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How do you handle a fugly paint job?
Paint over the problem.
Strip and repaint.
Finish the job and never speak of it again.

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Madrak Ironhide







So you're painting something and everything looks fine. But then you mis-step and
suddenly everything looks wrong


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Pyromaniac Hellhound Pilot





Calgary

I don't turn around at all. My ex told me not to.





It's better to simply be an idiot, as no one can call you on it here. -H.B.M.C.

Cap'n Gordino's instant grammar guide:
"This is TOO expensive." "I'm going TO the store, TO get some stuff."
"That is THEIR stuff." "THEY'RE crappy converters."
"I put it over THERE." "I'll go to the store THEN."
"He knows better THAN that." "This is NEW." "Most players KNEW that." 
   
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Renegade Inquisitor with a Bound Daemon





Tied and gagged in the back of your car

If it makes the entire model look bad, then strip and repaint. If it is something that can easily be covered up and is unnoticable, it's going to get covered up.
   
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The Last Chancer Who Survived





Norristown, PA

I don't turn around, cuz the comissar's in town... uh oh!




but if something does go really wrong, I usually toss it aside and strip and repaint a few months later after the shock and horror has worn off

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Trigger-Happy Baal Predator Pilot






I will finish what i am working on then once I am done with that part I look at it and if it looks so bad and unfixable then I will strip it. I will also let it sit for about a day and come back to it before I strip it.

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Madrak Ironhide







I haven't stripped paint in a long time. Tempted not to even bother

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GW Public Relations Manager (Privateer Press Mole)







I turn around. You hear me talking?




/You paid money for the model, strip it and give it a good paint job.

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Adepticon 2010---Best Appearance Warhammer Fantasy Warbands
Adepticon 2011---Best Team Display
 
   
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Fixture of Dakka





North Central MA

As long as the paint's not too thick you can fix most things.



Don't set your mind to one side.
-Nevermore
 
   
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Virulent Space Marine dedicated to Nurgle





Huntsville, AL

I finish it - thinking "Eh...it's not that bad."

Then, over the next few weeks I'll spend some time staring at it and berating myself for being so foolish...and then...only then will I strip and repaint it.

I actually did that with an entire army once.

   
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Focused Fire Warrior





Pennsylvania

The only time I've had to remove paint is from spraying, runs or "fish-eye". That usually gets removed before it's dry.

"Before I have to hit him I hope he has the sense to run" Jerry Garcia
"Blood is Freedom's Stain" Bruce Dickinson/Steve Harris  
   
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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan





Bristol, England

@ captain.gordino- Classic, but bad. 3/10
@ Necros- That was simply awful. I want my 3.44 back. -200/10
@ AgeOfEgos- I loved Nirvana's cover. Not sure I'd ever heard the original. Thanks for teaching! 10/10

I'd paint over rank and file or respray after the second attempt.
Metal characters get to strip for me. Lucky ducks!

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Everyone: No.
Oli: But it fits through the doors, Look! 
   
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard






Newcastle, OZ

I do things slowly, to minimise the chance I will stuff it.
I haven't had to strip a paintjob in years - but then, I don't aim for a GD painting trophy sitting on my mantle - it already has a dozen other gaming trophies that mean more to me on it.
I aim for a "good enough for me" appearance. I haven't been left wanting yet. Your standards may vary.

I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.

That is not dead which can eternal lie ...

... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
 
   
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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine





Standing right behind you...

I whip out my knife and eagerly cleave the life away from the model until it is a colourless husk once more, then I bring forth my paintbrush from the depths of my drawer and sink it deeply once more into the essence that would resurrect the model from it's colourless hell....the heck?

I stripped my SM commander's sword a dozen times because i couldn't get it right.


'I once tried to kill the World's Greatest Lover...but then I realized there were laws against suicide,' Sideshow Bob. 
   
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Madrak Ironhide







!? wrote:I whip out my knife and eagerly cleave the life away from the model until it is a colourless husk once more, then I bring forth my paintbrush from the depths of my drawer and sink it deeply once more into the essence that would resurrect the model from it's colourless hell....the heck?

I stripped my SM commander's sword a dozen times because i couldn't get it right.



Just the sword? Must have been touchy to do.

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Battleship Captain





Perth

I'm mildly embarrassed to say that I just paint over the problem - I hate the painting aspect of the hobby, so it's the lazy painter part of me that does it.

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Dangerous Outrider




Maine USA

I just paint over or add more detail.
   
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Automated Rubric Marine of Tzeentch





Nova Scotia

Depends on the model... Most of the time I can fix it, but if the model is really important and it was a big mistake then I'll whip out the Superclean... thankfully it hasnt come to that in a very long time.
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Burtucky, Michigan

Hmm really it depends. a small oh gak... I just cover up. But there have been times where you just CANT cover the probelm. hell one time... it was SO bad i just hacked the mini up for parts..... it was sad, stupid Boy George marine concept
   
 
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