its all your fault coolminiornot ;__;

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Queenoftheunifrogs

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a:( oh coolminiornot....what have you done to me.....a few months ago i was content at being the best painter in my warhammer club. i looked at my minis and i was happy with them.....now i look at them and they look like crap *shakes fist* lol....theres not a single mini im happy with now thanks to this website *grumbles* ;)

lol seriously though isnt this site amazing for raising your standards...you think you are good until you see some of the stuff thats got a 9.7 and then you want to cry....or at least i do lol.
oh well, time for me to try harder and salvage those minis. i cant believe i didnt even used to take the mould marks off *facepalm*
 
PegaZus

PegaZus

Stealth Freak
At least you got the chance to believe that you were good at one point in time. I got into the hobby AFTER seeing what quality they could be painted to. My only consoling thought is when I pull up something that was ranked at a 2 or 3...


... and then read it was painted by a five year old. It\'s then m right back down in the dumps. :D
 
No Such Agency

No Such Agency

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Just work through it... Everyone has their own way of coping with the dispiriting existence of paint jobs so good one could never do them onesself. I am actually taking a \"step back\" right now, worrying less about producing technically great paint jobs and concentrating more on the \"fun\" of painting. I expect these minis to score as 6.x or so, but I\'ll actually get them finished in a reasonable time without too much frustration.
 
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Sauce Devil

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LOL! :D
I know the feeling, years ago I had a couple of minis on display at my local games shop and they were pretty much the best there but coming back to painting now I\'m seeing a whole new level of quality that I only saw in magazines like White Dwarf back in the old days.

Don\'t forget though that this is the internet and the minis on sites like this one are the cream of the crop.
 
Dragon Forge Design

Dragon Forge Design

New member
Hey at least you realize theres room for improvement and now you know whats ahead for you. Its the ones that can never see that their work can stand to improve that never get it..

welcome to the club, its an addiction :)
 
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evil tendencies

Cake or Death?
I like CMON because it helps me to just enjoy the act of painting. Knowing I won\'t come in first place takes the pressure out of running the race.
 
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DaN

New member
It\'s good to get knocked down every now and again, humility is a virtue :)

<wanders off to check out your gallery>

Some good stuff in there!
And I like your deviantart stuff too :)
 
Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

Super Moderator
Originally posted by Queenoftheunifrogs
theres not a single mini im happy with now thanks to this website *grumbles* ;)
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Ach lass stop whinging. lol
You got a lot going for you;
1 You are a lot younger than a lot of us
2 You\'ve got plenty of time to learn new techniques
3 You\'re a girl in a predominately male hobby, revel in it.


lol
 
darklord

darklord

New member
i often feel like that too a lot of us do. you have an art background which you are good at which helps and being able to see your own shortcomings is probably one of the biggest helps in the game.
your giant looks good so that a great start.
from small acorns and all that
 
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philologus

Subgenius
Originally posted by No Such Agency
Just work through it... Everyone has their own way of coping with the dispiriting existence of paint jobs so good one could never do them onesself. I am actually taking a \"step back\" right now, worrying less about producing technically great paint jobs and concentrating more on the \"fun\" of painting. I expect these minis to score as 6.x or so, but I\'ll actually get them finished in a reasonable time without too much frustration.
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This is good advice. I\'m doing the same right now. With the wankers at GW cancelling ATL GD, I have been just having fun painting minis that I will game with. I\'m doing some Pulp stuff right now and some Gangsters, and even...gasp...Heroclix repaints. When no one\'s looking I even drybrush. The only GW minis I\'m doing now are commissions.
 
Einion

Einion

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Originally posted by Queenoftheunifrogs
a:( oh coolminiornot....what have you done to me.....a few months ago i was content at being the best painter in my warhammer club. i looked at my minis and i was happy with them.....now i look at them and they look like crap *shakes fist* lol....theres not a single mini im happy with now thanks to this website *grumbles* ;)
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Glad we could be of service :D

Originally posted by Queenoftheunifrogs
you think you are good until you see some of the stuff thats got a 9.7 and then you want to cry....
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Do remember to take some of the photos with a pinch of salt (not to mention some of the scores!) lol

Einion
 
Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

Super Moderator
Originally posted by Einion
Originally posted by Queenoftheunifrogs
you think you are good until you see some of the stuff thats got a 9.7 and then you want to cry....
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Do remember to take some of the photos with a pinch of salt (not to mention some of the scores!) lol

Einion
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Cynic. lol
 
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IronWorker

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What a lot of folks on this site won\'t tell you is that what you see in the 9-10 rateing range are figures that were not painted for table top game play and will never in fact be used for table top game play. If your compairing you game paintjobs to what they are doing your shooting yourself in the foot.
I think your giant looks great. Definately as good as most miniatures that actually see action.
Personally I\'d rather have a lot of nicely painted minis in the 6-8 range that I actually use to play games with rather than a few 10s that gather dust on my shelf. I\'m a miniature gamer who likes to play games with fully painted armies that look go not a miniature artist looking to win awards in painting contest. You have to decide what kind of painter you want to be for yourself. Don\'t be ashamed of being able to paint up armies of nice looking miniatures.
 
BarstoolProphet

BarstoolProphet

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So that\'s where that thread came from....

I don\'t look at CMON and get intimidated. As was stated above, most of those top jobs are display pieces, not gaming pieces.

I\'ve been painting for a lot less time than I\'ve been collecting metal, and over the next few weeks, I\'m actually going to be doing more stripping than painting, as I just bought out someone\'s collection of metal at a very reasonable price. Too good a deal to pass up.

I look at the pictures for inspiration, or just to enjoy the art of it when they\'re really good. I don\'t aspire to be \'great\'. I\'ll never win a Slayer Sword or a Demon. Maybe a local \'best painted army\' now and then, but those are incidental. You enter the tournament, you might get it.

I\'m not a competetive painter. I have no intention of becoming a competetive painter. I might enter a couple online, now and then, just to make everyone else\'s entries look better, though.

I like this site.
 
Einion

Einion

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Originally posted by Dragonsreach
Originally posted by Einion
Originally posted by Queenoftheunifrogs
you think you are good until you see some of the stuff thats got a 9.7 and then you want to cry....
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Do remember to take some of the photos with a pinch of salt (not to mention some of the scores!) lol

Einion
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Cynic. lol
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Realist :D

Einion
 
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