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that is loving hilarious e: Can't edit a quote in on my phone someone pls quote daedleh
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Daedleh posted:http://www.bluetablestore.com/premium-experiences-and-services/blue-table-painting-buy-the-company This deserves to be on every page of the thread.
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Pretty sure his "intellectual" assets are actually a huge liability thanks to the negative goodwill. Maybe if he paid someone else $440k to take it...
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Purely co-incidental, but the guy with the hosed up Chaos Dwarf army settled with BTP, which included an NDA cause to take down his critical videos. He couldn't say what the settlement was, but that he was happy. quote:I wanted to post an update. What are the chances that with all of the rumours about cash flow problems, a ~$10k settlement (plus legal fees presumably) is enough to sink the ship? E: haha, also 2 months ago: https://www.facebook.com/BlueTablePaintingUSA/posts/988875044474939 quote:Be my room-mate. I'm looking for a business to share my building with, something wargame related that blends with (but does not compete with) what I'm doing. I have 10,000 square feet of workshop and showroom. I'm looking for a company that will/does employ 8+ people. Contact me at bluetablepainting@gmail.com if interested. they goin' down Daedleh fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Mar 4, 2015 12:38
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Daedleh posted:http://www.bluetablestore.com/premium-experiences-and-services/blue-table-painting-buy-the-company Crap! I just thought that was their normal inflated prices. I did think it was a little steep for a Pro painted skeleton.
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I like the way the listing states no Tax or Bank debt, when BTP have been selling Cheep customer credit for months
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Mar 4, 2015 13:50
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Mar 4, 2015 14:27
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WINNERSH TRIANGLE posted:
Don't, you have so much to live for! 
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Why is everyone so giddy they are going down?
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Uroboros posted:Why is everyone so giddy they are going down? Have you read the thread?
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Uroboros posted:Why is everyone so giddy they are going down? The service service they provide is useful. However, they are shoddy, inept, and cheat customers.
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Mar 4, 2015 15:44
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Uroboros posted:Why is everyone so giddy they are going down? They have a poor track record. They treat employees poorly, and they over charge customers for middling quality work.
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Mar 4, 2015 16:20
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Awww reviews are subject to approval 
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Mar 4, 2015 16:23
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Whoever buys it will have to post a video review of how the business is only hastily spray-primered with bad highlights and obvious mistakes.
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Mar 4, 2015 16:26
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PierreTheMime posted:Whoever buys it will have to post a video review of how the business is only hastily spray-primered with bad highlights and obvious mistakes. The company assessment has sloppy gold drybrush all over it.
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 quote:very well painted custom Destroyer Lord
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Mar 4, 2015 20:09
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Daedleh posted:http://www.bluetablestore.com/premium-experiences-and-services/blue-table-painting-buy-the-company Hey you can adjust the quantity; bundle and save!
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Daedleh posted:http://www.bluetablestore.com/premium-experiences-and-services/blue-table-painting-buy-the-company You know. With all the goons around who are good at this poo poo and hate BTP, you'd think we'd be able to form a coop to buy it out, and turn it into a network for contract painters around here to up the quality and standards, and be collected under a banner together to share projects off they don't have time for, etc. You know. Maybe. Like. The oath thread could *become* BTP.
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Mar 4, 2015 20:17
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John Dyne posted:Hey you can adjust the quantity; bundle and save! The first thing to know about the great green and blue table painting wars of 2027 is that it wasn't really about tables. Or painting. Especially painting.
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Mar 4, 2015 20:28
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but theres no point buying that business instead of just starting your own that's what's so funny
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Blue Table death pool?
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:You know. With all the goons around who are good at this poo poo and hate BTP, you'd think we'd be able to form a coop to buy it out, and turn it into a network for contract painters around here to up the quality and standards, and be collected under a banner together to share projects off they don't have time for, etc.  I'll start the wiki
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:You know. With all the goons around who are good at this poo poo and hate BTP, you'd think we'd be able to form a coop to buy it out, and turn it into a network for contract painters around here to up the quality and standards, and be collected under a banner together to share projects off they don't have time for, etc. If you want to buy a painting studio I will sell you mine for only $250,000 with all assets and no outstanding debts.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:You know. With all the goons around who are good at this poo poo and hate BTP, you'd think we'd be able to form a coop to buy it out, and turn it into a network for contract painters around here to up the quality and standards, and be collected under a banner together to share projects off they don't have time for, etc. No, no, no! You can't just submit ideas willy-nilly, it'll fall apart immediately. We need a project coordinator. Now, who wants to be the leader? No, not me, my busy shitposting schedule doesn't allow time for cat hherding.
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Mar 4, 2015 22:57
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:You know. With all the goons around who are good at this poo poo and hate BTP, you'd think we'd be able to form a coop to buy it out, and turn it into a network for contract painters around here to up the quality and standards, and be collected under a banner together to share projects off they don't have time for, etc. I would like to apply for a position as a Tier 1 artisan or resident Pro Painter for the web store, whichever is considered to be the lowest common denominator.
