discussion Meng 1/35 panther a late

[Guest]

This is my 2nd diorama completed,although I'm no pro modeler and I've only been modeling for about 7months I'm happy with the outcome,my first time building a tank and using modeling clay for the zimmerit,what would be a fair price for selling?
The panther is a meng with metal parts and fruil metal tracks.
hope u guys like and thanks
Mac

 

[Guest]

Paul.
And well you should be. Nice layout, base is good. Nothing out of place to me.
If you don't mind saying why are you wanting to sell ? After all that work It seems a shame to part with it.
You ask what would be a fair price for selling.
I've seen models on EBay for sale, and they didn't appear to me to be asking a decent price considering the amount of work .
The whole problem of selling a product, and more so in the craft market is finding customers who are willing to pay a fair price for a one off.
If you take in to account the cost of the materials, and your labour@ £ ? Per hr plus a profit margin
you would get good idea. On the other hand if you just enjoy doing them try to recoup the cost of the model and a bit for the base materials.
I spent a long time in business and tend to see things from that perspective.
See what the others thing, what had you in mind ?
John

 

[stillp]

Another way of looking at pricing something is to think about how much you'd be prepared to pay.

Pete

 

[Guest]

Ok cheers mate,not into making a profit really just enjoy building and get back what it cost me to make to be honest

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Very nice job Paul, I really like the dio base.

I'm building this kit myself at the moment, it goes together beautifully.

 

[Guest]

Cheers mate it was nice to build,first tank I've done but will be making more as I did enjoy it,especially with the metal tracks

 

[Guest]

Cheers mate it's the first tank I've done but really enjoyed making it

 

[Mr Bowcat]

How many of the side armour hangers/brackets did you snap off? :tears-of-joy:

I broke and re-glued at least 5.

 

[Guest]

Yeah about 4 here bloody things,the fruil metal tracks look great but so fiddly,lots of drilling and blisters on the thumbs haha

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Agreed, I'm putting Fruil on mine too. I used dress making pins instead of the wire, but still a pain drilling the holes and cleaning up all the flash. :smiling3:

How many links did you use per side?

 

[Guest]

I used staples for mine mat,lot easier than the wire

 

[Guest]

And we're the staples ain't round there a nice guy with no bending or gluing required,also i found after completing one track that I don't need to drill all the holes just a few mate,just in case u ain't tried

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Thanks for that but I've already made the tracks up. I think I have 97 links in them, I went for a couple extra but can always remove one or two if needed.