11-17-2006, 04:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2006, 04:53 PM by DAVEC-NITRO-RS4.)
It's a tough thing, customer satisfaction. I'm taking the approach that if I don't feel it turned out as I set expectations I'll do what it takes to make the paying client happy. I brain-farted on one job (you know who you are) and the body didn't have the design elements we had discussed. I told the client that I would give him the paintwork, he just would pay for the body. In my opinion that was the fairest thing to do. Or give the option of getting another body, doing it over, and getting it done right just as soon as possible.
Colors are impossible. If someone hands you a box of Tide and says match it exactly, that isn't gonna happen too easily, especially with the palette of colors most guys have to work with. If we can get close, and do neat, clean execution, I would hope the job is acceptable.
My worst case scenario is someone barfs on the finished job, says screw you, won't pay for any of it, and then slams my attempt all over creation via the Inet. I will do whatever I can to avoid that.
Maybe dealing with custom work is what drove some RC painters to move to pre-painting "production" bodies. Either you like what they shoot and you buy it, or you don't use them. Bodz is a perfect example of that. And he's doing great from what I can see on eBay and his website. As long as the customer doesn't mind that there could be 12 others exactly like his at the track, production painting is a viable choice to get great work from great painters at a fair price.
Colors are impossible. If someone hands you a box of Tide and says match it exactly, that isn't gonna happen too easily, especially with the palette of colors most guys have to work with. If we can get close, and do neat, clean execution, I would hope the job is acceptable.
My worst case scenario is someone barfs on the finished job, says screw you, won't pay for any of it, and then slams my attempt all over creation via the Inet. I will do whatever I can to avoid that.
Maybe dealing with custom work is what drove some RC painters to move to pre-painting "production" bodies. Either you like what they shoot and you buy it, or you don't use them. Bodz is a perfect example of that. And he's doing great from what I can see on eBay and his website. As long as the customer doesn't mind that there could be 12 others exactly like his at the track, production painting is a viable choice to get great work from great painters at a fair price.