"Other than wargaming figures.............." Topic

How many of you have been asked to paint something other than figures for someone? As for myself, I have painted the following:
Nativity scenes
antique lead figure skaters
old beer cans
slot cars
O and G scale train stuff
Christmas ornaments
nutcrackers
and tonight I had to turn an Irish Dancer statue from a red head to a blonde to match a little girl's hair.
Anyone else done similar jobs?

I did a ceramic christmas village once for my mother. I build and paint 1/48 aircraft, and I have a 1/25 Model T kit floating about somewhere. I also occasionally repaint thrift store treasures to match existing, similar items.

Not just painting, but I have been asked to fix a lot of stuff over the years (which often involves painting to hide any damage). Somewhere along the line I got a reputation as the family fixer, so I often get stuff from family and friends of family to fix.

Maybe it's because I own a lot of differnt glues for gaming usage. :)

I did a river system and coastline for a DBMer.

Built a dollhouse for my niece, but my elderly neighbor painted it.

Made a Bigfoot paperweight (using the Reaper fig.) for a Professor with a Sasquatch obsession.

Currently, I'm doing a LEGO minifig of a coworker for her birthday. Painting her favorite blouse is going to be a chore. But I guess that counts as a figure.

all of the above but especially what Chris Palmer said …

Phil

I have been asked to _stop_ painting miniature figures, but that may be off topic…

I was asked to repair and repaint old rubber soldiers once.
I painted the horses and figures for the Budweiser model.
I have painted religious figures and worked on various Christmas villages, and have even been asked and painted Orcs…….I don't like painting fantasy figures. I don't have anything against them or the people who game fantasy I just like historical, so it was a big deal.

I just finished the Reaper nativity scene
In the past, I have painted 20mm figures for my wife's Christmas village
Like Chris, I am the family glue czar

Grelber

My first wife and I, when very young and very poor, made everyone's Christmas gifts. We put our minds together to turn "one man's junk into another man's treasure" and it is truly amazing what you can create with sweat and imagination. Alas she is gone and all the people we gave the gifts to are gone which leaves me and the memories. I have painted everything from jewelry to decorative motifs on items of furniture. Once I even painted a 1967 GMC pick-em-up truck inside and out. It was baby blue until I spray painted it cammo with a variety of hobby paints. The truck bed I painted with a can of latex house paint and I am here to tell you that stuff held up very well after hauling gravel, logs, and large rocks. The cab interior I let my 1970s artistic muse loose on. A jungle motif using acrylics and overhead clouds in a clear blue sky. In the center of the dashboard I painted in blood red letters "Who Dares Wins". God, it was beautiful but the truck was a mechanical horror story. Still, I bought it for $600 USD and drove it for three years before selling it to a neighbor for $600 USD so I can't kick. Incredibly the kid up the street removed all that paint down to the original baby blue. A crying shame.

Window frames and spare bedroom:)

Department 56 repair and repaint

I built and painted up a model house with family figs for our neighbours

1/10th scale reproduction terracotta army figures made by a sculpture student.

I've painted an awful lot of vintage car parts. I get asked to repair little things from time to time. I've also painted electrical wiring in a tudor house to hide it. I've done lots of house painting, inside and out.

Lots of Christmas ornament paining and repair. I have done custom paint jobs on Godzilla models and have painted a lot of pilots for model airplanes.

Some pewter Castles that Superior used to produce, some ceramic jack-o-lanterns and a ceramic Frankenstein, all for and at the request of my wife.

Garden Gnomes for my Mother in Law.

Anything gets broken in our family, I get recruited to repair, especially Jewelry. Miniature tools come in handy sometimes.

I once painted a pair of donkeys to match a real pair of donkeys for their owner.

I painted some plaster Christmas elves ornaments when my wife and I were first married (and had very few other ornaments to put on the tree). Thirty years later, they're beloved heirlooms to my kids, and still pulled out and put on the tree.

Other than that, I do all the difficult trim work when doing painting around the house (bathrooms are the trickiest). Nobody else has such a steady hand with a brush! This is one of the few positive spin-offs from my wargaming hobby that my wife really appreciates.