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I was reading over the Adepticon Championship painting scoring rules, and I saw that almost all the points depend on your army being "entirely painted".
Quoted from the scoring rules, "All models in the army must be base coated with no metal or plain primer showing and as a rule of thumb the model must be roughly 3 colors. If the army qualifies with the above restrictions, award 10 points in the space provided. If the army did not qualify as entirely painted, do not award any points for the questions 3-6 below."

Now I have some models that I painted early on in my serious painting career, that are rather...low quality. They were painted with the philosophy of looking good from the table top (which they do), but when you actually look at them they are quite bad. Grey spots appearing in hard to reach places, but unfortunately not all too hard to see when looking up close. In fact looking at them now...it seems that I painted the other colors over the strait black primer, without doing a good black coat.
They are around 5 colors though, and do look good from a table top distance. Although it seems as though I already answered my question, I will still ask it. With the rest of my army painted to a significantly higher standard, and these lesser painted models being the more basic grunts of my army (and only being 300 points worth of models), would my army be marked down as not entirely painted?

If I go to Adepticon would it be worth taking the time to strip and repaint the lower quality minis? I haven't much experience with tournaments yet or their painting standards, so some advice from someone with more experience would be appreciated. I don't plan on scoring huge painting points, but losing out on that specific "entire painted army" score would hurt. Also I would like to have my army garnish some respect, rather than just "oh, he painted his army like garbage just so he could play"

You'll be fine. Although if you're really worried you should contact the Adepticon organizers to make sure.


But really you're gonna be fine.

I'd strip 'em. Not for the tourney but for my own peace of mind.

The only problem with stripping/repainting is that it can become obsessive. I look at stuff I painted in the mid-90s and it overwhelms me with their suck. Heck, the stuff I painted 5 years ago makes me cringe.

I'm saving my repainting for when I have no money for new dollies; otherwise, I'll fall even more behind!

yeah I wouldn't worry about it too much. But really if you are, why not just take a black wash to those areas?

Thanks for the responses, I think I'm either just going to spot paint the grey spots or do the black wash.

Grey death, by doing a black wash do you mean just watering down some black to the point where it won't obscure the other colors and going over the whole model? If that would work I would probably do that.

I wish I still had some of my "early career" models. They've disappeared,
and so I have less to mark my painting progress with.

No metal or primer.

I wonder how dogmatic they are on that. I haver seen models with primer and inkwash in the cracks, marines especially.

My bret characters have unpainted metal swords and lancetips, masking taped over the sword during undercoating and then polished if afterwards. I cannot claim credit for this, I got them that way, but continued the practice. Looks good, but yes it is literally unpainted. This is just for interests sake I am not going to Adepticon.

LightningGus wrote:Thanks for the responses, I think I'm either just going to spot paint the grey spots or do the black wash.

Grey death, by doing a black wash do you mean just watering down some black to the point where it won't obscure the other colors and going over the whole model? If that would work I would probably do that.

That's sort of where I was going with the suggestion yes ^_^. But really you wouldn't even need to go over the entire model, just hit the problem spots. And yeah, the great thing about washes are that if you dilute it right you'll be able to wipe it from the surfaces you don't want it on. And in your case I'd make sure to break the surface tension of the water.

Orlanth wrote:No metal or primer.

I wonder how dogmatic they are on that. I haver seen models with primer and inkwash in the cracks, marines especially.

My bret characters have unpainted metal swords and lancetips, masking taped over the sword during undercoating and then polished if afterwards. I cannot claim credit for this, I got them that way, but continued the practice. Looks good, but yes it is literally unpainted. This is just for interests sake I am not going to Adepticon.

That sounds like an interesting way to do silver colors, ide be interested to see how that looks.

I'll think im gonna go with the black wash, thanks all for the advice.

LightningGus wrote:That sounds like an interesting way to do silver colors, ide be interested to see how that looks.

I'll think im gonna go with the black wash, thanks all for the advice.

Search for "polished metal metallic" or some variant on CMON. There should be an article or two about it.