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| Pug |
Fantasy sport/football or Roleplay encounter boardsHi all!My resin cast "Fantasy Sport/Football or Roleplay Encounter boards" are still up for sale on ebay. follow the link to the item...there's also some other bits and pieces I'm getting shot of! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAP...055&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT A Standard grass textured board set (Example) 
A Lava themed board set (Example) 
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| Magic Dave |
Pug got mine to day, really great job you have done there, saved me lots of time marking out a board for my new stadium.
Will post pics when done. |
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| aerofool |
Great job Pug! I may order one for me as well! | ||
| Pug |
Good to hear Magic!
Aerofool...BEWARNED sending to the states costs more than the boards themselves......get several of you in the same area to order multiple items to the same adress will reduce the individual P&P cost to each person. All you have to do then is worry about getting the delivered boards to each other! That goes for you lot in Oz! Or anywhere outside Europe.! |
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| aerofool |
Get a few friends together? Aside from my wife, I'm the only BBer that I know about within at least 1500 miles. I can bring this up to the guys in my online league and see if maybe we can save by having them shipped here than I can send them out individually.
May I copy your post into my league forum? |
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| Pug |
yes thats fine! | ||
| aerofool |
No takers as of this morning (at least no one contacted me). Most of the guys whom I league with are not as much into the TT version of games as they are with the "no terrain, no paint" digital versions..
Go ahead and let me know the overseas shipping for the one set just in case. |
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| Pug |
I updated the Invoice on Ebay , so I think it should be ready for you to look at.....shame others didn't want any.... | ||
| Dark Lord |
You need an American distributor. £20 = $35. Plus shipping to USA is gonna cost another $15 to $20 I imagine. It's a fantastic board, and really beautiful IMO. You obviously have a skilled hand. I really mean that. However, as beautiful as your work is, it's resin. A notoriously brittle substance and I would be hard very pessimistic about having a large flat piece of resin, like that board, making it all the way to the USA unbroken...very pessimistic indeed. Exacerbating that you have the poor conversion rate of dollars to pounds. So while I'm pessimistic about it making its way to me unharmed, I'm downright terrified of gambling $50 or more, on the outcome. You could try making more molds and selling them to the USA like Hirst Arts. Or you could sell the rights to create the boards to a person over here...perhaps Impact or some other company? Anyway, they're great boards, I just can't justify the expense right before the holidays, and with no guarantee that the apes who work Royal Mail and USPS will get it to me intact. 
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| Dark Lord |
Oh and if you really wanted to make the investment...
http://www.tk560.com/vactable4.html You could make plastic versions. The initial investment would be expensive, but the items would be cheaper to make and ship. There's also expandable polystyrene and polyurethane foams that come in aerosols and binary mixes. |
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| Pug |
I have sent in the last year two boards to the States and all items are well wrapped in foam and card and none have arrived broken.
They're quite robust, not bullet proof mind, but strong enough (Like mine that I take to touni's) to survive quite a rough usage. The texturing takes more of a beating than the boards!! |
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| Pug |
I've tried a couple of trials with the expanding foam type...results are okay, but I need to contruct a special "Hard" two part mould to get a consistent thickness to contain the expanding mixture, which starts foaming 10 seconds or so into mixing! | ||
| Dark Lord |
My post wasn't a slight at your boards. But what they are, and what they are perceived as are two different things. Like it or not, the word "resin" is a word that is synonymous with "brittle." Your boards could very well be bulletproof, but being described as "resin" instantly reminds people of the resin cast stuff they have bought in the past. And like I said, it's a lot of money to gamble. You are one person selling on eBay, not a company mass producing these things and if it does arrive broken, what then? (That's a rhetorical question.) The point is that I don't think it's a matter of lack of interest, but rather a matter of poor conversion rates, poor economies, perception of resin models, and pre-holiday sales slumps. Just my 2 cents anyway. |
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| Thom |
DL has a valid point, they are lovely, but I would not risk paying so much for something that may not survive the post. As he stated "Resin = Brittle" in most applications. | ||
| Pug |
Fair do's!!
The idea of finding a Company to take a mass order to really reduce the P&P in the States is a good idea! May look into that, unless you can recommend?? Yeah, I know the problem of the other resin stuff. cheap stuff that has a high Shore rating (Hardness thingy). Mine uses an additive and a decent polyurethane mix to get it just right! But like you said, Resin = bittle in most gamers/collector minds. 
Something Im hoping to build a decent rep' on, that mine don't break like others... 
Did a crater cast and whacked it with a mallet! take refused to break until I really, really went to town on it! Got a few useful bits for scenery modeling onto ruined building now!! 
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| aerofool |
I may have an interested party.. what's the weight on one board set and what would be the shipping diff if you make it 2 sets shipped?
PM me in this forum.. |
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