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For me its Guardsmen, i paint one squad and put in all the details and washes, highlights etc...only to find over 300 over the buggers sitting next to me unpainted!!, plus tanks are abit of a pet hate of mine....

aliasrm13 wrote:For me its Guardsmen, i paint one squad and put in all the details and washes, highlights etc...only to find over 300 over the buggers sitting next to me unpainted!!, plus tanks are abit of a pet hate of mine....

..I'm finding Guardsman to be a bit of a chore as well,but as I'm making a Praetorian force consisting of OOP minis,I don't find myself buried in unpainted models.
I am attempting to paint each individual guardsman to "above table top standards",so the process can become quite taxing at times,but as a "labour of love" I endure it.

i hate painting, i'm not bad at it, just not good either and i can't rush and batch paint i have to take ages on them one at a time... bad for an ork player

Space Marines - all the same colour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! very little variety and a b@tch to line highlight, especially after youve done 30 or 40 of them.

BAN wrote:i hate painting, i'm not bad at it, just not good either and i can't rush and batch paint i have to take ages on them one at a time... bad for an ork player

Amen to that,the only way I made it through painting my entire Ork army was to develop an "assembly line" mentality,I'd set up 10 or so minis,base coat all the models skin,move on to uniforms/armour,dry brush skin,wash,highlight ..etc,etc ..add infinitum.
Even using this process it still took me over a year to fully "complete" everything.

Spray cans are your friend here, a quick blast and anything is undercoated completely.
If it's tanks you're doing, even easier as you've only got to paint the details; if it's infantry it's a case of lightest colour goes onto undercoat first: so for a guards squad, for example, spray the lot in your base colour of choice, add a dab of flesh colour on faces and hands, paint webbing and weapons, boots and gaiters, job done.

Failing eyesight is my excuse for not doing eyes, but I'd argue that if you've seen real soldiers ready for battle--covered in cam cream, dust, cordite residue, blood and general sweat and grime--you aren't going to see eyes more than 3 feet away. As a gamer you're likely to be about 3-4 feet from any model, in scale to a guardsman that's probably about 1/4 mile!

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Thaanos wrote:Ork Boyz. I love Orks, but I hate painting Boyz... Too many..

Yes,I'd have to agree.
While I honestly love the painting aspect of the hobby,the repetitiveness of painting up 120+boyz (not including Nobz,Burnaz,etc) did become a bit..maddening.
I would imagine the same is true for any "horde" army.

Atleast with Boyz theres some variety in the models with the details and stuff. Now nids have to be a nightmare to paint.

*Ouch*..very true...I can understand why "dipping" has become so popular with alot of Nid players.

Dipping eh....... i think you my good sir just saved my sanity

lycanfist wrote:Painting Eyes, its more than just a blob, the blob has to be the right shape and size ARGH!!!

I hate eyes too, mostly end up with both eyes looking in two slighty different directions argh.

Drop Pods.

I must say that the bane of my existance is getting lenses, scopes and lights correct. Just the tinyness of some of them makes shading them well nearly impossible!

Not exactly painting, but gluing together Dark Eldar warriors is a pain. An actual pain. They have too many damned spikes!

Foxtale wrote:Not exactly painting, but gluing together Dark Eldar warriors is a pain. An actual pain. They have too many damned spikes!

I see what you did there.

Old style Dark Eldar Raiders. I don't know what it is, but I've always drug my feet when it came time to paint them. I'll happily paint large quantities of infantry, such as the 100-odd Boyz for my girlfriends Deffskulls, or the 80 or so DE Warriors and Wyches I have about.

I'd rather paint a unit of 30 Boyz than another old raider. I'll never understand why, they're simple models and should be a nice break, but I never let my DE include more than 6 (Including Ravagers) just because I refused to paint another one.

Anything that's red, orange, yellow, or white, but mostly red. Techpriests, fire dragons etc.
On the other hand, I love detail, especially eyes and lenses
But I will not paint any Khorne Bezerkers.

