Different Colour Schemes

There are different types of different colour schemes and all have different values to collectors, for this reason I've separated them into three separate lists. Please be careful when buying pieces in non-standard colours, make sure you know exactly what you are buying.

Official Artist Proofs, Paint Trials & Show pieces
The most sought after pieces are the officially sanctioned pieces, these range from paint trials & artist proofs to pieces painted especially for events and auctions, these are historically the most important pieces because they are painted by factory artists and are a genuine part of Enchantica's history.

 

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Professional Repaints
The second type are repaints that may have been done by a professional artist (often by artists who have previously worked for HSC/RD or Collectable World Studios) but they are second hand pieces that have been stripped and repainted (occasionally a blank unpainted white can be found and painted but these fall into the same category) these are usually pieces that collectors have asked artists to paint in a different colour scheme for them and are usually spare/repeat pieces the collectors have. Some eBay dealers saw a market and started to get together loads of pieces they couldn't sell and got the artists to repaint them in different colours, this resulted in the market getting flooded with repaints in 2007 effectively killing the market and lowering the value of them. it has now returned to just collectors getting the odd piece repainted for themselves.

 

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Amateur Repaints and Paint-Your-Own pieces
The third type are pieces that collectors have repainted themselves or have asked another collector to paint for them, these are obviously the least valuable pieces to other collectors (and are looked down upon by many collectors), they are special to the owners but resale value is not really going to be very high at all because other collectors want official pieces or professional repaints, so even though these can be really well done, they are not really of any value to anyone other than the person who painted them (or the person who got another collector to paint it for them).

 

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Please note: Certain prestige pieces like 'Flight to Danger' & 'Avenger' are so rare in mint condition that I personally find even the thought of repainting such pieces as sacrilegious and it makes their value Zero! so I would always ask the person contemplating doing it to rethink what they are doing, and I will never put repainted versions of these on this website, the only concession would be if the piece was badly damaged and subsequently repaired. In this case I see no problem because the value of a broken piece would be very low so repainting it in different colours would be acceptable but i would need before and after photos to show why the owner of such a special piece felt the need to have it repainted in different colours.

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[Official] - [Professional] - [Amateur]