Other peoples work?

[ManicMan]

Fun debate/talk time.

When I have an old figure of mine with a bad paint job, I don't mind stripping it to repaint it.
When I get an old figure which has had bad paint job, I don't mind stripping it to repaint it.
When I have/get and old figure with very damaged paint job, I don't mind stripping it to repaint it
BUT when I get a old figure with a fairly to halfway decent paint job.. I pause. I do have some old figures I got long ago, sometime I know who painted them, sometimes I don't.. some have sentimental value to the paint job, even if it's not great and I know I have a HUGE problem with sentimental stuff..

But when the paint job isn't too bad on an old figure you have gotten hold of.. sometimes I do kinda have a bit of a reluctance to just strip it and start again, and sometimes more of a feeling about just patching it up.. even though it means a figure which I'm not doing the paint job but would like to one day..

I remember... was it last year already with them auction Eldar who.. ah damn, forgot who got them... anyway.. wondering what people's views or own take on the issues are with such things.

 

[MichaelStockin]

Even if they are good I strip and paint.
I want all my models to be painted by me.

I may make exceptions for amazing paint jobs if the models are one offs such as giants.
But part of the hobby for me is putting my own work onto the gaming table.

 

[ManicMan]

probably have space for the table cause less junk around the place ^_^

 

[Eric]

But when the paint job isn't too bad on an old figure you have gotten hold of.. sometimes I do kinda have a bit of a reluctance to just strip it and start again, and sometimes more of a feeling about just patching it up.. even though it means a figure which I'm not doing the paint job but would like to one day..

Totally. I mentioned that with the Eldar War Walker I picked up where the ebay photo was poor and the actual model is really quite nicely painted.

Sometimes it also seems a little pointless like the Mummies the amazing and awesome Zanko gave me, where I just added a bit of my own to the original paint job - I mean my efforts were going to look much the same!

I've a couple of other figures I've left painted - a Dwarf that just reminds me so much of the painting style of the Dwarves I saw in the window of Orcs Nest (original shop) as a kid and a Orc that also felt rather nostalgic.



Then I've a spare set of Harboths and Ruglugs that I bought painted, if I ever find time I will strip those, but given the size of the lead pile it seems silly to strip a reasonable paint job from them before I reduced the pile a bit! Generally however I want all my minis to be painted by me (given that's the bit of the hobby I do more of it makes sense!), but I think a small amount of pragmatism is creeping in as I age

 

[ManicMan]

Ah ha! It was you with the Eldar! I knew it was someone ^_^

 

[Fimm McCool]

I always strip and repaint. Like @MichaelStockin I want all my miniatures painted by me. I have been known to trade a decently painted model I have acquired for an unpainted one so it doesn't go to waste.

 

[Berkut666]

I bought a couple of Warhound Titans through eBay about 8-10 years ago that I intended to strip. When they arrived the paint job was pretty fantastic so I decided not to strip. Instead I tried to make my other Titans look as good. I failed but still didn’t strip the Warhounds.

 

[MichaelStockin]

Then I've a spare set of Ruglugs that I bought painted, if I ever find time I will strip those,

A spare set you say?

 

[Eric]

Sorry, I should have said "second set" or something. I bought them since I painted Ruglugs when I was but a youngster and my skills were even worse than today (although I do suspect maybe painting is a bit of a bell curve...) so they were going to be my second attempt. An attempt I have not yet made. So not actually spare, spare. Sorry!

 

[MichaelStockin]

ahhhh poop

 

[Fencig]

I guess it depends on whether your gaming or collecting too.
I bought 2 giants made by Old Glory/ ghost miniatures that were well painted, and i didn't intend to repaint, just cuz they were a good buy. But that's really the only ones.
I have bought some that would have been cool to keep in their original paint, 1979 Ral Partha painted in the way people painted these 45 years ago, and done well by the standards of the day. Unfortunately, the old stuff i get is really beat up and painted in enamel (which tends to go on pretty thick and chip heavily) . So to keep it that way would require either buying enamel, or laying in acrylic really thick and then glossing it. For that reason, i tend strip as much as it's possible to do so.
Frankly, i don't really want to strip again, i'd rather pay a little more for a clean model.

 

[Padre]

I churn out so much stuff for the campaign that stripping is very rare for me. I have, however, very often, just neatened paint jobs, completed them, adding extra bits (etc) so that what results can appear on the tabletop and in the pictures. I find such work very satisfying, as it takes nowhere near as long as stripping and painting from scratch again.

 

[angrygriffin]

I strip a heap of minis and anything that's notably painted (good or bad, really) gets macro photos taken of it front/back and from any other angle necessary before stripping.

Some of the time those pics get put on the website along with the pics of the stripped/painted minis as an homage to whoever owned it before me, but most of them are just sitting on a zpool on the server as testament to my nostalgia and reluctance to obliterate some unknown person's paintjob.

 

[epicsatsuma]

I strip everything too, but I might take inspiration from the models colour scheme and repaint it as homage...

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[Fencig]

I strip a heap of minis and anything that's notably painted (good or bad, really) gets macro photos taken of it front/back and from any other angle necessary before stripping.

I've started doing this, but some of my photos are from the ebay listing, which is good enough. I've got a few more to salvage, but it's a lot more work to bring one of these back vs. a fresh model, maybe +50%

here's one i rescued, luckilly all the pioeces were there, just unglued at the joints. it's a pre-made little vignette from Mithril called stormcrow.
before photo, piece glued down on the top left is throne seat, glad this kid didn't chuck it. Almost like he/she said, "i'll just glue this here for now and figure out hwere it goes later" LOL
Gandalfs staff needed repair too, broken and too small to re-attach . drilled thru hand and added a wire -staff. talk about tiny surgery, that's a 1mm wire. it did flip the staff, what used to be a very plain blocky top is now the bottom with a brass cap. figure on left is not part of vignette, just came with it


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