Rare Figure lot on E-bay

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:21 pm

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

Never does the phrase "more money than sense" seem more relevant.

Hope your not referring to me GtW .. lol i'm skint

I love this collection and am very much a completist. I work hard to fund securing the rarer parts of the collection and it all seems worthwhile once I get a chance to paint one up. The downside of course is i rarely get the chance to paint anything for myself these days - catch 22

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 4:33 pm

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

GothmogtheWerewolf wrote:

Never does the phrase "more money than sense" seem more relevant.

Hope your not referring to me GtW .. lol i'm skint

I love this collection and am very much a completist. I work hard to fund securing the rarer parts of the collection and it all seems worthwhile once I get a chance to paint one up. The downside of course is i rarely get the chance to paint anything for myself these days - catch 22

It's nice you, unlike the buyer of this "lot", actually works for it, but don't you think it a bit absurd? Whilst you are not one of them, some people complain about a model costing £5 each, but then go out to buy something like that. Whilst these 4 are nice models, they're not worth that much. It is GWs fault though.

As for you being skint, I wonder why lol. Over £600 for one ft & mtd model.

On the other hand, if ever there was someone talented enough to paint one of these things without ruining it, you are certainly that guy, and it's a shame you may never get round to them. If you ever get a chance, spare a thought to the wonderful people of One Ring and open your loving WIP to its wonders. At this rate, you'' have to wait until you retire (so not long then :wink:

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Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 5:13 pm

Hahah GtW - thank you i think lol

I tend not to let myself get drawn into the GW pricing debates as i don't find them relevant to my situation. Its not that I have lots of money as believe me I don't. I work full time to support my family and then paint on commission to fund my own collection. I made a promise to someone long ago to paint every model in the Lord of the Rings range and i'll keep that promise. As I've probably said somewhere before I'd buy GW's Lotr and Hobbit range at todays prices if they were made from ice lol.

Re. sparing a thought for my fellow One Ringers I spare you all lots of thoughts. Always happy to help any of you guys out with anything you need. You know where to find me (hiding in the chat box usually )

One day when GW stop releasing Lotr/Hobbit models I'll be able to scale back on the commission paints and to quote Gothmog
"the time of the orc is over the time of the spectre has come "
and i'll spend the next 150 years painting my disgraceful back log .
thanks for the kind words mate.

Imladris96 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:36 pm

Armandhammer wrote:

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

I've paid a lot more than £600 for one model, well it was a foot and mtd...

Thorongil? ...

Even though that's crazy, it’s nice to know that there are people willing to put that kind of money into our beloved hobby. Much respect :yay:

I thought that Thorongil was an unreleased mounted Hama? At least that's what I got off the Rare minis thread.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:38 pm

Thorongil ft and mtd is a model in its own right. a very nice model at that. Not sure about mtd Hama but there is a Mtd gamling without banner... I know because i'm chasing it now. (might take me a while to catch it tho - darned horses can run quite fast)

Ukfreddybear · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:06 pm

Thorongil is definitely Aragorn. It says so on the foot models tab

MeatBoy1994 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:42 am

Can we see pics of the mounted Gamling you're chasing down?

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Tue Jan 28, 2014 8:45 am

MeatBoy1994 wrote:

Can we see pics of the mounted Gamling you're chasing down?

Not yet I'm afraid as I don't have it yet. Gimme a couple of weeks i'm working on it.

Goldman25 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:41 pm

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

MeatBoy1994 wrote:

Can we see pics of the mounted Gamling you're chasing down?

Not yet I'm afraid as I don't have it yet. Gimme a couple of weeks i'm working on it.

Is that the one that appears in the Two Towers Journeybook, in the Rohan painting guide section?

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:54 pm

i believe it is yes.

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:58 pm

I though I had a picture of it from the miniatures hall in WHW...but I can't find it.

But yes, the one in the TTT journeybook is the unreleased version. I'm not to sure about the pose which is why we thought it was a conversion at first. But as was pointed out to us by the staff at WHW, all conversions are credited to the converter and this model was amongst all the rohan heroes.

Lord Hurin · **Posted:** Wed Jan 29, 2014 3:22 am

Nice, I always liked that Gamling. It's a shame the character isn't great in game.

brightshado · **Joined:** Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:41 pm **Posts:** 1

You guys got me all excited that i might have a gem kicking around in my boxes of models. Is there a collectors guide somewhere that i can use to figure that out

Ukfreddybear · **Posted:** Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:06 pm

brightshado wrote:

You guys got me all excited that i might have a gem kicking around in my boxes of models. Is there a collectors guide somewhere that i can use to figure that out

http://www.one-ring.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=15007

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