Counterpunch wrote:Personally, I feel like Heroclix are a money pit no way out.
That's for sure. I keep thinking about quitting, but it's the only hobby my wife and I have that gets us out of the apartment to socialize with other human beings in a physical space.
One of my close friends used to build Star Wars armor suits and the scale of cost you're talking about is in the thousands, not really the hundreds, so ymmv.
Supposedly you can scrap together an outfit good enough to pass muster with the Mando Mercs for $200. I'm highly skeptical of that, just because a buy'ce (helmet) alone costs well over $100, but from the pricing I've done, I'm almost certain I could do it under $500. It would probably cost a lot more if I were wanting to build something screen accurate, like a Darth Vader or Boba Fett costume, but I'd just be making a generic Mandalorian, with no jet pack and only the light OT armor. There's a guy in MM that sells the armor I need made from recycled metal for under $100, and most of the soft goods can be gotten at thrift shops and military surplus if you're patient and willing to make a few alterations.
And that would be something else to get me out of the apartment interacting with people, which is both something I want to do, and something I really don't want to do, if that makes sense.
As for the parts...I like them but I like to do a lot of lightbox photography.
That sort of leads into one of my big questions I guess - do they look as good on a shelf as they do in the lighting of well done photos? They seem really vibrant and sharp in photos, but I wonder if they'd just look like plastic on a shelf display.
You can be really creative with the parts, it just takes a bit of planning because as you said, they're not keyed specifically for Transformers.
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You actually made Nautica look like a boat!
The power of context!
Honestly, I partly asked just because I wanted to see pics like that.
I feel like one of these mornings I'm going to find a Lightning Effect purchased on my Paypal, and Generations Skrapnel sitting next to me unattended computer.
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