Painting for commission.

[Admiral-Badruck]

http://www.bluetablepainting.com/view_g ... eryID=5490

This is my project comments welcome.

[me_in_japan]

Seems fairly neat and tidy.

[Mike the Pike]

They look quite nice.
But I don' get it. You are paying BTP to do your Orks but then you're offering to paint other people's armies? Huh?

[Spevna]

They look quite nice.
But I don' get it. You are paying BTP to do your Orks but then you're offering to paint other people's armies? Huh?

The Spevna joins Pikey in his state if confusion.

[Admiral-Badruck]

Well the truth is I did not want them to paint them it is just that the price of the models. Is like the same price as GWj and the buggies are better looking than the current GWj models.

So an late but not least to Chech the market out. See what the competition charges and what the quality is. I would say that for any one that would like an army. And has no models they should go with blue table painting. But if you have models and you want them done up really cheaply. I am a much better deal.

[ashmie]

Will someone pay me 600 dollors not to paint my models. Then I can pay Blue Table

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9FPXs9N ... ubs_digest

I didn't go through with my order in the end, just for the record. I decided it was madness to fork out that much money to miss out on the best part of the hobby. I didn't have the budget, it was very tempting though. If I was rolling in it I would probably use them though.

Blue Table are looking for new organizers and a web designer for their site if any of you wizz kids want to earn some extra money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2da7xlx0 ... ubs_digest
Oh you have to live in the States, Doh.

[me_in_japan]

I didn't go through with my order in the end, just for the record. I decided it was madness to fork out that much money to miss out on the best part of the hobby. I didn't have the budget, it was very tempting though. If I was rolling in it I would probably use them though.

Good man wisdom wins out in the end

[pdfitzg]

I love to build models but not willing to invest the effort it would take to get me up to a painting level that I would want to be at so commisions work well for me.

I originally started with buying painted figures on Ebay and although the prices were great, even when buying from the same people, the painting never matched up.

Moved to commision with some of the painters I had bought things from on Ebay. Found they weren't reliable so stopped that.

Later I basically started trading models to a friend to have him paint. I got many great models out of it, but how do you complain to a friend if they are slow? Not worth risking the friendship.

Found a service out of New Zealand. Iron Halo. She's generally slow and doesn't take many projects but she's a pretty top notch painter and we get along well. This has been fine for small projects that were display worthy, but I only do one or two units a year with her. You can find better high end painters but her free hand is Golden Demon appropriate.

To really knock them out in large quantity, I began using Blue Table Painting. They excel with basic to mid range work (I prefer 3-4 for most stuff and only go 5 for special characters and center pieces). High end work is generally too expensive for what you get. The trick is to catch their specials like Tank Factory where you get 6 similar tanks painted for the price of three or one of the deals when they are raising capital for something and offer a pre paid service. They are reliable, timely, and have the best shipping service (USPS flat rate). I tend to send very explicit instructions and an example model if possible so the army maintains a consistent look even if the painter changes.

Hope that helps.

Paul