airsoftlover Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 this is my second mini i have painted. i am not finished yet, as i still have the head and base to paint. from my last mini, people told me to try to smooth my shades, so i tried that by smoothing the tan belly to the blue body, and then the blue body to the green arms. this is a pretty big miniature, so it was hard to paint, and even though i am not done, it still took me 8 hours to do. how does it look? i found some guy on ebay who painted one trying to sell it for $34. does paitning them like that really increase the value that much? EBAY LINK http://cgi.ebay.com/Painted-miniature-Reap...bayphotohosting chweck out his paint job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironworker Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 this is my second mini i have painted. i am not finished yet, as i still have the head and base to paint. from my last mini, people told me to try to smooth my shades, so i tried that by smoothing the tan belly to the blue body, and then the blue body to the green arms. this is a pretty big miniature, so it was hard to paint, and even though i am not done, it still took me 8 hours to do. how does it look? i found some guy on ebay who painted one trying to sell it for $34. does paitning them like that really increase the value that much? EBAY LINK http://cgi.ebay.com/Painted-miniature-Reap...bayphotohosting chweck out his paint job Twenty bucks? Are you kidding? How much is your time worth? It's a large mini too so that's not all that high. Yours is looking good by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airsoftlover Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 thanks, and i see what you mean by time being worth money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Jack Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 If that *only* took eight hours to do, then you're doing pretty good. (That guy selling his piece on ebay could easily have spent twenty four hours or more on it.) I'd suggest bringing the darker blue down onto its shoulders and haunches a bit. It's looking pretty good so far. Painted minis aren't really something you can set a specific price on. A mini is worth whatever somebody is willing to pay for it... This guy retails for about $15 with tax, plus a couple bucks for whatever shipping materials you'd use, so asking anything less than say $20 plus shipping cost is literally giving him away. And that's not considering any sort of "labor" cost. If I make a ten dollar profit on a guy that took six hours to paint, that's less than $2 an hour. Anybody who's not a corporate brushslave working for one of the mini companies is doing it entirely for the love and to cover the costs of their materials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurityThruFire Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Good job so far! I really like the way he is coming out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Kutz Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 From the linked auction... TITLE CarnosaurusAGE New in NMM style. SIZE Miniature is 28mm high What on a dinosaur would get painted NMM? Anywho, looks good so far. Interesting choice of colors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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