Lord Rogukiel wrote:Anything that's red, orange, yellow, or white, but mostly red. Techpriests, fire dragons etc.
On the other hand, I love detail, especially eyes and lenses
But I will not paint any Khorne Bezerkers.

Then paint em green like me lol.

Bloodthirster model with hardly any experience can be a paint to paint. Actually most metal models in general.

Tau tanks....

Anything with large amounts of flesh, i suck at painting flesh

capt. tyco wrote:Drop Pods.

Yes. Those stupid little corners on the inside are obstructed by random objects again.

Same ones, over and over, like termagants, is incredibly boring. But what really annoy me is tyranid weapons. My theme is black, all over basically (Aliens, Giger). What to do with weapons if you want the slightest difference between body and weapon?

I love Orks but AOBR boys are really, really boring to paint. Same goes for the AOBR marines, but these are at least painted much faster.

Lootas are hard to paint because the model is very complex, but they are worth it!

facypher wrote:Anything with large amounts of flesh, i suck at painting flesh

Hence why i refuse to paint Catachans, i'k ok with faces and eyes, but muscle details and highlights just throw me completely!! :(

For bare flesh, all you need to do it paint 'elf flesh' and give it a Gryphonnie Sepia Wash
instant shaded muscles

Thanks for the tip Battle Brother Lucifer, i shall have to try that with my IG Foward Sentry Vets which will be made with catachans (been puttin it off as i do seriously hate painting large amounts of flesh!)

Thaanos wrote:Ork Boyz. I love Orks, but I hate painting Boyz... Too many..

While I will agree, Ill also add...play a list that isnt horde based. You could do speed freaks if you like building & painting vehicles. Im going with a dred mob type list...2 big meks, 5 deff dreads ( 2 count as troop bc of meks), backed by some nobz, kommandos, maybe some flash gits. Also setting up for an alternate with a boss and nobz replace 1 mek and dred. Now Im not saying this list will work on the field, wont know till I try it, but it gets some Orks into battle without painting huge numbers of them.


As others have mentioned easy way to do nids is dip. Pick a base color, maybe another for shell/carapace areas, teeth/claws/eyes, then dip. Then whatever basing you prefer. Now mind you, most people dont actually dip the miniature in the shading, they brush it on.

aliasrm13 wrote:Thanks for the tip Battle Brother Lucifer, i shall have to try that with my IG Foward Sentry Vets which will be made with catachans (been puttin it off as i do seriously hate painting large amounts of flesh!)

No prob.
I used that style to paint the bare arms of like, 5 converted Cadians (I only have 10 in total)
(Some have WoC marauder arms )

As all other painters: any unfunny models who will "fill the army", dont have that much importance/details and will be repeated a dozen times for squad...

Thats why i think Space Marines are fun to paint: the common models are easy to paint in bunches (holy spray). The "special models" have lots of nice details, and will take hours of fun to paint...

(and that is too why i will never have a Orkz army, but will have a lot of their elite units)

You Know what i hate is taking pictures of models. but nids ar'nt that hard to paint. MR. SPRAY gun is always around to help.


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and i am sorry i have not met one nid player who dips. for all you gak painters out there it looks crap. it ruins the difinition of the model. dont do it its stupid, its the lazy painting technique for gak painters. every normal person deos'nt do it.

SM legs, I don't know what it is but after i finish the legs i enjoy the rest of the model, but the legs just kill me!

The inside of sentinels...

Just finished a squad of sanguinary guard...well I shouldnt say finished, because they will ultimately be NMM but I onlt painted the base coat. Just painting the base coat was a chore. The worst part about them is painting the wings. I wanted them to look brilliant, so I chose to blend each feather at a time. different tones on the wings, it just became a nightmare. Took me over a month to finish 1 5-man squad. Wont ever paint them again :( pain....in....the.....arse!