A real challenge...?
Originally posted by tabithatan
To Finn17:
you know... that thing about having a unconverted space marine painting contest is a real groovy ideaIt would certainly be a real challenge to make the boring stuff interesting...... I wonder if we can have one sometime soon?
It only occurred to me because I bought a simple, old, painted Space Marine the other day from one of those old magical, timeless modelshops - the sort that has more stock than can physically be crammed into the space available. This mini had obviously been in the display case for years \'cos it was still thick with dust. There was something about it that appealed however, despite the $30 (ish) pricetag. When I got it home and dusted it off I found it was a real work of art. It was painted to a level I could never achieve, and yet nothing special had been done to it in terms of conversion, basing etc. It occured to me then that painting a basic Space Marine was probably the ultimate challenge because you can\'t use \'smoke and mirrors\' everyone knows the cast like the back of their hand - everyone has probably painted dozens themselves... I suspect that only real skill would prevail. It would be a nice idea although, it would definitely be a challenge for the real pros out there, I struggle to obtain even basic tabletop standard:flip:
