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Good article, but there is some duplication with:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Speed_Painting

Shall we merge it all into one article and then redirect one to the other?

This was always my concern with how we've gone about the articles so far, when do we start mashing them together ^_^?

Ifurita's advice is different from lego's. I think he starts from
your last point, Assembly Line Painting, and shows you the
steps, (with pictures!) to go about doing that. The
original Speedpainting article seems to be a more general
idea of what speedpainting is.

But as always, you and yak make the final call!

I think that there is about 30% shared content there (spraying, largest brushes, assembly line), though iffy's is much nicer since it has pictures. If it is alright with you ifurita, I'll merge these into a single article so that there is no duplication. I'll keep the link to your website in at the bottom, and I'll try to take a couple more pics for things I talked about in my one too.

The first article seems to be core painting fundamentals, e.g., workspace, ergonomics, etc, but merging them is fine.

Changes have been merged and the new article redirects to the old article. Unless there is a much better name for an article, in the event that this happens in the future it is probably a good idea to stick with the older article names as it minimises any potential confusion for people who have older links pointing to the older article, and it probably makes search engines happier too.

Nice job. Reads well.

The strength of a wiki is supposed to be in combining group knowledge so it is always nice to actually see when that is working properly. Glad I managed to merge them without offense to you

thanks for the tips