What does pro-painted mean to you?

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:27 pm

tim your neighbour selling that vodka?

Joemanji · Post by **Joemanji** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:48 pm

Laxon Hrull wrote:Don't wanna sound arrogant but as a Golden Demon winner, I wouldn't sell a painted team on ebay for less than £250.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't sell a painted team full stop.

Well, Golden Daemon is probably too good to sell. Do you not paint below your best for the purposes of selling stuff though?

Cheers
Joe

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:39 am

Grumbledook wrote:tim your neighbour selling that vodka?

Nope, he won't sell it! It's "very rare" (i don't have one).

Evil Git · Post by **Evil Git** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:47 am

so this vodka must be extremely rare and oop, i'm starting to get the hang of this...

Lahatiel · Post by **Lahatiel** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:41 am

Is it vintage?

Evil Git · Post by **Evil Git** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:44 am

if it's extremely rare and oop then it must be vintage but whether it gets listed as that i don't know.

dwarfcoach · Post by **dwarfcoach** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:11 pm

Djengis_Khan wrote:
dwarfcoach wrote:. The only times I have sold models as 'pro-painted' is when I have been amazingly impressed quote
I think some people are just very fast impressed.
some people from my league think I'm almost a pro
just because they don't know better painting then mine because they don't paint them self.

so I think thats the biggest problem..

Djengis

That's ok mate, I used to work at GW HQ in Nottingham and I know full well what 'Eavy Metal standard painting is....

A couple of bits I sold in the past were from GW staff, other stuff was of comparable quality.

I agree that quality is completely relative, but I think it is universally accepted that 'pro-painted' should be of a very high standard. Pity that E-bay has pretty much shot the phrase in the foot.

Duke Jan · Post by **Duke Jan** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:27 pm

Pro Painted = Professionally painted

So the guy who did the painting got the cost of the mini, paint, wear and tear on brushes etc plus a decent amount of money for labour for the mini.

It doesn't say anything about the quality of the paint job, if I could sell my dwarf team for 100$ it wouldn't be pro painted because of all the hours of painting and backsore I put into it it would have to cost at least 250$. The minis are not varnished yet though and, even though it's my master piece, I have not yet painted the eyes and they're not nearly as good as the worst some terrible paint jobs I've seen so far.

dwarfcoach · Post by **dwarfcoach** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:56 pm

Hehe, did you see that comic strip when a monkey was on a laptop thinking to himself:

'Well I earn money on it so I must be s proffessional painter...'

And there were other monkeys in the background with paint brushes and models....

(I think it was that 'Larry Leadhead' mentioned previously)

Laxon Hrull · Post by **Laxon Hrull** » Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:42 pm

Do you not paint below your best for the purposes of selling stuff though?

Cheers
Joe

Dunno if I could really. I never like to rush figs. I have tried it in the past and I just tend to get into bad habits. I'd find it hard to paint an army as I couldn't bring myself to speedpaint unit figs. I do have a full painted Chaos army but the've been done over a course of seven years.