10x Pz Is (back in business now)

Hello,
  After 2 floods, and a reconstructed basement, I am finally back in business. In order to be more competative (I have seen a big drop-off in orders while others are busy) I am offering my usual ultra-fine detail (primed and 3 shades of base color, inked, highlighted, rust, nicks/scrathes, tread and teeth silvering, full decals, and double-coat clear) as well as a more generic painting service for those on a budget (will still rival most other work).
  Here is my latest job, just completed, of hotwheel PzI’s.
  After complete painting, these had all the little nicks, scratches, fender/hull, and exhaust rust, as well as weathering applied over the decals.

I hope I dont get in trouble for typing in actual $ amounts, but those were $60 total for all 10, which included return shipping.

@Imperious:

Yikes!

I guess ill stick with my painter. Not as good as you with details but cheaper.

If you can send decals, and want to clearcoat them yourself, I can go down $1 each. Also, I can go down $1 per unit if you want slightly moire “generic” painting (looks same, but without quite so much rust & weathering. So possibility of getting them down to $4 each.
Also, you get them rebarreled to twin guns, and return shipping is on me (those are always free services). With orders of 10 or more units, I also include an extra unit (random) painted up. So hopefully that makes it a pretty good deal.

Have we been talking about 2 different scales all along?
I work with the “collectable series” and those would be the prices I have been mentioning all along. But maybe you are referring to the “other” A&A.
(A) Traditional board game pieces: Are you talking about the traditional axis & allies board game pieces? The ones that come with a few sprues of pieces all molded in different colors for each different army? Where tanks and planes are about 3/4 inch long? And ships get maybe just over an inch and a half?
(B) Collectables: The pics I post are of the newer A&A “collectable” series booster packs in 12 / 15mm, with tanks about 3 inches long. Ships from that series get up to 5" long, and planes have a 2" wingspan.

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   If (A) is the case, then I can do ships for $1.25 each (average, with carriers @ $1.75 and transports @ $0.75), tanks and planes for $1 each, and men 5 for $4. Basic insignia and clearcoat included, and they will look goooooood.
   If (B), the bigger tanks almost 3" long, with rotating turrets and details down to the rivets in the road wheels, thier is no way I can do those for a buck or so. They take me at least an hour and a half each if not more for most. And the planes that come in the collectable series are about 2" wingspans and are about as much as a tank to paint. The ships from that series can be anywhere from $4 to $15 to paint, and get up to about 5" long.

Well, that makes a huige difference, he he. I call it all “A&A” and I guess I should have called one of them AA and the other AAM. You probably thought i was nuts when I stated costs for AAM and you were thinking AA. Well, anyway, give me a holler if you want me to do some up for you, even a small order so you can compare. I’m sure you will find my paint jobs on the smaller scale even par with what I do on the larger scale, inch-per-inch.
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If the pieces are still on the sprues, that would be great, cause I could give them a good scuffing (to break that resinous feeling) before I seperate them. If they are off the sprues, I can still do something to scuff them before I prime them, its just a little bit tougher. But in either case, I would prep them before priming & painting them. It always helps them last much longer.
  But send me a PM, or an e-mail at timdrocks@mchsi.com (e-mail preffered cause I can keep them permanently for records). I’d rather discuss details NOT on the public message boards.

• Jim -