Anyone ever order from www.coolminiornot.com ?

Count Zappa · Post by **Count Zappa** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:55 am

They have a few minis from a couple of smaller companies I like.

Anyone use this retailer? If so, were they any good?

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 3:07 pm

until now i just ordered the last miniatures book directly from CoolMiniorNot . No probs... fast delivery.

Traveller

Count Zappa · Post by **Count Zappa** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:12 am

Thanks.

Are they based out of Europe?

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:41 pm

USA I think, but the guy who runs it is from the far east IIRC.

Nice book, shame about the site.

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:04 pm

Indigo wrote:USA I think, but the guy who runs it is from the far east IIRC.

Nice book, shame about the site.

Did something happen to the site?

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:21 pm

it's just rubbish. too many people scared to offend someone by saying a crap mini is crap and the "establishment" of regular painters and forum contributors like to run around applauding each others work, insulting and degrading anyone who dares speak out.

bunch of arseholes over there, I never bother with it any more.

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:29 pm

Indigo wrote:it's just rubbish. too many people scared to offend someone by saying a crap mini is crap and the "establishment" of regular painters and forum contributors like to run around applauding each others work, insulting and degrading anyone who dares speak out.

bunch of arseholes over there, I never bother with it any more.

Its not a site that I frequently visit. I had no idea that its gotten that bad.

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:36 pm

it might just be my experience of it. others probably have no trouble. But I posted on the forums asking why so many people seemed to vote so highly for models that were clearly poorly painted I was yelled at for hurting feelings, not promoting new painters etc. They then mobbed together and lowered the marks minis I'd posted on there had received. One was pro painted for me by someone else and it looks stunning - it was at 9.8 then within a week of me posting it was down to 6.5 or so.

what's the point of it...

Grasshopper · Post by **Grasshopper** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:47 pm

WOW... What a load of Horses#!t... How can you possibly improve if you don't let people be honest about your work. Criticism isn't always a bad thing. If these guys were painters worth their spit, you figure they'd know that. DONKEYS!

traveller · Post by **traveller** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:35 pm

i posted some of my painted mini at this site , too. I always voted minis of other painters without checking the vote of other before...
But its true, there are some bad guys, i read some real bad comments. ... and it seems to me, there is a small underground war of No Metall paint use or not...

Still i´m visiting this site because some of the shown minis are just great.

Traveller

crazylegs · Post by **crazylegs** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:57 pm

It's a good place to look at minis and get ideas, but unless you do certain things (being "known" helps also, don't expect to get good ratings). The things to do are:

- Paint Confrontation minis... that's worth at least +1 to +2 to your score.
- If not, paint GW minis... preferably space marines, as the GW fanboys
will vote you up. Don't paint specialist/fanatic game minis as these
don't have the fanbase to swell your ranking.
- Paint in NMM - sky/earth reflective style... if a single drop of metallic
paint touches your mini, you are a BAD painter

, so don't
let it happen.
- Finally if you aren't a good photographer, don't even post as even
the slightest fuzziness will get you bad reviews...

I have seen nicely painted Reaper/Crocodile Games/etc minis get barely "tabletop" quality ratings (5-6) while space marines who look like they were painted with a piece of sandpaper will get a 6.5... the articles can be great, the guides can be really helpful, but the mini rating system is first and foremost a popularity contest.

Count Zappa · Post by **Count Zappa** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:05 pm

Okay.

But the question remains... is it okay to order minis from them?

crazylegs · Post by **crazylegs** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:50 am

I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that New Wave fills all their orders... for this reason I've never ordered from them. (see the New Wave sticky post for why).

Count Zappa · Post by **Count Zappa** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:04 am

I know about New Wave.

Hmm... wonder if they really do fill orders for coolminiornot.com

Anyone know?

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:26 pm

Count Zappa wrote:I know about New Wave.

Hmm... wonder if they really do fill orders for coolminiornot.com

Anyone know?

I don't know for sure, but New Wave doesn't carry any of the lines that cool mini or not do. Tell you what, I'll start a post on dakka dakka and ask if anyone's had problems with Cool mini's.

http://66.166.157.5/ubbthreads/showflat ... o=0&fpart=