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No way in the Warp. It would turn 40k from a hobby to a mere game.

I would buy them for my normal troops as I play Iguard and painting hundreds of guardsmen for hours on end coupled with my painting disability leaves me literally in a painting depression followed by rage

At one of my LGS there are a few shelves with pre-owned minis. Basically you can sell your minis to them and they will sell on thier pre-owned shelf. Most of theese are painted, some to a good standard. These minis, like those on eBay, are cheaper, however i much prefer buying my own rather than rpe-owned ones, especilaly from eBay because you dont really know what your getting. However if the models are expensive from GW, i may buy these, though i normally do this from Amazon.

That would ruin a third of what Warhammer is. Build, Paint, Play... without the painting!

sdf boy wrote:where is the "I would buy them and then strip them" option?

Indeed! A quick bath of simple green fixes all!

Honestly, I buy pre-painted stuff all the time. Ebay is great for getting cheep minis with horrendous paint jobs. Just drop it in the bath, pull it out in a day or two and start over fresh :-P

NO, but I would rather see some one put those on the tabletop than some paintjob.

No I wouldn't buy them. Most of the fun for me comes from me painting (No matter how poor my painting skills are)

EBAY!

I hate painting, but to my friends and the people in my area it's not very important. I wouldn't buy them over anything else, but I think it would be nice. You wouldn't have to rush to finish painting your army before a tournament.

I wouldnt like it if GW did that.

Great for beginners and non-painters.

Im sure we all know at least 1 person who would benefit from them in all our gaming groups as painting its a popular deterant for a lot of potential gamers.

Yeay, I did a dry and serious paragraph!

Newt-Of-Death wrote:Great for beginners and non-painters.

Im sure we all know at least 1 person who would benefit from them in all our gaming groups as painting its a popular deterant for a lot of potential gamers.

I agree, but not just beginners, if they were basic colours, that you could paint a few extra details on I would be tempted to do mass infantry armies.

Pharcae wrote:more time spent painting = higher sense of accomplishment.
No time spent painting = no sense of accomplishment.

Therefore: prepainted minis get no love from me.

+1

it would lose the soul of the whole hobby if the made prepainted minis

I wouldn't mind some painted figures as long as would be some elites or something lik a command, vanguard veterans, stern guard or HQ units like an Avatar, Eldrad, Dante etc.

I buy prepainted only to strip them and repaint!

I would not. There are many other games in the universe that already have pre-painted figures. GW games appealed to me for the opportunity to not only game, but also to create an army that was different from anyone else's.

if they where cheaper i would... and then maybe strip them and paint my own scheme on, lol..

It would make me hate GW even more if they added pre-painted models though.. -.-

I would not mind SOME pre-painted, but not all of them.
The Pre-Assembled I would like to see it some of the Vehicles, Mostly Rhinos, Chimarias, and Valks.

What if you could custom pick the paint scheme via some sort of ordering program, like you pick 3 color paint scheme for custom orders. I think that would extradite the people that'd play or at least make people with disposable income able to take their armies to competitions because of the whole stigma about bringing non painted models.

However this would raise the price and since they are going to rise their prices anyways I dont think anyone would want to use that anyways.

if games workshop did this, id start playing warmachine seriously pre painted minis are more toys than miniatures

THIS ANGERS LUDD, IMO the main reason I play 40k is for the painting and modeling, to whatever standard, its all good...

I wouldn't buy them personally, but I do see their advantages. My feeling is that painting/modelling is the other half of the hobby and pre-painted minis take away from the whole experience. But then again, I see someone like my brother's point of view where he would love to play but has no inclination to pick up a paintbrush.

No way would I buy those. It takes away a lot form the hobby, and you would get plenty of hollow comments on how nice they look when you did nothing.

how about pre primed?

i hate priming my minis its boooooooooooooooring

95% of the fun is building and painting your own miniatures
Getting to show your own work, is its own reward and i love hearing people say wow you painted that?...

I wouldn't buy them and would worry about where the hobby was going if they started selling them. I have bought figures already painted though, but I liked the standard and they were cheap. Pre-painted stuff will all be the same and undoubtedly more expensive.

This is my reaction when i see cheap models for sale.
"Must add tooo collection...."

I personally paint my own miniatures and prefer it that way but I would purchase these models if they released them. Of course there would be one caveat.... their level of painting. I do not want dry brushed drek and globs of flesh paint on the board. They'd have to be a decent level of painting.

The reason why I say that I would purchase pre-painted models is because I simply do not have the time to paint all the armies I'd like to. Even being able to purchase a 1000 point army would serves its purpose allowing me to continue painting what I truely want to concentrate on. It would be also good for doing those kill team drones etc.

If I see marines I go giddy with exicement as I want to add more to my collection as I will take them strip them and rebuild them myself. and there you go A new badass marine.

I would hate this.

40k is about the hobby as much as it is the game.

A well painted and assembled army is as respectable as a tactically superior army.

Games Workshop would never do this. It would cost them more money because they wont be selling all the hobby supplies.