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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: gofaster on April 12, 2004, 03:23:09 PM
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Two things make my work day exciting:
(a) counting the minutes until I win an auction on a second-hand scale model, and
(b) tracking the UPS delivery of said second-hand scale model.
Its like Christmas without stressing over trees and ornaments and relatives and travel.
Today's bids: a 1 cent bid on some missiles for a 1/72 scale Hornet, and a 1 dollar bid for some diorama accessories for a Mustang scene I'm going to build.
Online bidding is better than shopping. Its such an adrenaline rush when you're seconds away from getting a steal.
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that is why Ebay stock is higher today than in the middle of the dot com bubble
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just watch out for those too good to be true deals. I baught some tools and won them pretty cheap. I know the shipping was gonna be like $15 so bid on a few mor "dollar" items and won. Much to my surprise the COMBINED shipping price was $35. For 3 $1 tools.
DONT BID ON TOOL LIQUIDATORS OR TOOLSCHEAP. They have good prices on stuff but make the money off the shipping
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Yeah, and the thing is, the missiles were leftover spare parts some guy was selling just to clean out his workbench. Can't buy onesies and twosies in parts like that in a hobby shop. They want to sell me more than I need in a box just so I can get a couple of pieces out of it. Blah!
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Originally posted by Gnslngr
just watch out for those too good to be true deals. I baught some tools and won them pretty cheap. I know the shipping was gonna be like $15 so bid on a few mor "dollar" items and won. Much to my surprise the COMBINED shipping price was $35. For 3 $1 tools.
DONT BID ON TOOL LIQUIDATORS OR TOOLSCHEAP. They have good prices on stuff but make the money off the shipping
Yeah, you gotta watch that. Its common for some model sellers to advertise low bids then hit you for $8 in shipping (USPS only charges $4.50 usually, so guess what the difference is - the seller's profit). Fortunately I haven't had any problems except on some golf clubs I bought (and that was the last time I used eBay for anything over $20).
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Originally posted by Gnslngr
just watch out for those too good to be true deals. I baught some tools and won them pretty cheap. I know the shipping was gonna be like $15 so bid on a few mor "dollar" items and won. Much to my surprise the COMBINED shipping price was $35. For 3 $1 tools.
DONT BID ON TOOL LIQUIDATORS OR TOOLSCHEAP. They have good prices on stuff but make the money off the shipping
More like, don't bid on an auction that doesn't list a shipping price without checking with the seller first.
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ooooh yeah, e-bay can be fun looking for those good deals.
i agree about having s/h listed up front. so far i've been satisfied with my purchases, got some good deals, saving money over ordering thru regular online shops or visiting the local hobby shop which charges retail.
however, my best deal to date was a trip, by happenstance, to a Hobby Lobby when they were having 1/2 off all models. picked up about 6 models, good ones, too. 3 accurate minitures, 2 tamiyas and a monogram pby-5.
i also got a steal on a mossie VI listing about $20-25 (plus shipping) for a total of $11, including shipping.
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That Monogram PBY kit is a classic; probably one of the best on the market (unless Tamiya or Hasegawa makes one, which I don't think they do). The Accurate Miniatures kits are fantastic - I scored some AccMin race car models dirt cheap through a shop that didn't know what they had.
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Originally posted by gofaster
That Monogram PBY kit is a classic; probably one of the best on the market (unless Tamiya or Hasegawa makes one, which I don't think they do). The Accurate Miniatures kits are fantastic - I scored some AccMin race car models dirt cheap through a shop that didn't know what they had.
The Monogram PBY is not one of their 1970s classics, it's a fully moden kit from the mid 1990s and on a par with most "Tamigawa" kits...
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Always look at the sellers feedback.
95% good or better, sure thing.
My wife got took once on a jar of marbles.
The signs were all there, but she wanted the marbles so bad she didn't look.
Thankfully it was just 10$.
Always check shipping costs.
Chances are if its high someone else has or will have the same thing for less shipping.
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I dont do much on eBay anymore. I really wish someone would launch a competing service and make them wise up.
The only thing constant with eBay is rates/fees go up, seller/customer service goes down and down.
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Yahoo has an Auction service but I haven't found much on it. I think eBay is too far ahead of the competition.
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2 days ago i found a tamiya yamato battleship 1/350 scale that was being sold on ebay.
no bids on it and it was.
$1.00
:eek:
and i payed 60 for my prince of wales
even better:eek:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4248&item=3187557246&rd=1
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Its the ARGO! Where's the wave motion gun?? :D
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lol.. read the description...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1189&item=3186667889&rd=1
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Originally posted by Shane
lol.. read the description...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1189&item=3186667889&rd=1
Gotta appreciate his honesty!
A bit verbose, though. Something tells me this is his only form of communication with the outside world. Either that or he's retired with nothing to do but wait for the paint to cure on his current project.
Some useful bits of wisdom:
. It is faster and easier to make your own production schedule in order to use your skills all at once. Curb your enthusiasm by building 5 or 10 kits of similar subject all at once. This allows you to do one certain function over and over increasing your skill and cutting down on the time needed to perform the function. After you've trimmed and prepared 10 kits for painting, your thirst for modeling will be slaked for awhile and all the glue and paint will be bone dry by the time you get back to work. Group Modeling also allows you to 'warm up' on lesser kits before you work on the 'main event'.
Maybe not 10 at a time. I find 2 or 3 at a time to be sufficient. I'll start 2 or 3 at once, set the better kits aside, practice on the cheaper kit and finish it (or declare it total crap and send it back to its box), then come back and finish the 2 better kits.
Scale Modeling is about what an object looks like from the distance the scale provides. If your eye is one inch from a 1/72 scale model it is like being Six Feet from the Full Scale Object. @ 1/72 scale the Nozzle of your AirBrush is the size of a Sewer Pipe. Since CamoPatterns Spray painted look solid from three feet and the tight curves and corners, nooks and crannies and engraved detail of scale models are a nightmare to spray paint, why would the Model Industry Promote Spray Painting when Brush Painting is Easier, Faster, and far Safer? Atomized Paint is so Dangerous that most Industrial Painting is done by Robots.
A good point I hadn't considered. I brush paint anyway, not so much for scale authenticity as for ease of use and safety.
. A Model Magazine is like PornoGraphy for Modelers, showing Guys Doing Beautiful Models with Equipment and Skills you Don't Have. Modeling Can Be Fun, Real Fun, if you don't get Bogged Down in Overly Complex Methods.
I hear ya, brother! I've gotten some good advice on things to try on kits I build, but I have yet to do any sort of resin-cockpit add-on like the ones that are in just about every model how-to in the mags. If a cockpit is missing detail, I just scratch build a couple of squares for a radio and trim some sprue for knobs, levers, and switches. For a reference I use the "Down/Left" and "Down/Right" views of airplanes in Aces High. :lol
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USPS man showed up today with the missiles and spare parts. $4 for shipping, 1 penny to win. Everything is there, looks good, and the guy attached a hand-written note:
(GoFaster),
Here are your parts. Hope they help you to add a custom touch to your planes. Thanks again.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16
JESUS LOVES YOU (GoFaster)!"
So I got that going for me now.