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Would you pay over standard GW retail price for pro-painted models?
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Unbalanced Fanatic




Atlanta, Ga

As a stickler for such things. I would never actually purchase an item, that I did not intend to use in play and to that extent. I will not use models in play, that I did not paint myself.

One has to wonder. Do the Tyranids consider drop-assault troops... fast food? 
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut




Nurglitch wrote:
It's like the poll is asking if I want to pay extra for underwear someone else has worn.


I believe there is a market for that

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Intoxicated Centigor





I voted yes. I have zero desire to assemble/paint mini's anymore.

I just want to play the game again honestly. Haven't played since 6th ED 40k and 8th ED Fantasy(pre end times).
   
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I answered "yes" because I thought the question was a one of principle.

In theory, if I wanted a readily assembled and painted miniature, I'd be willing to pay more than what a box of unpainted/unassembled minis cost. This is because labour always has a cost associated with it; If someone is doing something in order to financially sustain themselves and their family, they need to get paid. You cant pay the rent in miniatures, last I checked everyone wants rent paid in money.

However, in practice, I do not collect miniatures as display pieces or anything like that (anymore). I collect miniatures and increasingly terrain, to play, and for that purpose, of course I want to assemble and paint my own pieces. This way, they will look exactly how I want them to look and I wont have to act as a "producer" to someone else who is trying to fullfill my visions. I want both the terrain and my minis to share a unified holistic vision, explaining it all in depth to someone and having back and forth tweaking details would be super tedious.

There is also the dopamine rush you get from pulling off a difficult build, or completing the painting of a miniature in a satisfactory manner, which I still enjoy at times. (I judge most of my mini building on a scale from "not entirely terrible" to "passable"; have never made a mini yet I'd be 100% happy with).

Therefore, I never actually buy "ready" miniatures, unless my plan is to strip them and repaint them for my playing piece collection.

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Death-Dealing Devastator




I want it to be "my army" so for me buying a pre-painted model wouldn't count.

I might pay for a display piece but not a table top piece
   
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Neophyte undergoing Ritual of Detestation





Absolutely, but I hate painting lol.
   
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Coastal Bliss in the Shadow of Sizewell





Suffolk, where the Aliens roam.

Theoretically yes.. but only if I had a) enough money that the excess was totally justified as throw away funds, b) it was of eavy metal standard or better and c) it was an entire force, self contained that once done was finished so I wouldn't need to find a way to replicate the scheme later on. (So more likely Blood Bowl teams, Necromunda gangs etc)

In general although I am slow at painting, clearly low end to middle of the road level, I still enjoy doing it and knowing when I field the models they are my work.

So the likelihood of me ever doing so is very low.. but hey who knows what a lottery win might bring.

"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.

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Regular Dakkanaut





Funny to see this poll because I've been thinking about this the past couple of days. I genuinely don't understand why there is such a market for pro-painted models. Surely the painting is the main part of the fun? I don't play the games, I only paint but it amazes me that there are people out there who are only it for the playing and are willing to pay professionals to make their army look fantastic. Also - where do they get their money from? They're clearly earning a lot more than I am. But there definitely is a market because there are a ton of companies doing this. I drool with envy looking at the pictures of their painting but I wouldn't get much pleasure from owning something I'd paid someone else to paint.
   
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Mighty Vampire Count






UK

Jandgalf wrote:
Funny to see this poll because I've been thinking about this the past couple of days. I genuinely don't understand why there is such a market for pro-painted models. Surely the painting is the main part of the fun? I don't play the games, I only paint but it amazes me that there are people out there who are only it for the playing and are willing to pay professionals to make their army look fantastic. Also - where do they get their money from? They're clearly earning a lot more than I am. But there definitely is a market because there are a ton of companies doing this. I drool with envy looking at the pictures of their painting but I wouldn't get much pleasure from owning something I'd paid someone else to paint.


Personal reasons:

* I don't really enjoy painting and I am really really bad at it.
* I would prefer that my (very expensive) models are painted for games and because they look cooler but that they are not ruined by my lack of skills
* I have plenty of cash and little time
* Its now often as cheap or cheaper to buy well painted models than unpainted

I am now mostly just buying painted models and commisoning the painting of the vast unpainted hordes in my residence

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Pleasant Valley, Iowa

Jandgalf wrote:
Funny to see this poll because I've been thinking about this the past couple of days. I genuinely don't understand why there is such a market for pro-painted models. Surely the painting is the main part of the fun?


