Didn't'cha know? Fighting 1:18th means we're Fighting against our 1:18th habit! 
I echo everyone else on one point or another. $5 Target/TRU Joes we're perfect to toss in the cart when you were buying other things, or 'accidentially' shopping for the kids. Having a relatively steady release schedule, fueled by nostalgia (and lets be honest, Hisstank) really lit my fuse and kept me collecting. The dive into 1:18 military stuff sent it into the atmosphere.. but like a space shuttle, we burned up on re-entry. Almost all of us got into the 1:18 game about 5 years too late apparently. We got some killer clearance prices.. which created the addition, but then there wasn't anything new for us to buy.. other than overpriced eBay & collector stuff.
It doesn't help that almost all of us are lapsed collectors, too old, too poor, too lazy to really do anything with the hobby. We all still LIKE it, but we're sideline spectators now it seems. I guess Facebook (...?) is where all the hot collecting action happens..?
BUT.. random things will happen.. like Pickelhaube making a 1:18 Hind (where is that btw!) and that proves too much to resist. If a 1:18 A-10 came out, you better believe 100% of us would SAY we're buying one, and probably a good 40% actually would.
Crayfish is this your line/figures? If so, welcome! If not.. why so nosy! (just kidding).
I echo everyone else on one point or another. $5 Target/TRU Joes we're perfect to toss in the cart when you were buying other things, or 'accidentially' shopping for the kids. Having a relatively steady release schedule, fueled by nostalgia (and lets be honest, Hisstank) really lit my fuse and kept me collecting. The dive into 1:18 military stuff sent it into the atmosphere.. but like a space shuttle, we burned up on re-entry. Almost all of us got into the 1:18 game about 5 years too late apparently. We got some killer clearance prices.. which created the addition, but then there wasn't anything new for us to buy.. other than overpriced eBay & collector stuff.
It doesn't help that almost all of us are lapsed collectors, too old, too poor, too lazy to really do anything with the hobby. We all still LIKE it, but we're sideline spectators now it seems. I guess Facebook (...?) is where all the hot collecting action happens..?
BUT.. random things will happen.. like Pickelhaube making a 1:18 Hind (where is that btw!) and that proves too much to resist. If a 1:18 A-10 came out, you better believe 100% of us would SAY we're buying one, and probably a good 40% actually would.
Crayfish is this your line/figures? If so, welcome! If not.. why so nosy! (just kidding).
