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Deified Data posted:I made it through Heroforge, and my mindset was the same as yours. That’s heroforge? Nice. Did you have to do anything to it to remove/reduce the 3D printing grain? I thought about buying a heroforge mini ages ago but decided against it due to the output quality at the time, but maybe they have improved.
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CovfefeCatCafe posted:I've been so far out of the loop on WH40K stuff that I didn't realize that T54/55 turret wasn't a conversion. Now if only GW would introduce more competent tank design into the rest of its line... 
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ineptmule posted:That’s heroforge? Nice. Did you have to do anything to it to remove/reduce the 3D printing grain? I thought about buying a heroforge mini ages ago but decided against it due to the output quality at the time, but maybe they have improved. Their old models used to have this problem but this one came out perfectly smooth. They picked up a different plastic for their high detail models within the last year or so and it's a lot more consistent.
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"It doesn't need to turn, just point it straight at Berlin"
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Floppychop posted:Who makes that mini? It's amazing. Wielding a tankard and sword at the same time is like 75% of my D&D characters. I hate you people.
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Z the IVth posted:I can quite reliably manage selling at 200% retail but even then it's still way, way below minimum wage - at most the profit will be something like £3 per hour, at worst its 50p. Selling painted stuff is no way to make a living and I pretty much only do it because I enjoy the process and don't have enough space to store the results. If you're getting 200% of MSRP, you're painting at a level I and most people here wouldn't expect to. Anything less than phenomenal is not worthy of over MSRP as it currently stands. And you are entirely on the mark that even awesome paint jobs effectively pay their creators slave wages. I think part of it is that people don't think about creative stuff in terms like that, and partially because there's a sticker shock to paying double the standard rate for figures, at a time when new stuff is pricing people out of the hobby. It's more a way to break even at least when you're getting out of an army, and it's doubly true if you were smart enough to get stuff well under retail.
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200% msrp should be your baseline when doing commission work. I did a large group of Cadians for $3 a model, which is about 100% cost, so 200% when including the value of the model itself. These were basic tabletop paint jobs and it wasn't worth it.
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ineptmule posted:That’s heroforge? Nice. Did you have to do anything to it to remove/reduce the 3D printing grain? I thought about buying a heroforge mini ages ago but decided against it due to the output quality at the time, but maybe they have improved. On the one I ordered, I just rubbed it smooth. It didn't take much to get the graininess out. Glad they picked a new plastic, though, that'll make life much easier.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:200% msrp should be your baseline when doing commission work. I did a large group of Cadians for $3 a model, which is about 100% cost, so 200% when including the value of the model itself. These were basic tabletop paint jobs and it wasn't worth it. Yeah, if you're getting stuff commission painted to your rough specifications, you should expect to spend more on labor than you spend on models. Model cost is actually pretty cheap unless you're talking stupid GW character model pricing. Unfortunately, unless something is well painted to an established scheme, the only way you get much for the paint job reselling it is if it comes in a lot, in which case you run into the price suffering because it's a lot.
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A lot of commission painters seem to just be completely averse to pricing themselves a fair wage, and then you have the ones trying to compete on price with those that don’t know the value of their own time and charge like £50 for a work that’ll take 40 hours.
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Zark the Damned posted:Saw this in the 40k thread and felt it belonged here: i recognize all them bits
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Zark the Damned posted:Saw this in the 40k thread and felt it belonged here: THat's a Warjack yo.
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Zark the Damned posted:Saw this in the 40k thread and felt it belonged here: The Goblin gargoyles on the greaves are 
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Just when Horus didn't think his day could get any worse.
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Hustlin Floh posted:A-bad-'un The correct pronunciation.
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I'm the inexplicably bloody spike
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I immediately started hearing the thin your paints screaming in my head.
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Fathis Munk posted:I'm the inexplicably bloody spike That spike is definitely not OSHA, it's an accident waiting to happen.
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Fathis Munk posted:I'm the spike covered in marinara sauce Guy's just mad because every time he walks into the Chaos Cafeteria, Nergal's been through and eaten all the pudding.
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I have been so-bad-its-good watching this guy's channel for a few days now and I feel compelled to share. I give you Dave the Fungeon Master and his channel Miniature Mash-Up. He hasn't uploaded in 8 months so I feel secure in slagging off his charming and awful videos full of poorly made crappy minis. I adore his bad intro as seen in this video Dollar Tree Fire Giants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ansVhqNUi8I For some amazingly bad miniature making look no farther than Dirt-Cheap Carrion Crawlers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp-NSBAu1IA Enjoy
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Indolent Bastard posted:I have been so-bad-its-good watching this guy's channel for a few days now and I feel compelled to share. There's no way this isn't what he's going for, and it's beautiful.
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That guy's awesomely terrible. I love him.
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i didn't know da share z0ne had a miniatures section
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"as an adult I don't have access to the disposable income or free time I had as a child" 
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I enjoy that the thumbnail for that fire giant video has no relation to the actual thing he made. I was like, "Wow, that's pretty good for a mini cobbled together from dollar store bits."
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Fathis Munk posted:"as an adult I don't have access to the disposable income or free time I had as a child" I can see this being true in some cases. Kids have boatloads of free time compared to someone in full time employment, and quite a lot of them have parents who'll just buy them anything to keep em quiet.
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Zark the Damned posted:I can see this being true in some cases. Kids have boatloads of free time compared to someone in full time employment, and quite a lot of them have parents who'll just buy them anything to keep em quiet. So true. I know this comment was meant as snarky, but man, I wish I had the free time I had when I was younger. I squandered my life away!!!
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Dollar Store Action Figure Miniatures Guy also seems to have used his Dollar Store Action Figure Miniatures YouTube Channel to share his Dollar Store Action Figure Miniatures Guy Opinions about lady ghostbusters.
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Yeah time's kind of a given, but the disposable income part took me by surprise.
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Fathis Munk posted:Yeah time's kind of a given, but the disposable income part took me by surprise. When you're young and single you decide what your spending priorities are, when you're old and in a family it's a committee process and plastic space war barbies are rarely as convincing as we would like. It's not a question of "Could I afford this Rhino?" so much as "Can I explain to the wife why this Titan is more important than putting it in the IRA/Vacation fund/529?".
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Plus if you're a kid and get pocket money or have a part time job or whatever, that money's yours for whatever you want (unless your parents charge you rent to teach you the meaning of money or whatever). An adult most likely has a ton of bills / rent / mortgage / student loan / food expenses and so on that ties up their cash. Plus if you don't have a lot of free time, your spending money is likely to go towards instant gratification like movies, drinks and video games, rather than something that takes a bunch of time and effort before you can even use it.
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Two Beans posted:Dollar Store Action Figure Miniatures Guy also seems to have used his Dollar Store Action Figure Miniatures YouTube Channel to share his Dollar Store Action Figure Miniatures Guy Opinions about lady ghostbusters. lol link please
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Nebalebadingdong posted:lol link please https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgxAAZbDs5Q
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