A little bit of fun for you.
Here's a small selection of items recently up for sale on e-Bay. All you have to do is guess the price that they actually went for. All are Heroics and Ros and - to help you - I've given you the price it would cost you to buy the unpainted models from H&R themselves.
a) 5 x T-35 heavy Russian tanks (6mm)
b) 22 x T-26 light Russian tanks (6mm)
c) 14 x T-37 light Russian tanks (6mm)
d) 12 x White Scout Cars (6mm)
The H&R price for these would be (as follows)
a) T-35's cost 80p each - so £4 of metal.
b) T-26's cost 40p each - so £8.80
c) T-37's cost 40p each - so £5.60.
d) White Scout cars cost 40p each - so £4.80
Any ideas? Well, look below for the answers.
a) £11.50
b) £31.00
c) £3.23
d) £16.00
What can account for the vast discrepancy in value? And what in the name of sanity would persuade someone to pay over four times the bare metal value for the T-26's and White Scout Cars! £31.00 would buy you more unpainted H&R tanks than Stalin had (77 x T-34's at current prices!). Russian tanks are not hard to paint. Cover in dark green paint. Quick ink wash. Maybe a touch of drybrush. Done. Is the fact that someone has done this for you worth paying that amount of difference. Or is this true proof of 'more money than sense'?
And why are the nice little T-37's so cheap? Apart from the fact that they die whenever they meet any kind of opposition! Same basic unit cost at H&R. But unwanted and unloved (except by me - I'm waiting until the last minute then BAM! Mine!).
Here's a small selection of items recently up for sale on e-Bay. All you have to do is guess the price that they actually went for. All are Heroics and Ros and - to help you - I've given you the price it would cost you to buy the unpainted models from H&R themselves.
a) 5 x T-35 heavy Russian tanks (6mm)
b) 22 x T-26 light Russian tanks (6mm)
c) 14 x T-37 light Russian tanks (6mm)
d) 12 x White Scout Cars (6mm)
The H&R price for these would be (as follows)
a) T-35's cost 80p each - so £4 of metal.
b) T-26's cost 40p each - so £8.80
c) T-37's cost 40p each - so £5.60.
d) White Scout cars cost 40p each - so £4.80
Any ideas? Well, look below for the answers.
a) £11.50
b) £31.00
c) £3.23
d) £16.00
What can account for the vast discrepancy in value? And what in the name of sanity would persuade someone to pay over four times the bare metal value for the T-26's and White Scout Cars! £31.00 would buy you more unpainted H&R tanks than Stalin had (77 x T-34's at current prices!). Russian tanks are not hard to paint. Cover in dark green paint. Quick ink wash. Maybe a touch of drybrush. Done. Is the fact that someone has done this for you worth paying that amount of difference. Or is this true proof of 'more money than sense'?
And why are the nice little T-37's so cheap? Apart from the fact that they die whenever they meet any kind of opposition! Same basic unit cost at H&R. But unwanted and unloved (except by me - I'm waiting until the last minute then BAM! Mine!).