Topic: It's amazing how many people selling painted WH40k figures online can't

[Quemaqua]

paint worth a damn.  I've been looking for ideas on how to work the lightning claws on my marine Captain, and hence have been looking at a lot of photos at various places... and the people on ebay seem to be not much better than I am (and I'm not that amazing), or significantly worse.  I hope the people buying these figures intend to give them a nice bath in paint thinner and aren't lame enough to actually bring them to a game.

"Yeah, not only did I not paint these myself, I totally bought them from some guy who also can't paint!"

The only reason this is relevant is because several of these auctions were listed as "pro-painted" figures... and these guys couldn't be less pro if they just started randomly flinging paint at the models.

[sirean_syan]

Well, there's a reason that a thread on painting strip appears on miniature painting painting forums about every other day. At least some of these pro-painters don't try to sell their figures for more than they would be if purchased new.

The really sad ones are the people who'll give something a tolerable paint job, but then try to sell it for as much as the dude who painting some award winning mini that probably took like 500 hours to paint.

[Quemaqua]

Yeah, that's what I mean.  It's one thing if you painted a bunch of dudes and then just want to sell off your collection because you don't play anymore, but there's a bunch of guys trying to sell crap as though it were so awesomely painted, but the paint jobs are terrible.

[Xessive]

Hehe that sounds a bit like some people in the art department when I was in University

I thought a big part of the joy was to paint the figurines yourself rather than buy them pre-painted.

[Quemaqua]

I guess it's different for everyone.  The painting is the fun part for me at this point because we haven't yet started playing really... but I think some people just want to get figures on the table.  That seems like cheating to me, but to each his own.  And a lot of people probably buy big collections of painted minis and then strip them to repaint themselves, as has been suggested.  Not a bad idea, though I like assembling the guys too.  I want to do more work with minor conversions and additions going forward.