Less than an 8!???

[Dammekkos2]

Originally posted by tzor
Sometimes you can be so good at something you get a lower score becuse your technique is so good it gets taken for granted.

To the casual eye it looks like there is only a simple light color hightlighting with the occasional use of dark ink.

Hmmm, you are suggesting that we haven\'t looked properly? I don\'t think this is the case.

 

[Klute]

Got a 7 from me and I felt that was a touch generous. I couldn\'t bring myself to vote 6 becuase its better than that but no way an 8.
Its not a cool sculpt IMHO and to get an 8 it has to be painted better than this one.
No disrespect to anyone involved in painting or sculpting the figure of course.

 

[EricJ]

For me, the red on the base pretty much took this from a 8-8.5 to a 7. The composition is pretty much destroyed by that move really, it makes it look like a sprig of holly more than a miniature, nice for christmas, not nice on a mini

 

[Infidel Castro]

Hang in on the tree! I wonder if there\'s chocolate inside it?

 

[vincegamer]

I gave 8. I was going to go under - frankly don\'t like the sprite-light on top - not convincing - and the base is a mess.
But the eyes/face pushed it back up for me.

 

[paintingploddy]

Sorry, one for the record, I quite like the mini itself (in the metal so to speak). It is the choice of colours and the execution I don\'t like, it just didn\'t knock my socks off. I like to think I rate pieces on their merits, and I hope people do the same for me.

 

[tzor]

Originally posted by Dammekkos2

Originally posted by tzor
Sometimes you can be so good at something you get a lower score becuse your technique is so good it gets taken for granted.

Hmmm, you are suggesting that we haven\'t looked properly? I don\'t think this is the case.

I would never suggest such a thing. \"We\" always give a mini the proper consieration it deserves. But not everyone who votes are us. And like a resume, if something doesn\'t immediately attract some people\'s attention some people may not give it a second look.

On the other hand, speaking for myself, I can countthe number of times I have looked at a mini and thought more or less, \"Well that\'s a nice ... wait a minute ... this is a mini not a photograph (well it\'s a photograph of a mini) ... that\'s definitely fatastic blending.\" Suddenly a score that first glance was telling me a 7 becomes a 9 because the mini did the job so well that I stoped treating it as a mini for a moment and just assumed it was the real thing. (I mean how many people notice the effects of shading when looking at the person you are talking to in a typical conversation?)

 

[Klute]

It can be painted with gold bloody leaf for all I care.

If it ain\'t cool it ain\'t cool.


Remember.
Cool MINI ornot

not

Cool PAINTJOB ornot

 

[dauber22]

Aaaaahhhhhh! This to me is one of the beauties of CMON - its unabashed democracy. We are here rating things on which people can be highly opinionated - artistic endeavors. Everybody gets to have thier say and everybody is free to interpret the grading scale however they want. I dare say you would be hard pressed to find two people who agree perfectly on any one mini here. It\'s a beautiful thing

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by tzor (I mean how many people notice the effects of shading when looking at the person you are talking to in a typical conversation?)

Me for one.
A while back I was talking to this old Amish guy and I wished I were a portrait painter because he had an amazing face. Then I realized just how dark the lines around his eyes were - no, the Amish don\'t wear mascara.
Anyway, ever since then I have looked closely at line and shadow on people\'s faces.

Oh, and I always do dark lines around eyes now because they really are there!

 

[Modderrhu]

Originally posted by dauber22
I dare say you would be hard pressed to find two people who agree perfectly on any one mini here. It\'s a beautiful thing

Not even dauber and supervike? ??? They look the same, they speak the same. It perplexes my little mind why they might not agree.

 

[Waffles]

8 is a very good ranking

I agree in thinking that it\'s ranking more around 7 than 8.

It\'s a great paintjob, probably better than I can do. The light from the blue sprites are nice, though it is a very strong contrast (too strong, probably) in what is otherwise a very subdued, pale colour scheme. The wood looks too soft, it probably could have done with some sharper highlights or artificial shadows on the underside. The base is a mess, I think it would have been better if it was just a standard sand/flock.

But in the end, the mini just doesn\'t \'grab\' my attention and make me go \'wow\'. That is what the higher scores are reserved for when I look at models.

Nicely painted, but not amazing.

And I have no idea who the painter is, or what her previous minis look like so there is no bias towards or against her based on her previous merits.

 

[bayrodney]

I agree with Waffles, nice paint jobs can be found everywhere, but ones that make you go WOW and grab your attention.....they are more rare

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by tzor
I mean how many people notice the effects of shading when looking at the person you are talking to in a typical conversation?

Me? All the time!

Einion

 

[Orb]

Originally posted by Einion

Originally posted by tzor
I mean how many people notice the effects of shading when looking at the person you are talking to in a typical conversation?

Me? All the time!

Einion

Mmmmm I thought you were looking at me a little strangely........