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I've been painting up a Saim Hann Eldar force for the past couple of weeks, and simply put - I really just don't have fun painting the models. The older Guardian models definitely show their age as a kit, and getting them to how I want them is just very, very grueling and long. They just don't really have the personality I'm used too I guess (Orks 1st faction, Cryx for WM/H).

What do you guys not like painting?

Eldar...I tried to paint a couple troops and had no fun doing so, so I traded them. It appears we are of like mind on this subject

Fire Warriors, Crisis Suits and their weapons. Fire Warriors are visually boring to look at even with paint, are boring to build and and are extremely monotone in their design. Crisis Suits are even more so, with no variance in their design, no way to augment their stances and with weapons that don't look like weapons at all...

But the worst thing about them is their general design. Shapes, shapes, shapes and melon-fething shapes. Both models, but especially the Crisis models are simply composed of nothing but different geometrics with no actual hi-tech equipment to see, no gear, no movement and no grit. It is, to my mind, the most boring models in the game, which I really feel are a shame when you have units like the Fire Warriors (who are tough-as-nails soldiers for life with gear to survive in most areas and with a weapon that can rival Plasma weaponry) and the Crisis Suits (Who are mechanical veterans who can jet pack around and should show the technological prowess of the Empire.

Now, if you take a look at the Hazard Suits...



... Sexy.

I am getting a little tired of Rhino chassis tanks. I have four right now, and will probably be adding a Vindicator as a fifth. They aren't hard to paint, but they are just boring.

Playing Eldar since 20 years and for a very long time I hated painting them. But I got better in finding matching painting schemes so now I really enjoy it. If I could show 18 year old me how to speed paint 50 Eldar gems he'd probably think I'm a god or something (aside from that whole time travel thing making him believe the same )

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
I am getting a little tired of Rhino chassis tanks. I have four right now, and will probably be adding a Vindicator as a fifth. They aren't hard to paint, but they are just boring.

Yes! I have very little fun painting SM/CSM tanks in general....so easy, but so much work and so mf-ing boring! A necessary evil!

I hate painting in general. I REALLY hate metal Warp Spiders.

It's less about the model, but about the material.
Anything plastic is ok, FW Resin is just so detailed to drive me bad, but Finecast is an absolut pain to paint, no matter the model or race.
It's just the rough finish of the material, the tiny bubbles I don't notice until it's too late... 1 Techmarine and Belial later I'm reasonably sure I'll avoid any and all Finecast for the rest of my 40k life.

 Thairne wrote:
It's less about the model, but about the material.
Anything plastic is ok, FW Resin is just so detailed to drive me bad, but Finecast is an absolut pain to paint, no matter the model or race.
It's just the rough finish of the material, the tiny bubbles I don't notice until it's too late... 1 Techmarine and Belial later I'm reasonably sure I'll avoid any and all Finecast for the rest of my 40k life.

Amen to this. I will carve out of a chunk of my left thigh with a butter knife, let the meat soak in the sun with the buzzards for 3 days, smoosh it together, coat it entirely in green stuff, go to the hospital, sell my soul to Satan, come home, take a crap on it, let it sit in the sun with the buzzards for another 3 days, beg baby Jesus for forgiveness, coat it with another layer of green stuff, then mold it into a shape that looks likes a toddler's worst nightmare on LSD before I spend another penny on finecast.

Yeah, by now I hate Finecast wholeheartedly. Those frigging bubbles, the wobbly models in general... feth them for ever doing this. I was so negative about resin that it took a long time for me to buy Forgeworld stuff, I was really stunned about what resin can be...

 Murenius wrote:
Yeah, by now I hate Finecast wholeheartedly. Those frigging bubbles, the wobbly models in general... feth them for ever doing this. I was so negative about resin that it took a long time for me to buy Forgeworld stuff, I was really stunned about what resin can be...

Pretty much the same here. The rubbery resin of Finecast does not hold a candle to the firm stuff FW puts out.

... which reminds me I have to do Sammael some time in the future. No good proxy for that one, too.
*sigh*
I guess I'll comission that one.

Painting in general is a bore for me, but more specifically: Tactical Marines. I hate them. It doesn't help that I don't like them as a unit in-game, either.
I'd rather paint anything else (Space Marine or Ork wise, I mean).

casvalremdeikun wrote:I am getting a little tired of Rhino chassis tanks. I have four right now, and will probably be adding a Vindicator as a fifth. They aren't hard to paint, but they are just boring.

Swapsies? Paint my tacs, I'll do your Rhino-like-tanks.

 Ond Angel wrote:
Painting in general is a bore for me, but more specifically: Tactical Marines. I hate them. It doesn't help that I don't like them as a unit in-game, either.
I'd rather paint anything else (Space Marine or Ork wise, I mean).

casvalremdeikun wrote:I am getting a little tired of Rhino chassis tanks. I have four right now, and will probably be adding a Vindicator as a fifth. They aren't hard to paint, but they are just boring.

