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Barliman wrote:

By the way, is anyone going to tell us what they got from the jovial fat fellow with the big sack?

Well, that jovial fellow just gives me permission to pick out what I'd like for myself and I ran across a site that had a good number of clearance (non Mithril) figures and other items for crazy cheap.  So I bought four foot 54mm guys (all 14-15 cent. knights except for a Napoleon in Egypt), one mounted 54mm guy (all the figs are Seil and Pegaso), two packs of Pegaso heads, a pack of Roman camp and weapons parts (I have a specific project for this), and four colors of Andrea paint.  The foot guys were between $10-15 and the mounted guy was around $30.  So a lot of stuff for the money.

My Mithrils came:  three Knights of Dol Amroth (Imrahil and two others, which I haven't had time to even open yet), four Corsairs, and the Haradrian Chieftain.

I'm trying to decide if I should paint Imrahil and company separately and leave them on their bases or make a little charge scene with the three...

I hope everyone's Christmas was pleasant and the New Year brings many blessings. 

Master Tree, I really would like to see those variants! Please!

Last edited by jdbrown55 (Tue, Dec30 2008 1:10am)

Huooommmm .... hom .... you see, Master Jdbrown, it's not that I have become too lazy in my days of old .... rhuoommmm ... today I was quite busy with hanging some pictures in a new gallery in The Mathom House of Michel Delving ... huoommm ... still I'm not sure if I should keep them there .... rhuoommm ... these  twigs cannot cope well enough with all those buttons at that camera-thing .... rhuooommmm ....

No, Master Barliman, I didn't say anything ... still standing still, you know .... huooommm

Yes, I saw Mr. Dourden's auctions. Even things that are more reasonably priced, he gouges you with shipping - 17 euro to Canada? I know for a fact shipping one or two figures from France to Canada costs maybe 5 euro.

I am a little confused how he makes any money from this arrangement...

Well, this seems to be a further reason, that people from Germany are a little bit stupid. On German ebay you can find a lot of things,which makes you a little upset.
Like paying the double prize for a regular mithril-mini you can normally received over mithril itself. That happens not only once . . .
I have mentioned before, that I have to collect most of the minis over ebay. That is really a pity !
I can´t tell you how often I have " correct" the postal price. Thought very often to convert my job in becoming a postman . . .
As a seller myself it is very easy to inform myself in shipping prices. No problem at all !
Also...the difference concerning the box-size of shipping ONE SINGLE miniature- not blistered-   again: NOT BLISTERED ( remember: mithril scale is 32mm !!! ) is fantastic.
I have received boxes with one single mini of that size, if Master David daines wants to sell the whole Dol Amroth range. No kidding!
That ebay stuff is sometimes breaking balls . . . sorry, but it seems that not only Master Theobald is a little angry . . .
I have received quiet a lot minis before Christmas and I have to say: congratulaiton to the MMP-members: they did it right ! No doubt about it !
And there are Germans too----there is hope

Have a peaceful New Year- everybody !

Last edited by rita.de (Wed, Dec31 2008 12:06am)

Buying at high prices also encourages profiteers such as dritz to keep hiking their artificially high prices ever higher. As far as I'm concerned the guy is a bandit, but like Master Gavin, I don't see how he makes any money. His stuff on eBay never seems to sell, so the logic of his sales policy is entirely lost on me.

As for the conversions mentioned by the talking Christmas Tree, Master Jason, from the description given I think they're conversions and castings produced by an American enthusiast many years ago, for a LOTR campaign he ran with some friends. I have some of them too, though not many. They've not been available for many years (they were never available commercially), but occasionally a few emerge from private collections.

Huooommmm .... first of all I would like to wish everybody here a very and indeed Happy New Year ... huommm ...
Well, trying to calm down your impatience a bit, Master Jdbrown, I already said that I need some better weather to take photographs ... huoommm ... ~grafs ... or ~graphth ... sorry ... You'll see them one day, but ... alas ... you know I really cannot haste everything (including the weather) .... huommmm ....

Sorry, Master Tree. I seem to have missed your reply regarding pictures of your conversions. Their is a lot to read here on MMP sometimes and I seem to miss or forget things that I have read.

Ah, it may be quiet but I'm still tiptoeing about the place. Mind you, it's a lot less cheerful now that most of the decorations are down. Wake the tree up and tell him he can move, will you?

A silver piece, eh? Come into some money have you? That'll clear just about every tab in the place for a week.

While it's been quiet I've got some painting done - figures, not walls (that's Nob's job - I knew that woolly head was good for something). In fact I've just started on the Theodred figure and some Corsairs (who are going to serve as generic Southron artillerists).

Yes, I was wondering that too, but as someone who can't report the news that I have I didn't really think I was in a position to ask...

Huooooommmm ... so, that's better without all those shiny things hanging and dangling from mine twigs ... huoomm ... so, I see that some of you people call in by now .... hooom ... right, that's fine ... hom ... nice to have at least some of you around here again ...... huom

Now that's better, officially here and all.

Yes, I forgot to login and fat-fingered my moniker.  Like I said, too much time away!