Another One.....

[Lou Masses]

Just another curiosity question. I found reading everyone's responses to the other poll really interesting.

Since I don't think we can do multiple answers, I tried to describe as many as could think of. Answer the one which best describes you - if you want to participate that is.

 

[RobH]

Well, I'm pretty much a painter first, although rarely without some tinkering.

I WISH I were a sculptor. I need to complete something to qualify myself for that!!
I CAN sculpt. It's just finishing the darn thing!

And I really enjoy the sculpting aspect, from viewing someone's SBS, or completed sculpture.

But I guess, from my output, I'm a painter!

Make sense?

 

[Lou Masses]

Perfect sense.

Same here. Would want to sculpt but paint

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Lou took the words right out of my mouth.

Cheers

 

[Figure Mad]

Hi

I want to sculpt complete figures, but I am just getting to the stage of converting small parts of figures at the present. But my first love is to paint...


Dave

 

[thegoodsgt]

I paint only stock kits, although I've attempted to do some minor conversions with some success.

I don't sculpt because I can't sculpt to the quality that I demand as a painter!

I tend to value an interesting, well sculpted, and well animated figure over one that is "accurate." Life is too short to get hung up waiting for the perfect model or obsessing to the point where I never paint anything.

 

[Don Johnson]

We are in a great phase of the hobby, with SO many excellent figures available in a variety of sizes for almost every age and/or conflict. I'm trying hard just to get a few painted! Sculpting is not in the picture now!

 

[Anders Heintz]

Well, Im not really in any specific category, more like all of the categories listed.
I sculpt commercial figures for money, yet I still sculpt for my self and I also paint stock kits.

I choose the one that was "I do this for a living". If I didnt sculpt commercial I don't think that I would know as much as Id like to think that I do, and the commecrial aspect is what drew me to try harder to evolve more as a sculptor.

 

[MSzwarc]

Lou,

I'm enjoying your polls, keep them coming! I checked "convert kits", but that's not accurate. I collect kits, and generally "tweak" them to suit my tastes, and am attempting to learn sculpting from scratch. Alas, major work hassles (I got a promotion-- lucky me!) have kept me from doing much more than reading the pF forum when I can. Anyway, I enjoy "figuring" vicariously through you guys.

Mike

 

[rdclaeps]

Hey Lou,

I paint only stock kits and couldn’t sculpt or convert something to save my life. My last venture at converting something ended in disaster. But what I really find interesting are those threads that are closed and then briefly re-opened to allow the select few to get the last word. Do you have any room on that fishing boat of yours? What kind of bait should I bring, wieners?

 

[Pete_H]

Very good discussion (for a change). Thanks to Lou for producing yet another constructive and productive thread.

I'd say that 75% of the time I paint stock kits, while the remaining 25% I dedicate to minor conversions (the odd change in insignia, weapon, or arm pose). The only time I take upon a conversion is when I'm getting bored of painting and need a slight change of pace.

 

[amherbert]

Well, again, I'm none of the above!!

I mostly paint stock kits, but I do convert as required. Conversions are more likely when I work with plastic figures, and I tend to do metal and resin right out of the box.

Cheers
Andy

 

[Robert Merz]

Originally posted by rdclaeps@Mar 28 2005, 10:53 PM

... But what I really find interesting are those threads that are closed and then briefly re-opened to allow the select few to get the last word....

Yep, Ivory towers unite...

 

[garyjd]

Originally posted by rdclaeps@Mar 28 2005, 08:53 PM
But what I really find interesting are those threads that are closed and then briefly re-opened to allow the select few to get the last word.

Roger, I would like to think if you've been accused of anything you would like to present your side of the story, would you not? Is it not only fair to hear both sides of the story, regardless of what side of the fence you sit?~Gary

 

[garyjd]

Originally posted by Robert Merz@Mar 28 2005, 09:54 PM
Yep, Ivory towers unite...

Mr. Merz or Mertz, I think you too would like to tell your side of the story if you were put in such circumstances. This has got nothing to do with certain people being given special treatment over others. It's all about everyone being on a level playing field with the same rules and being allowed the oppourtunity to defend yourself.~Gary

 

[Lou Masses]

Yeah, "defend yourself" right. Easy to do when the doors are opened for you and closed behind you.

Seems that only a select few are allowed to defend themselves or criticize others without getting criticized themselves.

To the membership I am sorry, this thread was intended to be positive, but I for one am pretty sick of the one sided influence around here-along with the hypocracy.

And for the record, I'm not the one closing threads or trying to close them. I think censorship does more potential damage to any site than disagreements-no matter what kind - ever could.

 

[Robert Merz]

Originally posted by garyjd@Mar 29 2005, 12:10 AM
Mr. Merz or Mertz, I think you too would like to tell your side of the story if you were put in such circumstances. This has got nothing to do with certain people being given special treatment over others. It's all about everyone being on a level playing field with the same rules and being allowed the oppourtunity to defend yourself.~Gary

Well, Mr. Dombrowski, it is Merz, not Mertz... and I most certainly have been in that situation, and was NOT given the opportunity to defend myself, so, "been there, done that..." Blacklisted... unjustly, by a member of this very group, and all of his "good buddies." Never mind the proof; forget both sides being told, just summary judgement, and ONE side being told. Since he has more friends who are masters and above reproach, I must be the villian...

Sometimes this site is really too much... the insincereity, the brown-nosing, the hero worship...

I believe I most accuratley summed it up... "Ivory Towers unite..."

 

[Robert Merz]

Originally posted by Lou Masses@Mar 29 2005, 12:55 AM
To the membership I am sorry, this thread was intended to be positive, but I for one am pretty sick of the one sided influence around here-along with the hypocracy.

Well said. Never apologize for being honest.

 

[rdclaeps]

Gary,

That could be all well and true, but will the individual who the last post was directed at be afforded the same opportunity to reply to the latest remark? I highly doubt it. If the thread is going to be closed, close it and be done with it. That way any hint of favoritism will be avoided, which by the way doesn’t happen around here.

On another note. Mission accomplished, you’ve successfully stirred up crap again and I ain’t talking to Lou or Gary.