Hello from a long time lurker

[mitchiemasha]

Crazy that the burglars took the games. I bet they didn't know the value they'd of rose too... And, welcome!!!

[Diggin]

Important question: will you be stripping the flash off your minis and painting them?
This dictates whether you're welcomed warmly or coolly.

It wasn't untill looking at pictures around here that i started worrying about flash myself... I guess i'll be removing more flash from now on.

Hey welcome to the Inn

[mitchiemasha]

Quick question, what is flash?

[knightkrawler]

Remnants from the manufacturing process, mostly a thin irregularity where the two molds meet during casting.
In HQ figures, it's... prominent, to say the least.

[garose74]

Crazy that the burglars took the games. I bet they didn't know the value they'd of rose too... And, welcome!!!

They took a lot more than the games. The worst bit was, they loaded up my car with the stuff they nicked and pinched that as well.

[mitchiemasha]

Harsh! I got burgled once but a time of poverty, living in a bed sit, all I had was clothes and my rave vinyl, luckily they took my clothes.

[el_flesh]

Well hell, I paint HORRIBLY, too - so I just remove the flash, and get skilled painters to paint them! It's well worth the investment even if you have to cough up some $$$ for it! Just check the galleries!

[cynthialee]

Well hell, I paint HORRIBLY, too - so I just remove the flash, and get skilled painters to paint them! It's well worth the investment even if you have to cough up some $$$ for it! Just check the galleries!

I have a standing bribe with my players of free experience points for painted mini's. (amount of points depends on the power level of the campaign I am running) Points may be added to 1 character of choice for each mini painted. Now I know HQ doesn't have experience points, but if you have a table top role play group you Game Master for perhaps you could leverage some players to get to painting.
It was watching my sweetie paint mini's for exp that got me started in painting. She was doing it well enough, but if she was painting the mini's, they were painted with color schemes she preferred. So I started painting them also so some came out looking like what I wanted. Mainly I just do a paint in the lines and then wash them kinda thing with minimal shading and color layering as I am not good at that. I am not very good at intense detail, but the mini's look better than they do out of the box.