Naval miniature fever!!!

So I was going through old toys in my basement when I stumbled upon a bin of plastic naval ships and cards that I liked when I was younger and decided to list them on Ebay since I really needed money for school. They are game pieces for Axis and Allies: War at Sea.

I set the auction for 50 thinking “well i’d be happy to get a at least that much for them and if it gets bid up a few extra dollars that’d be nice”. Iv’e since gotten almost 200 veiws, 40 watchers and a couple people message me offering me as much as 350 dollars to end the auction and sell it to them!

I guess my question is, are these things really that valuable and did I majorly screw myself over by not researching more and asking for more money? Most of the people making offers or bidding people seem to be re-sellers of the same miniatures, so i’m worried they could be potentially worth more even than that and that iv’e really screwed myself over…

Hi Folks,

I built a database for A&A Miniatures (War at Sea) on the TroveStar platform.  It not only contains the original game, but the expansions designed by the forumini crew as well.  I enabled images not only of the cards but of the minis as well.  I have not yet got all the images uploaded but a lot of them are present.  There are images of the original miniatures as well as hand-painted Shapeways Models too.

Check it out if you are curious on TroveStar.com

Thanks for Looking

If you intend on keeping them forever, Paint stir sticks are nice because you can paint nice textured waves and wash behind the ships.

Also if you wanna get creative with unsaveable bent subs, you can cut the towers off and glue to paint stick giving the illusion the subs diving or surfacing.

If my old eyes can see them quite well so I suspect you will be good. Almost everyone at my LGS uses these for WaS.

Sorry I sold all my extra minis on ebay a few months back. :(

I just noticed the sovyetsky Soyuz was on your list.  That’s actually in the fleet command set. Nice big ship.

hey
talking to a guy who is working on this
he has been creating battles and putting stuff on the web
in a an email he was talking about working out the bugs on the first landing set ups from the ship action to the game action.

they went through the little things like what a ship can carry, landing troops, mines, demolition, shore vs ships, gun support for troops.

he hopes to have some rules out by December.

i got this from his site
alex

Free Baltic Thunder Battle.pdf

Mostly it is individual models of the Rare ships that fetch the higher prices (my Enterprise set me back about $15.) Cases of boosters are usually the best bet if you want lots of ships and aren’t particular which side you get. That though leads to having everything from the set but one or two ships and hence the steep eBay prices.

Also the market is small so you have a lot of guys trying to get the same half dozenish models.

Singles off eBay or popularcollections dot com is the best bet if you know what fleet you want.