 piper909  | 16 Feb 2016 12:16 a.m. PST |
So many models and so much terrain/buildings come prepainted these days -- do you find yourself repainting these pieces to suit your own standards or to correct inaccuracies? I'm talking figures as well as tabletop buildings or terrain pieces. |
| snurl1 | 16 Feb 2016 12:22 a.m. PST |
Most preprints are fugly, except in their advertisements. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 16 Feb 2016 12:23 a.m. PST |
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| Green Tiger | 16 Feb 2016 2:45 a.m. PST |
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| bandit86 | 16 Feb 2016 4:35 a.m. PST |
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 etotheipi  | 16 Feb 2016 4:54 a.m. PST |
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| Cosmic Reset | 16 Feb 2016 4:55 a.m. PST |
I've never found anything pre-painted that I could use, but would repaint it, if I did. |
| Dynaman8789 | 16 Feb 2016 5:30 a.m. PST |
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| OldGrenadier at work | 16 Feb 2016 5:31 a.m. PST |
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| Martin Rapier | 16 Feb 2016 5:40 a.m. PST |
I repaint pretty well all pre-painted vehicles and figures I buy, only real exception are Micro Machines Star Wars figures. Terrain is another matter, I'm not going to re-flock a hill
a different colour…. |
| Winston Smith | 16 Feb 2016 6:17 a.m. PST |
If they were cheap enough to justify buying them comparable to nude lead and had a crsppy paint job, yes.
Not much chance of that happening in AWI though. |
| Frederick | 16 Feb 2016 6:36 a.m. PST |
I inherited a few and I did a wash/highlights on them |
| Rich Bliss | 16 Feb 2016 7:34 a.m. PST |
Always but sometimes it's just a wash and dry brush. |
| Timmo uk | 16 Feb 2016 7:48 a.m. PST |
Yes – done lots of Wings of War repaints to get historical flights rather than an odd collection of one-off planes. |
| Garand | 16 Feb 2016 7:56 a.m. PST |
I've tried a few times, mainly the HALOClix. Was not successful. If I could strip them, I would try it more… Damon. |
| Cyrus the Great | 16 Feb 2016 8:14 a.m. PST |
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 x42brown | 16 Feb 2016 8:27 a.m. PST |
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| mad monkey 1 | 16 Feb 2016 8:56 a.m. PST |
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| Ceterman | 16 Feb 2016 8:59 a.m. PST |
Usually. At least a wash & some details. I don't buy many though. |
| Andrew Walters | 16 Feb 2016 9:46 a.m. PST |
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| Yesthatphil | 16 Feb 2016 12:44 p.m. PST |
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| Sharpe52 | 16 Feb 2016 1:26 p.m. PST |
Usually I like to leave my figures as they were.
For example I like very much to play with old Norman knights produced by Peter Laing and painted in a very naive style in the early '70ies.
Marco |
| piper909 | 17 Feb 2016 3:26 p.m. PST |
I find myself buying lots of Heroclix figures because so few metal figures are made for superheroes (let alone licensed characters), and then I always repaint to my usual standard since Heroclix are not pre-painted very well relative to standard historical minis painted by their owners. And while I love Miniature Building Authority products, I can always improve on them, sometimes only a little, sometimes quite a bit of repainting to get the results I want. I consider this acceptable; and it's usually faster than painting from absolute scratch. I've repainted some Wings of War planes, too, so's to have personalized fictitious aces for myself! |
