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Just wondering, in your opinion, what model has the most unnecessary details? Stuff that will never get painted or seen in it's life? On another note, what have you painted and then realized you wouldn't be able to see?

I'm not sure about the parts being unseen, but I think Vulkan has the most overladen model, with too much ugly bling for his own good.
Edit: Well, might as well contribute with a model I like - Gunnery Sergeant Harker. He has a really well sculpted 6-pack, belt buckle, and bandana hanging on his belt. However, his heavy bolter is so honkin' huge that it covers almost his entire body!

The scope on the SoB flamer is pretty awesome. As far as the opposite end, Chaos Knight have large chunks of undetailed plastic that really pissed me off on first seeing the set

I'm painting up Chaos Knights at the moment, and the Warhorses have quite detailed saddles, not just the normal blank seat part.

Why? It get's covered in a giant Knight bum. Infact, nearly half the model ends up covered by Knight bum and legs, but they are still mega detailed

My obsessiveness forced me to paint them entirely even though I knew it would be covered up regardless haha.

Edit: Quite coincidental that the post above got in just before me.

I'm talking about the chains on the front and back that aren't covered by anything! It's nice and chainmail up until a point then it's just a big glob of plastic. They could have continued the pattern just further and I wouldn't have cared.

Edit: The fact that I'm modeling several of them as centaurs makes me like the detailed saddle as pointed out, though!

How about the floor grating inside the LRBT? No one will see that unless they take the turret off and look down through the ring!

It could be sampling bias, but I rarely see examples of painted interiors on Rhinos, Razorbacks, or Land Raiders. Most people (myself included) seem to just glue the hatches closed, so the benches, grooved floor, control panels, etc. all remain unseen. After building my first Rhino and realizing that I was never going to paint that interior, I started gluing all of my hatches and doors shut and saving the interior bulkhead pieces terrain/basing/scratchbuilding. Not familiar enough with IG vehicle models to know if they have a similar situation.

oadie wrote:It could be sampling bias, but I rarely see examples of painted interiors on Rhinos, Razorbacks, or Land Raiders. Most people (myself included) seem to just glue the hatches closed, so the benches, grooved floor, control panels, etc. all remain unseen. After building my first Rhino and realizing that I was never going to paint that interior, I started gluing all of my hatches and doors shut and saving the interior bulkhead pieces terrain/basing/scratchbuilding. Not familiar enough with IG vehicle models to know if they have a similar situation.

All of my Land Raiders and current style Rhinos(that are Transports and not Predators, Whirldwinds, or Vindicators) have painted interiors.

My Devilfish don't have painted interiors(put they're not yet painted as is)

Chimeras don't have detailed interiors unless you buy the FW upgrade.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:The scope on the SoB flamer is pretty awesome. As far as the opposite end, Chaos Knight have large chunks of undetailed plastic that really pissed me off on first seeing the set

I was going to suggest that, until I remembered this:

In the master sculpt of the white dwarf model the designer actually made armor for for him just in case any peeked through once the beard was greenstuffed on! LOL

Krullagh the Vile and Garagrim Ironfist. Both were anatomically correct.

So, yeah.

Pah! Amateurs

Tabletop wargammers are nothing when it comes to detailing stuff that will never be seen

I tend to 'shake my head' when i see people posting their GD quality vehicles and showing the bottom of them all painted up super well. I tend to paint these parts really dark and quick. I guess if you play with them and turn them upside down when they get 'killed' its ok?

The new venerable dreadnought has a very well detailed chest piece that ends up being covered by the dreads front plating. What a waste but I think it may be for conversion and diorama purposes.

What I hate the most of all minis is the damned scroll paper everywhere, its the single most illogical and unnecessary thing on otherwise illogical minis

Scroll paper?
I thought it was arse wipe. For when you gakk your PAnties as an ocean of Nids bears down on you like a tsunami!

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Pah! Amateurs

Tabletop wargammers are nothing when it comes to detailing stuff that will never be seen

Ha, geez! The guard railing?

A scope on a flamer? Really?

If I ever model Orks, I'm putting a scope on every scorcha!

I dislike the topknots on helmeted marines you might see it but its unneccessary and how could that happen its a helet with hair.

OoieGoie wrote:I tend to 'shake my head' when i see people posting their GD quality vehicles and showing the bottom of them all painted up super well. I tend to paint these parts really dark and quick. I guess if you play with them and turn them upside down when they get 'killed' its ok?

You may shake your head, but that's exactly the kind of thing the judges look at. When you're dealing with the top levels of any competition, otherwise needless attention to detail is the order of the day.

kronk wrote:A scope on a flamer? Really?

If I ever model Orks, I'm putting a scope on every scorcha!

Well yeah! That's only proppa!

Ork boyz. I'm painting up 174 of them. Whoever designed all the little straps, rings, studs, earrings, teeth, etc needs to be drug out into the street and beaten.

I miss the days of my Space Marines, when an hour got me a great looking tac marine.

Heffling wrote:Ork boyz. I'm painting up 174 of them. Whoever designed all the little straps, rings, studs, earrings, teeth, etc needs to be drug out into the street and beaten.

No deal! Needz more gubbinz!

Road wheels on the old (and superior IMHO) Chimera and Leman Russ kits. They had bolt heads on one side that was covered up by a hull panel anyhow.

Hmm....The butts on fire dragons. They actually sculpted butt-dimples onto them.

I mean, come on...We don't wanna see that, why bother even separating it into two cheeks?

Well I think the butt hole on the targeting squig that is mounted on the shoulder of a flash gitz is pretty much unneeded.

Alastergrimm wrote:Well I think the butt hole on the targeting squig that is mounted on the shoulder of a flash gitz is pretty much unneeded.

I think you will find the squig very much needs his butt hole Alaster!

Same as Oadie. Painted the detail on my 7 Razorback interiors. Never seen.

4 Landraiders- never seen.

Waste of time. Oh well, live and learn.

akira5665 wrote:Same as Oadie. Painted the detail on my 7 Razorback interiors. Never seen.

4 Landraiders- never seen.

Waste of time. Oh well, live and learn.

But they put that effort to give you that detail, if your allready paying so much you may as well paint it

I make sure I put details on all the vehicles it males sense for it to be in

The opposite stance:
The new Ork Stormboyz are awesome- I love the models (even if the unit is kinda gak on the tabletop). Very detailed and all of it fun/functional/visible.

Some of the landspeeder's rear assembly, near the engine. I guess you could leave those little hatches open, but I always thought that was severely strange- why would you be zipping around in your speeder with a little door flapping in the breeze...

I painted the inside of one Rhino and realized the time I wasted doing so. I've gotten complements on the paint job but no one has ever picked up the model and looked at the interior which is also done. No more interiors for me.

Cool as they look, I hate most CSM models.

I get it, your evil, but do you have to cover yourselves in pointy pieces? You know, points just the right sixe for paint to chip durring a game?

Next thing you know, your chaos lord that you spent hours on looks like a cristmas tree with all that silver light reflecting off of his pointy parts.