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When you're done with them, can you use them in games?

i.e. the Dark Angels from 'Dark Vengeance']]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084221.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084221.page GMT Just Seeking Opinions: Buying Lots of Cheap (Sometimes Incomplete) Models from eBay
If you are careful you can also strip the minis again if you are not happy and if your painting improves.

So yeah it is a good idea and you save money to boot.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084230.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084230.page GMT Re:Just Seeking Opinions: Buying Lots of Cheap (Sometimes Incomplete) Models from eBay http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084328.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084328.page GMT Re:Just Seeking Opinions: Buying Lots of Cheap (Sometimes Incomplete) Models from eBay
 Vulcan wrote:
If you're looking for cheap models to practice on, go to the dollar store and pick up a pack of cheap green armymen. They are totally disposable and far cheaper than anything you will find on ebay.


This too. Build up brush control and muscle memory on disposable grunts.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084336.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084336.page GMT Re:Just Seeking Opinions: Buying Lots of Cheap (Sometimes Incomplete) Models from eBay
Anyhow, when the professor was teaching us how to paint miniatures, he started by having us paint little, oddly shaped bits of wood with lots of different angles. I had completely forgotten about it until I read your post, but thinking back, it was a really cheap way to learn brush control. He would have us paint each face a different color.

Another option would be to pick up some cheaper miniatures that can represent things you might use in your games, or even just bits you will use for scenery or terrain. You could pick up some Pegasus farm animals, for example. That way, when you practice painting you will at least have something that you have a use for when you are done. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084577.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5084577.page GMT Re:Just Seeking Opinions: Buying Lots of Cheap (Sometimes Incomplete) Models from eBay
If you're talking super cheap for practice...
I'd avoid the toy army men as they haven't got enough detail to really be good options. However, EM4 has a whole range of cheap plastic miniatures in sci-fi, post apoc and fantasy genres.
http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/FANTASY.html

The cheapest are their plastic orcs and dwarves that were part of the original "fantasy rules" boxed set and are now sold separately and in batches of 50.
Pretty nice figs for 32 cents (25 cents if you buy in bulk) a piece!
]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5086268.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5086268.page GMT Just Seeking Opinions: Buying Lots of Cheap (Sometimes Incomplete) Models from eBay http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5087546.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5087546.page GMT Just Seeking Opinions: Buying Lots of Cheap (Sometimes Incomplete) Models from eBay Tac Marine now... I also have an additional Assault Squad to work on later on... :-)]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5090895.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5090895.page GMT Re:Just Seeking Opinions: Buying Lots of Cheap (Sometimes Incomplete) Models from eBay Hive Fleet Kielbasa -- as second hand models off eBay.

It's a great way to pick up cheap models are long as you are good at paint stripping and fixing up (which is easy with Nids.)]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5111001.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5111001.page GMT Just Seeking Opinions: Buying Lots of Cheap (Sometimes Incomplete) Models from eBay GW. Plenty of nanufacturers offer two or three times the models for the money GW asks, especially historical ranges.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5111009.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/495083/5111009.page GMT