Re: Unpainted Figures - was: OGRE stuff

At 02:16 AM 6/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>John Jeffery Shoemark wrote:
>
>> We are planning to play in a local multifloor carpark where we know
the
>> management ( and which has rarely used upper floors). Admiitedly we
have
>> dreaming about this for several years but Mike's crazy enough to keep
>> pushing towards it. I guess I'd better keep painting. Local legend
has it
>> that I own the world's finest and largest unpainted figure
collection!
>> If (or should I say when) we ever get this off the ground we will
post
>> photos.
>
>I definitely do NOT (for reasons that might become obvious in the
future)
>want to start a I've got a bigger unpainted/unfinished/still packaged
>collection than the next guy/gal/etc.	I was just wondering what people
>consider ridiculous.

My opinions have changed on this lately.  Last month, I sat myself down
and
painted an entire 28mm army -- 70 figures, five vehicles -- in three
weeks,
start to finish.  I followed this up by assebling and painting a dozen
Armorcast ruins in a single week.  In both cases, I'd had the items
involved for a loooong time, and just suddenly felt...inspired to paint
them/  Having done this once, I feel confident that I can do it again. 
And
again.	And again, assuming that I give the cammo a rest for a while. 
It's
made me feel a lot better about my many piles of unpainted metal, resin,
and plastic.
John X Crimmins
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