{"id":317,"date":"2008-10-05T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-10-05T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T00:11:00","slug":"saturday-october-4-2008-dark-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/saturday-october-4-2008-dark-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday October 4 2008 Dark Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SOgGhCF0PxI\/AAAAAAAAA54\/uc165CsWyG8\/s1600-h\/Deathguard+Tanks+01+HT+030.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253456129894399762\" style=\"CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SOgGhCF0PxI\/AAAAAAAAA54\/uc165CsWyG8\/s320\/Deathguard+Tanks+01+HT+030.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Picture: a Nurglified tank.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#ff9966;\">Now booking projects for November. Contact me at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:bluetablepainting@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#ff9966;\">bluetablepainting@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#ff9966;\"> for a quote, questions or ideas!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What people most want to know is how much does it cost? You can get a la carte pricing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/downloads.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, you can get a ballpark really easy: an army costs between $0.50 and $1.00 per point. Quality, army type and a ton of other factors can make it go higher or lower. So, a 1,000 point army usually costs $500-1000. That is for everything included.<\/p>\n<p>If you provide your models it&#8217;s about $0.40 to $0.70 per point. So, $400-700 to assemble and paint a 1000 point army.<\/p>\n<p>If you provide your models assembled, it&#8217;s about $0.25 to $050 per point just for painting. So, $250 to $500 usually to paint a 1000 point army. This is usually the amount of money your army cost to begin with.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#66ff99;\">This is only meant as a guide to get a ballpark estimate. It doesn&#8217;t work for smaller armies than 1000 points. Email me for an exact quote.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can get the price down to the lower end by a multitude of specials that I have going:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Save $0.50 per model (about 7%) on painting by a run of identical models 50+<\/li>\n<li>Tank factory (discount on 10+ runs of tanks)<\/li>\n<li>Artistic License (give us control over your basing and color scheme is 10% off on painting)<\/li>\n<li>Level 2 (basic paint job is 30% off on painting cost)<\/li>\n<li>Combine AL and L2 (35% off on painting)<\/li>\n<li>Let me pick your army! (extra 5% off on cost of materials)<\/li>\n<li>Trade in models to bring the cost down (Warning! I don&#8217;t offer much!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, if you aren&#8217;t too picky you can get your army pretty inexpensively.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, you can get the price up by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Having us do the models at a higher level (50% more on painting cost to increase all Levels by ONE)<\/li>\n<li>Do loads of conversions and sculpting<\/li>\n<li>Make a display board<\/li>\n<li>Magnetize loads of options<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, Blue Table is extremely flexible. I really want to help you get your army painted and on the table.<\/p>\n<p>The white horde from Primer Mountain. If you know someone with two armies that he hasn&#8217;t painted for years, there&#8217;s no reason he couldn&#8217;t have had us whip them out at L2. It&#8217;s easy as pie to get a commission set up.<\/p>\n<p>Last idea: a lot of times you can get an army reallly cheap on eBay that is already assembled. You can send it to the studio, allow us to do a little refurbishment and paint it up. This can be a very, very inexpensive alternative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Massive-Warhammer-40K-Tyranid-Army_W0QQitemZ330275156522QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item330275156522&amp;_trkparms=72%3A1207%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&amp;_trksid=p3286.c0.m14\">Like this Tyranid Army.<\/a>  We could paint that up for $800 (you pick everything,  painted wargamer standard L3), $600 (L3 but we pick color scheme), or $490 (L2 and we pick color scheme).  And I might add that&#8217;s one huge tyranid army, probably pushing at least 2500 pts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=330275164560&amp;indexURL=2#ebayphotohosting\">Or this Insanely Huge Tau Army.<\/a>  What makes these such good deals is that they are already assembled.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:180%;\">Another day is passed&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I woke first in the household this morning. It was raining. So, I put on my hooded black coat and went out for a walk. I grew up in Oregon. I love the rain. My mind is clear when the clouds are overhead, but today my mind was distracted with money and business. It&#8217;s a constant burden. I wish I had peace. But now the only choice is to find peace and strength while the shells are whizzing overhead.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s general conference this weekend, and we have it on all the radios and recording it on TV.<\/p>\n<p>We finished up our climactic D&amp;D session today. Raining outside, chinese food, good background music and good friends for some D&amp;D is really a bit of paradise. It was the climactic battle at the end of the horned hold against a drow priestess. It was pretty swell. Only one casualty, though. We have a great dedicated group, all workers at BTP. We have sort of a dream D&amp;D game: always tons and tons of new miniatures (all my personal stash) and great terrain. And each player is an accomplished modeller and miniatures painter, so every character has a fabulous painted figure.<\/p>\n<p>Mike&#8217;s Warlock, Damakos, died hidously, swarmed by two Nephilim demons. I&#8217;m going to start dumping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/view_files.php?download_categoryID=18\">my home brew D&amp;D stuff<\/a> on the website in case anyone is interested.<\/p>\n<p>Once home I cradled the lovely faces of my children for a moment, to look at how beautiful they are and we ate the rest of the chinese food (dumplings and sweet\/sour chicken). Then the afternoon session of General Conference (link below).<\/p>\n<p>Insight: I need to get a planner. I used to plan out my day a lot better, especially as a missionary. Now, I just sort of take things as they come and try to get my Inbox clear at the end of the day. 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