Scoring system!

[nels0nmac]

Best piece of advice about the scoring system.... get over it. It's not perfect, there will be discrepancies, and sometimes you will get a lower vote than you think you deserve because it is a public voting system. You may be unlucky and post at the same time as a bunch of minis scoring 8's and above so when the random selection comes up your pic may be shown in the midst of some of the best that this website has to offer.
Don't get hung up on what you think is "worse" than what you have done, concentrate on what you have done and work to improve over time. I think everyone here has posted a mini that they thought was great only to be disappointed by a lower score than they thought they might achieve. So the general public doesn't think that your mini is as COOL as what you think. So what. If you like what you have painted then that is what really matters. If you want to improve your painting - and therefore improve your scores - then post pics on the forums and ask for advice.
One more point - putting things like "Currently on Boss Zagstruck and having looked at the others on Coolmini I can declare that he slaughters them" is likely to lead to disappointment based on your current average rating, but feel happy to prove me wrong. :0)

 

[singularity]

Im posting an apology to me being such a 'fragile ego'! I'm sorry folks. Everyone works very hard on their minis. I'm slowly learning to use photoshop and to take good pics as well as upping my game on the painting front. Just finished Boss Zagstruck and now working on a Chaos Terminator Lord. In the mean time thanks to everyone who commented and assisted me in gettng past my 'Tunnel Vision' that i'm sure alot of us suffer at one point or another!

Thanks again & sorry,
Nick

 

[jahminis]

hey Nick...
welcome to the madhouse...
check your fragile ego at the door, and grab a helmet...

i think it's a wonderful thing that CMON is the largest gallery of World-Class paintjobs anywhere...
there are also some mortals here as well...

it's not hard to look at a masterfully painted mini, and recognize it as such...
no matter how good you think you are, there will always be someone better...
learn from what they do, and put it into practice...

in the last year and a half since i've been posting minis in my gallery, i've gone from steady 6's to 8's...
not from any photoshop magic, or camera secret (i still can't get a pic to look as good as the actual mini), but because i worked much harder on matching the skills of the people who regularly score in the 9's...

i feel that a painter is only as good as his NEXT work...
sitting on your laurels from a past paintjob or award doesn't cut it...
thinking you're great doesn't cut it...
it's all about pushing the boundaries of your skills...

when i first started posting my pics for votes, i had already painted for three major companies for a few years, and won numerous painting awards, yet my scores were only slightly above average...
now my scores are in the range of guys i consider VERY good painters, simply because i put in the work to produce very good paintjobs...

when you measure yourself against your mates, you may rock...
when you measure yourself against the best in the world, you may need to work harder...
in the end, it will only benefit your painting to put yourself up against the best...

cheers
jah

 

[nels0nmac]

Good on you Nick. There will be many on here that have had the same rant about "their" scores not being right... me included. But the good people here put me on the right track so whilst I try to get a high score with each mini I paint I don't get hung up if it scores lower than what I think it might get. Doing this lets me concentrate all my energy into making the next mini ( hopefully ) better than the last.

 

[funnymouth]

yeah, i have so done the rant...a few times. then i look at my work a year later and ask myself "what was i thinking."

 

[singularity]

Thanks Jah. Your absolutely right, its a wierd thing! I have taken on board all comments recently and am raising my game.
Nick

 

[singularity]

Hi Nel,
Yeah, I really got the point and the good people on cool mini put it into perspective! It stops you being complacent which is a good thing! Its not until you get onto this stage that you clock it! lol, at least im in the top half eh!
Thanks, Nick

 

[singularity]

Hi Funny
Totally, I have gone through that during the last two jobs! Having commentry and advice from such a talented crowd really helps as GW staff tend to nurture your ego as opposed to give you critical advice! something i have commented on many a time!

 

[generulpoleaxe]

Hi Funny
Totally, I have gone through that during the last two jobs! Having commentry and advice from such a talented crowd really helps as GW staff tend to nurture your ego as opposed to give you critical advice! something i have commented on many a time!

Get down to gamesday, go to the meet up at the bar.
You will be able to see some of the top european painters competition work up close and that will let you know how much work you have to do (top minis take time so trying to paint to a higher standard but within the same 5-6 hour period won't work.)
At the meet up ask as many questions as possible especialy ask for critique even if the figure you show isn't done for competition (Matt was very helpfull with me and it realy helped)

Improving by looking at photographs and reading descriptions will only get you so far, seeing and doing it with others is a far better and far quicker method of learning.

 

[Tin-Bucket]

Take home lesson is that we need to improve our work.. I do not know whether arguing about what "our" score for our mini is and whether is this realistic or not leads anywhere..yet, if I wanted to rant, I have one particular mini that after it went public its score dropped to 3 and now it has settled at 6.5 ... so I come to think that some of the people lurking here (keep in mind this is a public system) they just love to downgrade scores in pursuit of..what..I do not know and I do not really care..
It would be more appropriate for people who score at the extremes like a 2-3 or a 9-10 to leave a compulsory comment..
My advice..just keep painting and improving your (our) work.. and good things will come.

 

[Hendarion]

Well, for those "off-votes", it would be an interesting system that voting +-3 of the current vote isn't possible, once a mini has reached at least 20 votes (to get a 'stable' base to decide what means +-3). Because some ppl really seam to push the buttons which fit them best to get the score of a mini up or down instead of voting what the mini deserves or not. Especially some studios seam to credit or discredit similar works. Actually lame, but... public voting.