Just curious....buying habits (1 Viewer)

[kx1a]

For the collectors who like to put together dioramas. Do you guys (gals?)buy items with a specific diorama in mind or just buy everything you can that comes along and then build a diorama from the items you already have?

Bill W

 

[marco55]

Originally I bought everything in a range but now I'm more selective.Why buy a piece just to sit in a box.
Mark

 

[Rob]

For the collectors who like to put together dioramas. Do you guys (gals?)buy items with a specific diorama in mind or just buy everything you can that comes along and then build a diorama from the items you already have?

Bill W

Your second option,i buy something,look at it,and then come up with an idea or spot a photo.I have just purchased an 88 and am now working the brain for something to do with it!

Rob

 

[Phantom Warrior]

I buy the armour I like from the ranges I like; add the Troops I like from any range. Then come up with ideas for scenarios.

Terry

 

[kx1a]

I buy the armour I like from the ranges I like; add the Troops I like from any range. Then come up with ideas for scenarios.

Terry

I wish I had done that. I spent a few years just buying vehicles and ignoring figure sets. Now that I'm interested in dioramas, I'm a bit stuck. Recently purchase the LCA with it's accompanying figure sets as well as JG's D-Day beach set. I can now storm the beach but with no German defenders. Appropriate figures are long since retired and hard to find. Dang it
Bill

 

[Phantom Warrior]

I wish I had done that. I spent a few years just buying vehicles and ignoring figure sets. Now that I'm interested in dioramas, I'm a bit stuck. Recently purchase the LCA with it's accompanying figure sets as well as JG's D-Day beach set. I can now storm the beach but with no German defenders. Appropriate figures are long since retired and hard to find. Dang it
Bill

I started out ignoring figures for a while, but then I added a few and was lucky to get them before retirement. Now pick up selected sets to go with armour ranges like Battle of the Bulge.

Terry

 

[Wraith]

Your second option,i buy something,look at it,and then come up with an idea or spot a photo.I have just purchased an 88 and am now working the brain for something to do with it!

Rob

Ditto. I'm far too lacking in focus to just buy things with a specific dio in mind.
Also, like Rob, I have the all the willpower of a 3 year old.

Simon

 

[erniesstudio]

I started just with the tanks,but now have 7 cabinets 1 for armour,2 cabinets for parade dio,and 4 cabinets all dioramas,periods include france 1940, afrika1942 ,train station, russia winter, bulge winter, fall of berlin, surrender germans 1945, hospital german wounded. italy, crete, airfield ,and V1 in progress Berghof, normandy ...

 

[thebritfarmer]

Generally I just buy pieces that are released and then play around with them and see what I come up with.

 

[Grognard]

I buy figurines to complement my Napoleonic dioramas or to add to a set with a theme (e.g. Napoleon's staff, flag bearers, etc.). I am very picky on the quality/details of the figurines' sculpting and painting job.

 

[lenswerks]

I wish I had done that. I spent a few years just buying vehicles and ignoring figure sets. Now that I'm interested in dioramas, I'm a bit stuck. Recently purchase the LCA with it's accompanying figure sets as well as JG's D-Day beach set. I can now storm the beach but with no German defenders. Appropriate figures are long since retired and hard to find. Dang it
Bill

Bill you can use WS117, WS118 and WS122 for your display. 117 and 118 are Normandy figures and 122 can be used for Arnhem, Normandy or Fall of Berlin. That will give you 8 plus the 3 figures in WS076 Bunker Defenders.

Donnie

 

[mikemiller1955]

If I'm collecting a series..............then I'm collecting the whole series.

On most limited editions......you can't go too wrong.

If I'm not crazy about the pose.........I won't buy multiples.

In fact, the only multiples I would buy........would be firing lines.

 

[lenswerks]

For me it depends on the manufacture and series - I collect 6 series from JJD and do buy them all, 4 series from WB and don't buy them all and 10 from K&C depending on how you break them down and don't buy them all.

Any of the WWI K&C set I would buy them all. Same with their BBG/BBA series - While they don't all go together as some are at rest, they will be enough at rest some day for a nice display while you work with those in a combat situation.

I have many times left sets in the box for 6 to 12 months until other sets were available to display something meaningful. I'd rather leave them in the box for a few months than miss out on them.

Donnie

 

[kx1a]

Thanks Donnie. Will look into those WS figures you mentioned

Bill

 

[skeeterbuck]

I tend to buy figures with a special use in mind. I may be a dio or some other type of display. That still won't keep me from buying a figure that I like just for it's own sake.

I do have 3 main areas I consentrate on.

They are the Battle of Agincourt, Battle of Balaclava, and the Boer war. Rarely if ever do I buy any figures that don't fit somehow into these areas.

Chuck

 

[marco55]

For me it depends on the manufacture and series - I collect 6 series from JJD and do buy them all, 4 series from WB and don't buy them all and 10 from K&C depending on how you break them down and don't buy them all.

20 series?that must be some collection you have.
Mark

 

[lenswerks]

Mark the collection is a good size and I am about out of room again. I collect the last 5,000 years of combat - 3000 BC to present - when available, in matt finish and when made to a standard I like.

Donnie

 

[lenswerks]

Bill here are the 8 figures on the ground in 3 sets that I mentioned...

 

[marco55]

That's quite a historical range 3000 B.C. to the present!
Mark

 

[arnhem44mad]

I am going to make a 30 Corps diorama, and for it I bought the new King and Country Cromwell tank, 3rd Inf medic set, Attacking set, MP, and Bunker defenders

I hink I may keep the defenders for the bunker however!

Anyways I already have two JG Miniatures bases, one flat grassy one 12" by 12" and one leading into a hill, sloping one again 12" by 12"

I bought another base of the flat hilltop section, and birch saplings, Build-a-rama high hedge set, Ambush netting, and woodland ground cover all at one with the King and Country stuff for a 30 Corps dio, I mostly create the diorama and then buy the figures for it!

However for this one I had a bit of both so decided to get another wave of things to go in the diorama!