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Other Stuff => The Lead Painters' League => LPL Archiv => Topic started by: gregory privat on May 24, 2009, 11:58:08 PM
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Many peoples are saying that the LPL help them to paint more. Personnally, I've found that I am painting less and making less stuff than I used to prior to the LPL. So I was wondering if I am alone in this situation.
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I don't know if this is the case for other folks, but for my own part the LPL is making me paint more. Since the LPL is demanding of time, I'm sure it can have a detrimental impact on those who already had/have a rigorous production schedule, but for dilettantes like myself the discipline of having to grind out entries gets me to produce a lot more.
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Somehow the LPL make me paint less… that’s odd really!?! :?
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I've just been watching and I scheduled tomorrow as a day of painting, I plan to sit outside in the sun and relax as I start to climb my modest lead mountain - Unless I get a phonecall challenging me to some bank holiday bloodbowl :)
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I paint at this rate normally anyway, so the only difference is that I'm posting it here after a week instead of posting to dA first.
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I found that I have to realy think about my time painting since there are hard deadlines in LPL, unlike being able to "shelf" a project and start another. I have a cabinet with several projects in various stages of compleation, like a set of Perry Brothers Sudan Madhist or the "Ultra Marines" that have been being worked on for 15 years... :o!
I paint for enjoyment but also for gaming! so there are things I die to paint after a game. Like yesterday we did a 15mm Samurai army battle and today I got out my "2 Dragons" figures to paint a unit up, instead of finishing my 25mm Tigermen painted for the LPL, they will be a hard sell on LPL since they are 15's but ohh well! lol
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Unless I get a phonecall challenging me to some bank holiday bloodbowl :)
You know Jack is after you for that game of Bloodbowl. :)
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I usually paint 1 model a month or less; with LPL I manage the minimum of 5 a week - in fact, a total of 37 in 5 weeks - no 6, because of the gap - not bad at all for me. :D
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I normally have the nasty tendency to not completly finish a paint job, but to lose interest and shelf the minis...
The LPL nicely forces me to finish miniatures and gives (sometimes) the option of finishing projects that were shelfed during the last year. Though thank to LPL2 I got better in actually finishing a project.
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For me, LPL don't change anything to my paint program but, i don't paint minis just for the LPL.
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HAH
as of now I'm the only one having answered to the last call.
YES, Im ONLY looking the LPL... and it makes me paint less.
Sure it does. Since I'm constantly browsing the whole pictures assembling reference material so I can (hopefully) paint better one of these/nest times lol
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I voted for the first option; I paint more. I usually paint new entries for each round.
That has been true for all 3 LPL although this time real world events have meant that I have been unable to get much painting done for the last 3 weeks.
I currently have a group of mounted Barbarians 75% finished on my workbench but just didnt have the time to complete them. I've had the models for a couple of years (maybe more) and they probably would have remained unpainted were it not for the LPL. This time around all my entires are/will be from my existing lead mountain. I'm hoping I will have a bit more time to complete this and other entries.
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I am painting a lot more finished models.
I am prone to just painting things to a gaming standard or less for a particular game. When I have played the game I loose interest in the figures and go on to something else.
I am also spending a lot more time actually painting the figures trying to do the best I can.
I could be painting more but the thing about the LPL that is taking a lot of time is trying to get good photographs. I have seen me take 30-40 photographs of an entry trying to get a decent picture in focus on all five figures.
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I wanted to answer that I love the LPL and really wanted to enter, but was simply too busy with other projects to et anything done. I am very unahhpy at myself.
As usual there are some really excellent paint jobs, some brilliant photo set ups and all the entries that dont fit the above criterea are so imaginatively done that it makes up for it!
Brilliant, inspiring work guys, thanks very much for the effort and for sharing with us all.
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...I could be painting more but the thing about the LPL that is taking a lot of time is trying to get good photographs. I have seen me take 30-40 photographs of an entry trying to get a decent picture in focus on all five figures...
Thinking of it, that also could be why I paint less during the LPL lol
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I think I'm painting more in total, but some of my other projects are on hold whilst I keep up with the LPL. I'm certainly looking forward to painting more bloodbowl and 1938BCW minis when I'v finished the LPL!! But I am enjoying the LPL in the mean time!
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I started apinting stuff to enter. But didn't get my photos done in time. I still haven't figured out how to edit my photos down to size to enter. Or how to submit photos to this site. But I am painting more & digging out projects that I have had on the shelf for a long time. I find this site very inspiring & helpful.
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LPL means I am guaranteed to paint at least five new figures each week, so I tend to paint more. It gives me the incentive to get up that bit earlier so as to have those precious few minutes to finish figures that would otherwise languish on the painting table.
Photos are a five minute job with a digital camera, never ore than three pics for an entry (can you tell?).
Re-sizing pictures? Open the picture with MS Paint, select 'Image', 'Stretch/Skew', and change the size to 50% or as required.
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None of the above.
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I started apinting stuff to enter. But didn't get my photos done in time. I still haven't figured out how to edit my photos down to size to enter. Or how to submit photos to this site. But I am painting more & digging out projects that I have had on the shelf for a long time. I find this site very inspiring & helpful.
One word: Photobucket.
Not only does Photobucket allow you to host your photos, you can also edit photos on Photobucket and reduce them to the appropriate size/pixel count (and it doesn't matter if you have a Mac or a PC). Personally, I find the Comic Life software that came free with my Mac useful, as it allows you to create inset detail photos and captions very easily (you don't have to use it to make comic strips, you can use it to make single photos just as easily).
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I paint more, simply because I shell out more time for painting and when I do paint it's usually a group of five or more. Normally I paint maybe one evening a week but during the league it's more. It's also easier to justify the time spent painting to my girlfriend this way. Last few weeks I haven't done a lot as I already had round 5 done before the league started. But now I'm busy painting the final model for round 6 which will have eight models in total.
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I'm painting a looooooooooooot more than I usually do. I'm quite a slow painter and I usually paint either showcase miniatures (example (http://www.paintoholic.nl/images/ghoul.jpg)) or miniatures for Warmachine or Hordes which take a long time too.
For the LPL I have switched to painting volume but I try to keep as much quality on the paintjobs as I can in a week's time (which isn't a lot!!!). For the Cultists, Arkham investigators and the Skorne Paingivers and Void Spirits it worked well enough. For me it's perfect as I'm working on the Cosmic Horror rulebook and I need painted miniatures to use for all the examples and cool shots. So hopefully after the LPL I have enough material to make nice and interesting photos for the rulebook :)
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I'm painting a looooooooooooot more than I usually do.
Me too.
In fact, I might go blind before the competition is complete... o_o
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The LPL is working wonders for my production. I'm painting more then I usually would. It really helps to make me sit down more often and pick up a paintbrush or to do other things like base, removing mouldlines and stuff.
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I voted for the first cause LPL made me paint, and it was great before real life (tm) forced me to stop, and now it's hard to start again ::)
meow,
Matt