what I did before I started painting minis

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Nomis

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Ah! nostalgia

First model - Airfix Walruss Flying boat, Don\'t remember if I bought it or it was a gift but I painted it with paint from my fathers shed - ordinary gloss paint - took days to dry and was probably a quarter of an inch thick. It ended up a nice, pale creamy, stripy green. This was so long ago that the prototype was probably still in service:D
Went mad on Airfix planes for a few years and experienced the truth of there being too much of a good thing when all my relatives bought me exactly what I asked for for Xmas and I got nothing but airplane kits - boring!

Since then I\'ve made model cars (anyone remember Monogram dragsters?), boats inc Revells pirate ship, Airfix Bismark, Hood, etc and a bit more recently a very nice wooden kit of a post Napoleonic French Frigate, tanks at a variety of scales and, of course, figures. Airfix to start - both their HO and later their 54mm figures followed by the discovery of Historex and that figures were available cast in metal.

Lost interest as other things became more important (kids) but had the spark re-ignited by seeing a WD in a news agents and fell in love with this strange new world of Space Marines and Eldar.

That was 13 years ago.

The next revelation was discovering this site and seeing that there was life after GW. My thanks to all of you for that!

Blimey! that was a long reply - but then we are talking about a very long time:)
 
Corvus

Corvus

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I started with 1/144 scale military aircraft (about 11 years ago now, currently my age is 23 :)), later 1/72, all Revell models.

A bit later I did 1/35 modern armour, cars and soldiers from Tamyia, and various cars, motorcycles and airplanes from Revell and Tamyia.

I had a 5 year break from painting then and I picked it up again when I was 21, producing the 1/72 german WW2 armour you can see on CMON. In the meantime I had thrown away all my old plastic models, except for one: the Revell \"glow in the dark\" Jolly Roger pirate ship :).

After doing about 1 year of german armour my best friend bought some WH 40k minis. So here I am, painting warhammer 40k for 1.5 years now and Confrontation for 0.5 year :)

I\'ve just uploaded new panzers :) to CMON, they should appear soon :D
 
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Vidja

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What did I do before painting minis?

I think I must be an exception here, because I\'ve never done historicals or model kits before painting minis... and I\'m not going to start, either!

I hate mech stuff; the overabundance of aircraft, tanks and bikes is what prevents me from liking WH 40K (and SF settings in general), and I always try to avoid painting even the WHFB chariots and Imperial steam tanks if I can... I achieve my goal by asking such an outrageous price for those that committents are scared out of their pants!

I\'m no Luddist or anything, machines are useful and I use them in everyday life, but I don\'t care for them aesthetically - I\'d rather paint people, animals (real or not), and such... then, I know I\'ve achieved my goal when I see them coming alive.
Now, with something that is, by definition, NOT alive - well, I\'d get bored as hell. NOt my piece of cake, definitely!
 
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Vallan

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What *I* did before I started painting minis

Before I started painting mini\'s (04/06/1999 yes I know the date) I did drugs and a heck of a lot of them. My anti-drug, MINI\'S!:D
 
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UncleHex

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Hard to follow a post like that, Vallan. I\'m glad you found a way out of a bad place and I\'m sorry you found yourself there in the first-place.:)

...on topic...
I became a figure sculptor because I was a commercial giftware sculptor (you know the kind of thing, anything from chess pieces to corporate gifts to scale models) with wargaming as a hobby. It was inevitable that the two should meld, especially since one of my best friends encouraged me and helped me make the transition (a certain Mr Mike Owen).
But before all that, in receeding order (like my hair-line), I was: a new car sales-man, a drey-man, a bum, a circus performer(unicycle,juggling,firebreathing all at the same time), an engineer, a care-worker, an office bod, a bickies mate, a feotus, dead, Admiral Nelson, Joan of Arc and Sparticus.
 
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finn17

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Good heavens, another bum...

Uncle, you have had a chequered career! I think I might be able to compete though, lets see..

Greengrocer, window dresser, gentlemans outfitter (suits you, Sir), lifeguard, groundsman, warehouseman, salesman, office manager, manufacturing technician, production foreman, student (mature), bum, kitchenhand, barman, research associate, teacher, educational psychologist.

They\'re the main ones anyway.
Jack of all trades and master of bugger alllol
Can\'t compete with the unicycle thingy though, that is impressive:D
 
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supervike

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I am Sparticus....

Originally posted by UncleHex
Hard to follow a post like that, Vallan. I\'m glad you found a way out of a bad place and I\'m sorry you found yourself there in the first-place.:)

...on topic...
I became a figure sculptor because I was a commercial giftware sculptor (you know the kind of thing, anything from chess pieces to corporate gifts to scale models) with wargaming as a hobby. It was inevitable that the two should meld, especially since one of my best friends encouraged me and helped me make the transition (a certain Mr Mike Owen).
But before all that, in receeding order (like my hair-line), I was: a new car sales-man, a drey-man, a bum, a circus performer(unicycle,juggling,firebreathing all at the same time), an engineer, a care-worker, an office bod, a bickies mate, a feotus, dead, Admiral Nelson, Joan of Arc and Sparticus.
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Could you do the firebreathing when you were Joan of Arc?
 
