Sunday 24 February 2013

I Know, I Know..............................But there is a good reason!!

I've painted myself into a state of complete and utter boredom!!
To come to the horrible realisation that I just do not have the required skill, or patience to paint a complete army. I cannot lower my standards to do a "wargames" paintjob, I've tried, and just keep on looking at the figures, then adding a bit here, and adding a bit there, four hours later I have painted the faces on four figures, and blocked in the uniform colours!
This week has been spent looking at the figures laying about on the desk, and thinking awwwh bollocks to all of this.

So I've gone back to some plasticard butchery, because I have something that just has to be finished. It has sat on the shelf looking somewhat forlorn, but has now claimed its rightful place back on the desk of doom.




The problem now is, do I keep it just for me, or do I ,once again face the morons, who will criticise the scale, the model and everything else, and get the damn thing into a mould, and cast for sale?

11 comments:

  1. Wow, great boat Nigel ! I think some of y friends could be interested by this kind of "toy" ! ;)

    J-B

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  2. Publish and be damned!! If they don't like it they don't need to buy it - or just offer it to a selected few who appreciate your skills!

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  3. Never mind the discerning wargaming public, they're will always be an 'expert' whatever you're doing. Remember that an 'ex' is a has been and a 'spurt' is a drip under pressure.

    Think on this though. If you do go public with the boat it'll mean I have to resurrect all my Vietnam stuff again which I thought I could safely ignore for a while. Is this fair?

    ;O)

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  4. I always say never let the morons make my decisions for me! It looks good to me!

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  5. Cast and be-damned! Who gives a flying f*ck what those tw*ts say? Your work is consistently excellent, my friend! The scales issue went in the bin years ago so why worry? If it looks right it is right. And if they're that bothered about such trivia let them design, build, cast sell etc etc their own stuff.

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  6. Very nice boat. I would cast and make available for sale. Ignore any review w/o an order attached, as hot air is in abundant supply on the Internet.

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  7. Share the love Nigel! It looks lovely to me.

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  8. Imagine how good it will look with a Paul Hicks sculpted crew!!!
    I shall share the love, and cast and be damned, be a sin not too.

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  9. It's a nice little model, Nigel. I've seen a commercial PBR in this scale which looks like a blunt instrument next to your sleek design.

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  10. Put me down for one, heck, I'd even buy the master, if you'd want to sell it. ;-)

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