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2012/01/04 01:05:17
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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2012/01/04 01:07:38
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Wishing I was back at the South Atlantic, closer to ice than the sun
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Please define "pro painted"?
Cheers
Andrew
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I don't care what the flag says, I'm SCOTTISH!!!
Best definition of the word Battleship?
Mr Nobody wrote:
Does a canoe with a machine gun count?
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2012/01/04 02:30:29
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Fanatic with Madcap Mushrooms
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I like to paint so no
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2012/01/04 16:41:44
Subject: Re:Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Spawn of Chaos
Essex
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No way, José. For me, the most fun thing about the hobby is the assembling, converting and painting of the miniatures. So there's no way in the seven hells I'd let someone else attack my model with a brush. But that's just me.
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2012/01/10 10:32:06
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Lieutenant Colonel
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No way, whats the point? one mans Pro-painted is another mans Table top quality. Are you talking pre-painted mini's such as AT-43? because some were awful.
It's all about ownership, I own my Mini's they represent me, they are painted by me, in my colour scheme and represent my skills and conscientiousness.
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Collecting Forge World 30k????? If you prefix any Thread Subject line on 30k or Pre-heresy or Horus Heresy with [30K] we can convince LEGO and the Admin team to create a 30K mini board if we can show there is enough interest! |
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2012/01/10 10:35:00
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Malicious Mandrake
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See for me, it would be entirely cost and miniature dependent. The only answer I can really give is 'sometimes', because I like to paint most of the time, but for something like a horde army... maybe.
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2012/01/10 11:36:15
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Pious Warrior Priest
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No, Mainly for reasons suggested above but when you a model painted by someonelse it never ever looks right in your army
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Oh man, the first monster I see I'm going to sneak up behind him, whip out my wand, and shoot my magic all over his ass.
http://www.woodvilles.org.uk/
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2012/01/01 12:37:40
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Secret Inquisitorial Eldar Xenexecutor
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Never, I want my models to be representative of my skills and abilities.
I wouldn't want someone else to have sex my wife because I think they can do it better.
Now there's an analogy! Hahaha
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2012/01/10 13:25:43
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Lieutenant Colonel
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kitch102 wrote:I wouldn't want someone else to have sex my wife because I think they can do it better.
Some people actually quite like that, standby for some wierd PM's
I think we can conclude this is an overwhelming no. Yet, we love (at my local club) pre-painted Flames of War terrain? Maybe terrain is different because it is background.
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Collecting Forge World 30k????? If you prefix any Thread Subject line on 30k or Pre-heresy or Horus Heresy with [30K] we can convince LEGO and the Admin team to create a 30K mini board if we can show there is enough interest! |
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2012/01/10 14:32:00
Subject: Re:Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Shroomin Brain Boy
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el_groovatore wrote:No way, José. For me, the most fun thing about the hobby is the assembling, converting and painting of the miniatures. So there's no way in the seven hells I'd let someone else attack my model with a brush. But that's just me.
and me too^^
and tho i probably never will make a mini above(if at all) tabletop quality...i would never want a mini painted by anyone other than me... well with the odd mini made by a freidn of course...but thats the total exception of the rule...
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2012/01/10 16:01:41
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Student Curious About Xenos
essex
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i wouldnt be as 'connected' with my models if they wernt painted by me, i think all the hard work and effort always pays of as you can say at the end (in a smug voice) "yea, i painted them"
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2012/01/10 16:30:54
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Irked Necron Immortal
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Id say no I love to paint aswell but i mean if it was a friend of mine trying to sell their painted models id pay more for it if they needed the support
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Morat Noob
New Sylvans eventually
10k+
30k
Snowy bases for the snow god!!
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2012/01/10 16:34:07
Subject: Re:Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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I hate painting, and I wouldn't buy pre-painted because I love assembling and converting.Yes, I even enjoy carefully scraping mold lines. Pre-painted would hold less value for me.
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lord_blackfang wrote:Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
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2012/01/10 16:36:15
Subject: Re:Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Nurgle Predator Driver with an Infestation
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There's nothing wrong with wanting your models painted.
That being said I would imagine that the only people that pay for their minis to get pro-painted are the win at all cost type gamers. If they have the excess money to blow on "pro-painting", then they also have every steamroller and leaf blower list at their disposal.
"I've made sure I have a stable of unbeatable army lists, now they need to look the part."
I assume "pro-painted" means at or near Golden Demon. Why on earth would anyone pay for that level of paint job unless they were going to run them in some kind of painting contest?
I'm rambling. GW is over priced as it is, so no. Automatically Appended Next Post: ChaosxVoid wrote:Id say no I love to paint aswell but i mean if it was a friend of mine trying to sell their painted models id pay more for it if they needed the support
I agree with this, though. There are exceptions to every rule.
