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Huh, the Dreamblade stuff was pretty darned intricate, though the thinner pieces had bendy issues on things like scrawny arms. The Heroclix stuff is actually pretty good as well, (well detailed out faces and fingers and such) but seriously over covered covered in paint.

Here's teh Heroclix repaint I did for Iron Painter: Seeing Red

EDIT: It is worth noting that I did some resculpting on Cyclops outfit. Here's what he originally looked like: Cyclops

Nameless wrote:I have not much experience with pre-paints Noel, but I find pre-painted sculpts too 'simple' sometimes. This is probably because of machine-painting requirements.

machines?
impossible! I bet they hire lots of beginning painters and just order them painting stuff on TT quality ^^

they hire lots of beginning painters

yup, they are called Chinese...

Skya wrote:Huh, the Dreamblade stuff was pretty darned intricate, though the thinner pieces had bendy issues on things like scrawny arms. The Heroclix stuff is actually pretty good as well, (well detailed out faces and fingers and such) but seriously over covered covered in paint.

Out of curiousity: How you stripped it from paint? Doesn't it get in the way that the mini is bending during painting? I'm asking because I've seen some AvP models in Heroclixx range and that gave me an idea....

I didnt actually strip those, just primered and painted over them. Rescuplting the Cyclops actually involved a bit of carving, basically pretending the the paint that was there was plastic. Seemed to work ok, but I'm not the greatest sculptor and I'm sure someone better then me probably would have considered what I did rather rough. As for stripping the paint I'm told from a friend who worked at Wizkids that Winsor & Newton Brush cleaner and restorer will actually work well, though I havent tried it personally.

Oh as for teh bendy thing, really it just means you need to pay attention to how you mount the figure. A paint brush is not for the most part going to put enough pressure on it bend it. It's when the legs or whatever is stabilizing it are flimsy that it sucks.

I didn't mean the painting process itself. Some painters want to use repainted stuff for gaming though. There's a chance that mini would get bent sooner or later if used on a gaming table.

I'm with Nav, nuke 'em I say!

Better get trov nuked while we're at!