Buyfag thread

buyfag thread

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First for hotgluing is cancer

"Just so you know, this is absolutely going to be castoff."

Can Michael (seven heavenly virtues) only be preordered from HJ?

E-Eventually ...

Can any buyfag from western Europe tell us about their experience with import taxes ?
For a totally hypothetical example, how likely was it for three registered SAL packages from Mandarake in a row to get hit with taxes ?

Kit or painted?

She's a Hobby Japan exclusive release, so you can order it from Big In Japan or Nippon-Yasan as usual.

What country are you in?

>tfw my nip skills will never be good enough to read this damn VN at an enjoyable pace

France. I know each country is probably different in their approach and lumping all Europe together doesn't accomplish much, half asking out of curiosity.

To those lads buying stuff from Y!J auctions:
What stuff do you buy from there? I looked around a bit, and it really didn't seem worth it compared to prices on suruga-ya or Amazon (used), especially if you add the extra fees.

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Continue buying with your dick.

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This is in the guide.

Kit. It's still missing quite a few details. The maker on twitter held a poll and most said they'd pay 30k yen for it.

twitter.com/MaK_Ishiwata

Read the guide.

Can't help you too much then, Germany here.
But speaking generally, undervaluing should be your top priority. Like, I use suruga-ya + forwarder instead of manda just so that I can undervalue. Not undervalued stuff always gets hit with taxes here.

Old figures/merchandise that I can't find anywhere else.

Pretty creative pre-order chart, I approve of your dick's taste in PVC my friend.

Is there any chance I can find her for a cheaper price? The cheapest I've seen is about $160 USD (amazon has ridiculous prices: 12k yen used, 27k yen new).

Just keep practicing and read everyday.

I thought it was coming out on the 26th, looks pretty good.

Thanks for the answer.

You'll get taxed almost systemically for anything above 50 €.
Be aware that the VAT is calculated based on the item value + shipping costs. Add a flat fee of around 15 euros to that.
Look for stores that undervalue if you want to avoid paying the tax. There is a dedicated section in the guide.

I'm pretty sure it's not in the guide.

>I'm pretty sure it's not in the guide.
Guess it's not, I assumed there would be plenty of Frenchies here that added that already.

Why am I not surprised the frogs were too lazy to add to the guide.

Rin must have abs of steel.

feels bad missing this pre-order
missed the wedding yagyu as well

Someday...

It's terrible that I can identify most of these figures by cropped images of their crotches huh?

The only one I don't recognize is the top right one.

hmmmmm.....

>sold out

Damn, I was expecting this one to bin. Hopefully she comes back.

Dutchfag here, in my experience it's a bit random, usually not in my favour.
Out of 10 of my SAL orders, only 2 of them were without import taxes.

Any good art books come out recently? Or coming out soon?

If I was planning to only get one figure ever, would you say buying a GK and probably fucking it up with painting is better than shilling out an extra 100 for pre-paint?

Is the mandarake ebay store now considered a good place to buy figures? Or did they upmark the prices for stupid Americans?

>If I could only buy one (1) of a thing would it be better to buy materials and then proceed to fuck it up myself then live with it forever or pay an affordable price to have a professional do it for me to assure a result better than I could obtain myself?
Really? The fact that figures are like potato chips and you don't get just one just makes the question even stupider.

It's more expensive than their site, I think.

I know it is retarded, but 30€ is barely noticeable for me, while 130€ really hurts.
Also I have yet to find a pre-painted version of the figure I want.

katanako 2020 II

She got down to around 7-8k on Ami, which isn't much of a discount, but it's cheaper than the original 9k. I got her for 7.8k I think a couple of days ago, but she went lower than that a few days before that.

>GK from last Wonfes of a decades old game
>going to happen
I mean it was cool enough to take pictures of. I've got some more angles. But be serious user.

>30€ is barely noticeable for me, while 130€ really hurts.
Your eyes are going to hurt from looking at what you make if you've never done GKs before. Think back to the first time you've tried literally anything. Were the results satisfactory? If you tell me yes I won't believe you. You're only spending that extra hundred euro "once" anyway, with a bit of budgeting you should be able to make it work.

>Also I have yet to find a pre-painted version of the figure I want.
That's a different story entirely, but why are you asking this question? Where are you getting your numbers from?

Well that Seven Sins artbook came out recently.

>That's a different story entirely, but why are you asking this question? Where are you getting your numbers from?
Averaging the GK and pre-paint prices from 2-3 sites and it was not a question, I assume I am going to find pre-paints somewhere if I search long enough, but a GK would be available right now and if you had any convincing arguments why it would have been good for me, I could have bought it without searching.
But you confirmed my own assumptions so I guess it is back to searching and hoping.