I think I mis-read the OP. I guess if we're talking ebay or something they would have to be exceptionally well painted for me to pay more than normal for the GW model, because I do so enjoy my conversions. For some reason I thought we were talking about paying for your stuff to get painted. Just woke up. Sorry. Automatically Appended Next Post: mingus89 wrote:i wouldnt be as 'connected' with my models if they wernt painted by me, i think all the hard work and effort always pays of as you can say at the end (in a smug voice) "yea, i painted them"
Too true. I have a Daemon Prince I bought solely for a tournament. Painted him up pink skin/purple armor. Was going to run him as a lash prince. Changed my list, ran him as a Tzeentch prince. He's a total beast as a Tzeentch prince, and I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I was thinking about repainting his Thousand Sons blue, but the resounding reply was no, because it wouldn't be the same. Long story short I love Pinky, my Slaanesh looking Tzeentch prince. If I had bought a pro-painted Slaanesh prince I could never believably run him with a different build, whereas when I look at Pinky all I see is Tzeentch prince (wings, warptime, and BoC or WoC, depending, in case anyone wanted to know )
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"SIC GORGIAMUS ALLOS SUBJECTATOS NUNC" |
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2012/01/10 16:49:51
Subject: Re:Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Frenzied Berserker Terminator
In my cave, lying down and waiting for you...
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Yes, if they are 'eavy metal standard. Otherwise no...
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2012/01/10 19:41:05
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Land Raider Pilot on Cruise Control
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If it was a friend in need of some extra money I would offer pay for a paint job on a model to help him out.
I wouldn't want to hurt his pride by offering charity.
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More have died in the name of normality than ever for strangeness. Beware of normal people.
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2012/01/10 20:48:08
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Yellin' Yoof
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NO!!!!!!!!!!
I love the painting
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See my Games and Un official expancions |
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2012/01/11 03:19:23
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!
A Place
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No, Its almost guaranteed that you won't get them in non-standard color schemes, and I like to paint my own models, Its just better that way.
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2012/01/11 04:54:47
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Shunting Grey Knight Interceptor
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I voted yes solely on the basis I despise painting kroot, and would love to have kroot that actually looked decent.
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My name is BlueTau, and I don't even own a Tau army anymore.... I have confused my own identity.
DS:90S+G+MB--IPw40k11++D+A+/areWD-R++T(T)DM+
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2012/01/16 16:40:31
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Glad lots of people on ebay think differently! I can usually get twice to three times the cost of the model
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2012/01/16 18:26:02
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Lord Commander in a Plush Chair
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I see some of the commission painters here, and yes if I was rich I certainly would pay them more than retail for their work.
There's a scale on eBay, most 'painted' work is actually fit only for stripping. The models are devalued because their new owner actually has more work to prepare them. But once the standard goes above average and the figures are being bought to keep their paint job - then they get their value back, and when they genuinely painted to a high professional standard then they are worth many times their retail value because the value is all in the painting and not in the figure. You might as well ask if a good landscape painting is worth paying more for than the canvas on which it is painted!
I'm unlikely to see something randomly on eBay and feel the need to pay more than retail for it. I have bought painted figures in the past, but they have always been cheap. Even well painted figures often have little value as I have seen at wargames shows. I wouldn't have bought them for a lot, but now I have them, I'm very happy to keep them as they are. The only way I could imagine paying a lot for is to hire a commission painter to paint something specifically to my tastes.
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2012/01/16 19:03:10
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Purposeful Hammerhead Pilot
Houston, Tx
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It's like buying a fully restored classic car.
The restoration is where the fun is.
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Maybe you hang out with immature women. Maybe you're attracted to immature women because you think they'll let you shpadoink them. |
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2012/01/17 05:18:03
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Rough Rider with Boomstick
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Creating unique paint schemes is half the fun, so no.
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2012/01/19 15:22:06
Subject: Re:Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Storm Trooper with Maglight
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I enjoy the painting far too much to have someone else "professionally" paint them for me. Plus, the way the "professional" paints them might not be to my liking and then it would be wasted money.
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2012/03/09 10:08:44
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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War Walker Pilot with Withering Fire
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I would prefer to be the professional painting others' miniatures, although I take too long to make it a career.
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2012/05/08 19:09:27
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Regular Dakkanaut
Wichita
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ild buy them if they a different selection of clans, chapters, septs, kabals, etc. and only if they were painted well and had a clear protective coat already on them. but at the same time i still want to paint my own army.
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Mantic Games Pathfinder
KoW: Basilean Legacy Dwarfs
Warpath Corperation
Warhammer Invasion LCG
Dark Elves Mill Deck
Ironclaw Aggro Deck
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2012/05/24 17:28:09
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Inspiring Icon Bearer
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The only reason I haven't had certain armies painted for me ( See: Eldar and me being terrible at painting the smooth colors on their tanks with an airbrush ) is because I always change my army lists around .
I'd never be able to match the paint job, so I'd be dependant on my painter to always be able to be ready to paint my new additions.
If I really liked it, I might buy an HQ or a IC painted by someone else.
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2012/05/25 04:28:48
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
Wales: Where the Men are Men and the sheep are Scared.
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I can understand for people who don't enjoy painting or want a certain style they cannot achieve alone. Personally I got into this for the painting so if i buy a pre painted model it is to get it cheap and strip it.
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2012/05/28 02:11:35
Subject: Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Revving Ravenwing Biker
New York City
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Only if I wanted it on display in a cabinet, or for a really special game.
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I will forever remain humble because I know I could have less.
I will always be grateful because I remember I've had less. |
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2012/06/01 11:49:57
Subject: Re:Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Jovial Junkatrukk Driver
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I would, but only if it was master-class.
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