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When you folks paint, do you assemble the model completely and then paint it? Or do you assemble the torso, and then paint the torso, head, and limbs separately?

s1gns wrote:When you folks paint, do you assemble the model completely and then paint it? Or do you assemble the torso, and then paint the torso, head, and limbs separately?

I depends on what I am painting. If I am painting something that will be mostly drybrushed and painted in mass. I will assemble then paint. If I'm painting an important HQ unit or something like that I'm pretty likely to paint it in partially assembled pieces then put it together. Like the legs and torso together the arms and shoulder pads together then the backpack then the head. 5 pieces is enough. I used to paint every single thing separately, but that got annoying fast as glue ruined paint jobs.

I usually paint then glue. Like, I put the legs and body together, but arms, head, and anything else gets glued on later.

I'll always assemble then paint, no matter how difficult it may make painting.

Just can't get lighting right without doing so.

Im a lazy painter, so what i cant reach, is what i cant see.

And if i cant see it, im too lazy to paint it xD

depends, i usually do my Boyz & choptas assembled and other stuff unassembled

Yeah, it's frustrating painting models that are already assembled though. Especially SM's with their bolters in front of their chest. As for my boyz, i just got done dry brushing two of them, they're sloppy but it's my first attempt and it looks decent to say the least.

For my Chaos Marines, I've assembled their legs, torso and head, leaving their arms, shoulder pads and backpacks separate. This makes for easy assembly after I'm done, and I get all the little nooks and suchlike.

Depends on the model. For fairly standard characters, I'll assemble, then paint. If they are very complicated, or have pieces of equipment/limbs that cover up areas making them very hard to paint, they get assembled afterwords. If it's a large model, like Ghazghkull, then it gets painted piece by piece.

In any case, if it's assembled after painting, it gets highlighted/drybrushed/washed/etc. after its assembled.

Depends on the model. Usually, I do at least partial assembly.

Space Marines and CSMs, for example, get assembled fully, with the exception of bolters and backpacks. Daemons I'll usually fully assemble.

It depends, really. For my AoBR Marines, I assembled them first and played a few games before painting. Then, when I wanted to paint them, I'd just take the backpacks and Bolters off (Because there's no need to glue your AoBR Marines. They've got little peg things that you can stick them together with, saves glue.) and then paint them separately, whereas with my High Elf Archers, I assembled and then painted. Of course, you can't take High Elf Archers apart once they've been glued, but still...

I fully assemble mine , including shields ,back packs, everything , fully glued!

This way they arnt a wreck and a mess when they arnt painted, they can sit quietly on my shelf and drawer.

I ussually just assemble the whole model if it's just like a standard Chaos Marine but when I got Abaddon I painted all the parts seperately.