I am capable of getting them painted - I'm a pretty competent painter - but I definitely don't enjoy it. I like how they look when they are finished enough to soldier through it, but if I could wave a magic wand that turned my grey plastic into painted minis, I'd do that every time. For some people, that wand has a Mastercard logo on it.

Jandgalf wrote:
I don't play the games, I only paint but it amazes me that there are people out there who are only it for the playing and are willing to pay professionals to make their army look fantastic


Inversely, it amazes me that anyone could find any pleasure in painting, say, 40+ slight variations same mini for a lousy 2 troop choices - a task I find to be deeply, deeply unfun. Imagine painting a green tide of hundreds of Ork Boyz and feeling anything other than brain-numbing tedium.

Jandgalf wrote:
Also - where do they get their money from? They're clearly earning a lot more than I am.


I'm a Exchange administrator for a Fortune 100 company who lives in an inexpensive area with no mortgage or loans. Expensive is pretty relative.

To try and contrast your scarce resource with my scarce resource - where do you get all your free time from? You clearly have a lot more of it than I do

Jandgalf wrote:
But there definitely is a market because there are a ton of companies doing this. I drool with envy looking at the pictures of their painting but I wouldn't get much pleasure from owning something I'd paid someone else to paint.


I get plenty of joy from having my oil changed without actually putting my car up on jacks and getting out a drain pan. I've very rarely had a pizza that hasn't brought me pleasure despite the fact I didn't assemble and bake it. And so on.

I don't actually pay for commissioned... anything, really, but that's because I barely ever play and I'd rather waste money on different dumb stuff. As things currently lay, I have painted every single mini I own with my own hand, other than a bunch of Sororitas heads - and that commission was a difficult experience that I am unlikely to ever do another commission again.

That being said, it's hardly difficult for me to understand that there are a great many people who have more money than free time - like me - and who find painting to be a thoroughly un-fun task while also enjoying the look of a well-painted army.

I also totally understand people who just like to play competitively and never paint a single mini, any more than I would paint the pieces for my Monopoly set.

For me, I love the backstory, the fluff, and the mechanics of building and converting the minis. I love taking a sprue and turning into a complete thing, and maybe even a thing that looks cooler or more interesting to me than the intended thing! Painting is just an unfortunate downstream task of that, for me.

The hobby is many things to many people and that's OK.

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No.

The quality I'd except would be too expensive for me to justify.
   
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Fresh-Faced New User






The models should be pro-painted for the prices they're charging already.

I'm employed, got my house all paid for, and am doing alright. But since getting back into the hobby in March, my reaction to the prices has been to laugh. And then to put the box back very carefully.

I don't know about pro-painting but some of the old plastic stuff like Night Goblins might have been better if they had put a toy-soldier type paint job on them - you could always paint over if you wanted. Of course, they don't seem to make them like that anymore, so that's neither here nor there.
   
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Regular Dakkanaut




Berlin

No.
I hate painting - you know there is pain in painting for a reason.

Anyway, if I consider the models not worth to paint them myself, why would they consider me worth to fight well for me ?

'till now that "mutual respect" works out well - most of the time.

   
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Eye of Terror

Jandgalf wrote:
Funny to see this poll because I've been thinking about this the past couple of days. I genuinely don't understand why there is such a market for pro-painted models. Surely the painting is the main part of the fun? I don't play the games, I only paint but it amazes me that there are people out there who are only it for the playing and are willing to pay professionals to make their army look fantastic. Also - where do they get their money from? They're clearly earning a lot more than I am. But there definitely is a market because there are a ton of companies doing this. I drool with envy looking at the pictures of their painting but I wouldn't get much pleasure from owning something I'd paid someone else to paint.

It's different for some people.

Not everyone is a good painter, which removes some of the fun aspect. It's not that they don't put in the effort, it's that they're wired differently. Friend of mine is an accountant. He can recognize a good paint job but he is incapable of creating anything resembling one.

Also, not everyone can paint. I did some commissions for someone who is legally blind in one eye, he has very little depth perception and isn't capable of much beyond priming and base coating.

While I'm never going to pay someone to paint my army, there are perfectly valid reasons someone would want to.

   
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Gondor

I might, then again, I might not.

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The Dark Imperium

I paid for mine, because I suck at painting, didn't have the time, nor the patience to attempt it. So I'm thankful that even I can own good looking minis.

   
 
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