So, as i sit here, filing the bases flat on a bunch of minis (some ww2 and acw additions i bought a while ago), i was remembering how much i hate this stage of the process (nothing to do with the minis, there is very little flash, it's just i job i hate)

so just a silly question? What do you guys do while prepping figures to ease the pain?

I listen to music or a book, but still it doesn't take away that feeling!

I only prep and paint one pack at a time so this doesn't cause
too much aggro.

If I needed to prep many, many figures, I might listen to a
history or wargaming podcast (so that I can remember why
this seemed like such a good idea at the time !).



Phil

Opera has a real value while doing figures up, if you're a music lover.

Music for me too, though it's more likely Selina Gomez, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato, Rihanna or Taylor Swift than some operatic dirge.

Lots of swearing, but then my current project is some 20 English ships for the anglo-dutch wars, RIGGING ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH 

Quote from: ianrs54 on 06 June 2018, 02:05:56 PM
Lots of swearing, but then my current project is some 20 English ships for the anglo-dutch wars, RIGGING ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH 

That's a bigger pain then mine!

I just put my head down and go for it, with a high regard for the blade and a wary positioning of my fingers! but I do fairly low numbers at a time, perhaps 32 figures, so it is soon over!

Audiobook or radio mostly.

That, and self induced trance state.

I find the movement from the "to be done" to the "done" pile very theraputic.

Music for me too but good stuff, not this contemporary noisy tripe.  Prussian and Austrian marches fit nicely.

Quote from: fsn on 06 June 2018, 03:33:18 PM
I find the movement from the "to be done" to the "done" pile very theraputic.

Seconded

Quote from: petercooman on 06 June 2018, 12:52:13 PM
So, as i sit here, filing the bases flat on a bunch of minis (some ww2 and acw additions i bought a while ago), i was remembering how much i hate this stage of the process (nothing to do with the minis, there is very little flash, it's just i job i hate)

so just a silly question? What do you guys do while prepping figures to ease the pain?

I listen to music or a book, but still it doesn't take away that feeling!

You are supposed to prep the figures! ? 

Quote from: mollinary on 06 June 2018, 06:17:51 PM

You are supposed to prep the figures! ? 

They don't stand flat if you don't file the bases down!

Quote from: Norm on 06 June 2018, 03:08:32 PM
I just put my head down and go for it, with a high regard for the blade and a wary positioning of my fingers! but I do fairly low numbers at a time, perhaps 32 figures, so it is soon over!

Maybe that's the problem. I do them all at once!

I am dreading the day i start cleaning and assemby on all those 28mm guys i bought from warlord games. 14 plastic sets to go! and a smattering of artillery packs and some blokes from the perry brothers as well

Podcasts and Music!

Mollinary 
I don't always prep but when I do:
As others have said I also work in small battalion batches (which for me in 10mm is only 24 figures!). I don't worry at all about the mold seams (usually not noticeable in Pendraken anyway) but get the base bottoms flat and trim flash off sharp pointy bits. Listen to lots of different Scottish and Irish folk and switch of occasionally to Meatloaf and Pink Floyd, a few other 60's and 70's rock now and then.

Quote from: ianrs54 on 06 June 2018, 02:05:56 PM
Lots of swearing, but then my current project is some 20 English ships for the anglo-dutch wars, RIGGING ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH 

We don't often agree (in the same way that butchers in Tel Aviv don't often sell bacon), but this time you have my sympathy!