and the mins used, and still have enough for all three revised core rule books.

-z, who thinks castlemolds are really, really fun and really, really easy to use.

I'd just like to agree with Zaruthustran here.

I just got a fair range of Hirst Arts moulds and they are great!

I have one set which I'm using to make modular dungeons and another set for making castles. At the moment I'm making "Brightstone Keep" from the Castle guide and I'm seriously considering make the moathouse from the Temple of Elemental Evil.

All I can say is give Histarts a look. The initial outlay is high, but the return is enormous!

Dave

 

[blueshade]

For $300, you could buy all the castle brick molds from http://www.castlemolds.com , plenty of the dental plaster to cast the bricks, paint, and the mins used, and still have enough for all three revised core rule books.

-z, who thinks castlemolds are really, really fun and really, really easy to use.

How true that is because that diorama wouldn't even put a dent in the 50 lb bag that my fiance and I get. Plus you wouldn't get the satisfaction of building it yourself if you paid $300 for someone else's creativity. But that is just my opinion.

 

[bolen]

That's neat. I wondner how they would ship it to you?