Queenoftheunifrogs
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Theres a small electrical supplies shop in a town near me which seems to be doing a reasonable amount of business from selling warhammer products. Theres no Games workshop for 55 mile and they have been slowly expanding their range which tempted me to go in there.
As they are not an official games workshop store they have a little cabinet where they sell second hand minis and i previously picked up a Balrog there for nearly half the original price, though it was thickly undercoated in black and white. i finally got it stripped a while back but yesterday i found a model in a very sorry state.
I believe its the high elf model Tyrion, but an older version of it. it was a very bad paintjob, i think it would have been lucky to get a 5 here on coolmini. it was bent out of shape on one of the horses legs and in a really bizarre pose that looked like someone had tried to tilt it to make it more dramatic .
it was only £7 though so i decided to rescue him.
The woman at the counter seemed to think that it was a really good paint job though i suspect the person who had painted it was her son so i said nothing...
the one thing at least i could say is the paint isnt on in really thick layers which makes a change, however theres no undercoating at all and not even a vague attempt at shading. it also seems to have been put together by someone using the theory \'if in doubt, smother it in superglue\'
unfortunately during my attempts to straighten the pose up the supporting leg has snapped as has the sword but its nothing that cant be fixed with a bit of pinning.
i guess i just like rescuing minis from a bad paintjob.
anyone else feel this way or do you guys prefer getting new minis? whats the worst condition model youve ever had to strip back/rebuild? Any mini disaster stories? Does anyone else share my despair at finding a mini has been painted with thick enamel paint?
also does anyone have any advice for getting rid of thick superglue blocking out details on minis? ive managed to chip most of it off very carefully but its taking an eternity and i dont want to risk damaging the model more.
As they are not an official games workshop store they have a little cabinet where they sell second hand minis and i previously picked up a Balrog there for nearly half the original price, though it was thickly undercoated in black and white. i finally got it stripped a while back but yesterday i found a model in a very sorry state.
I believe its the high elf model Tyrion, but an older version of it. it was a very bad paintjob, i think it would have been lucky to get a 5 here on coolmini. it was bent out of shape on one of the horses legs and in a really bizarre pose that looked like someone had tried to tilt it to make it more dramatic .
it was only £7 though so i decided to rescue him.
The woman at the counter seemed to think that it was a really good paint job though i suspect the person who had painted it was her son so i said nothing...
the one thing at least i could say is the paint isnt on in really thick layers which makes a change, however theres no undercoating at all and not even a vague attempt at shading. it also seems to have been put together by someone using the theory \'if in doubt, smother it in superglue\'
unfortunately during my attempts to straighten the pose up the supporting leg has snapped as has the sword but its nothing that cant be fixed with a bit of pinning.
i guess i just like rescuing minis from a bad paintjob.
anyone else feel this way or do you guys prefer getting new minis? whats the worst condition model youve ever had to strip back/rebuild? Any mini disaster stories? Does anyone else share my despair at finding a mini has been painted with thick enamel paint?
also does anyone have any advice for getting rid of thick superglue blocking out details on minis? ive managed to chip most of it off very carefully but its taking an eternity and i dont want to risk damaging the model more.
