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walkiflalka wrote:
Yeah, I think you deserve a refund man, those don't look bad but 280 quid, no. Those guys are jerks and I'm really sorry they ripped you off.

That's overreacting a bit. I think they basically followed his instructions - they tried to follow the scheme on the box. The pods just need some ultramarines decals to finish them off and maybe a blue wash on the interior.

By saying you want no weathering and to follow the scheme on the box you are greatly limiting the painter. Just saying.

that said, 500 US for the pair is too much. you overpaid. If you have that kind of cash to throw around i'm wondering why you didnt just go to coolminiornot and track down one of the crazy awesome painters on there.

No I said I wanted lots of weathering but no chipping effect . I'm going to contact nick and see what he says as he may not have even seen the quality of this and he does seem like a nice guy . All of the worthy painting guys have been friendly .

I also don't expect a refund . I have no problem paying that much for the pair as some other posters have said that price is about right .

Just that I've been given something that's not how I asked , if you pick up a Codex it's differs t to what these are .
As in the interior is painted and the outsides are silver along the edges .


I'm in two minds weather to contact nick . To leave it and not deal with worthy anymore .
It's hard work contacting them to begin with . I have simply posted this as I was getting nowere trying to find out how long my minis were going to be

Thanks for the replies guys

I work with a commission painter who painted two drop pods for me for 90. The quality was better than this.

My advice is to find a commission painter you can work with and pay them well. The guy I work with is an absolute diamond and he is just about to finish my tau. I am gonna drop him a bonus because his prices are good, he is reliable and paints good tabletop quality miniatures.

In relation to worthy they are normally very good, but too rich for me. He wanted about 1.5k to paint my elysians. I got them done for 750 in the end and they are great.

I would 100% complain to them, this is not worth what you paid.

Hey nserviceofultramar

Please contact me at info@worthypainting.com if there has been a problem. I sure we can sort this out.
I am sorry for any compilations with this order.
I believe it was not £280 for 2 drop pods but there where some Legion of the Damned also?

I am more than happy to work with you to get this sorted and make sure you are happy with your commission.

Regards
Nick

cheers nick , i have emailed you back

but the price was actually £160 each for the drop pods , and £115 for the legion of the dammed

Ga've nick my number but he has not been in touch yet, I'll keep you updated as to the oh come guys

I saw the quality of their paint jobs last year on Miniwargaming and was so impressed I decided to have them paint up an HQ for me. I commissioned a Blood Ravens Terminator Captain last September and have yet to receive it. While I can attest that they are extremely pleasant when you finally get a reply, it's extremely disappointing to have a 9 month(and counting) turn around time for a single model.

Holy flip a frickin table.. 320 pounds wow... Not to disrespect them or nothing of course. Just strange..

September ! I would be ringing them everyday ! . I think nick had just replied on here to make worthy painting look batter because so far i have had no response ! Looks like many people are having a terrible time with worthy

I'm debating weather to make a YouTube video to show people the service I have had
Every time somebody searched worthy painting it would give them the real perspective

I feel sorry for people spending mega money on minis only to be sorely disappointed

Still no reply!

inserviceofultramar wrote:
Still no reply!

Ouch

interesting to see this been brought up I used to work with them (I did the lamenters and the titans for the give away plus a few other bits) suffice to say I no longer work with them.... I seemed to spend all my time chasing them for payment wasn't a good way to work :-(

that said I've gone my won way and do commission work now...... how's that for a shameless plug!! :-P

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/514200.page

You were scammed. The quality is amateur and the price professional. I would throw this up as a warning if I hear anyone inquiring about this service. Sorry this happened to you.

You were scammed. The quality is amateur and the price professional. I would throw this up as a warning if I hear anyone inquiring about this service. Sorry this happened to you.

they do have at least one really good painter in Dan Twiss (multiple GD winner) but I have to say that there quality has taken a massive nose dive recently :-(

any update on this?

Truely shocking 'quality' for what you paid. I hope you have had a reply by now and had them redone properly.

Over 300 pounds for what amounts to tabletop standard work is disgusting.

Combined with their completely unprofessional service and conduct and this is simply atrocious.

@OP did it take more than 10 weeks for you to get your models? By their own website it's supposed to take 4 to 6 and if it goes over 10 you're typically offered some kind of refund or consideration.

They also say 'we don't put up our best work and deliver something different to you'. Certainly looks like what happened to you.

Keep chasing them up, make the youtube video and post reviews and such explaining your dissatisfaction. You deserve better treatment than this.

If you can't get a refund or compensation get them to redo it, they say they do so under their terms and conditions.

For £300 i would have been expecting hand done chapter symbols and a much higher standard of overall painting and after the mess around they gave you i would have reported them for scamming your out of your money.

thats appalling for the money you have paid.

Hey guys if your looking for a new artist check out my stuff ultra low prices I have no overhead so garaunteed to beat anyone's price. Tryna build a rep here thanks guys.


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And a 2 week turnaround or less for most projects

I have no clue what’s up with Worthy Painting, unfortunately I found this post after I ordered some stuff. At first it was fairly quick, fast response via e-mail and such until it was about paying which I did because I thought they had a good reputation, heard of them from miniwargaming and others.

Since I paid and that is now over a month ago they didn't answer my e-mails I haven’t heard a single word, nothing. I wouldn’t even care if the project takes longer but not to answer any of my e-mails after I paid is just a joke.

My money is gone I have no clue what they are doing with it, I write them every other day but still no answer. What I learned the hard way is stay away from them, at least until they sorted out whatever they messed up. If you are looking for professionalism WP is the wrong place.

Ionisis wrote:
I have no clue what’s up with Worthy Painting, unfortunately I found this post after I ordered some stuff. At first it was fairly quick, fast response via e-mail and such until it was about paying which I did because I thought they had a good reputation, heard of them from miniwargaming and others.

