"How Much of Your Painting is Gaming-Driven?" Topic
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robert piepenbrink | 15 Jun 2019 3:41 a.m. PST |
Interesting. I was going to say I didn't paint anything I didn't intend to play with, but of course I do: I seldom take raw lead to the flea markets. And a vague "someday this stuff will be used in a game" is very different from "the game scheduled for November requires this army be ready." But I'm afraid numbers are more an expression of mood than anything useful. |
Parzival | 15 Jun 2019 8:08 a.m. PST |
If I paint it, I do so to game with it. Otherwise, I wouldn't paint it. Which isn't to say I don't have painted things that haven't (yet) been gamed. But what "drives" my painting (if that is the word) is the desire to get a unit on the tabletop for a game "sometime soon" (for varying definitions of "soon"). |
Frederick | 15 Jun 2019 6:08 p.m. PST |
50 – 50 I like to paint up things for gaming but I also like to paint just to paint – in the latter case, I often wind up giving the figs to friends (or to Santa Mo) |
Syrinx0 | 15 Jun 2019 6:48 p.m. PST |
The intention is always to game with the figures I am painting. That said they don't always make it to the gaming table. |
Florida Tory | 16 Jun 2019 5:40 a.m. PST |
I am not a painter. Nonetheless, I would echo Syrinx0's comments. The intent with my painting commissions/purchases is always to game with them. It doesn't always happen. Rick |
20thmaine | 16 Jun 2019 3:07 p.m. PST |
Everything I paint is for a game – not necessarily the next game, but I don't have the time to just "paint for fun" or to enter painting competitions etc. |
Saber6 | 16 Jun 2019 3:45 p.m. PST |
There are a few pieces that I paint just to paint. They 'may' end up in a game |
79thPA | 17 Jun 2019 7:22 a.m. PST |
Well, yes, I paint in order to game, but I am not one of the "I've got to get all of these guys painted for the game on Saturday" painters. |
Sgt Slag | 17 Jun 2019 8:12 p.m. PST |
I'm with 20thmaine. If I have no game use for it, there is no point in having it. Period. I play D&D, and I do skirmish, and mass battles, with fantasy miniatures, and terrain. If I paint it, if I build it, it is for a game, or intended to be used in a game. If not, I will likely sell it off (rare). Nothing in my collection is there because I just like it, without any intent to ever use it in a game. I don't have the time, energy, nor the storage space, for such things. I've painted up numerous armies of diverse races, and they've pretty much all seen table time, in mass battles. That is their reason for being in my collection… Cheers! |
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