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Smitty0305 wrote: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.

uhh we are talking about would you buy it if it was onsale and not being sold by GW. Not that.

I've bought stuff off eBay but usually respray it and start again.

I would not buy them and hate their existence.

I do buy painted miniatures from eBay, but never because of the paint job but because it is the miniature that I want and this happens to be the auction I am winning. Sometimes I really like the paint job and other than touching up to tie it in with my existing army I'll leave it alone, but that is a rare situation and generally occurs when I am purchasing a group of miniatures. The majority of the "pre-painted" miniatures I buy wind up in the Simple Green bucket.

I would hate their existence for reasons I won't post here. But trust me, I would. A lot.

Not pre-painted, but pre-primed would be nice. Not sure how it would work though

what i like about GW doing unpainted stuff is that you can make a unique army and customise it as much as you want

Prepainted miniatures? Blasphemy!!

Seriously though kinda means everyones army is just all the same, wheres the fun in that? A great deal of the enjoyment is the painting for me

Im not shore. pre made models would only be an option for me if they had colour scemes i liked. if not no. I also think that half the hobby is the painting if not more. pre made models effectivly steels the enjoyment of the hobby

Having some of the base work done for me would be a help, I would want to add the details though. In order to be prepainted though, they'd have to be made of that plastic/rubber stuff that Mage Knight was made of, and I would not like that at all.

I think prepainted minis would be good for kids ect who i wouldn't trust with a hobby knife or paintbrush!
I wouldn't do it myself but yeah, go for it if you're lazy!

Painting is the most important aspect of the hobby to me.

I'd buy pre-painted models because i dislike painting but only if I actually like the paint scheme which might be rare depending on the army.

That would ruin the hobby

*WE ARE ARTISTS! * LOOK AT THIS SITE, MY NON WARGAMING FRIENDS HARDLY BELIEVE PEOPLE ACTUALLY PAINT THE IMAGES WITHIN! EVEN THE "7'S" ARE OFTEN INCREDIBLE.

WOULD YOU REALLY CONSIDER GIVING ANY OF THIS UP? LOOK AROUND... PRE-PAINTED MODELS ARE AN INSULT TO US ALL.

Sorry for the all caps but I really feel strongly about this . As someone who took a 15 YEAR break from this hobby and now is totally happily back; I feel that many of you forget that the projects we complete are works of art!

(if you don't believe me go to a local art gallery and see what passes for "art" when you get home you will look at that lowly infantry squad with a smile on your face)

Hi all.

I was debating replying to this thread or not as I run the risk of being 'the Devil's Advocate' (cricket box on stand-by... ) as I have just started my own store on eBay selling (dun-du-du-dun) pre-painted models Pre-paint, if done well, would be good for new-comers (i.e kids with a low attention span) as it would preserve some of the model's original value and I wouldn't have to go through the pain of seeing £££'s of hard-working parent's money (not to mention awesome looking models) end up looking like they were self-portraits done by Mr. Picasso-Potato Head (harsh but in some instances fair).

First off in replying to OP: GW would never do this, but if they did, I personally wouldn't buy them for many reasons - mainly because I've always had a greater affinity for painting/modelling than I have for gaming, so to me P&M is king. If they did do them I can't see how they'd sell them/want to sell them cheaper and would have a hard time with models that looked like they came out of a Kinder Surprise (although if GW produced a chocolate egg with a random painted plastic, one-piece model inside for 80p, I think we'd all buy it ).

As a gamer I hardly ever saw a fully painted army, not playing in any tournaments & all, which I always found to be a great shame. I think there is a genuine need/desire for some people to buy pre-painted models (the 43% who would buy them seem to agree) and it irks me when I see badly finished, Army Painted (varnish dip and all - although if used correctly this can give quite a nice basic finish) models sell off eBay for 3-5 x their value +/-. As I'm new to painting and selling I'm still trying out varying ways to finish off the models to see what people go for/don't. It's tricky as I don't want to rip people off or under-sell my work. I feel for some people that they perhaps have the money but not the time, perhaps nor the skill, to finish off an army how they would wish. So if I can offer new, well finished, nicely painted models to them and sell them for 25-100+% more - I'd rather do that than see gaming tables populated by monotone models.

I am in a fortunate position at the moment as I have a lot of stuff I can paint/strip/repaint (to improve my skills/technique and speed) and re-sell which I have had for years, so the original model cost is not a major debebilitating factor to me and I'd be more than happy to break even at this point. Obviously this will change when I run out of stuff to paint (which will be in quite a while, hence no commissions as of yet) but hopefully I can offer my services as a paint-slave at a later date to supplement the costs of painting the shiny new models I really want to paint

I understand fully how militant some people feel, but when you consider the amount of unfinished models/armies you've seen vs. complete ones, if you're anything like me, then seeing a nicely finished, if quite simple, army is better than re-enactments with Mr. Black, Mr. Grey, Mr. White & Mr. Forever Incomplete, if at the cost of a few more $/£. Yes this is a hobby, above all, but to some it's more of a game, and others may yet (sadly) feel dis-heartened when they pick up a brush and stare at the 100 Guardsmen they have to paint, or are else just plain lazy - and for that they might well come to people like me. BWA-HA-HA-HAAA

Whenever I buy or barter for painted minis, all I can do is look at them and say 'feth, i can do a way better job than this' and not even want to put them on the table for fear my opponent will think I painted them.

Any type of mini that came prepainted would not be to a standard I would be comfortable playing with, and if they were, they would not be at a price I would consider.

warpcrafter wrote:No, because then it would be a sign that they are taking even more options out of the codexes. If this happens, they might as well make 40K a Milton-Bradley board game with all the rules and army lists on the inside of the box lid.

I somehow doubt this, they don't have models for a large number of things that are in the codices. No reason the prepainted ones couldn't be the same way.

Pre painting the minis would neuter the hobby for me. I would probably quit.

I'd get prepainted miniatures for the models that are just a pain in the rear to paint (im looking at you Harlequins). It doesnt help that I suck at painting aswell.

If they were painted well and in my colour scheme, yes I would but otherwise, no

no, because i like painted my self.

If they look good I may consider. Personally, if I didn't have the time to paint an army, I'd buy and build my own army, and commission someone to paint that, rather than just buy pre painted stuff on Ebay.

I'm not the best at painting and it takes me ages to get any units/armies completed but I really enjoy assembling and painting my miniatures. I wouldn't buy any pre-painted models but I could understand their existence, some people just don't have the time for painting.

I have too much pride in my painting, not that its amazing or anything.
Also painting is what first attracted me to the hobby.

If they are cheaper, sure! It's not that hard stripping painted models, but stripping down the price...

I would HATE them! I love painting and would hate to see only painted stuff.

No,never.

Painting them is just as important a part of the hobby as anything else.

Yup


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only if there good though

I am definitely in the hobby for painting. But I have no problem if other people just like to play the game and have no patience to paint 50 models.

personally, im a control freak. If it doesn't match up to my colour scheme and isn't painted by me in my way, I wouldn't buy.

Because, hey, half the hobby is YOU painting YOUR models, not buying somebody's already painted models.

Might buy the guys that will be the center of attention painted; at least until i get to a decent stage of painting.

As a general rule i prefer to make my troopers as custom as i can(my next Guardsmen group will be so custom they will have creativity falling out their ass) so if so the ONLY things i would buy would be things that would not be able to be customized with the tools given.