In these troubled times... (1 Viewer)

Safe haven..and welcome to the forum!:)

Rob
 
Seems like long term but like gold these are the times with the highest retail, buying high etc,,I never bought or collected to invest or thought a lot about the potential,,even being in the business on a smaller scale. I dont believe old soldiers,,in 54mm that is,,,lose a great deal ,as opposed to us 1/1 types as the Queens veterans did in the 19th cent.
 
OzDigger said:
I vote for safe indulgence ;)
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How about indulgent Haven!;)

Seriously though i do find with all the bad stuff happening in the world my collecting is a little escape as it were,a chance to forget about house prices,stock markets bla bla bla.:rolleyes:

Rob
 
Shameless indulgence works for me; wait that sounds like a Tim Curry line.:rolleyes::D
 
There most certainly is shame involved...shame i can't afford everything i want.;)

Rob
 
Sounds like we all agree we're getting the best of both worlds.

I certainly feel that my pension fund is safer tucked away in my bedroom than in my local bank. Whoops - there goes another one!
 
Much safer to invest it in Polystone,may i suggest that new K&C King Tiger!:)

Rob
 
In troubled times, you learn to cast and paint your own. Good, ol' Yankee/Pennsylvania Dutch/Redneck thrift and self-reliance.

Prost!
Brad
 
theBaron said:
In troubled times, you learn to cast and paint your own. Good, ol' Yankee/Pennsylvania Dutch/Redneck thrift and self-reliance.

Prost!
Brad
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:D:D BY co-incidence I bought a model kit yesterday , the first since I was 10yrs old :D:D A Trumpeter 1/35 german Panzerjagerwagen, Now I just have to put the 206 parts together so it looks as cool as the picture on the front of the box:eek: Its an armoured train car with a Panzer IV turret and long 7.5cm KwK cannon...not quite the K 5 , but it'll have to do , at the lot more affordable aussie equivalent price of about $40 usd :D:D:D
 
I'll stick with the collecting, maybe not buying as much as I use to, but there is nothing like a brand new add on to brighten my day, it may be just a hobby, but it makes the miserable economy a little easier to take......Sammy
 
redhugh said:
:D:D BY co-incidence I bought a model kit yesterday , the first since I was 10yrs old :D:D A Trumpeter 1/35 german Panzerjagerwagen, Now I just have to put the 206 parts together so it looks as cool as the picture on the front of the box:eek: Its an armoured train car with a Panzer IV turret and long 7.5cm KwK cannon...not quite the K 5 , but it'll have to do , at the lot more affordable aussie equivalent price of about $40 usd :D:D:D
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Before you get to that could you put my 1/32 Hasegawa Storch together for me :)
 
Being single, my children are no longer children and have children of their own, my first retirement under my belt, my home paid for (well almost anyway), and I really enjoy toy soldiers. So for me its not an investment, its a hobby that involves some amount of money, but so do others. A good fishing boat can cost you $10's of thousands of dollars, then the equipment and the travel costs everytime you take it out into the water. Wood working means capital investment in power tools (unless you are into the old style). Even gardening has costs associated with it. Name a hobby and most will have expenses associated with them. At least when I spend my money I have something physical in return. Traveling gets you photographs and a few trinkets. Fishing, hunting and gardening are seasonal. How many coffee tables and gun cabinets can you make?

I enjoy my soldiers every day. It brings me back to a time of play and day dreaming. If there will be a payoff for this hobby, I won't see it. Maybe my kids, unless I can get some of my offspring hooked like I am and give the collection to them. Otherwise, good times or bad, I collect toy soldiers and as my signoff at the bottom of every post says, "I love this stuff".:)

Oh no, I waxed poetic again :rolleyes::eek:
 
I would not recommend buying to invest.

But I would do my homework, and spend my dollars wisely.
 
redhugh said:
:D:D BY co-incidence I bought a model kit yesterday , the first since I was 10yrs old :D:D A Trumpeter 1/35 german Panzerjagerwagen, Now I just have to put the 206 parts together so it looks as cool as the picture on the front of the box:eek: Its an armoured train car with a Panzer IV turret and long 7.5cm KwK cannon...not quite the K 5 , but it'll have to do , at the lot more affordable aussie equivalent price of about $40 usd :D:D:D
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Good for you! I did the same thing a couple of years ago, that is, to come full circle, via toy soldier collecting, back to the modeling hobby of my youth.

Our toy soldier club started holding its meetings on the same night as the local IPMS club, because so many of us were members of both clubs. And seeing what the scale modelers were doing rekindled my interest in building models again. And there is a lot of cross-over in terms of the skills you use.

So now, I do both. And for modeling, 99% of what I build has been the same kits I built back then, bought on eBay or at flea markets/shows. I remember those old kits very fondly, and prefer to build them again, just applying the things I've learned in the meantime.

Much enjoyment to you, prost!
Brad
 
theBaron said:
Good for you! I did the same thing a couple of years ago, that is, to come full circle, via toy soldier collecting, back to the modeling hobby of my youth.

Our toy soldier club started holding its meetings on the same night as the local IPMS club, because so many of us were members of both clubs. And seeing what the scale modelers were doing rekindled my interest in building models again. And there is a lot of cross-over in terms of the skills you use.

So now, I do both. And for modeling, 99% of what I build has been the same kits I built back then, bought on eBay or at flea markets/shows. I remember those old kits very fondly, and prefer to build them again, just applying the things I've learned in the meantime.

Much enjoyment to you, prost!
Brad
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Its funny how your collecting habit comes full circle.Here i am nearing 45yrs old and Airfix are now releasing all those plastic figures i set up in my back garden more than thirty five years ago.And i'd still like to buy them again!

Rob
 
It seems every modeler goes through the same sequence, and I think many toy soldier collectors do, too. We start as kids, then get through high school and go to work, or go off to college, and meet girls, beer, etc, start families, and then rediscover our old hobbies, when the kids are old enough to start running around on their own.

I'm with you on Airfix, I was just starting to use the 1/32 scale figures with my armor models, when I graduated high school and put everything aside. But I also had the 1/72 and HO scale Napoleonics, and the Ancient Romans and Britons. It was those figures that got me into tin and lead; I made plaster molds of some of the simpler figures, and melted tire weights over a Bunsen burner from a chemistry set, to make my first figures.

I built a lot of Airfix' aircraft, too, and also the diorama sets that they made and sold under the MPC brand here in the states: Omaha Beach, Commando Raid, Pearl Harbor Attack, Guadalcanal. Really takes me back.....
 
My buying has plummeted. Due to illness as well as concern. I love the hobby so I will continue to cast and paint. My worth seems to be in my skill at making things, so I will continue to do this. I will try to get things I really like. But what I like will become a smaller niche.

I could go a lot of places with this line of thinking. Right now the best thing to do is suit up and show up. Have fun with the hobby!
 
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