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So as I'm pretty much new to painting and i noticed i need to get better at certain things. But i also have some strengths.

What i want to know is what are your strengths and weaknesses. It can be anything to Colour choice and basic highlighting to OSL and advanced blending. Not to forget your modeling skills too.

I think we could learn a lot from this as people aren't usually forced to think of themselves critically. It's good to blow your own trumpet every now and then but also to realise and act on something your not so great at.


If you think you have some good examples say but also say what you think what you could be better at or are working on.


Weaknesses - I personally need to work on my brush control. I also don't feel confident to paint things with out a reference or a step by step guide. I guess it will come with practice. I need to learn to base my minis. I only have 2 fully painted minis and they aren't based!


Strengths - I feel i am good at coming up with good colour schemes although not really advanced ones. I put a lot of thought into a model before i even touch it even though the results might not be amazing, i dread to think what it would be like if i just started to slap paint on.


Also if anyone has helpful tips, share them!

Pics of things your proud of and show your strengths are encouraged too.



Slappy

Strengths: I am alright at converting, I am good with the colour choosing and I do alright bases

Weaknesses: I have very little accuracy with fine details, I always find mold lines AFTER I prime and wash, I have little inspiration for painting, I suck at free hand, I am fairly ordinary with green stuff,I am all round Lazy...

The list goes on

Strengths: My many tools. For tabletop quality jobs, good tools > talent. Colour selection. Converting.

Weaknesses: Short attention span. Can't stick with a project until completion. Find painting tedious.

Here's my tip: Get the tools. Including but not limited to:

-All sorts of different brushes. Try out flat brushes. They're way more controllable!
-Try every paint range you can find. You'll rarely have to mix paint if you can select from 3-4 different ranges.
-Hobby knife with various shapes of blade. Like the chisel for cutting bits off sprues and smoothing surfaces.
-Engraving tool for cutting plasticard.
-Microsol and Miroset for applying decals.
-Brush-on varnish. Gloss first, then matt if you want.
-Vallejo Glaze Medium and Metallic Medium. Make your own washes and metallics from any regular paint!
-Vallejo plastic putty. Fill in those gaps. Texture bases.
-Airbrush for basecoating and painting tanks.
-Gale Force 9 pin vice. P3 drill bits and brass rod.
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Strength : Have good brush control, good paint ideals, decent at conversions and crafty.

weakness : Never touched GS but know I will such at it, cant blend without dry brushing, freehand is just terrible (I think its because I cant draw better then a stick figure, and even then the poor basterd is giggly lol)

Strength - Decent Brush Control, Ability to learn from mistakes, good highlighting, good at mixing

Weakneses - Haven't tried much blending at all, (apparently) Gaudy color tastes, need to work on freehanding, basing, and cleaning my models better. Can't tell the number of times I've gotten three or four layers of paint on someone before I realize there's a big frakking mold line less than a few inches away that I completely missed. Oh, and my complete inability to finish a project, and my laziness between painting

Strength - Painting basic colors so there are no brush strokes, color selection, basic conversions look nice.

weaknesses - I can't do blending, and for the life of me I can't do freehand.

My weaknesses are not using any other brush apart from a GW standard brush, and not taking my time and painting thinner layers to build up a good finish.

My Strengths are painting neatly and my blending

Strengths - I think I can conjour up a decent camo scheme, my converting seems to go quite well and my brush control skills are definately up to tabletop quality. I can usually get a decent combination of colours together after a few tries on a test model.

Weaknesses - My freehand and GS skills are weak, although I'm working on them with new techniques and tools. I'm rubbish in doing big blocks of flat colour and getting subtle highlights, hence my preference for camo schemes. Drybrushing is my standard response to pretty much everything and I need to work on weathering skills.

I do a really fantastic undercoat using a spray can. Most of the time anyway.

I am pretty good with tools and reposing using copper wire, etc...

I am good at staying within the lines.

I am good at red and green.

I am bad at fine detail such as eyes.

I am not great with green stuff.

I am bad at blue and black.

Stength-I'm very good at painting letters and words onto models.

Weaknesses-I need to work on painting faces.

Strengths- Fairly good with freehand, highlighting, blending

Weaknesses- Have a penchant for more cartoony, not exactly 'clean' painting, I have ADD so staying focused on even a single guy is difficult for me. Motivation is another.

Weaknesses:

Lack of money for quality brushes and doo-dads like wet palettes and the like.

I can't use superglue to save my life- I stick to 2 part epoxy when working with metal or resin models, and plastic cement for the rest.

My greenstuff skills is that of a three-year-old.

My painting skills have something to be desired... I can block, shade, and highlight- but the more advanced techniques like blending are a little bit out of my depth.

Strengths:

I paint to a tabletop quality quickly when properly motivated.

My models have a tendency to be very durable because I don't skimp on the modeling process. That 2-part epoxy is much more durable than superglue.

Most everything I have is WYSIWYG (with the exception of the odd meltabomb)

My terrain-building skills are passable. I have created a number of cheap and durable buildings and terrain pieces for a board I made myself.

