...which collection should i collect next? ... i don't know what to do anymore!!!...how do you guys manage? Also do you collect a few figures of each collection, or do you complete the entirer collection?...
Nicolas, it takes patience and the ability to accept that you can't have them all, unless you have a large bank account or a very good job that will allow you, over time, to collect everything. Collecting everything is **** near impossible. So many great series and so few dollars.
If you have ever been interested in a specific time period; or, if you have read more books about one time period than another; or, whatever looks the best (in your eyes); then that's what should be collected.
Be selective and pick those pieces that are unusual or not the typical release from a particular time period. If you are interested in WWII, there are plenty of Tiger I's, but few that have interior detailing like Figarti. The limited or special limited editions of K&C should at least keep their value.
If massed figures are not your thing, get one of each of the Napoleonics or the Crusaders. If massing (large marching or fighting groups of the same or similar possed figure) is your thing, then by-all-means its Napoleonics. WWII has individual and unique figures with each set. Within WWII are several subsets. Forces of Battle are really cool and not very popular as a series by any other maker. Waffen SS are made by many, K&C are still the best IMO. Iwo Jima, Battle of the Bulge, the fight for Berlin, and all the others are really great.
I am fortunate enough to have started collecting several years ago and I have sold all my earlier numbered K&C sets. I just did not like the sculpting or paint. The newer releases are a different story. Anything from about late 2004 and beyond is much better than the earlier sets.
If you have the chance to get to see any of the figures in person, that would be the best way to evaluate your wants. Now that Treefrog has 3d pictures, they give a much better appearance than the flat 2d pictures do, take a carefull look at how they all appear.
Work with a dealer. Perhaps you can get some things on a trial basis. You may be able to trade in what you don't like for new issues. Ask, the answer is always no if you don't.
Be patient, you will purchase figures or vehicles you may not like after a period of time. Ebay is great for at least getting some of you money back.
As my old grandmother once told me while rocking me gently in her arms on the front porch as we watched the sun set gloriously into the Western sky, “Michael, the only thing you HAVE to have is air, everything else is just gravy.”