Since I paid and that is now over a month ago they didn't answer my e-mails I haven’t heard a single word, nothing. I wouldn’t even care if the project takes longer but not to answer any of my e-mails after I paid is just a joke.

My money is gone I have no clue what they are doing with it, I write them every other day but still no answer. What I learned the hard way is stay away from them, at least until they sorted out whatever they messed up. If you are looking for professionalism WP is the wrong place.

Care to provide some validation? Accusations shouldn't be thrown around lightly.

And I gotta say, the whole thread is really strange. I've heard nothing but good things about WP ever since I got involved in the wargaming world. It seems like ll of their problems are a recent thing, so there has to be something going on at their end that they aren't talking about. The quality of their work seems to have taken a hit recently as well...

~Tim?

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:

Ionisis wrote:
I have no clue what’s up with Worthy Painting, unfortunately I found this post after I ordered some stuff. At first it was fairly quick, fast response via e-mail and such until it was about paying which I did because I thought they had a good reputation, heard of them from miniwargaming and others.

Since I paid and that is now over a month ago they didn't answer my e-mails I haven’t heard a single word, nothing. I wouldn’t even care if the project takes longer but not to answer any of my e-mails after I paid is just a joke.

My money is gone I have no clue what they are doing with it, I write them every other day but still no answer. What I learned the hard way is stay away from them, at least until they sorted out whatever they messed up. If you are looking for professionalism WP is the wrong place.

Care to provide some validation? Accusations shouldn't be thrown around lightly.

And I gotta say, the whole thread is really strange. I've heard nothing but good things about WP ever since I got involved in the wargaming world. It seems like ll of their problems are a recent thing, so there has to be something going on at their end that they aren't talking about. The quality of their work seems to have taken a hit recently as well...

~Tim?

I can’t tell what the quality of the paintjobs is of WP for all I know that quality was the reason why I chose them. I’m not throwing those acquisitions around lightly nor am I saying they ripped me off because I don’t think they did.

But something isn’t working out with them right now, maybe too many project all at once I don’t know. I wouldn’t even mind that but I can’t say this any other way if you can’t keep in touch with your costumer that is just unprofessional.

I've never dealt with WP, and I have no dog in this fight, but it's starting to remind me of the Vintone Circuits story.

Vintone was a boutique guitar amp manufacturer who had a reputation for building BEAUTIFUL amps (point-to-point on hardwood circuit boards, beeswax capacitors, hardwood cabinets, etc), and they started getting busier and busier. Vintone was a one-man show, though, and at some point he ran into problems with health and/or the law and stopped returning emails, stopped refunding money for amp orders he hadn't finished, and stopped returning amps that were sent to him for repair (he wasn't just providing bad customer service, he was outright stealing from customers).

So, he dropped off the planet, the internet found him a few states away living in near-squalor, and last I heard a handful of people were getting together to sue him for their stolen amps and money.

Hopefully, Worthy Painting isn't going the way of Vintone.

Wow that's Terrible. I couldn't even do that to a customer I'd feel like crap.

7 months I'm still waiting . ( I like the pods I think they look cool so don't feel to let down .) Once I get my models ill report my findings .

Hi All,

Recently worthy painting announced their promotions called "worthy offers" which i am sure some of the people here have seen on their Youtube channel. Wondered if any Folks here got into that offer?

I was enticed by the offer and decided to go big on this one, however till now the project hasnt even started considered the full amount has to be paid for the offer to be valid. Been abit peeved lately by the lack of response from the folks at WP . Came across this thread and realize people have yet to receive their minis since Sept, looks like i gotta wait till next year for the project to actually get started.

GGWP Worthy Painting.

Ken

hum its not sounding good here and I hate to be the bearer of possible bad news but worthy gaming (the store below the WP studio) has posted on there face book that they are closing down on the 30th of this month..... I'd guess that means that they have lost the building weather this means worthy painting has gone as well........

https://www.facebook.com/WorthyGaming?fref=ts

as for the quality of there work they still have loads of my personal work on there website advertising their painting service like I said earlier on here I do not work for WP I just did some commission work for them to get the store started :-(

Davey80y wrote:
hum its not sounding good here and I hate to be the bearer of possible bad news but worthy gaming (the store below the WP studio) has posted on there face book that they are closing down on the 30th of this month..... I'd guess that means that they have lost the building weather this means worthy painting has gone as well........

https://www.facebook.com/WorthyGaming?fref=ts

as for the quality of there work they still have loads of my personal work on there website advertising their painting service like I said earlier on here I do not work for WP I just did some commission work for them to get the store started :-(

Now *that* doesn't seem like a good omen..

Oh man

I think I’ll chime in here since I am in an odd position here with worthy painting aswell. Forgive the nonexistent post count but I’m not a forum person but I have been lurking here for quite some time.

I put in a commission for quite a large army to game with in 2014 not dreaming that now four months later I’d be staring at the "Worthy Gaming" Facebook page with updates on about how it will be closing. I must say that this doesn't come as a surprise to me in the least. I did my research initially and what precious little info I could find other than their Youtube vids all pointed to this being a low risk endeavor. After researching the company again it seems that starting in March, after I sent my commission in, things began to slip with the culmination of them closing.

Needless to say I’ve been trying to contact them for about a week now, which is a chore in itself since I am on the east coast of the U.S., to no avail. So at this time I am going to chalk it up as a loss and move on. Yes I’m out models and some money but learned a valuable lesson. If you are going to have someone paint your models for you make sure you know the person and can easily reach them to wring their neck if they screw you over.
I’d give more detail but I don’t think this is the place to air grievances but pm me if you have any other questions.