Weakness: I'm not perseverant.

Strenght: uh... my faith in the Emporer?

Strengths: I'm decent at conversions from spare parts, and I'm used to pinning joints on larger models. I'm also good at choosing colours that work well together as well as devising colour schemes based on them. I can highlight and shade fairly well, although I am new to highlighting.

Weaknesses: I've never used Green Stuff in my life. While I'm decent at painting detail, I sometimes develop a shaky hand (usually when I'm about to paint the hardest part of a model). I don't really know how to blend well either, so occasionally my painting looks flat.

My worst weakness is simply impatience combined with impulse buying. Because of that, I ended up with 5000 points of CSM, but only 1000 ever got painted. I lost so much interest in seeing an unpainted army that I'm trying to sell them.

Strengths: Choice of Palette, blending, shading&highlighting, fine detail work.

Weaknesses: Converting, sculpting, sloooooooooow painter, trying to do lots of different things on the same model.

I'm also highly critical of my of work; to the point of buying a new miniature if i think i have made too big a mess of something (which in almost everyone else's eyes is a ridiculously small mistake).

Strengths:
My eyesight - LOL seriously that is about all I have going for me

Weaknesses:
Lack of experience, impatient, loads more...

Strengths: Drybrushing and kitbashing. I made myself a kick-ass all-plastic Abaddon the Despoiler.
Weaknesses: Greenstuff and fine details. I am a devotee of the three-foot rule.

Strengths: Speed Painting, Painting Gold

Weaknesses: Perhaps paint a little to fast, need to work on my highlighting.

Stengths: I have lots of (I think) intersting conversion ideas, a solid 5 on painting, generally very solid color schemes and paterns, I enjoy building models

Weaknesses: Lack motivation to paint, still cant do eyes, and finally whatever army I get into the next month it becomes the next army to be updated.

Strengths:
Colour choices- I can pick a good scheme and bring it across a squad while still preserving model individuality
Plastic conversion- Chopping and gluing is my specialty. I can always find interesting ways to use bitz.

Weaknesses:
Blending and coverage- I've been ameliorating this with washes
Brush control- I'm dreadful at freehanding.
Safety- All of my minis have drawn blood at some point.

Strengths:
Good feel for colour composition
Fine details are no problem
the trickiest of paints seem to follow my will and cover as they should.
Willingness to experiment.
Stubborn as sin when it matters (can assembly paint rank 'n file for 10 hours straight if i'm left to my own devices)
Good sense of time vs. quality - economics.
Neat, very thorough when cleaning and assembling models. (mouldlines are very rare on my figs)
Very structured way of painting, i find it easy to figure out the best way to paint a fig in the shortest amount of time without losing quality.
Always striving to improve both speed and quality.


Weaknesses:

Too much to do, too little time. (new stuff just keeps appearing in the mail for some reason)

I get bored sometimes with certain paintjobs halfway and just rush it so i can call it done and put it away.

I suffer from the "Ooh, Shiney!!!"-syndrome, just started my fourth army in 18 months.

I hate greenstuff with a passion, and the feeling is mutual. (greystuff agrees with me though)

Don't do enough conversion work (i either like the model as-is or won't buy it in the first place)

can sometimes be unimaginative with colourschemes

I actually think most of gw's schemes look ace and just copy it.. at least in part. (my dark elf army is largely the standard scheme)

Can lose my inspiration to paint for seemingly no reason.

Strengths:
I'm a very fast painter.
Very good brush control.
Get good results with metallic metals.
Have a good eye for overall composition and how things work together, both in an army, and as individual models.


Weaknesses:
Freehand gets me.
Have trouble painting horns - seriously.
Have some issues with more involved blending.
Abuse my brushes, have to replace them too often.
Not too good with greenstuff, other than filling gaps.

Strengths: Good with green stuff for filling gaps, and average sculpting work. Good with plastic card, wife variety of paint schemes and colorings. Fast clean, and effective painter. Improving work on scenic basing for privateer press and WFB.

Weaknesses: I think i'm the worse eyeball painter i've every met. I'm not great at fine detailed painted, and lack the ability to free hand paint IE tattoo's, runes. My abilities with WFB Banners is not the best.

Goals: Complete finish current army before moving on to another projected: WFB Demon's. Successfully paint eyeballs cleanly on the current army Demon's, with some detail.

+ knowlege how to paint well

- sculpting

I have above average painting skill, but I am reasonably slow. I have a very hard time getting a lot of models done quickly. I work much faster on a model or two at a time, than having a dozen in front of me all getting paint together.

This makes me very bad at painting GW armies with any speed. I can crank out my Battletech stuff with ridiculous ease, but get bored easily with the monotony of most GW army paint projects.

I completely lack greenstuff and sculpting skills. I really don't even gap-fill very well. I also need work wet-blending paint, but I usually don't invest heavily in my paintjobs to worry about it. Since I demo SO MANY GAMES I would rather have an easily repaired and touched up paint scheme than a beautiful one I can't fix when a moron drops it, or carelessly bangs it around the table.