discussion How accurate do you make your model?

[Guest]

Yep….doesn’t match the lore……it’s something I have against Games Workshop adherents…..

Yeah, there’s a thousand Space Marine chapters and GW detailed maybe a couple of dozen, yet people will claim you’re wrong if you, say, paint some* like this:

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* About 4–5000 points’ worth in the end, IIRC

 

[minitnkr]

They look .......pretty in pink........

 

[PaulinKendal]

Yeah, there’s a thousand Space Marine chapters and GW detailed maybe a couple of dozen, yet people will claim you’re wrong if you, say, paint some* like this:



* About 4–5000 points’ worth in the end, IIRC :smiling3:

Those look striking - they must make a real splash on the wargames table, good for you!

I've just been to a wonderful art gallery in Norwich Castle. Lots of incredible pictures from the Norwich school - celebrated artists like Cotman, Crome and Vincent.

Some folks, who can't see the wood for the trees, might dismiss their work for being 'inaccurate' - there's certainly a huge amount of artistic licence on display. But it's the creativity of their work that's so appealing - why should it need to be true-to-life?

I paint to produce something I like, something that pleases me and my friends. If others want to attempt a slavish reproduction of the collected fictional works of (in my case) George RR Martin, that's their affair.

I say paint, model, make in a style that suits you, entertains you, tickles you. When the original source is fantastical, it's literally impossible to get it wrong, surely?

 

[Guest]

They look .......pretty in pink........

The army got started when a couple of players at the game store I frequented about 15 years ago, were joking about pink Space Marines with black codpieces. I said, “I’ve got some unbuilt ones left, I’m going to paint them like that” to which they replied, “Don’t! Give them to us instead if you really want to do that!” (meaning: you’ll be wasting perfectly good models). So of course, next week I had a five-man squad of exactly that painted up After that it became a full army, though with ever greater innuendo built into the figures. Not everybody on The Bolter & Chainsword could appreciate it by that time

Those look striking - they must make a real splash on the wargames table, good for you!

It was certainly difficult to mistake anyone else’s army for mine Best of all was the time when I played against someone who had an Imperial Fists army, whose colour scheme is all-over yellow. When we had set up, my opponent said he suddenly had the urge to eat some of this candy:

 

[colin m]

Build many models of scantily clad ladies, do you? :tongue-out:

Well I do need to brush up on my figure painting skills. that's what I tell the wife.

 

[Guest]

Like the diorama part the best, do spend a lot of time researching buildings .
Have tried to be right as far as the model goes, but not as good with PE as I would like.