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60% of model assuming it's a reliable seller. However up to another 200% depending on conversions/painting detail.

For example if it's a $44 Dreadnought that's over the top basing, conversions, and omg check out that sweet OSL lighting and zomg, etc. I could see paying around $120 for it. These things are debatable and wholly depend on the "buyer" though.

 Pouncey wrote:

 TheAngrySquig wrote:

 Void__Dragon wrote:
How far would I go?

I'd burn down an orphanage, purchasing the model with the blood of the innocent.

Money is not the only limiting factor. Morality, or self-preservation limits people.

There are no limits to be found here.

Thank you for this reply. It is probably one of 3 replies I have truly found funny or helpful. You have just brightened my day

Helpful?

What did you need help with, exactly?

Helpful in answering the question. And you were one of the other helpful ones, untwist your panties

 TheAngrySquig wrote:
Helpful in answering the question. And you were one of the other helpful ones, untwist your panties

Mostly I was wondering if you were trying to set a price on eBay for some beautiful work of art miniature you'd done or something and were trying to gauge the market by polling your target market.

Or something like that. When my brain gets all suspicious in a paranoid way, it's usually not too detailed.

I'm partially color blind, so I have no issue letting someone paint my models. I personal loathe having to pick up a paint brush. I am willing to pay 50 to 150 for work done. (not including model cost) I can get friends to paint for me, in exchange for magnet work, so I only like custom models, if I'm buying them.

The problem for me is that I'm actually decently skilled in modelling. If there was anything I saw that I really wanted, I'd just copy it. If you can cut a straight line or do basic highlighting you have the skills to be able to do mostly anything shy of extensive GS work or stuff that requires an airbrush.

So really, it's a matter of comparing time to money. If I could, in theory, replicate anything I saw, given enough time, then really the cost in money I'm paying is to replace the cost in time I'd pay otherwise.

For me, I've got a lot more time than money, so my time is pretty cheap, while my money is pretty dear. As such, someone would have to sell their services for pretty cheap in order for it to be worth me paying for something. So cheap, that there's no way I'd ever actually find someone to do it at the prices I'd be willing to pay.

Now, there is a floor to that. For example, I still like buying things in kits, rather than off of ebay, because it's worth it to me to spend ten or twenty dollars more if I don't have to spend two weeks of endless frustration trying to pick apart models that have been plastic glued together until I can just get to the same point I'd have been if I bought things new on the sprue.

Ailaros, if I painted like you, I wouldn't even take somebody to McDonalds in exchange for a whole army

I'd never buy anything pre painted. I would also not buy anything already custom modeled as that's where I get a big chunk of my enjoyment from the hobby. For all the skill I lack with a paint brush, I make up for it with customizing/magnetizing/modeling (or so I've been told).

However, once I've built and primed a model, I have no problem letting someone else paint it with my supervision. My brother and I get together to model/paint to take some of the bore out of it. It just so happens he has much more skill painting than I do, and I am better at modeling. So sometimes he'll come over and ask me to put something together or customize/magnetize it, and while I'm doing that, he might paint a few of my models.

But this works for us because we are there for "yeah, that part paint skull white, but not that part, it's green, yeah I know it's weird" and "I want that guys arm up a little more, yeah like that so it looks like he's about cleave something". I could never send my stuff off to be painted by other people. If nothing else than putting a pro painted model on the table would make the rest of my army look bad in comparison (well worse really ).

I prefer to buy things on the sprue, or at least not assembled, at the very least without arms/weapon options glued. I bought painted models once, because they were very cheap. I didn't enjoy stripping them, and then when they were stripped and I base coated them, I just didn't like their poses and I didn't want to try and rip them apart to try and fix them. They were glued with supra glue (that's a whole level beyond super), and I just ended up giving them to a friend.

If by some miracle, I did find a model painted in my colors, which are very specific, and modeled the way I would have modeled it, and an actual model that was something I needed, and at a really good price, and they made Pluto a planet again, and and and.... then I might entertain the idea of maybe considering the possibility of perhaps being interested in inquiring about it. Short of all that, a resounding no.

 TheAngrySquig wrote:
If you found the perfect model on ebay, your favorite sculpt, painted beautifully, would be the jewel of your army, how much would you be willing to spend on it?

I wouldn't I only field models I have painted myself. It's a matter of pride and my personal projects. Fielding stuff someone else painted would feel like cheating to me. I am a reasonable painter, I suppose if you were like those terrible standard painters you see in GW with the paint splashed all over, thin in places, too thick in others with poorly applied washes and slapdash highlights then it might be a good idea.

I do buy pre-painted off e-bay, especially bad paint jobs because it puts off buyers and you get a cheap model then paint stripper and voila!

As for price I would only pay a fraction of GW price. I only pay anything close to RRP for unbuilt models on sprues in perfect condition. Anything built is going to have to be very, very cheap unless its a mono-pose figure and then it had better be unpainted.