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Title: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Techno on 05 May 2016, 01:00:29 PM
OK...

I'll be the first to admit that I occasionally swear at a figure, when it refuses to 'go right'.....Usually along the lines of, "You frigging little OIK...why can't I make this work !"

However, today.....In all seriousness I found myself asking a figure, "How did I decide to change you ?"
I'm pleased to say, there wasn't a reply......If one of them ever DOES answer..... I'm stopping doing this.  X_X

Cheers - Phil. ;)
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: d_Guy on 05 May 2016, 01:29:46 PM
It happens most often during de-flashing when some how one takes wing! - little *#%&! They never answer back neither!
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Wulf on 05 May 2016, 01:47:57 PM
Occasionally I snigger when trimming... certain areas...

I have apologised to a few horses though.
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Leon on 05 May 2016, 02:38:12 PM
I've shouted at them quite often, usually when I'm clipping and one pings off into the unknown...
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Bodvoc on 05 May 2016, 02:50:44 PM
If, when applying a wash and it runs off in all the wrong directions, the little chaps get to hear a curse or two.
Or, when painting a figure, the wrong colour is applied accidently on a finished area muttered curses can be heard.

I have to be careful though as normally wife and daughters are only sat a few feet away.
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Techno on 05 May 2016, 02:53:47 PM
I'm glad it's not just me then.... ;D ;D ;D ;D

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: fsn on 05 May 2016, 03:30:17 PM
Quote from: Techno on 05 May 2016, 01:00:29 PM
OK...

I'll be the first to admit that I occasionally swear at a figure, when it refuses to 'go right'.....Usually along the lines of, "You frigging little OIK...why can't I make this work !"

However, today.....In all seriousness I found myself asking a figure, "How did I decide to change you ?"
I'm pleased to say, there wasn't a reply......If one of them ever DOES answer..... I'm stopping doing this.  X_X

Cheers - Phil. ;)

... and I think we've just found the theme for next year's Christmas extravaganza!
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: d_Guy on 05 May 2016, 06:17:38 PM
Quote from: Wulf on 05 May 2016, 01:47:57 PM
Occasionally I snigger when trimming... certain areas...

I have apologised to a few horses though.

Geldings!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Orcs on 05 May 2016, 06:34:23 PM
I have to admit I do sometimes talk to the figures when painting, even the vehicles.
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Kiwidave on 05 May 2016, 06:38:35 PM
I usually just talk to/shout at them during the game, and most of the time it's because they have failed to comprehend my tactical genius and thus do not do what I want on the tabletop....
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Techno on 05 May 2016, 06:49:14 PM
Quote from: fsn on 05 May 2016, 03:30:17 PM
... and I think we've just found the theme for next year's Christmas extravaganza!

X_X

(I even had a dream where I was sculpting them a few nights ago....Though I knew it was a dream, because I didn't cut myself.  ;))

Cheers - Phil
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: paulr on 05 May 2016, 07:52:17 PM
 ;D ;D =O
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Ithoriel on 05 May 2016, 08:23:39 PM
I often chat to figures when I'm painting.

"So, bit of a botch of the loincloth/ belt/ shield design/ whatever there. What do we think, tidy it up? How about if we stuck you in the centre of the unit, would that do?" That sort of thing.
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: PB on 05 May 2016, 09:42:27 PM
Afraid it is usually profanity when I'm head down, tail up under the table looking for the one I've dropped
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: FierceKitty on 06 May 2016, 02:14:37 AM
"Listen, you grotty little (insert ethnic insult as appropriate), in a few days you'll be up against (as required), and you'll be in trouble if you can't even stand upright on your base until the glue dries. Furthermore, may I remind you that 10mm figures are cheap and readily replaced, so it were unwise to push me too far? Shall we try this one more time?"
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 06 May 2016, 06:01:36 AM
Tanks that refuse to take fishing line antenna, and end up super glued to my fingers. Absolute pain when you are adding 84 + of the things.......

IanS
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: fsn on 06 May 2016, 07:03:13 AM
I do blush when I'm painting female figures. Especially the décolletage.  :-[

Though it may look like it, I do not avert my gaze.
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: oldblindjohn on 06 May 2016, 04:29:28 PM
Mine talk back to me. Usually when I mix a new batch of flesh color.

"HEY! I'm not that pink."
Yes you are.
Title: Re: Talking to the figures.
Post by: Tawa on 10 May 2016, 04:33:19 PM
Quote from: fsn on 06 May 2016, 07:03:13 AM
I do blush when I'm painting female figures. Especially the décolletage.  :-[

Though it may look like it, I do not avert my gaze.


;D ;D ;D