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I would like to know of any of you out there on dakka have had any bad experiences with the painting service worthy painting .
I was first inspired to start in this hobby because I came across there YouTube channel last year .
So in November I placed an order as I'm hoping that these models are goin to look great . I looked at there web page which goes through telling you what you should expect from them . Eg updates on how your project is doing and project times are usually 8 to 10 weeks . So as I said my order was in November now I didn't get any weekly updates and I have been calling up to see how they are getting on . Getting through to somebody is a challenge in itself . Now I paid a lot of the cost when I first ordered and is only a small amount to pay when I collect . So to not hear from them is slightly worrying . I have now been promised my models on two occasions . The first time I rang to check before I left only to be told they have not been painted yet to be then promised for this weekend . This weekend came and nobody answered the phone and I still cannot get an answer from them . Has anybody else had a bad experience like mine ?

Sorry, I haven't used them so can't comment, but you'll have more chance of someone replying to this if you repost in Dakka Discussions. You'll get a lot more views there.

Wow yer I'm in the same boat I'm still waiting for a order since November and up till the last couple of months they were terrible at communicating . I have to say they know are getting back to me quickly when I email them (Lisa) has been very good . How ever the time it has taken is terrible they have taken on to much with their new shop I think . Where maybe they just should have stuck to what they are very very very good at . I'm still hopeful that my project will be amazing and all the pain will be worth it. I would say that BTP are a better bet the service is out of this world and I've had 2 projects done in the time it has taken WP . This is sad because I would prefer to support home grown studios. Fingers crossed for you .


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Wow yer I'm in the same boat I'm still waiting for a order since November and up till the last couple of months they were terrible at communicating . I have to say they know are getting back to me quickly when I email them (Lisa) has been very good . How ever the time it has taken is terrible they have taken on to much with their new shop I think . Where maybe they just should have stuck to what they are very very very good at . I'm still hopeful that my project will be amazing and all the pain will be worth it. I would say that BTP are a better bet the service is out of this world and I've had 2 projects done in the time it has taken WP . This is sad because I would prefer to support home grown studios. Fingers crossed for you .


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Wow yer I'm in the same boat I'm still waiting for a order since November and up till the last couple of months they were terrible at communicating . I have to say they know are getting back to me quickly when I email them (Lisa) has been very good . How ever the time it has taken is terrible they have taken on to much with their new shop I think . Where maybe they just should have stuck to what they are very very very good at . I'm still hopeful that my project will be amazing and all the pain will be worth it. I would say that BTP are a better bet the service is out of this world and I've had 2 projects done in the time it has taken WP . This is sad because I would prefer to support home grown studios. Fingers crossed for you .

When going for commission work I'd always advise placing a small scale exploratory order first. You get to have a first hand look at their overall quality for a relatively small sum. If you do keep it small scale you become aware of their pro's and con's without the huge risk of sinking a lot of money, and time, into a bigger order.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing I suppose. Good luck with the order.

Two weeks later I've a finally been able to talk to somebody on the phone , they were now very apologetic
I must say the staff are always friendly on the phone . I have now been promised them for this weekend fingers crosses
I shall keep you updated ,


How are you getting on with your commission ? I really like worthy painting so it's sad that they have had trouble sorting my order

Friday has arrived and worthy painting have not answered any of my phone calls . Looks like I could be set for another week's wait ?

If I knew that I would be getting my miniatures by a certain date I would not mind too much
But I feel like worthy painting have messed me around a lot . Which has been very inconvenient .

Well worthy painting answered there phone on Friday afternoon and said somebody was just finishing my minis off
Picked them yesterday . Overall I have been really disappointed in my dealing with worthy painting !
And I'm not really impressed with the minis either . Big let down . When you pay £ 320 pounds for 2 stop pods you expect them to be awesome and also painted how you asked . With no sloppyness! Very angry with that !

£320 for 2 drop pods? Internals all done too? Pics?

320 bucks for two drop pods you say?
That's a ridiculous price tag if you ask me.

Not ridiculous if the internals are done as well, and the quality isn't too bad. They're big kits and take a lot of work, even if their points value isn't high. I'd be looking at a price starting at £175 per pod (inside & out), depending on scheme. Interested to see what the quality you got is though.

Yeah . I'm not to bothered about paying that . Just that it been rushed and isn't how I asked it for . I'm on my phone at the moment and don't know how to upload pics . One of them has lots of scratches on and looks a little battered . On the other hand my legion of the jammed models are cool !

Sounds unfortunate :( Got any pics of what you got?

drop pod pictures


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if you have a look at the pics full size , you should be able to see the scratch marks on them , i dont know what is all over the doors but looks bad !


", my ultramarines are fairly darker than usual, as for the drop pod colour scheme I would like it similar to the box cover and the pictures in there Codex with the black and yellow stripes along the inside of the doors, also if you check out marneus Augustus calgars YouTube channel that's mac from red steels channel , he has a vid of a luna wolves drop pod and I would like the weathering and scotch marks similar to that , possibly some of the light blue around the engine on the top I imagine that it would be glowing after a decent through the atmosphere haha, I've added a picture of a thunderhawk too because I like the idea with the white line but I don't know how to incorporate it into my drop drop maybe see what the painterthinks? Cheers"

"Ps, can I have virtually no chipping effect on the model and magnatized doors please thanks"

"Hi Dean,
Thats fine. We can get a pretty good idea of what to go with. If we need any more info we will contact you.

