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The Assembly Process
| Painting The 300 Spartans - For Free. |
Painting for Free
The 300 For Free is a demonstration of our capacity, organization, teamwork, and
process. We often judge individual miniature painters by their awards for painting
single miniatures. How then does one judge the work of a incorporated company of
painters, builders, and auxilliary staff? I would suggest by judging their collective effort.
Why for Free?
Painting them for free is critical. Any painting service or even individual can paint a lot
of miniatures, but to be able to support such a venture for free - that demonstrates
the health of a company. It's the miniature painting equivalent of building a pyramid --
if you can afford to undertake a massive and interesting project with no return on
investment, then that constitutes a wonder. Some will think you're an idiot, some will
think you're mad, some will think you're inspired. But everyone will be impressed.
Why the 300?
Thermopylae was an act of punk rebellion. A small but proud nation picked heroism
and defiance, over submission to the arrogant, all-powerful, behemoth of their times.
They also just got a movie and a miniatures line, so it was no contest.
We didn't catch the irony at first of a large, Asian, painting service working on three
hundred Spartans. Perhaps next to even things out, we should do a Persian horde...
Who Provided the Minis?
Mr Scott Kline of Illinois obliged us, one of our earliest clients. We've actually painted
something like three hundred gnoblars for him, so he's no stranger to doing volume
projects with us. He sponsored the purchasing and shipping fees.
Where can we see these?
We're putting up galleries of these chaps, and they'll be heading to Illinois. Once in
Scott's possession, we understand they will start touring Cons and taking part in
many WAB games.
Judging Large Painting Services by
Demonstrations of Capacity
It would be nice to think that this project would galvanise other large painting services
to do similar projects. The leading miniature manufacturers all show images of
painted figures on their sites, and I believe this visual component is critical for
inspiring customers and driving sales. If painting services developed a "who can build
a taller skyscraper" mentality, it could only make things better to go to conventions
and see truly enormous, painted armies.
This is just you guys being arrogant, right?
No, Xerxes was arrogant. We're just painting a colossal army for free, because we
can.
The 300 For Free is a demonstration of our capacity, organization, teamwork, and
process. We often judge individual miniature painters by their awards for painting
single miniatures. How then does one judge the work of a incorporated company of
painters, builders, and auxilliary staff? I would suggest by judging their collective effort.
Why for Free?
Painting them for free is critical. Any painting service or even individual can paint a lot
of miniatures, but to be able to support such a venture for free - that demonstrates
the health of a company. It's the miniature painting equivalent of building a pyramid --
if you can afford to undertake a massive and interesting project with no return on
investment, then that constitutes a wonder. Some will think you're an idiot, some will
think you're mad, some will think you're inspired. But everyone will be impressed.
Why the 300?
Thermopylae was an act of punk rebellion. A small but proud nation picked heroism
and defiance, over submission to the arrogant, all-powerful, behemoth of their times.
They also just got a movie and a miniatures line, so it was no contest.
We didn't catch the irony at first of a large, Asian, painting service working on three
hundred Spartans. Perhaps next to even things out, we should do a Persian horde...
Who Provided the Minis?
Mr Scott Kline of Illinois obliged us, one of our earliest clients. We've actually painted
something like three hundred gnoblars for him, so he's no stranger to doing volume
projects with us. He sponsored the purchasing and shipping fees.
Where can we see these?
We're putting up galleries of these chaps, and they'll be heading to Illinois. Once in
Scott's possession, we understand they will start touring Cons and taking part in
many WAB games.
Judging Large Painting Services by
Demonstrations of Capacity
It would be nice to think that this project would galvanise other large painting services
to do similar projects. The leading miniature manufacturers all show images of
painted figures on their sites, and I believe this visual component is critical for
inspiring customers and driving sales. If painting services developed a "who can build
a taller skyscraper" mentality, it could only make things better to go to conventions
and see truly enormous, painted armies.
This is just you guys being arrogant, right?
No, Xerxes was arrogant. We're just painting a colossal army for free, because we
can.
Painting
Completion!
