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Ted Striker
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| lahatiel wrote: |
Thanks. And hey, if Appalachian takes that prize, they certainly deserve it -- just like they deserved to win that game. I watched every painful second of that game and they flat-out beat U-M that day. |
Or paint them Scarlet and Gray :).
Again, just teasing... just plain excellent work.
Us guys from Ohio just think they would be ruined in that "That State Up North" colors 
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Norse
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| Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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these figs are actually looking really nice!! great work!
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Darkson
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Any update on these?
A mate has decided to try to motivate me to actually get some painting done (  !), and the plan is we're both going to run the same (FF) roster for a year, both in the league and in any tourneys we attend.
I've got pick of the list, but it has to be a team I've not played in our league or tournaments before, so I'm thinking of going humans.
But I'd like to see how these look before I decide wheter to get the Phigs or the Grandma Wendy ones.
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Norse
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well, all personal bias aside  , the newest "official" models are very dynamic, but are very hard to paint in actual fact.. when I first saw them I had to have them, but after cleaning the flash off 4 of them, I didn't even bother priming them.. 
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lahatiel
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Darkson wrote: | | Any update on these? |
Unfortunately, no. Not only do I paint verrrrry sloooooowly to begin with, I haven't actually touched them since the update post.  After returning from the tournament for which they were built, the first couple of weeks belonged to my girlfriend, in return for my having spent every spare minute of the prior several weeks building them. And after that, a couple weeks ago, we finally got our tabletop league going again, after a break of over a year and a half -- so when I've had time, I've actually been playing, rather than painting. Between that and now the holidays, I'm sure it will be at least mid-January before I even pick up a brush, if even then.
Anyway, when it comes to these versus our Grandma -- I believe Norse about the "other" figures being hard to paint... these guys will be hard to model. Or, at least time-consuming. But my own take -- apart from the obvious: supporting Impact! over supporting Grandma Wendy -- is that while a paint job might be your own, the figures' poses will still look just like everyone else's at the bottom line, with the "other" figures. With these, the team will be uniquely your own, no matter what. Maybe it's just me; after these guys, I've got two official 2nd Ed teams and two more Impact! teams worth of figures -- and then 4 teams' worth of WHFB figures to convert (goblin, chaos dwarf, Rat, norse); 2.5 teams' worth of Reaper (necro/undead, norse) and 2 teams worth of Confrontation (human, chaos dwarf). And even the 2E and one Impact! teams will see massive conversions before paint (the only team I own that I don't see myself converting, out of those 12, are the Deadlings; they might just get a couple little things).
In my mind, having a unique, custom-built team is worth the extra effort involved, as even if someone has converted the same or similar figures before, my conversions won't turn out exactly the same. |
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Darkson
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Norse wrote: | | but are very hard to paint in actual fact.. |
Hard to paint, or hard to paint well?
Let's be honest here - my best paintjob looks like a "average tabletop", if that. If they're ok to paint, but a take to paint to a high standard, that's not going to concern me - I wouldn't get to a high standard regardless of how easy or hard they are to paint.
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Norse
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frankly, just hard to paint.
but as Lahatiel points out, if you are not much into cutting, pinning and greenstuffing, the Phigs may present no real improvements either..
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brownrob
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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yep Grannies Humans are a nightmare, no facial detail on the blitzers
I guess the Impact ones have more flatter surfaces (lots of spikes on grannies) so its easier to base paint, but its the converting part I dont know much about, Simon, get the Impact ones, then get a mate to assemble them for a few beers, couldnt be easier ;) |
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Norse
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| Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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the Irish are a very wise people..
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Darkson
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| brownrob wrote: | | get the Impact ones, then get a mate to assemble them for a few beers, couldnt be easier ;) |
Normally I would, but this is supposed to be "my" project.
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Norse
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which you would be managing...
smart people don't do.. they delegate.. ask my staff..  
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GalakStarscraper
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lahatiel,
Any update on these now?
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lahatiel
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Unfortunately, no. 
After getting back from last year's Underworld Cup, I ran into a stretch where Real Life (TM) started happening in large amounts. Now that I finally gpt myself back into miniatures work a little while ago, I've forced myself into it by working on things with solid deadlines, like a Deadling for the Zlurpee legacy team... oh, and a couple Siringit, too! But once the Siringit are done, I've got another deadlined special project that will take me up to my wedding/honeymoon, so it probably won't be until at least late fall before I get a chance to get serious with these guys again... *sigh* |
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brownrob
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| Darkson wrote: | | brownrob wrote: | | get the Impact ones, then get a mate to assemble them for a few beers, couldnt be easier ;) |
Normally I would, but this is supposed to be "my" project. |
Then how about this...
Get a mate to assemble them for a few beers, then use that as a guide for when you do your own team ;)
Ramz likes that idea even more I bet! |
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Dark Lord
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I'll be getting some of these as soon as I finish up the last few silhouette teams for Tom. Only about 2 teams left now.
I won't have them for GenCOn but I will assemble and paint them. IMO they are nice models (from what I have seen) and I think a nicely done team would sell them...at least more so than the hard to discern sprue pics.
That goes double is Grandma Wendy's models suck...which I imagine they do. they have made a decent model IMO for a number of years now. Big surprise they have spikes and skulls all over them instead of actual details. 
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