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03-30-2008
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| Destruction Manifest     Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Loyall, Kentucky
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Blog Entries: 1  |  Re: How to paint better and feel better about your painting Well, I already think I have the painting bug, I REALLY wanna do a test model. I will try to borrow a silver from my best pal. He just got a new apartment, with a big room he's turning into a painting and gaming room. So when he gets fully moved in, I'll spend the night and hopefully have a test model to show. Hehe, if (it's a gargantuan if) I ever build and paint a mini that is not Chaos, may the Chaos powers strike me down! Not gonna happen guys, I love my CSM too much. That's what kinda worries me. On the other hand, I could just build and paint them and trade them here. Something inside me says never to touch a mini that isn't Chaos though. Wow, I really am a fanatic!
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03-30-2008
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| Sergeant  Join Date: Feb 2008
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| Re: How to paint better and feel better about your painting i am gonna take this to heart, so far im following Hairy's advice and learning to tidy things up a bit me and cody practice our painting when we are at each others houses
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03-30-2008
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| Resident Greyhunter  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Wherever the wolves go
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| Re: How to paint better and feel better about your painting good tips. I just find it depressing when I look at a model that i did in my first year of painting and comapre it to them now. I need to find out how I did it lol.
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03-31-2008
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| Trooper  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Jose, California!
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Blog Entries: 1  | Re: How to paint better and feel better about your painting My first miniature was a gondor soldier, and I didn't evn prime him, I just started painting. Then my dad came and frieked out, so we primed over ma work and I painted them. I couldn't paint in a straight line to save my life. The armour was all blobbed, but I remember how proud I was. A couple of weeks ago I found one of the models, and I compaied it to my work now. I felt so nostalgic, even though it had only been three years, and I felt extremly proud of my skills as a painter. It's good to see where you've come from, even if it has only been three years.
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03-31-2008
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| Kriegsmeister     Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ohio, still waiting for a GW Store.
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| Re: How to paint better and feel better about your painting Believe it or not my first GW model was a Gondorian too... and hes actually not that awful, I mean hes bad compared to now but its easily tabletop quality(although barely).
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04-14-2008
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| Corporal  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: THE MOON!!! no seriously.
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okay im done ranting, but the point is, with time and practise, you can do anything you set your mind too. and the tips here in this article help no end, such as curling the brush to keep its point, and watering down my paints, something I'd never really thought about till i saw the results here on terra.
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04-14-2008
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| Master Procrastinator   Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: As a figment of my own deranged imagination, i don't actually exist anywhere. Or London, UK.
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Blog Entries: 1 | Re: How to paint better and feel better about your painting that's one of the most inspiring things about this place...you can see a technique done that you haven't tried before, ask how it was done and receive some very good advice. you give it a go and blow me if it doesn't work out! then before you know it you're the one dishing out the advice to others, sharing you're experiences and expertese, and inspiring the younger/less skilled painters to stretch their limits and try new things. kinda like the circle of life really 
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 And now, to add something! _____ You know that saying," Practice makes perfect" ? well, it makes excellence. We all should strive to do our personal best, but if we aim too high we are opt to miss it entirely. "The Problem is not that we aim to high and miss it, but we aim too low and it it-" Bastian...uhmmmm... What was his last name?! Anywas, it's the sculpter from Fulgrim. Strive to do your best, but aim too high and we seek to disappoint ourselves. Aim too low and we risk actually making our expectations with a bad model. That's my two cents worth for now, bwahaha CMC
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04-25-2008
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| Re: How to paint better and feel better about your painting I guess I lucked out my first fully painted GW figure was tabletop worthy and I've looked back at work barely a year aftert hat model and notice the difference, but I havent painted in probably three years so Its gonna suck...due to my rustiness but thank you folks for the wonderful guide and advice |
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05-21-2008
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| Re: How to paint better and feel better about your painting i am an ok table top painter. the way i learned to paint was to watch other people. and as you pain and trash miniatures  I found a few things that work. but experience was my best teacher.but like you said people are too hard on themselves. just a few colors and enjoy the game. |
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