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TheCosmicMuffet posted:You know. With all the goons around who are good at this poo poo and hate BTP, you'd think we'd be able to form a coop to buy it out, and turn it into a network for contract painters around here to up the quality and standards, and be collected under a banner together to share projects off they don't have time for, etc. This would mean hanging around with Shawn, while he teaches you how the business works for two months.
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Pierzak posted:No, no, no! You can't just submit ideas willy-nilly, it'll fall apart immediately. We need a project coordinator. Now, who wants to be the leader? No, not me, my busy shitposting schedule doesn't allow time for cat hherding. I'm an unemployed project manager, what salary are you offering? Cat herding model painters can't be any harder than herding software developers.
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Why would you buy BTP, when you could just start such a network without first buying all that negative press, bad reputation, debt and (I guarantee) horrifically overvalued assets? What do you want to bet that he will strip the copper out of the walls before signing over the studio?
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WINNERSH TRIANGLE posted:
Tell you what, give me half of that and if I can turn a profit with it, inside of two years, I'll give you back your original investment and you let me keep the profit. Deal?
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WINNERSH TRIANGLE posted:
Do "pay after delivery"
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The listing is already gone, unfortunately. Perhaps someone explained to him how business sales work. The trouble with starting your own painting studio, or with buying BTP, is that the business model doesn't work. Painting miniatures to a high quality is skilled labor, and skilled labor costs too much compared to what customers are willing to pay. customers aren't willing to pay enough for high-quality painted figures for a variety of factors... a lot of people do it for free for friends, a lot of people just do it themselves, the cost of painted vs. unpainted is too high of a delta, the opportunity cost of well-painted figures compared to just being able to buy more figures is a huge delta, etc. etc. The only way to make a business like this work is to find much cheaper semi-skilled labor, and that almost certainly means outsourcing to a cheap labor country like china. If you don't feel like running a small chinese miniature-painting sweatshop, you just don't have a viable business model. Yes, some folks do this as a hobby business. But once they figure out what they're charging vs. their time costs, they typically discover they're paying themselves minimum wage or less, and absorbing all other costs of doing business as well.
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Leperflesh posted:The listing is already gone, unfortunately. Perhaps someone explained to him how business sales work. Right. Exactly. That's why I'm saying, loving Oath thread, man! It's basically a hobby thing for a prize, right? And what are you going to do... keep all that crap you paint and then play with it? No. Don't kid yourself. We have 5 levels. Level one means you get painted by whoever joined the thread this month. You run the risk that they will not finish their oath on time and have to save the whales. Level 2 is painted in time. level 3 is painted in time and includes at least one other special oath points thing, like speed painting, or monthly theme conversion level 4 is painted by someone who's earned 1st, 2nd, or 3rd at least once during the year Level 5 is painted by Bachtere, or SRM if it's GW stuff and you want it to look like it came from the late 90s. Or Maybe that other guy who's doing the tyranids in that style. I forget. Anyway, customers supply the models. Oathers supply the labor. We pay them in oath points. At the end of the month, the board of executives reviews their performance, assigns points and prizes, and invests the cash in a prize/legal fund. Customers are given a EULA to sign that says they understand that by entering their crap in our contest, it might not be painted on time or at all, but one way or another, it's coming back to them within 2 weeks of the monthly time limit ending. The Oath thread is sustained forever. We encourage oathers to practice on other people's poo poo instead of their own, and we finally put a wooden stake through the heart of the fiend called BTP. Down with BTP up with TBP.
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Cross-posting some badly-painted models from me from over 20 years ago, for your unspiration purposes. The linked post has more info about the old models. VERY OLD AND BADLY-PAINTED MODELS AHEADI was very young the time, so don't judge me. I think that after a 20-year break, I'm now doing better at painting than child-me thought possible.   
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All hail space crusade! I kinda miss the dreadnought expansion and it's interchangeable parts. It's probably up in my parents loft somewhere...
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Honestly the two in the middle foreground don't look bad at all. If you had given the red one a wash and the blue one some highlights you'd have two tabletop-quality models right there.
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I just want to put this here. It's maybe NSFW? http://www.buffersmodelrailways.com/products/scenery-9/figures/adult
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“My Kind of Model Shop” - James May
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goatface posted:I just want to put this here. It's maybe NSFW? http://www.buffersmodelrailways.com/products/scenery-9/figures/adult You know why these are great and slave girl objective is awful? Because a train guy would hide one or two of these models in a huge city set up and it would be his own little joke rather than being so horribly obvious with an objective marker. Admittedly, yes a train guy could do a whole diorama with them, but I suspect that a subtle "Lovers in action" set would be put in the upper floor of a house on a bigger set up.
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