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07-12-2011, 05:51 PM | #11 |
***** Enforcement Agent
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Louisville
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I don't collect. I just make customs, I try to sell all my customs though and I have a ton of fodder for ideas I don't know if Ill ever make.
I really need to pair down my fodder. But that urge to collect would return if I ever had the space and the money to do so in the right way. I still have a dream someday of building a scale Hoth Eco Base. dreams keep you alive, if you actually build your hoth base...you'll only have a new dream that is larger/bigger/harder than the first |
07-12-2011, 05:54 PM | #12 |
Grand Master
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: illinios
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I don't collect. I just make customs, I try to sell all my customs though and I have a ton of fodder for ideas I don't know if Ill ever make.
I really need to pair down my fodder. But that urge to collect would return if I ever had the space and the money to do so in the right way. I still have a dream someday of building a scale Hoth Eco Base. out of curiosity how much do u sell your customs for and how many have you sold??? |
07-12-2011, 05:58 PM | #13 |
Master of Disguise
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Sarasota, FL
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If I am doing commission work I usually charge around $60-80 depending on what is involved. Sometimes $40 for a pure repaint. Vehicles go for a bit more of course. As far as how many customs I've sold... well I guess in the last three years since I started doing them again (used to do them in the 90s for profit as well) .... I'd say around a hundred of them or so.
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07-12-2011, 05:58 PM | #14 |
Ex-Pharisee
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 742 Evergreen Terrace
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My interest in collecting waxes and wanes. I'm at a stand-still right now. I have everything I want until the new stuff hits, and I'm not getting much of that. I've learned to be more content with what I have. So many times, I would anticipate something only to be let down when I got it and it wasn't as good as the pictures made it out to be. And I've learned not to let opinions, pictures and what-not here on the Tank influence my decisions. Troop-building looks really cool, but when I tried it, it just wasn't for me. The collection that I have right now is darn-near complete for me, i.e., I have all the vintage stuff I ever wanted and all of the modern counterparts to them that are available. So that's all I'm really looking for. Unless something weird happens, I won't be getting rid of it, but I won't be expanding much more either.
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07-12-2011, 05:59 PM | #15 |
Master of Disguise
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Yeah.. someday in happy land when I'm rich as Bill Gates I will open a Toy Museum and hire all the customziers to come build all the coolest customs and Dios ever created. LOL Its a dream.
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07-12-2011, 06:01 PM | #16 |
Grand Master
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: illinios
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If you are talking purely 4in Joe Customs. They sell anywhere from $15 all the way up to $150 on e-bay auctions.
If I am doing commission work I usually charge around $60-80 depending on what is involved. Sometimes $40 for a pure repaint. Vehicles go for a bit more of course. As far as how many customs I've sold... well I guess in the last three years since I started doing them again (used to do them in the 90s for profit as well) .... I'd say around a hundred of them or so. thats really cool...I've never done anything for profit regarding toys. |
07-12-2011, 06:01 PM | #17 |
That's lo!
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Wa.
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A cop came over once and when i showed him the collection in my office he said that lots of pedophiles and serial killers collected dolls. I sort of thought that was a "creepy and weird" comment to make
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07-12-2011, 06:26 PM | #18 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: md
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A while ago I threw all my toys away.
I could have sold them for profit...I could have posed them on my desk. I could have done dios or made a new wave of customs. I didn't though...I just felt it was time to be rid of them...forever. there's also quite a few customs I never showed off here that were really some of my best work..I don't have any pics or anything of them. There is clearly a childish part in all of us here that loves toys even though we are all grown up.I even to this day appreciate the sculpting and detail in figures.They are like some of the finest collector statues around yet they move.I still get excited when I see new toys at the store too.It is the inner child. I think I have finally reached that point though.I feel really good not owning any toys..I feel like I'm free.If someone comes over they can't find that case in my closet full of toys. I am IIIzoeIII and I'm a recovering toy-oholic hehe. has anyone else been through this or already gone through it? or God do I even ask has anyone done this then returned to collecting? GIVE IN TO THE URGE GO BUY YOURSELF A JOE NOW OR YOULL LOOK BACK 10 YRS AND REGRET GIVING IT UP oh and ONLY QUITTERS MAKE EXCUSES AS TO WHY THEY QUIT |
07-12-2011, 06:27 PM | #19 |
The Chaos Bringer
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Skid Row Yo!!!
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I think the major difference between you and I (based on some of what you wrote) I've never been embarrassed by my collection. Never worried about "what if" someone saw it. It's something I've worked very hard on, and something I'm very proud of. When I talk about it to my friends or show it off it's always with passion. So no one has ever made me feel like less of a man, or nerd for having it.
That and having a lot of uber LA nerds for friends helps too.
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07-12-2011, 06:29 PM | #20 |
Grand Master
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