New auctions ( pro painted miniatures ! )

[TyronMagda]

Hello to all!

I\'ve put on auction some minis of my collection.. at march I\'ll get married, so i need some money but above all my house it will be very little, too much little for my entire collection! lol

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmaxfede1977QQhtZ-1

Here there is some standard painted miniatures, but i like very much the rare limited edition female commissar painted by my friend manumilitari!

There is also a dwarf almost totally sculpted by myself and painted by manuel...

But also other mid nor dwarves ! ^__^

Enjoy! :beer:


http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmaxfede1977QQhtZ-1

 

[No Such Agency]

No, no, no. You\'ve got it all wrong. \"Pro painted\" miniatures are supposed to be sprayed black with two more colours, dipped in wood stain, and advertised using pics from GW\'s website.

 

[JakeSh]

Originally posted by No Such Agency
No, no, no. You\'ve got it all wrong. \"Pro painted\" miniatures are supposed to be sprayed black with two more colours, dipped in wood stain, and advertised using pics from GW\'s website.

My sentiments exactly!

Blasphemy!! A disgrace to the term \"pro-painted\"!!

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

Yeah please do yourself a big favor and drop that \"Pro painted\" crap from your auctions..its really the kiss of death. Most serious collectors I know won\'t even look at a auction with pro painted in the title because 99% of the time the stuff is utter shite.

 

[TyronMagda]

Originally posted by Dragon Forge Design
Yeah please do yourself a big favor and drop that \"Pro painted\" crap from your auctions..its really the kiss of death. Most serious collectors I know won\'t even look at a auction with pro painted in the title because 99% of the time the stuff is utter shite.

No, i won\'t drop the term pro painted... pro painted doesn\'t mean painted at competition level, but it means painted by a professionist and in in the auction it\'s well written that they\'re painted at standard level by one of the greatest painted i know!

I think that manumilitari\'s standard gaming level it\'s better than a lot of propainted miniatures i\'ve seen around!
And i like very much the female commissar, notwithstanding it\'s well written that it\'s at standard level i think she\'s very nice!
Here is a list on ebay of \"propainted miniatures\"... tell me how many of them are better then the female commissar!

And don\'t worry about costumers, i\'ve a lot of them around the world notwithstanding my work is teaching math and physics! :beer:Text

 

[Larre]

not pro-painted =/

// Larre

 

[cdamage]

sure the term pro-painted gets abused plenty but what else would you propose people search for?

just \"Painted\" - that\'l show up both \"pro painted\" and \"painted\"?...so you have probably 3 times the number of auctions to sift and EVEN MORE rubbish to sift. \"Well painted\"? All well and good but whose to say thats the term the masters are going to use?

Id say keep pro-painted - atleast these are exampled of what the term should stand for...instead of 3 totaly blurred out photos of different minis and giant red letters with italics and underlines procaliming \"Photos dont do model justice!!!! must be seen to be believed!!!\" haha. arf.

CD

 

[hakoMike]

I suppose the real test would be to have two auctions with nearly the same name, one using \"painted\" and the other \"pro painted\" and watching the hit counters.

btw, great minis TM.

 

[Onis Lair]

Actually i have done that hakoMike as an experament. I put up the same GW miniature, A space marine, painted almost identical and used one tital as pro-painted and the other as just painted. The pro-painted title had double and almost triple the number of hits as the nearly identical marine labled as just painted.
Unfortunatly with Ebay unless you put your name in the title and are well known enough to be searched by name, pro-painted will pull more people to look. Of course as DFD said most collectors will just blow past the auction because of the words pro-painted so your often left with people that don\'t even want to pay you the cost of the mini, let alone the time you spent painting it.