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I don't want to jinx it, but I think I'm just getting out of mine right now. I really love assembling and converting my miniatures, so I just started working on the rest of my ork boys instead of painting the ones I got stuck on. Plan is to spend the rest of my day assembling all of them I've got, basecoating them and painting them one by one.

The best part of it all? I'm looking forward to it. I've missed this feeling.

I had a 2 year dry spell before I got back to painting. Joined a 'tale of gamers' event at the FLGS and painted 2000 points in the last 6 months. For each month you failed set goals you got a 200 SEK penalty fee (about 20€, or 26 US$). The fee was used to fund the coming tale of gamers tournament.

Try painting while listening to audiobooks.

Hey guys, thanks for all the advice! It is great to know I was not the only one with a dry spell issue. There are many of you out there! With advice I managed to finish my Imperial Titan in just 3 days. I know its not the best but here are the results. He is my lost titan, he works as a mercenary and has worked for all factions, even CSM! Again thank you everyone!

 typhus40k wrote:
With advice I managed to finish my Imperial Titan in just 3 days. I know its not the best but here are the results.

Looks pretty friggin sweet to me!

I usually play a game with the units I want to paint, then as long as I'm not totally destroyed in the game I will want to get them painted up and get on with it

I went with the "1 hour a night" approach. After the kid is in bed and the wife is half asleep on the couch watching terrible network TV, I spend an hour painting before I go to the gym.

In the last week, I've finished a DC Furioso, another drop pod, a Baal Predator, and I'll finish another Baal Predator tonight.

It's slow, steady progress that doesn't require me to set aside massive blocks of time and still gives me a sense of accomplishment every time I sit down to paint which really helped get through the burnout.

I have/had the same issue. What I tend to to is do a few different armies at the same time. What I tend to do is this: I keep out 10 to 15 Termagants, 20 or so Skaven, 5 Tau models, some Chaos, and I work on them jumping from model to model. I do 5 skaven, and the Tau, a few chaos, 5 'gaunts. It keeps it from being boring as well as making a lot of progress. As well i also tend to have a mix of colors in my armies; my Skaven, for example, are blue for the head warlord, then tan for a cheiftan, red for another, so on and so forth, using banners and tassels to tie the army together.

That knight looks brilliant. Good job!

I'm in this same predicament as well. Moved all the way from Europe to the US, now have a bigger house with my own "mancave" (the misses even bought me a sign) and I literally spend no time In there. I have scions, wyverns, tauroxes, a knight and even a new avenger strike fighter waiting on me.

I was motivated before I moved and now... now I have my own hobby room, and a great FLGS to play at and my IG are just sitting there, neglected. It sucks and I don't know what to do about it.

Before we moved to a bigger house with a craft-room, I painted on the table in the lounge-dining room, while the Wife watched TV.
Now, going into the painting room means leaving her there, which only gets to happen sometimes.
So we got a radio, and she sits knitting, and I paint. Still happens less than it did.

I usually do a fair bit or 40k background reading followed by playing some Dawn of War II or Space Marine which gets me fairly pumped for the the game. I then cleann up my painnting desk, maybe reorganize my paint, then I just pick out something I want to paint, smash it out in a few days then move on to a real project. Always works, takes a little while though.

Along the lines of the "try something different" suggestions, I like to switch to making a piece of terrain. I'm always on the lookout for odds and ends to make terrain with so the pieces rarely cost any significant amount of money. Its a fun change of pace getting messy with terrain as opposed to finely detailed models.

Threads like this one, and browsing the finished works of others, always gets the mojo flowing again. Reading about or looking at finished models always gives me that "yeah, I could totally do that!" feeling and I'm back in the mindset.

So that, combined with seeing the small collection I have finished and thinking "they look lonely. They need friends."

Exactly, I am glad I started this thread because I did actually finish that Imperial Knight. I really thought I was alone in this feeling, and it was getting me down about it because I love the hobby so much. I am glad to see that I do not stand alone with others who share the love of the hobby can feel the same way.

There is a lot of great advice in this thread. My technique: paint something(s) that don't require a lot of thought. My fantasy orc army uses pretty much all the same colors for every trooper, so between basecoat and wash, I can have 20 cranked out in a week, working less than one hour a day. The same goes for undead, Deadzone, or even the Myth models I'm working on. Once I get a bunch done, I feel accomplished enough to tackle something more complex.

Hey guys, I made a new segment on my YouTube channel called Five Ups were its a basic sit and talk about 40k. I used the subject of this thread and I gave a link to this thread and read some of your comments. You can check it out here,