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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9766262" data-attributes="member: 4534">I think we can all agree this is the noblest of miniature painting goals!  Here's my Ral Partha white whale.  It's an ogre mage and it came with the option of holding a damsel in distress or a sword.  A friend of mine had this one in the 1990s and I'd love to get my hands on it again.  This was most definitely not painted by me.  [ATTACH=full]418442[/ATTACH]I think the biggest difference between modelers and miniature painters is miniatures are functional.  i.e.  They're designed to be used for gaming purposes and need to be able to withstand the vicissitudes of frequently being touched by greasy fingers, being knocked down, rubbed up against other things, etc., etc. which is not something models typically deal with on the regular.  And it strikes me this is especially true for terrain.  It's not even the money spent, it's the effort you put into creating these things and probably the memories you have attached to them.  Last year I actually did throw a few miniatures away that I knew I'd never paint.  Don't worry, they weren't particularly good miniatures, mostly WizKids and Reaper Bones.  Early Reaper Bones.  It was tough tossing them, but it's gotten progressively easy to get rid of things.  Rather than throw away a lot of the miniature I've worked on, I will probably end up either giving more of them away to my gamer friends or selling them at a deeply discounted price when my FLGS has their mini trading day.  The problem with my FLGS is that hardly anyone wants to exchange minis unless it's GW stuff.</blockquote>

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