Look at thislatest offering by mellow mike it sold for 810 bucks on ebay!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5989346251&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
Aggro, check out this guys marketing technique. Presentation is everything.
That seems like a brass worthy price to me, probably even more[xx(]
But I’ve never seen such a realistic trailers , in any scale.
Just goes to show ya that P.T. Barnum was right.
There actually IS a sucker born every minute.
Andre
Jeesh, if I could weather like that, and get that kind of money for it, well, I would, um, you know, I would buy that train, and that one over there, and that one to your left, and um, wait, I might as well stop now, since I can’t weather like that.[:p]
They are very nice weathered. All respect to mellow mike’s fantastic work. But they are not worth 810 USD. That is a lot of money.
Mellow Mike is truly an artist - his weathering skills are such that most of us can only aspire to be that good.
He put a lot of time and effort into those - and if he can get somebody who wants to pay him $810 for his work, then I say, more power to him.
Considering the time he has invested in detailing them I don’t think the price is unreasonable at all. In my shop that would be about 12.5 hours labor not considering the price of the materials. At least two people were wiling to part with $800 to gt them so who am I to argue with them?
I do know that I am going to have to settle for my own weathering. Unless Aggro dos some N scale before he gets that well known.
Melloow mike has done an excellent job, no doubt about it. Is it worth the money? Somebody thinks so.
To some this is a toy, to others a hobby. And then there are those it is an obsession and an art form. Hopefully it is going to a layout worthy of such work.
Fergie
Mellow Mike has done an excellent job, no doubt about it. Is it worth the money? Somebody thinks so.
To some this is a toy, to others a hobby. And then there are those it is an obsession and an art form. Hopefully it is going to a layout worthy of such work.
Fergie
Makes me want to try my hand at detailing.
Holy crap! That is an amazing model. I couldn’t spend that kind of money, but power to those who will. I’m sure Mellow Mike is pleased.
I love Mellow Mikes stuff, only problem is, i dont have the money! Those cars are some nice lookers.
Alec
I looked at the list of bidders, and saw a name that I recognized from the forum. He stopped well short of the winning bid, but was willing to pay over $400.
For those who don’t have that kind of money to throw around, myself included, I guess the thing to do is brush up on your weathering skills.
That was some very impressive work, but $810 worth??? Just think of all of the other things you could get with that money. You could easily buy a small fleet of those cars, and practice weathering yourself. How about a few BLI engines, or 7 or 8 Atlas or Katos?
$800 bucks?
How about spend $100 on a good Badger or Paasche airbrush, another $100 for a good compressor, $50 on assorted paints, spend a summer learning how to use it and do it yourself?
I not knocking the seller, lucky [censored], he should do more of them, start up a garage industry, but the buyer has to one of those “more money than sense” people, 5 to 1 he’ll claim he painted it[}:)]
BTW I’ll never complain about a $100 1/20.3 scale frieght car ever again!
How bout you give yourself about twenty more years of summers and you still couldn’t come close to Mikes talent.
It isn’t the tools it’s the artist.
Mike gets the prices he does because people are willing to pay them. As I said in another post, the market comes to us.
So take your $810 and spend it on art lessons and lets see how you do.
Never ment to knock the artist, as I said he’s got a hellova potential cottage industry there.
My point was that while these are obviously very very good jobs, maybe the best. You’ll never know if your the NEXT MellowMike unless you TRY it yourself![;)]
Walthers spine cars seem to go double their value anyway(When they’re assembled)on eBay, Let alone custom painted, weathered, detailed, and including trailers. And the fact that it’s from Mellow-Mike adds at least $50 to it. Yes, he’s gifted alright, but $810? It jumped $300 dollars in about 30 minutes! I was watching it until about 30 min. left then I left the computer. It was at $500 something when I left, and when I came back, it was over and had gone up to $810(Of course).
uspscsx
vsmith,
I should have tried to use the universal “you” and not come off like I was aiming at your comment personally. Sorry bout dat.
I was just trying to point out his talents go way beyond tools and techniques. I believe he has an artistic background and uses that along with a sincere love of what he does to the utmost advantage. Mikes modeling has elevated the “art” of weathering to to an almost unreachable standard.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention another artist who has taken the term “weathering” to another level, Rust…er, Rich Divizio. Rich and others share their weathering secrets in the Model Trains Weathered Forum, reachable through this link.
http://modeltrainsweathered.com
Enjoy. The first time I saw these pictures I was fooled into thinking that I could do the same thing. I’ve been striving toward that goal ever since.
Jerry
Big Boy 4005? You live in the twin cities huh? I live in New Brighton, right by North East MPLS. Where do you live?
Alec