Re: 15mm Gurkhas - I am embarassed

A rule a *friend* told me, especially when dealing with mini's paint for
3-feet away. That's how he painted IG, SPAM, etc.  mini's from the Evil
British/American Empire.  Remember that your going to play with them and
handle them and god forbid drop or lose them.  Super detailed IMHO
should be reserved for that other game.

Dances With Rocks <kochte@stsci.edu> wrote: Recently I acquired a squad
of 15mm Gurkhas from Jon in a recent order
I placed with him (back during the sale). Exquisitely detailed! I
finally
settled on a color scheme to painting them in and primed 'em up. The
priming
was an average prime coat, the Gurkhas along with the many other minis I
had. Wasn't worried. 

Until I actually picked them up to start painting, and held them under
the desk magnifying glass (yeah, I use one of those things; easier for
my eyes to deal with look without :-P ). As I was painting the base
color
on, I began to labor under the growing realization I will never EVER be
able to do justice to these minis. I was even embarassed by simply
priming
them! If I were as good as Stuart Murray or my brother, I think I'd have
a chance. But with my amazingly under average painting skills...I am
embarassed. The minis are too good for my meager skills to ply a
paintbrush upon.

And no, none of you can have any of them, and yes, I applied said
paintbrush to them, anyway. :-P :-) I can only hope that someone
else somewhere has a set of these and has a painting to do the
minis justice. And will be able to show photos.

Man, I knew I sucked at painting before, but these make me look
REAL bad! :-0 ;-)

Now I wait for Jon to get the second squad sculpted and produced,
which will, of course, include a sniper Gurkha and a Gurkha or two
with their Khukuri out...right, Jon? ;-) ;-) ;-)

Mk

		
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