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Black & White Space Marine on a Black & White bike army?

If you are taking into consideration how good it looks when you're done, I have to say Salamanders.

Look, if you don`t have the skills or just want to play and don`t mind if you minis are cools, any figure are easy to paint.
Blood Angels, red, black and other color
Tyranids, blue, white... and so on
Grey knights, silver.

The ask is... how is the most hard to paint army?... and the answer, all. If you are inconformist with your paint work, you use several combinations, I see one time a necron army in non metal metallic... Huge Work!!!, even the rods where painted in a spectral blue, a friend paint all his army of imperial guard style camuflage... that was incredible, his commander (a catachan of course) is a convertion with the discover torso and put the names of several friend in there.
Them, the problem is not how easy paint an army, is what in really you wanna obtain in your paint work.

Mental note: reading english like tarzan and cheta since 1990... jajajaja

Black Templars tied with Necrons.



wait a second...

Spray your Necrons scorched brown, water down some boltgun metal a teensy bit, go over the top... do a badab black wash, devlan mud wash and then some really watered down scorched brown and they look quite sexy...

Ledabot wrote:

anyways, proberly guard or necrons

Oh look, it's that poster again...

Henners91 wrote:Spray your Necrons scorched brown, water down some boltgun metal a teensy bit, go over the top... do a badab black wash, devlan mud wash and then some really watered down scorched brown and they look quite sexy...

Ledabot wrote:

anyways, proberly guard or necrons

Oh look, it's that poster again...

And Again!

For a moment i thought you had a problem with it. The guys does have a bit of an odd expression doesent he...

On topic. I still think crons, since they are just metalic with green eyes or something. Inless you want to do a real nice job with the other units they apper to be quite stright foward.

Henners91 wrote:Spray your Necrons scorched brown, water down some boltgun metal a teensy bit, go over the top... do a badab black wash, devlan mud wash and then some really watered down scorched brown and they look quite sexy...

Ledabot wrote:

anyways, proberly guard or necrons

Oh look, it's that poster again...

Actually, I believe that I would be "that" poster when it comes to that pic.

Necrons, silver spray paint, BT, just primer and add some white , BA are simple enough, red, on red, with like 2 greyish part

Thread title should be, "What's the easiest army to speedpaint and not have it look like complete ass?"

Obviously GK and Necrons would win at this point, but you can speedpaint Nids fairly well just blocking the flesh and carapace then dipping them.

Believe it or not, even though it's regarded as "the painter's army", Eldar respond VERY well to speedpainting techniques. For infantry, block out the body, helmet, weapon, and plume all different colors, then dip and dullcote. Because there are a ton of details they look good and aren't susceptible to pooling in the same way that Marines are. For the tanks, a little bit of airbrushing goes a long way. You can finish off an Eldar tank with very little brushwork and have it look fantastic because of the flat surfaces.

I suspect Tau could be painted in a similar way and made to look acceptable, but because their armor plates are flat they're more susceptible to pooling issues.

Daemons are also VERY easy to speedpaint with a combo of dipping and drybrushing.

With IG, the infantry are time consuming to paint, but if you use weathering techniques very well you won't have to highlight a single thing. I was plowing through 3 or so tanks every night without a problem, and they tend to get complements at the FLGS and tourneys.


The only time I've seen dipped models look good is when you actually dip them and then dullcote them. The Dullcote is NECESSARY. Dipped shiny models really look like ass.



You can paint almost any army quickly and easily if you're willing to invest time into planning out speed painting techniques that will work well with that particular army.

NuggzTheNinja wrote:Thread title should be, "What's the easiest army to speedpaint and not have it look like complete ass?"

Obviously GK and Necrons would win at this point, but you can speedpaint Nids fairly well just blocking the flesh and carapace then dipping them.

Believe it or not, even though it's regarded as "the painter's army", Eldar respond VERY well to speedpainting techniques. For infantry, block out the body, helmet, weapon, and plume all different colors, then dip and dullcote. Because there are a ton of details they look good and aren't susceptible to pooling in the same way that Marines are. For the tanks, a little bit of airbrushing goes a long way. You can finish off an Eldar tank with very little brushwork and have it look fantastic because of the flat surfaces.

I suspect Tau could be painted in a similar way and made to look acceptable, but because their armor plates are flat they're more susceptible to pooling issues.

Daemons are also VERY easy to speedpaint with a combo of dipping and drybrushing.

With IG, the infantry are time consuming to paint, but if you use weathering techniques very well you won't have to highlight a single thing. I was plowing through 3 or so tanks every night without a problem, and they tend to get complements at the FLGS and tourneys.


The only time I've seen dipped models look good is when you actually dip them and then dullcote them. The Dullcote is NECESSARY. Dipped shiny models really look like ass.



You can paint almost any army quickly and easily if you're willing to invest time into planning out speed painting techniques that will work well with that particular army.

3 tanks a nite!!! ive got 5 left to finish before school and that is in 2 weeks, i think im gonna cut it close now...how did you do that. the treads are what kill me in the time...

I have to admit that one of the reasons I picked Necrons as my first army was the painting, not that I wanted an army that was super easy, but I thought I could make them look really good with my limited abilities. I learned about dry-brushing and just loved that trick! The sculptors making the models do such great jobs on the details and dry-brushing really brings that out!

As has been said, Necron's can be done really easily, as in just silver spray-paint, but why? Spray them black, green dots of paint in the eyes, dry-brush grey (really make sure the brush is pretty dry). They are done, look so much better, and really only took another 20 - 30 minutes to do 20 warriors, since the major part is getting the guys cut off, cleaned up, and assembled.

Now that I have painted some more, I think any army (well, the troops at least) could be painted fast and easy, and still look half-way decent. The real trick is instead of painting from the outside in, start inside (deepest features) and work out. Start on the eyes and other deep features and then work your way out.

So get a whole squad of whatever you are painting and:
1) Glue them together as much as you can (large weapons that cover up major portions of the model can be seperate)
2) Spray can prime them (with priming paint, not deck chair enamel!)
3) Get a small brush and start in the deepest features and hit all the models and deepest areas that need the same color.
4) Wash brush and go back to step 3 for the next deepest feature.
5) Now you are done and they should look pretty cool.

To make them look a little better, go to step 6

6) Pick a large area of your model that is the same color
7) Put some of that paint on a palette (small sample ceramic tile!)
8) Mix in a little white paint (or black paint if you want to highlight with dark)
9) Paint a slightly smaller area over the top of the area you picked in 6.
10) Go back to step 8, but then make the area smaller.

Now you have a really nice, highlighted mode. The first part can be done on a squad of 10 models in about 10 minutes per layer/color. Entire army in a couple hours. Do steps 6 - 10 and you can probably do a full squad of Marines in an hour and a half and have them look really good. Some school glue and fake sand and you have a great model. Get fancy with some fake grass.... See, this is how these things start to take a long time! Cool thing is, you can do the first steps and get a great tabletop-quality army, then add highlights a little later (maybe as a reward to one of your squads that does really good!) Add the basing stuff when you like, maybe tie a squad together by it's basing scheme.