Swapsies? Paint my tacs, I'll do your Rhino-like-tanks.

Tactical Squads would be my third most hated unit to paint(they are monotonous). Second most hated is Scouts since I HATE painting flesh (but I only have one squad and one Land Speeder Storm, so I will NEVER paint them ever again). Tacticals at least get helmets on ALL of them, even if they are a bore. I have been told in other threads that I should probably get another squad or two of Tacticals, to which I say I would rather dive into a woodchipper feet first.

Part of the reason I really hope the rumored upcoming boxed set is BA v. Tyranids is because Tyranids would be a very nice change of pace and BA will probably have a ton of jump packs and chainswords to break up the monotony.

I can not get excited about painting normal space marines. I tried for a long time to create a crimson fist force.

But bizarrely when I turned to CSMs, got a few spikey marines, I butchered the normal marines to make traitor and really enjoy painting them.

Also found I like painting deathwing.

Orks are a drag as there are just so many of them.

Will be trying aspect warriors soon.

 jasper76 wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
I am getting a little tired of Rhino chassis tanks. I have four right now, and will probably be adding a Vindicator as a fifth. They aren't hard to paint, but they are just boring.

Yes! I have very little fun painting SM/CSM tanks in general....so easy, but so much work and so mf-ing boring! A necessary evil!

This is why I buy the older RT rhinos and convert them using old White dwarfs o make interesting tanks/rhinos. Oh but, dear god the amount of abuse they've suffered. I literally bought one to turn into a predator and it turns out the buttom of it was just another rhino and plasticard glued to the top rhino. This is good as I have a third rhino hull to turn into terrain but, now I have a ton of plasticard work to do... Regardless, still better than a normal Rhino kit.

Also this made me laugh more than it should.

Tactical sqaud bolter marines, there not hard, there the same, yes you do not need many but I still have 8 to do I've put off.
27 down, 8 more to go to 3.5 sqauds :-)

Sternguard, vanguard, termies have lots of fun details.

Orks. I think I can actually do pretty decent paintwork on, them and a few I've done as one-offs I'd count among some of my best, but I could not paint an army of them. Individually, I love them, but as squads, I just could never cut down the time per model enough for an army.

On the other hand, I love Tactical Marines. There are few enough that you can take your time, but also make every basic grunt his own mini. Yes, the stock 'I love my boltrr' pose is dull, but the kit has so many options for conversion and customisation that no two need ever look the same.

I have quite a list:

- Necrons (bored, bored, drybrush, bored, drybrush, glow-effect, bored, bored...)

- Tanks and Big Models

- Massed infantry (I'll enjoy painting them at first, but after 10 or so it just becomes tiresome and I trail off)

Tanks, especially tanks where I must paint EVERY little detail. I had a Necron Ghost arc that took me eight months. Eight. Months. It looks gorgeous but holy hell.

Fire warriors are fething awful to paint

Plain tanks such as rhinos are fething awful to paint

Kroot and generic orks are fething awful to paint

Guardsmen are fething awful to paint

What I'm really getting at here is that a lot of things associated with the troop slot are the worst things to take a brush to

Necron Warriors are the worst for me. I still haven't gotten over my silvertide army back when I played the old cron codex. Over 120 warriors... *shudders*

My Finecast Striking Scorpions were not at all fun to paint. I was happy with the end result but the job of painting them was just that, a job. Reading some posts above it seems it isn't just Striking Scorpions.

Dark/ Eldar. I like them, they just seem a hard to paint.

Nid Gargoyles, lots of work on them.

Nid Warriors are irritating but not disliked. Big enough to care, small enough to have many of them. My Tyrant Guard are almost done. Been taking me a while to do.

Necron Monolith. Good good that was boring lol. Particularly in Nihilakh Dynasty colours (Mainly the rusty metal look). Ate loads of my Nuln Oil and Agrax Earthshade inks doing that lol

I don't mind painting overall, even though I'm not the greatest at it. However, if there's one thing I do despise, it's painting flesh. I don't have a single Marine without a helmet because of this.

Tyranids. The whole fething model range.

I painted up a single, solitary genestealer for a Dark Heresy game I was running... and I dang near chewed my own hands off in frustration. I will never paint another Tyranid model again for as long as I live. If you were to hold a gun to my head and tell me "paint this termagaunt or I'll shoot you" my response would be "pull the trigger, you sissy."

Drop pods. The thought of the 5 I have to paint makes me shudder.

I hate painting Guardsmen. Mostly because I'm sick of painting humans wearing cloth uniforms and carrying a gun.

I hate painting the EYES of guardsmen, because I always end up with god damn googly eyes. I can never seem to get it right, I have no idea how people end up with such good looking regular eyes. I have like the smallest brush I could possibly have but I just can't do it.

I also hate putting wash onto models, I either put on too much or too little.