{"id":272,"date":"2020-02-02T22:56:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modeloperations.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2020-02-02T22:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:56:56","slug":"broken-promise-for-the-greater-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modeloperations.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Broken promise… for the Greater Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some years ago I promised myself not to paint any more miniatures for other people. Now this promise was broken. The reason I promised this anyway was that it took me too much time to paint other people’s stuff while my own projects accumulated on the pile of shame. Nevertheless, now I painted these XV25s for a friend of mine. So, why did I do this:<\/p>\n

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  1. He is one of my best friends and it’s for his birthday.<\/li>\n
  2. It gave me the opportunity to try out GW’s new Contrast paints.<\/li>\n
  3. I hope I can convince my mate that it is so easy to paint Vior’la Taus with Contrast paints that he starts to paint them for Kill Team himself. (Canny little ba…d, I am!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I don’t really know what to think about the result. On the one hand it’s very easy to do in a short amount of time on the other hand the standard method produces much better results. Maybe it’s better not to look at individual figures but to imagine them as a whole unit on table top. For now it’s ok and maybe I will add some details and highlights later. Another ‚first‘ is the bases. Here I used one of the „Acrylic muds“ from MIG. The result is really good but I don’t know why it should be any better than the one’s from Vallejo or GW.<\/p>\n

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    Nice story about how I got hand on these figures. At the end of last year I took part in my first scale modelling exhibition as a participant (Maple Leaf B\u00fchl, Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg) where I met a Canadian guy who also was in 40k. There he sold some of his stuff along with the XV25s in a battered box but everything on sprue… for 10\u20ac. Happy with the deal I took it as a later present for my friend. Now\u00a0 I decided to paint them up as I already had all the necessary paints on my shelf.<\/p>\n

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    Some years ago I promised myself not to paint any more miniatures for other people. Now this promise was broken. The reason I promised this anyway was that it took me too much time to paint other people’s stuff while my own projects accumulated on the pile of shame. Nevertheless, now I painted these XV25s for a friend of mine. So, why did I do this: He is one of my best friends and it’s for his birthday. It gave…<\/p>\n

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