Heh! That is indeed the exact panel I was thinking of! Congratulations, I couldn't find an image.Originally Posted by chirine ba kal
Heh! That is indeed the exact panel I was thinking of! Congratulations, I couldn't find an image.
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I'm not a 'collector' either; I play what I like, and I paint what I play and like. I've just been at this for something like four decades, so there's a lot of stuff in the game room.
Phil used to do his figures the same way; 'block paint' them, then outline everything with a .005 mm 'tech pen'.
It worked for us, for many years.Wow! What a sweet deal...for Phil. I've never had the time or energy to paint all my minis. I'd love to know someone who would do that.
I much prefer that myself. It's hard sometimes to do in Call of Cthulhu as my collection is ~ 120 figures for that period. Impossible for 1620s Europe as I have no collection for that period. Pretty easy to do for Star Wars where I have a pretty good size collection (~ 250 figures) and where I spent some effort to get figures that exactly matched the three major PCs in our game. Custom building the Coynite complete with uncut hair was the most actual modeling work. And even easier for fantasy RPGs which has the bulk of my figures. Not sure quite how many of those there are maybe 400 painted, about that many unpainted, and about that many unpainted Airfix-like plastic figures. Nothing like the enormity of your collection. Clearly yours is bigger.
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Yep; same here. The only reason I have so many figures is the length oof time I've been at this...
The mark of the truly good staff officer is to be able to divine the intentions of his commander, and then to have the needed information or resources to hand when the commander requires them.
I've had this panel's image on file for about a month now, Glorious General, figuring that it might just be needed...
Last edited by chirine ba kal; 09-05-2015 at 10:39 PM. Reason: typo
The mary of the truly good staff officer is to be able to divine the intentions of his commander, and then to have the needed information or resources to hand when the commander requires them.
I've had this panel's image on file for about a month now, Glorious General, figuring that it might just be needed...
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The rules can't cure stupid, and the rules can't cure asshole.
Sort of like spend pocket money on a freight car a month, and forty years later you could open your own hobby shop...It worked for us, for many years.
Yep; same here. The only reason I have so many figures is the length oof time I've been at this...
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Those are cool. I'd have loved those for our Star Trek game. Though you’d need some Klingons, Orions, and Romulans for the other sides.
No that's not it. I've been painting since say, 1977. I haven't painted anything new in the last 10 or 12 years. So call that 25 years. I have about 1600 minis counting metal and plastic, painted and unpainted. That’s 64 minis per year. You have 5000, down from 32000, down from 64000 painted total. Even if we just focus on your pared down, painted collection it would take you over 78 years to accumulate 5000 painted minis. So it isn’t just the length of time, it is also the rate of acquisition and painting. And from what you’ve said, I know you paint much faster than I ever did.Yep; same here. The only reason I have so many figures is the length oof time I've been at this...
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And this was the same thing we did in Phil's campaign; Phil would throw some Dire Peril at us, and we'd think out way out of it because we'd thought about the possible situations in advance and had a 'drill' for dealing with the crisis.
Phil: "Hah! Your legion is suffering from an outbreak of dysentery!"
Gronan: "Oh, really; here, let me see the report, there, Professor. Chirine?"
Chirine: "Here you are, Glorious General! As per your orders, the latrines were all dug well away from the water supply, and they're working fine."
Phil, disgusted: "Fine. Be that way. You get attacked by bandits in the middle of the night."
And so on, and so on, and so on...
Last edited by chirine ba kal; 09-05-2015 at 10:54 PM. Reason: typos, again
Yep. And a bunch of helpful guys in Wakefield didn't hurt, either...
Oh! Good point! I never really thought of it that way, but I think you're onto something here. I tend to paint in units, like the 80 RP 'Chaos pikemen' that I use for my Legion, or the similar number of old plastic elves that I added the right shields to to make the Glorious General's happy crew. It goes a lot faster that way, especially with acrylic paints; the first color is dry on the first figure about the time I finish putting it on the last one of the batch. Mass production, I think that's my particular way of doing it.
Individual 'personality' figures do take longer, usually about an hour each to assemble and prep, and then about two hours to paint. I do these in batches too, so it doesn't really take all that long to put things together for a game.
Practice, I think; I just do it a lot, and so I tend not to think a lot about the process; I just do it...
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