Beware of this Ebay seller

[chippy]

I have just been browsing Ebay UK site and I see a seller staticpallor3 from Barry, The Vale of Glamorgan has quite a few items for sell . His stuff looks genuine and I have bought two items from this seller . Both items were so heavily wire brushed stripped that a lot of the detail was lost , so much so I ended throwing them in the waste bin . He has some nice stuff at reasonable prices but they look like they have had the same treatment and he has a no returns policy , SO beware .
chippy

 

[Tubby-Nuts2]

Chippy, thanks for the heads up on this.

Regards,

Mark

 

[DaddyO]

Cheers Chippy - I'd kept an eye on a couple of figures, but held off because I thought they looked like they had been wire brushed. Sorry to hear you lost out.

 

[housecarl]

Pay-pal not as described Chippy.

 

[Gra30]

To me, and just taking a guess, if he is brush stripping they are either his own doing or recasts that he brushes to hide bad casting. It's not as common as resin but metal figures can be recast. I cast my 90mm from the david grieve moulds and have done half a dozen moulds again from the master pieces. I was lucky that I had the information to the exact metal David and Ray Lamb used, but I still throw 2-5 casts back in the pot. THANKYOU for posting and it shows that even metal pieces have degrees of quality, something we forget about now as resin is at the fore.
This circle PF and warnings like this show how valuable our forum is
Best wishes
Gra

 

[Claude Portsmouth]

Funny you should raise this chippy I was going to put something on the forum but because all of the crap flying around over Recasters (do or don't we expose them) I didn't bother.

I strongly suspect that this guy is recasting-I bought some figures from him about 4 years ago and they were awful. I threw them in the bin.

He has a habit of advertising a crap casting with a nice illustration from a book or magazine of the uniform which has nothing to do with the casting.

He sold a lot of stuff last year on the pretext of moving abroad............seems to be taking a long time going...LOL

Leave well alone would be my advice.

Claude

 

[BarrieHynd]

Cheers for letting us all know about this Chippy. I was watching some of his stuff but won't be anymore.

Barrie

 

[yellowcat]

Been watching this seller all these years.
ALL RECASTS!
No original box, no manufacture's name, wire brush figure and always post a nice picture from some books. Just be honest to yourself, you are not getting the same figure as the listing picture. Don't waste your money.

 

[tomifune]

He must have sold off the originals and can't remember which is which. His Michael Roberts figure is an old UEM figure. Some of the other kits look like the parts are mismatched.

Bob

 

[chippy]

Thanks for all the replies everyone on this subject . I'm not so sure he is a recaster , I think he gets hold of old collection and strips them down as the two Napoleonic kits I bought still had traces of paint around the lacing and cords , just the rest of the figures were wired brush to hell . I see he has a few resin kits for sale, already primed just need painting ( I guess this hides up what has been done to them ) Carl just to mention he sells the kits as used, so no come back .
chippy

 

[martin tabony]

To me, and just taking a guess, if he is brush stripping they are either his own doing or recasts that he brushes to hide bad casting. It's not as common as resin but metal figures can be recast. I cast my 90mm from the david grieve moulds and have done half a dozen moulds again from the master pieces. I was lucky that I had the information to the exact metal David and Ray Lamb used, but I still throw 2-5 casts back in the pot. THANKYOU for posting and it shows that even metal pieces have degrees of quality, something we forget about now as resin is at the fore.
This circle PF and warnings like this show how valuable our forum is
Best wishes
Gra

Metal figures were being pirated long before resin was on the scene, That's one of the reasons I no longer sell castings!! One bloke on ebay was recasting, then painting them and selling them as mine!!

Martin