"Recent poll: 60% of armies completed. Other options?" Topic

In a recent poll, the Editor revealed that only 60% of our armies are completed by collection of figures for said armies, per the poll results.

Taking a look at this from the painting quality perspective, rather than the collecting perspective, or simply how much of your collection is painted…

Would you consider using "speed-painting" techniques to finish your armies?

Never: Quality is everything…

Small quality reductions: Yes, open to using some techniques, but not willing to reduce quality, overall.

Limited quality reductions: Yes, willing to reduce painting quality to increase speed, using most techniques, but not willing to use assembly line painting, nor The Dip/Magic Wash techniques.

3-feet is good enough for me: Yes, willing to use any techniques which will still look good at arm's length, and beyond: assembly line painting, The Dip/Magic Wash/whatever techniques! Give me speed, Baby!

Spray Paint is good enough: Don't care if your figures are painted, primed is fine, so are spray-painted red/blue forces, or even bare plastic/metal/resin. The game play is all that matters.

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I am in the 3-feet is good enough for me category. Give me speed, Baby!

How about you? Where do you draw the line for speed vs. quality? Cheers!

Well, it's not a job, so I paint at my own pace and enjoy what I'm doing, and there is no meaning to getting them all painted before I die or some other deadline.

Wasn't it 60% of collections?

I'm slow, but at least I suck.

Painting is recreation for me. I paint to whatever standard and speed I feel like fits the project. I am not driven by "get these guys on the table" or "make jaw dropping artworks".

Yep, Bill, you are correct. I've since edited the text to emphasize that I am taking a different perspective on this poll: painting quality vs. collecting.

I believe you ran a poll, in the past, regarding what percentage of our collections were painted to completion. I was inspired by your collecting poll, to take a look at quality vs. quantity of collection painting completed, to explore where members are on that particular scale. There is more than one way to dissect a poll on miniatures collections. ;-) Cheers!

etotheipi: LOL! Love it!

In all of the museums I've visited, their display miniatures have always been "Arm's Length," quality, or lower. I have never seen a gamer's definition of "Museum Quality" painting, on miniatures, in a diorama, in a museum!

Museum diorama's seem to be made by architectural model builders. I base this on what I researched on architectural models, 20 years ago. I was interested in seeing what professional model builders were doing. They take a mercenary approach to model building: build it only to the lowest acceptable quality level, as time is money, and if you don't need it to appear as a life-like model, you don't build it that way. You build it to meet certain criteria only, mostly to present the concepts, and broad lines, relative sizes, and concepts. Building an aesthetically accurate, color, size, shape, etc., model, is overkill, and you will not get paid for your time and efforts! The research was quite enlightening, to say the least.

"Museum Quality", is a misnomer. It would be more accurate to call it, "Artist Quality."

I love splitting hairs -- it helps me justify the expense of that Scanning Electron X-acto Knife which takes up half of my garage, outside. LOL! Cheers!

Sgt Slag. I noticed the same thing in museum models.

I paint historical figures different than I paint fantasy. Maybe it's the amount of figures needed for historical games. I supply both sides of a game, so it's double work to get them ready to play. I like the 3 foot rule for historical gaming, and for fantasy as well. But with fantasy figures, I might spend a bit more time to work on some new painting skills that I might be able to use for historical figures.

I try to put as much detail into to my 6mm Sci-fi models as possible. So I'm not anywhere near 60% with most of my armies. May be 3 out of over a dozen ?

I consider my efforts "Good Enough" but others might consider it "arms length".

I definitely don't paint my armies to the same level as my RPG miniatures. Again the quality of everything is subjective…