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Gildor Inglorion wrote:

I'm sorry if I could not read your post earlier I too came back today only... I am very sorry to learn about all the news you said David, but at the same time quite happy to see that the results are there and your wife should be ok, that's all that matters!! I sincerely hope she'll have a great and fast recovery !

I'm sorry to learn you have to part with your collection, but in the end, those are only material possessions nothing compared to someone's life most of all the love of your life !!

I really hope you manage well with your sales but please, it's not a reason to leave this community you have your place among us, not matter if you own a collection or not Barliman or even Nob will always be there to pour you a chill drink anytime you want !

Thank you my friend. I don't feel strange saying that even though I've only talked to many here or only via email. However, everyone that I have interacted with has been of the highest quality!

If I may Master Gildor, when I do post my collection do you mind if I place a link to your wonderful Database? It is by far the best and most comprehensive anywhere on the internet and would help by giving people a "baseline" to judge value and rarity. I must admit to wanting to get the most out of the sales as I possible can.

Last edited by mindx2 (Wed, Nov14 2018 12:25am)

Always sad to read when collectors are selling but this is real life isn't it ?
If both of you intend to obtain good money, I suggest you both shall synchronise your auctions and avoid selling same minis at the same time.

Last edited by Milo (Wed, Nov14 2018 7:30am)

huoommm ... I have to consider that, Master barkeep ... rhuom ... huoommm....rhuommm ... so, seriously I have to think over about that indeed ... does that pony like apples ,by the way? ... hmmm ... I'll start thinking about that very soon, maybe next week ... huom ... or is it next year? ... alas ... hooommm ... who knows ... well, but, I'll have in mind those 20 quids for a pony in Bree ... sounds interesting ... grom rhuom

talking about coiny things around here? well that reminds me that the landlords of the place seem to have manifested themselves to be remembered... and this year fee is almost due (in december)

well, I'll let your know soon

Hello dear friends, It's been awefully quiet in the Pony for some time now. Perhaps some of you, like me , have stopped by, had a drink or two, perhaps helped yourself to some vittles, and left Barli the proper coiny things for his provender!

Well, should anyone stop by, please give me a gentle poke to wake me up for a visit and drink as I'll be sleeping at the table over in the dark corner. ;-)

Last edited by twrich (Thu, Dec6 2018 6:16am)

Hm... That is the reason I did not saw you master Tom... you slept in the dark corner and I've just pased away in a hurry few days ago... next time when you see me in the inn just wisper my name and I will come to join you for small conversation with cold beer on our table (in the dark corner)....

Poke given, and a drink for The Man in the Corner and anyone else who may be lurking

Master Tree, you've ALWAYS lurked - the ceiling would collapse if you didn't.

Oh dear, were the comestible gifts meant for everyone? Alas, Nob got to them first, so there's nothing left now but crumbs. (I think I shall have to start giving him bigger dinners to prevent this sort of thing from happening!

Seems a bit early to start wishing people season's greetings, but since you sound as if you won't be coming this way again for a couple of weeks, I wish them to you, Master Maenas!

(Incidentally, if you've got any more of the Turrón de Jijona, please bear in mind that the rest of us didn't get any, though Nob says it was delicious.)

huooommm ... to be honest I do rather see a major decline with the MZ-products ... hom ... I think that not "speed" of production is most important, because think that there also should be some concern about quality within a "new" development ... hmmmm ... I never had had to spend that much time to assemble figures (and many figures I did assemble, which not only were Mithril by the way) ... ggrrrrrrûoomm ... so why do I have to glue and adjust the left elbow of a lute-player to his hand and his shoulder? .... why are parts not fitting well at all? ... who knows ... grOOOm ... no, sorry, I want to tell you here that I'm off with collecting those figures ... huom ... some of you might have learned to know me as a serious collector .... hm ... I do not  want to leave this Prancing Pony here, of course, as others did without leaving a word ... I somehow feel responsible still ... hUUu°ommm ... well, if anyone is interested in my detailed criticism about the MZs I could hand it out, but do not want to pester you with here, as there is a lot ... huom ...
Master Barliman? ... a bowl of that "you know what"-bowl, please ... hhuom, did you know that even old trees tend to become older? ... alas ...

Basically, gentlemen, I've always considered resin figures to be the cow's back end of miniatures. I've bought several figures recently from the Company-That-Cannot-Be-Named, whose conceit in calling their resin figures "Finecast" beggars belief (those that can now prefer to buy used metal figures on eBay rather than their modern resin equivalents. This isn't possible with new figures that were never produced in metal, alas.)

Resin figures seem to be invariably brittle and cannot safely be "bent" back into shape without breaking (or is there some arcane way of doing this that I haven't yet encountered - immersing them in hot water beforehand maybe?), and the same figures appear to distort differently from figure to figure. I gather this warping is caused by shrinkage after they're taken from the mould. I haven't yet encountered this problem with Mithril figures, or have I just been lucky thus far? Maybe it's the reason why Mithril seem to make their figures out of an increasing number of small parts, to avoid such problems.

I'm not a caster, or someone with any knowledge of how resin works – I just wish everyone would stop using it. GW's initial excuse was that metal was becoming too expensive, but they then produced their resin figures at even higher prices!! That doesn't make any sense at all to me, but then I'm only a scrumpy-addled old gaffer who sells ale in a small village, and don't understand the ins and outs of modern commerce.

Actually, these days I find that I understand a diminishingly small quantity of anything at all. Even old gaffers tend to become older, Master Tree. Mind you, that's better than the alternative, as I have to keep reminding myself.

Aaaaaaaargh.....

Apologies. My brain is obviously out for an early lunch. Of course Mithril figures aren't resin. Why should I think that they are? Well, that may have something to do with the dent I got in my forehead when I fell and shattered my T12 vertebra back in March. My short-term memory has not been running effectively ever since, and occasionally goes off on little jaunts all on its own. So, actually still working as well as ever then.

Now, can someone remind me where I am and what I'm supposed to be doing......?

I thought that was what I was doing. But I can't remember if you paid me for the last one....