Kind regards,"


there are some of our conversations , so my ultramarines drop pods are blue , thats about all you have to tell that they are ultramarines . no insignia , no white at all and no blue source lighting ,
i would have at least expected the sides of the drop pod to be painted silver as per the codex . and some of the inside detail usually the green on the console.
the doors are also not magnatized . although if this would have cost more i would not have minded , but i was not contacted ! pretty much have not got what i asked for im upset about this and
that i had to literally ring non stop for days to get a answer . no email updates either !


oh and one is missing its engines ha

The outside is bland but looks good at least. Maybe it's just the photo but the interior looks kind of awful to me. I don't think it would be hard for you to repaint at least the inside to a better quality than they did.

They're alright, but hardly breathtaking. I'm having a hard time understanding how they can charge £320 for this. Were the two kits at least included in that price? I have a lot of respect for a lot of commission painters, for the standard they can achieve in a certain period of time. But these cannot have taken that long and I really don't think the standard is unattainable by your average hobbyist.


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Just noticed the engines. This is poor.

Not good, that.

Yeah that was including the drop pods so 280 labour !

When I asked for my high end table stuff to me that would be on the table and people thing yeah that's cool
So I would want to look at it not me mediocre

The standard lf painting I can put up with . But not getting what I asked for is rubbish !

I try not to critique other commission painters, as I have my own dog in this ring and don't want to come across as trying to muddy the competition, but the lack of engines on the one Drop Pod and the incomplete interiors are pretty bad. The painting is fine on the exteriors, but the interiors look they were just basecoated with Boltgun Metal.

Did you give Worthy a reasonable deadline? Commission services are very eager to get new jobs, and they can sometimes get overly-optimistic about how fast they can get a job done, which could explain the rushed nature of these paintjobs. Worthy Painting normally do really great work, so I'm kinda surprised by this thread.

~Tim?

I ordered them in November and picked them up last weekend I was originally told 8-10 weeks , what a joke

Dang. There's a chance they gave your job to a newly-hired painter, but I can't really see them doing that as you requested OSL and insignia/magnets, and I doubt they'd trust that kinda work to an untested employee. That is one of the dangers of multiple-painter studios - you can get very varied results from what is shown online, depending on the age of photographs. Still, services like Worth are usually a lot faster. Blue Table Painting, for example, is crazy fast, and I think Golem painting studio is known for speed as well.

~Tim?

Yeah I took those pictures as straight away

From the stuff I've seen out of Worthy Painting, this is way below their usual standard. Usually they put out some fantastic stuff, but this looks like it was rushed. It's possible they had a lot on their plate and had to put your project aside in favor of other, bigger projects. When you started to hound them about it (rightfully so), they probably rushed it out as quickly as possible after realizing how much of a delay there had been.

Having contacted these guys personally in the past and knowing many who have dealt with them, they are not in the business of ripping people off and are very friendly chaps. They usually put out some great stuff and I'm sure if you contacted them with your displeasure they'd try to work something out.

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From the stuff I've seen out of Worthy Painting, this is way below their usual standard. Usually they put out some fantastic stuff, but this looks like it was rushed. It's possible they had a lot on their plate and had to put your project aside in favor of other, bigger projects. When you started to hound them about it (rightfully so), they probably rushed it out as quickly as possible after realizing how much of a delay there had been.

Having contacted these guys personally in the past and knowing many who have dealt with them, they are not in the business of ripping people off and are very friendly chaps. They usually put out some great stuff and I'm sure if you contacted them with your displeasure they'd try to work something out.

Yeah, totally agreed here. They seem like a very, well, "Worthy", company. I've always heard good things about them and seen good results from people I know that have had work done by them in the past. I bet if you did your best to contact them and let your problems be known, they'd be happy to help.

~Tim?

Yeah . It is a shame because worthy painting is what got my in to this hobby in the first place , stumbling across the YouTube channel .

I might try to email nick but it's just hard work ggetting in touch with them

Man I'm real sorry to hear this. I don't paint my own stuff but I do hire a local guy to paint so I know the excitement of getting something painted and wanting it the way you want it... With the price tag they tossed on these models you should have gotten something amazing. My guy charges way less and does amazing work. I haven't taken a gander at their work, but it sounds like their usually pretty awesome.

As far as the pods go... Like I said I'm a pretty terrible painter, but I feel I could have matched this paint job. I would def get in contact with them and see what happened.

The exterior is good, if not amazing or anything special.
The inside is just a big letdown tbh.... the missing engine parts are the worst
350pounds for this gacked-up job is just ridiculous

I've never put together a drop pod, so I'm not sure how they look pre-painted, but I was wondering something about the doors...

Where the insignias are supposed to be, am I seeing blemishes where they poorly filed off the insignias or is that weathering made to look like someone removed the insignias?

I guess what I'm asking is whether the insignias are molded to the doors, normally?

Also, the lack of engines on the bottom, and the overall lack of shading in the interior is a damn shame.

However, if you're hoping for Worthy to fix it or refund some of the money, complaining on Dakka and not contacting them is a poor way to do it. They may surprise you, in a good way, with how they fix it.

Then again, they could just rattlecan the whole thing Army Painter Ultramarine Blue and call it a day.

The insignia are not molded on, you get several you can glue on
OP: did you contact worthy painting about the pods?

It's an ok start.

My guess is they wasted too much time edge highlighting all that crap. Since each one is a pentagon that's a ridiculous ammount of edge highlighting.

Yeah, I think you deserve a refund man, those don't look bad but 280 quid, no. Those guys are jerks and I'm really sorry they ripped you off.