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So you're painting something and everything looks fine. But then you mis-step and
suddenly everything looks wrong
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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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."
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.
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.
2000 points
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1500 points "You don’t want to play Blood Angels to be different you play them because you finally realized that they go crazy and drink blood yet haven’t been killed off by the Inquisition. Proving that they are just bada**”
I haven't stripped paint in a long time. Tempted not to even bother
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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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.
@ 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!
Oli: Can I be an orc?
Everyone: No.
Oli: But it fits through the doors, Look!
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.
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.
!? 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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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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.
Man, I wish there was a real Black Library where I could get a Black Library Card and take out Black Library Books without having to buy them. Of course, late fees would be your soul. But it would be worth it. - InquisitorMack
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.
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