Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
    
 | | 04/20/2006 1:10 AM |
| I should NEVER, NEVER have gone into the Crafter's Corner.
It was "bad news" just waiting to happen. Sure, it all started innocently enough. It was just another way to boost my post count and (more importantly) see some repaints. All the repaints were probably gonna look like crap, anyway. What harm could there be in that? I mean, I'm over that little "painting habit" I used to have. I've been clean since '92.
Yeah, I know what you're thinking. And I'll admit that I slipped off the wagon a couple times and purchased a couple things, but I never started painting full scale, and I certainly only did it once or twice--It was only a couple blister packs. Honest. And then right back on the wagon.
Well, that's all changed. Seeing all those repaints over in the corner started my bones to itching. So I figured I'd hit ebay and see what some of the old Chainmail minis were going for. After all, it's not like I'm going to buy any, and I'd keep it to Chainmail because I really liked some of the figures and the idea of the Chainmail Equivs so you could use some Chainmail figs in DDM.
Where could there be any harm in that? It's all innocent fun, right?
Ri-ight. I don't know how it happened--I'm still in a bit of a state of shock, but I somehow purchased some non-PVC minis. A bunch of non-PVC minis. Minis that I will have to paint. Minis that I will have to assemble. Minis that I will have to store carefully. Most of which don't even have an Equivilent in DDM. It must have been a computer glitch. I must have been staring too intently at the screen. It was temporary insanity to the Nth degree...
I couldn't have fallen off the wagon after almost 15 years!! I worked so hard at staying clean!
I'm weak.
I'm pathetic.
But at least I've got pewter minis...[)] | |
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AesophDarkfable
Warlord
5628 Posts
| | 04/20/2006 3:05 AM |
| | I understand dude, everytime I go in there it makes me want to get back into painting. I was eyeing the Reaper master paint set in Dragon today... thinking oooo I should get it. | |
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griffrat
Commander
3507 Posts
| | 04/20/2006 7:14 AM |
| This is how I look at it is that all the metal minis that I have and all the terrain that I have and make now is because I can. Not because I have to. Meaning that DDM is a huge time saver and the metal minis that I paint are for special PC killing timesevents where I want the players all to remember how things went down.....
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Count Dooku
Commander
4637 Posts
New York
| | 04/20/2006 7:31 AM |
| It funny how people are different.
I HATE painting minis...I see no corralation at all between enjoying RPGs and enjoying painting little metal figures. You would think those two activities have nothing to do with each other. Yet so may like both.
In the dark days of miniatures (everything before Harbinger) I owned 2 types of minis. The plastic figures from the Hero Quest and Dragonstrike boardgames...and metal minis that I would either spray a coat a light gray paint onto or not paint at all.
Oh and if a metal mini required peices that needed to be glued together I didnt bother getting it. :) | |
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griffrat
Commander
3507 Posts
| | 04/20/2006 7:55 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Count Dooku
It funny how people are different.
....Oh and if a metal mini required peices that needed to be glued together I didnt bother getting it. :)
For me it is the smell of the super glue. The thrill of almost cutting a finger off with a power tool...and just the idea of taking something and giving it more of my persona than it really needed...[:D] | |
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Ghendar
Warlord
13069 Posts
Mud Lick, Kentucky
| | 04/20/2006 8:12 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Can of the Cave Beer
I couldn't have fallen off the wagon after almost 15 years!! I worked so hard at staying clean!
I'm weak.
I'm pathetic.
This is the way I look at it. Why paint stuff myself when I can have an expert do it, and do it better than I ever could? I'm willing to pay the fee and have this done.
I will never have the desire/time to practise enough to get really good so I'm content to have others do it for me. [:D] | |
WotC - making me wish more and more every day for a return to the TSR days. :(
I fought the snark and the snark won. I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!
Some of my favorite Maxminis quotes
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
Could somebody explain Snatch to me? I understand the basics, but not how to enter/use it. - Posted by orcmonk220
G's the man. - Posted By greyhaze on 11/11/2008 8:58 AM
I dont mind butting heads every once in a while. It makes thing interesting. Thats why I'd be heartbroken if Ghendar ever left - Posted By Count Dooku on 04/03/2006 11:58 AM
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reezel
Sergeant
555 Posts
| | 04/20/2006 9:45 AM |
| | Yeah, I am on the list of people who don't want to paint minis. It's funny when I think back to starting 3rd edition, when just using dice to represent creatures was enough. (Man those days were easier on the wallet) | |
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FeranEldritchKnight
Sergeant
385 Posts
Kansas City, MO USA
| | 04/20/2006 10:53 AM |
| | I enjoy painting metal minis, but I don't have time. I still have a handful of Reaper minis from 2-3 years ago that still haven't had brush touched to it. The moral of this story: don't have children. | |
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Almalik
Warrior
266 Posts
Vancouver-ish, Canada
| | 04/20/2006 12:01 PM |
| | I enjoy painting minis even if they don't turn out as well as I hope, but never eseem to have enough time. I like buying the already painted D&D minis because I don't have that guilty feeling I get buying metal minis thinking of all the unpainted lead/pewter stuffed away in the closet. | |
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Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11113 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 04/20/2006 12:59 PM |
| | I've got many cases full of finished and unfinished minature projects. At this point I'm very tempted to start e-baying some of my older and un-used stuff. | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
| | 04/21/2006 12:27 AM |
| Must feed the MONKEY.
The MONKEY is demanding it's due!
