Something stealing my mind…?

Brother Meredith

Brother Meredith

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Thought I would dig out some minis to act as “bugs” for the Far Corfe game at the upcoming Lead & Steel event and found this…

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Totally forgotten the minis hadn’t been removed from their sprues!?! :o:oops: TBF I have a bunch from another box set and was not a massive fan of the sculpts, nice to have all the weapons and arms to hand tho!

What are folks thoughts, should I leave them as is or actually utilise them?? ;)
 
To be honest I'd just pack it up in a box and send it down to me and I'll get rid of it for you. I mean it's only cluttering the place up ... ;)

Well I hate to say it, but Genestealer sells for an absolute arm and leg on ebay and one with intact sprues is probably going to be a small fortune. I'd probably either sell it (well obviously I wouldn't sell it, but you know what I mean) or leave it as is until I was doing Space Hulk stuff. Even then I might just leave the minis as they are since they were never the most amazing. Although the Hybrids are okay I guess. I'd use the tiles of course with the rest from Deathwing and the base game.
 
Was on the verge of selling my whole Space Hulk box sets a few years ago, took photos and sorted out the boxes, but something stopped me… Glad I did now. Plan to hold onto them for a bit longer. Would like to get some games in again, remember it being great fun (the core rules at least).

Gathered together my Bug Cult Gang for the event from some other boxes instead.

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Brother Meredith said:
Was on the verge of selling my whole Space Hulk box sets a few years ago, took photos and sorted out the boxes, but something stopped me… Glad I did now. Plan to hold onto them for a bit longer. Would like to get some games in again, remember it being great fun (the core rules at least).

Gathered together my Bug Cult Gang for the event from some other boxes instead.

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Great. And I see some kryomek here, too!


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That base game was so good. My mum grabbed mine from her loft last time she flew over to visit. Box is a bit mashed but I think everything else is in there. Now I just need to find someone to play against!

Just checked the selling price for that expansion on Ebay and wow, $400+. I'd sell it in a flash to fund other hobby needs?
 
Stuff like this needs to be preserved in my mind. The value on old GW stuff is only going up and up.

Just like early comic books... The ones used as intended, read over and over, rolled up and passed around, almost worthless unless a big key issue. Minty fresh and near untouched almost priceless and incredibly rare.
If this is two or three hundred today then in a few years it'll be 2 or 3 grand. You could probably list it for a grand now and see what kind of offers roll in. And don't even feel bad, there's a lot of rich folk out there and a grand to them is like a penny to me.
There'll be grading company's like CGC dealing with GW stuff in the future if they are not already.
 
Clio said:
Stuff like this needs to be preserved in my mind. The value on old GW stuff is only going up and up.

Just like early comic books... The ones used as intended, read over and over, rolled up and passed around, almost worthless unless a big key issue. Minty fresh and near untouched almost priceless and incredibly rare.
If this is two or three hundred today then in a few years it'll be 2 or 3 grand. You could probably list it for a grand now and see what kind of offers roll in. And don't even feel bad, there's a lot of rich folk out there and a grand to them is like a penny to me.
There'll be grading company's like CGC dealing with GW stuff in the future if they are not already.
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I can see this to a point. The generations who grew up with Oldhammer and have the passion for it are, (as a generalisation about the cohort), now old enough to have some spare cash and a healthy dose of nostalgia. I want to catalogue my collection so that in (the hopefully distant) future when my kids inherit it, they know what's what and rough values, but I don't know if the upcoming generations who don't have the nostalgia will value it as highly, and whether the prices may crash as we shuffle off to the great gaming tables in the sky? I don't know if Oldhammer has the wider fan base like Star Wars or something that would keep the prices climbing. I know that I look at the pre-slotta models that were before my time and don't feel much, if anything, for them beyond mild interest and wonder if the new plastic generations feel the same way about our metals?
 
The Serene Badger said:
I can see this to a point. The generations who grew up with Oldhammer and have the passion for it are, (as a generalisation about the cohort), now old enough to have some spare cash and a healthy dose of nostalgia.
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We've seen waves of this over the last couple of decades. There was a time when no vintage warhammer was 'worth' anything. Then there was a spike in preslottas, then the price of these fell and 80s miniatures rose, now we're in a mid-late 'middlehammer' 4th/5th period. That, too, will pass. Indeed, it may be partly pre-empting the next 'generation' of collectors that's prompting GW to focus mostly on resurrecting 6th ed+ sculpts for Old World. Alongside, of course, compatibility with current ranges and having plastic tooling available to pull out of storage. There'll be a time when our collections are worth nothing but sentimental value again, although we may be dead or too old to care by that point!
 
Michael Stockin said:
Oxfam are especially greedy when it comes to GW stuff. I have noticed a number of things priced in a way that would make even Goldfish Blue embarrassed.
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A couple of years ago I don't think they were. I picked up 2nd hand GW ruleset/books and old minis for nixienoodles. However its seems some staffer has had the memo and they check against private collection/unrealistic ebay pricing now?

...And a case in point on the MacDeath WHFB2 https://onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk/gam...ck-1986/product/HD_303502817?sku=HD_303502817
 
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