>I assume I am going to find pre-paints somewhere if I search long enough
Man, I fucking wish. If you wait long enough depending on what you're looking for a manufacturer may pick it up, mass produce it and make it readily available but sadly lots of GKs slip through the cracks and never see commercial paint. While you're searching you should probably also be looking for people you can commission to build and paint the kit for you. That's probably still going to be more than an additional hundred Eurobucks but it's your most likely way to get anything outside of gitting gud and painting it yourself. The process of getting good would be time consuming and cost more than the extra hundred too, however.

Shit, that's what I was concerned about, maybe it is better if I don't find it, I wanted to strictly limit it to this one because I don't want to fall down this (fucking expensive) rabbithole, but I would probably even be tempted to start hoarding with just one figure.

First time when I painted a Warhammer miniature I found the result mostly satisfactory. It wasn't great, but it was a solid tabletop-quality paintjob. Sadly, after painting hundreds more I never improved.

If you paint always the same way then you will never improve,try other styles even if you model ends like shit.

>Sadly, after painting hundreds more I never improved.
That sucks but if you managed to put out decent 28 mm figures I'm sure you can paint 210 mm ones just fine. Sup Forums-related figures can even look fine with zero shading contrary to tabletop armies. The only tricky part must be the eyes since they are often not sculpted, but many GK seem to come with pre-printed transfers for them.

>I would probably even be tempted to start hoarding with just one figure.
That's generally how it works, yes. Welcome to hell.

>mostly satisfactory
>mostly
That and potentially low standards aside, I'd be surprised if you thought the same after blowing that mini up to 1/8-1/6 scale. Small brings its own problems but you can also get away with some things because of it.

>after blowing that mini up to 1/8-1/6 scale

I'd maybe keep the wash, definitely cut the highlights. I can't blend for shit so they'd look horrible.

If you're hand painting with a brush you're better off not even bothering

Yeah, GK scale is where that kind of thing matters. Also where you'd probably want an airbrush which in itself pushes us near that hundred Euro guesstimate.

>AmiAmi pre-order's status changed from pre-order to tentative pre-order
Does that mean anything if I placed said pre-order before the status change?

>Yumi

Speaking of which, whatever happened to pic related?

>anime ended
>my wallet is ready to buy figure of the best girl in the series
>manga is canned
>only MC and her best friend's figure are released

Feels bad man.

Where does one even go to find someone to paint a GK? I would gladly pay 250 burgers for a good paint job

myfigurecollection.net/item/167332
The dates and content of the comments make me think it's been cancelled.

Finally, my dream of being a detolf-fag is going to be recognized.

Detolfs look so bad though.

Thats all poor people can afford

>he actually fell for it

One or two deltolfs spaced out in a room is fine, an autistic wall of them looks like trash because they'd designed to be freestanding and not mashed into big block of the.

Don't get me wrong, I love hating popular things more than anybody. But there's simply no alternative, at least in my country. It does the job.

What can I say, I cant resist a bargain.

What the fuck is that picture

>7k for a prize fig

Still too much.

>having girls over

>having girls over

>having girls over

>asking this same fucking question for the gorillionth time

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Not prize

Looks like one though.

Not really, its not a top of the line statue but prize figs are far worse

>having another human being over

go back to whatever board you came from or reddit

>You need to rethink your lives.
Says the retard trying to give shitty advice in a Chinese comics centered anonymous board.

Is your life worth that little?

My sister and mom?

>choosing real people over plastic butts

fuck off

not gonna deny single, but
>porn addict

Yeah it's pretty awkward. My mom calls them dolls.
But since she's the only woman to enter my room I just deal with it and carry on.

Why are you even wasting your time with this? Do you even have any idea where you are let alone what thread?

Is being a single porn addict bad?

Also
>this same fucking lecture for the gorillionth time

Also, real shit: if you're surrounding yourself with people who are gonna judge you for you hobbies that literally don't affect anyone else, you're surrounding yourself with the wrong people. "Real" adults don't let that shit bother them.

>giving free (You)s to the crossboarder that only came here to get those free (You)s
that's why they keep doing it

>Reddit is full of know it all teenagers and pretentious hippies.
at least you don't deny that you're not from here
just fuck off

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You are not welcomed here, returd. Fuck off.

no

>hentai is porn too
>implying I beat my meat often at all

Looks like some famous guys from the 60s since they're autographed.

Jelly

>implying all of us don't get laid or aren't n relationships already

Are you jealous of the Sup Forums gold he's gonna get with those (you)s?

Sure.

Where do you think you are ? Do you also go to the Texas Barbecue Enthusiasts Club to preach veganism ?

Thanks for proving my point with a non shadowed, color casted shitty figure.