*sigh* I just added a few more minis to my collection. Naresh Set 2 Combo Box; Naresh Combo Box; Ogre Mercenary; and the Mercenary Set 2 Combo Box. I missed out on the other two sets I wanted, but I had to draw the line somewhere, y'know.
Gotta get a pin vise. Primer. Some brushes. PAINT!! Metal wire (for pinning joints). Scalpel/X-Acto. Something to base--Maybe I can con...uhhh...VINCE, yeah, conVINCE Temperence to send me some of his resin stones.
What HAVE I gotten myself into?
I'll just paint on the weekends. That's all. Just the weekends. | |
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zenthrus
Warlord
5132 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 04/21/2006 1:32 AM |
| Welcome to the cult club [:D]
Naresh Combo 2 has the Howler in it, doesn't it? That is one beauty of a mini. I've got a pack going although all but one are still in the first stages of getting painted (had to pause to paint the Tiefling Blademaster).
As to feeding the monkey...at least you don't have to make your own 4-armed monkeys out of War Apes. I love Girallons. I love the fact that I can acquire them readily and cheaply even more [:D] | |
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yack
Commander
3320 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 04/21/2006 2:47 PM |
| I'm weak too I remember thinking, good! plastic pre-painted minis I will never have too glue and paint again(old D&D Ral Partha days)
nope now I repaint the plastic if I'm bored and still buy the odd reaper and paint it up! Darnit all!!! | |
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Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
| | 04/21/2006 10:19 PM |
| I think the Howler might be in one of the boxes, I'm honestly not too sure. [:0] I just got into the moment, and had found several sets up from the same seller. So I went a little crazy.
The haul I described a couple posts up was for about $25 (including shipping). I do wish I had been able to grab the other two, though (my bids would only have added another $20 to the total).
I had a brilliant idea for a "Snowy" Owlbear. [v]
Still, I'm going to be keeping my eyes peeled for things from this day forward!! | |
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HK
Warrior
210 Posts
| | 04/24/2006 10:38 AM |
| | I know how you feel. I thought that plastic would cure the addiction. I find my self painting them as well. | |
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Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
| | 04/24/2006 11:44 PM |
| The first batch arrived today. It's been soo long since I've examined metal "in the raw" as it were. I'm having trouble seeing the detail...I can see that it's there, I just can't tell what all of it is!
Just about everything looks OK, although several parts needed straightening--and the sound of creaking metal was not pleasant to my ears. And the Abyssal Ravager was a poor cast, it only has 3 legs!
I might have to buy some green stuff and see about sculpting a new one, or just altering the paint job to make it look like an injury.
I'm still not sure whether or not I'm going to open the Ogre Merc...It's a "limited edition" and my paint skills are simply "limited". [)] I guess that I've got plenty of other things to keep me busy in the meanwhile, though. I'll have even more when the other boxes start arriving. | |
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zenthrus
Warlord
5132 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 04/24/2006 11:49 PM |
| My Ravager has four legs...two widely spaced on the left, two right next to each other on the right. It would be pretty cool to alter the paint to look like somebody lopped off the missing limb [^]
The Ogre Merc is probably the best Ogre I've seen (much less painted). He's full o' detail and large enough that painting the detail isn't as big of a hassle.
Good luck. Have fun. Feed the monkey [:P] | |
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kgradert13
Sergeant
909 Posts
| | 04/25/2006 5:21 PM |
| I got tons of Chainmail minis....none that I will ever paint, since I can barely paint walls.
I just like them cause they are much cheaper then a lot of the older DDM versions | |
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Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
| | 04/30/2006 7:14 PM |
| Well, the rest of the first wave has arrived. I really need to stay off ebay (for a while, at least).
I'm now the proud owner of 48 Chainmail miniatures (with three more coming).
Ahumut's Legion
* Battered Skeletal Troll
* Gallowsgaunt
* Human Death Cleric
* Skeletal Orc (2)
* Skeletal War Dog (2)
* Zombie Troglodyte
Drazen's Horde
* Hobgoblin Adept
* Goblin Scout (3) (1 of whom is missing the extra piece for the crossbow)
* Hobgoblin Fighter
* Ogre Delver (3)
* Ogre Trooper (2)
* Orc Berserker (2)
* Orc Druid (3)
* War Ape (2)
Kilsek
* Displacer Beast
* Drow Ranger (with a broken sword)
* Drow Soldier
* Drow Warrior
* Drow Wizard
* Kuo-Toa Trooper
* Troglodyte Warrior
Naresh
* Abyssal Ravager (miscast)
* Gnoll Monk
* Gnoll Ranger (2) (1 with a miscast bow--but it's not too bad)
* Gnoll Warrior (2) (1 with single flail, the other with the three header)
* Howler
* Tiefling Fighter
Ravilla
* Centaur Trooper
* Crested Felldrake (too bad the HAR one didn't look like this!)
* Gray Elf Duelist
* Gray Elf Wizard
* Wood Elf Ranger
* Wood Elf Scout
Mercenaries
* Grimlock Trooper (2)
* Ogre Mercenary
* Otyugh
And the real kicker is: IT'S TOO WET TO DO ANYTHING WITH THEM! I cant get them outside to prime, so I can't start painting! I can trim the flash up, but that's it.
It's really a shame that so many folks went hog-wild for the rarer figs (i.e. Very Young Red Dragon, Orc Champion, most Drow, etc.). I could really use some of them for some more interest in my metals.
On the bright side, I've now got a list of all the Chainmail figures, whether or not they have equivilants, and what those are. Yeah, I've been obsessing over this. | |
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