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finn17

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Hmmm.

Originally posted by UncleHex
Originally posted by supervike
Could you do the firebreathing when you were Joan of Arc?
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lol
No....and the juggling was a bitch when I was Admiral Nelson.
lollol
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One eye and one arm do tend to make juggling difficult....

By the way, if you ever want to trade your professional services for mine I am open to negotiation...lol
 
Sand Rat

Sand Rat

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Originally posted by UncleHex
Hard to follow a post like that, Vallan. I\'m glad you found a way out of a bad place and I\'m sorry you found yourself there in the first-place.:)

...on topic...
I became a figure sculptor because I was a commercial giftware sculptor (you know the kind of thing, anything from chess pieces to corporate gifts to scale models) with wargaming as a hobby. It was inevitable that the two should meld, especially since one of my best friends encouraged me and helped me make the transition (a certain Mr Mike Owen).
But before all that, in receeding order (like my hair-line), I was: a new car sales-man, a drey-man, a bum, a circus performer(unicycle,juggling,firebreathing all at the same time), an engineer, a care-worker, an office bod, a bickies mate, a feotus, dead, Admiral Nelson, Joan of Arc and Sparticus.
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Hmm, well hell Unc, you started it - most of this was during the low painting period (less than two mini\'s a month) of my life: Sailor,blacksmith, rifle range officer, construction, shipping clerk, recieving clerk, steel construction worker, professional student, editorial columnist, photographer, Morticians Assistant, bus driver, warehouse flunky, team lead warehouse flunky, team lead receiving flunky, inbound phone agent sales, computer tech support -
then I really got back into painting again
:D

Course I\'m looking to change jobs again - may be law school? But then I\'d have to sell my soul, so perhaps Psychology like the Finn - I think I might even be crazy enough to work in the field lol
 
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awong

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http://www.coolminiornot.com/?id=31779

Hello,
I finally got a picture up! Old dog learns new trick.

This was done about 18yrs ago, when I had time. I have a few others in the works (I\'m struggling with my camera and Photoshop) and eventually, I\'ll get some recent stuff up.

As this is my first pic, (I\'ve had a few posts) I\'d like to say hello and thank you for a wonderful site. Truely inspiring work and great hints, tricks, and humor.

Thanks in advance for comments and crits.

Thanks
AWhang
 
Corvus

Corvus

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Hey awong, nice job you did on that panzer :D I really like the thing you did on the tracks, certainly when you know this is 1/72, which makes manipulating tracks a lot more difficult. But what I miss here is heavy weathering and maybe some additional damage on the tank.

I have left a comment, so please feel free to comment on some of my panzers :D

keep up the good work!

-Gerrie.
 
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awong

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Thanks Corvus,

The picture I modeled this from was of a tank that had taken a mine in the tracks (thus the twisted up tracks). I actually had a nice blast hole in the terrain but all my crops cut it out...I lost the plot line!

BTW, how do you view comments? Nothing is showing up under the image (where one usually sees the comments).

I\'ll be happy to leave some comments for your armour.

Thanks
AWhang
 
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frenchkid

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Wow after reading this post I really feal like a todler, I don\'t have a clue about all those models you\'re reffering too. As for starting mini painting, I started about a year and a half ago when a friend of mine bought a warhammer starter kit to paint orks , so I thought it might be interesting to paint the empire army that came with the box. And there I am still painting minis a year and a half later, my room clutered with mini related stuff, and starting my very own colection of mini i should -paint- before buying -any-thing- alls :D
 
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Tuubje

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Originally posted by awong
Thanks Corvus,

The picture I modeled this from was of a tank that had taken a mine in the tracks (thus the twisted up tracks). I actually had a nice blast hole in the terrain but all my crops cut it out...I lost the plot line!

BTW, how do you view comments? Nothing is showing up under the image (where one usually sees the comments).

I\'ll be happy to leave some comments for your armour.

Thanks
AWhang
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Welcome to the forums and site, great job on the tank and on the comments question, It always takes about a day for them to show.
 
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Otter

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Whoa, some of you guys have been around the block job-wise. I\'ve just had a boatload of hobbies... cabinetry, furniture making, marquetry, pen-and-ink art, papercutting, and plain old painting-painting have all nabbed me at one time or another.

- Otter
\"Never send a ferret to do a weasel\'s work\"
 
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Nomis

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Originally posted by Otter
Whoa, some of you guys have been around the block job-wise.
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lol more to the point we\'ve just been round the block! - in some cases more than once! lol
 
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finn17

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The trouble is...

You can\'t go \'round the block\' without going \'round the bend\'!\' - in some cases more than once.

It\'s a bit like drinking yourself sober though.:bouncy:
 
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