Do you ever give your miniatures away to friends/family on their birthdays, holidays, etc.?

[Lissorles]

Only once when I was beginning to paint in the 70ies .
A co-worker had told me that he was collecting "Empire" figurines
I offered him this one

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He gave it back to me, telling, sorry I only do in the hight quality by Starlux, showing me

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I took my figurine back, end NEVER again did I gave a figurine

Oh, no, no, no. Ahahahahahahahaha. What was your friend thinking? Thanks for giving me my first laugh of the New Year, friend.

 

[Lissorles]

Well , your co=worker back then needed his taste and eyesight testing! As we say here, "What a plonker". By any standard, that is a very nicely done figure, one of the Ray Lamb Napoleonics from Hinchliffe, if I'm not mistaken.

Alan

That figure, the top one, given its age and the tools available at the time, is actually superbly done. I would've been very happy with something painted to that standard in the 70s!

 

[Lissorles]

Yes,I have,my mother received a Hidatsa dog soldier flat,my brother will get a Warhammer figure or two.now and then when I hear of a coworker having a bad week,I’ll paint up a 28 mm figure to cheer themup

Good man! You're very considerate of others and it's nice of you to do that for them!

 

[Manfred]

Given away figures, round and flat and built kits in the past. I've experienced both extremes. Real happiness (a fairy tale flat figure), disinterest and even a kind of "What the..." Giving away a built aircraft which I did quite a good job on (at least 20 man hours with a well painted pilot, of course) only to be hearing later the dude's kid tore it apart the day after . The kind of kid I would not even give a concrete filled Tonka truck.
Nowadays I would only be giving a figure or model if I see some kind of genuine interest before. And to be honest, a lot of people outside of the hobby like a McFarlane prepainted figure more than a 90mm Pegaso hussar which took you two hundred hours to paint the braid .

 

[bigtodd]

I have given away a bunch figures. I am surprised sometimes at how much i wanted the figure in the past, and or how much i paid for it. Now if a friend likes it and I think they want it I give it to them ( I don't even blink). I had my fun building it and painting it. " If you love it set it free..."

 

[phc35]

the indian I did for my mothers birday and the machine gunner in the suit I did for my father as a treasury agent. That was my fathers job for 30 years

 

[Mirofsoft]

No ... Your mother was an indian for 30 years ?!!

 

[Chrisr]

I did this one as a present for a mate's 70th birthday. 120 mm Verlinden. Unlike Mirosoft's unappreciative work colleague he was delighted with it, and he is not a modeller. It now resides under a dust dome in his lounge room.