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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 02:03:34
Subject: Paint my army before selling it?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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I have some Space Wolves I'm going to sell on the forum at some point. I was wondering if it's worth the time to paint them first? I mean, the mold lines are cleaned off, the gun barrels are drilled, the models are primed, and everything is kit bashed pretty well. No two models are alike. Is it worth the effort to put a clean but simple paint job on them?
1 wolf priest, 3 drop pods, 5 terminators , 5 scouts, 1 dreadnought, 10 power armor wolf guard, 10 grey hunters, 20 blood claws, and 6 long fangs.
It would probably take me 40-50 hours to paint the faces, hair, weapons, fur, shoulder pads, seals, and dip them. I honestly don't know how much difference that will make price wise. Thoughts? Any pointers to someone with little experience selling models?
(Don't PM me about them now. They will be in the Swap Shop when the time comes, haha).
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 02:09:47
Subject: Paint my army before selling it?
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Lady of the Lake
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Unless you can paint extremely well it'd just lower the value you could get from them. Assembled well with no mold lines and drilled barrels gets rid of the part most find annoying thus would probably get you more than if you put some paint on them that the potential buyer could have to strip off later.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 02:12:27
Subject: Re:Paint my army before selling it?
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Ultramarine Librarian with Freaky Familiar
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No, painting the army is the actually the worst thing you could do to it in the current condition. Unless you are a Golden Daemon winner or some sort.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 02:29:58
Subject: Paint my army before selling it?
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Either way its up to you bud. You might lose value any way you slice it, so having some fun painting em up might be worth the slight loss.
If they're unimportant troops or w/e I think painting them up to a decent table top standard might do some good, but if you can't paint a good low quality job then screw it and leave em.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 02:46:56
Subject: Paint my army before selling it?
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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!
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You can always strip the paint, as a person who buys on ebay i would way prefer a stripped model than a painted one.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 04:04:52
Subject: Re:Paint my army before selling it?
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Been Around the Block
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TheCustomLime wrote:No, painting the army is the actually the worst thing you could do to it in the current condition. Unless you are a Golden Daemon winner or some sort.
No need to be golden demon, just better than average
to the OP: I'd say this should be your minimum if you want to paint them
http://www.coolminiornot.com/336364?browseid=8825868
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 04:50:26
Subject: Paint my army before selling it?
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Ughh... While I am capable of painting to that level, I'm not capable of painting it quickly enough to be worth it to me. I'm thinking I'll just leave them primed. Besides, it would be a lot to paint and base in retrospect. I'm basically looking for money, not a project.
That it a very nice looking terminator though.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 04:53:33
Subject: Re:Paint my army before selling it?
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Douglas Bader
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Have you won multiple golden demons (or similar high-level painting contests), and are you willing to invest the time and effort to paint at that level? If you can't answer "yes" to both of those questions then don't bother painting them. Anything less than golden demon level quality means that the models are probably going straight into the paint stripper as soon as the buyer gets them. And stripping paint takes work, so that lowers the price you can expect to get.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 05:27:56
Subject: Paint my army before selling it?
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Grizzled Space Wolves Great Wolf
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beezley1981 wrote:It would probably take me 40-50 hours to paint the faces, hair, weapons, fur, shoulder pads, seals, and dip them.
No. If the best you're going to do is dip them, then no, don't waste your time, it'll lower the value of them. Unless you are an extremely fast painter, it's really not worth it. You have to paint them above average to increase the value of the models, anything less than a paintjob that would take most people 2-3 hours per infantry model will not be worth selling and even if you do put in that much time, you really aren't going to get much additional money for a LOT of additional work. Even the model Avinash linked, really, it's not going to fetch much more than an unpainted model, it's just a basecoat, wash and a drybrush, the wash isn't even done that neatly on the yellow. Selling an army you already own is even worse than commission painting, as commission painting you'll often get someone with a particular vision who just doesn't have the time to paint it and is willing to pay you. When you're just selling a random army, you're trying to sell YOUR vision to someone else, unless it lines up perfectly with what they want, they probably won't be willing to pay you all that much for them.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2014/04/12 05:29:22
Subject: Paint my army before selling it?
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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Dang, how much are you asking?
I'd buy them painted from you!
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