Trivia Questions #511:"When do you feel comfortable painting teams, tweaking bases,

[GrandMasterKC]

Norb said it best to me he said something to the affect that "there exist a degree of pride when you create an athlete that follows assignment" not perfectly quoted but that inspired me to created Doug Williams led BAM 08. I have partialy painted some custom figs and sent them to the "Master Painters" to finish up...but I tried This is a question for our "TweakMasters" "Master Painters" "Custom Figures" as well as rookies. "When did you know you were ready and what led you to "paint teams, tweak bases, customize"?

I remember just hoping for some athletes in the pile of bases that would move without dimes or pennies attached The "Howards" our neighborhoods arch nemesis was a family of EF'rs who knew about base tweaking, painting teams in the 80's. We would go to their house 5-10 coaches strong and play all day....but they had speed, power and towels glued on their players and the whole dang family could Coach.

I was clueless to tweaking then and recently I ran into one of the brothers named "Moo Moo" he mentioned interest of playing in a pro EF league. I began to tell him about what they do with bases etc....he responded "we was doing that years ago" and began to tell some "Howard family secrets" Now wonder they were so dang good

I was thinking that that would have motivated me to start tweaking...back then if I only knew Today I just want to increase my knowledge of the game and painting teams, tweaking and coaching is a part of it.