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As I am sure you all know there are 2 sides to this hobby, Modeling and gaming. I find myself the to me right smack in the middle being a decent painter and games but find it hard to find the right balance of the two. The main problem I am having at the moment is I want to play the army and get my build just right before I start painting but don't want to super them together so I can disassemble them later for painting. I have been using a hot gun to hold my guys together but find it to be a huge pain the get all the glue off them later and think to my self that there has to be a better way. So how dose the people from Dakka Dakka find the right balance of painting and gaming?

i paint a guy every day. The at the end of the week i have 7 more guys to play with on saturday. thats waht i do. you do whatever you feel is best

Painting and gaming aren't the problem. It's trying to fit wife into there. =/

That is a 3ed point I should bring up, LOL have a wife and kids dose not really leave alot of time for either.

sickening wrote:As I am sure you all know there are 2 sides to this hobby, Modeling and gaming.

I would say four actually: Modeling, painting, collecting and gaming

I think painting and modeling are two very distinct elements, and I know people that collect but don't play.

Give up trying to find a balance and choose a side already!

Come over to the side of the dedicated hobbyist, feel the compulsive need to customize, paint and perfect your skills, your veins will burn with paint and ink and your fingers will crust and harden with glues and pigments.

Who needs to play, when you have 6 months of work left to do on one squad? Learn the secrets of making subtle jabs at people with poorly painted armies, form radical and alienating opinions of different styles of painting, relish in the spreading mess of equipment that will slowly migrate from your work table to fill your entire home with bottles, chemicals, putties, clippers, brushes, half finished models and exacto blades.

Phayse wrote:Painting and gaming aren't the problem. It's trying to fit wife into there. =/

Truer words were never spoken.

Terraformer wrote:Give up trying to find a balance and choose a side already!

Come over to the side of the dedicated hobbyist, feel the compulsive need to customize, paint and perfect your skills, your veins will burn with paint and ink and your fingers will crust and harden with glues and pigments.

Who needs to play, when you have 6 months of work left to do on one squad? Learn the secrets of making subtle jabs at people with poorly painted armies, form radical and alienating opinions of different styles of painting, relish in the spreading mess of equipment that will slowly migrate from your work table to fill your entire home with bottles, chemicals, putties, clippers, brushes, half finished models and exacto blades.

This.

If your painting skills are good enough, then re-painting a model shouldn't be too hard. You could always strip it down and begin again. If your issue is equipment on the models... well, I have that issue too, i deal with it by having more specialists than core units. If I change my mind or try something else out... well... there they already are. Its expensive, but after finding some good dealers on eBay, I found a healthy price ratio.

That said though, if you don't like a build, it shouldn't be too too hard to swap parts out. Especially if you get far enough along with an army. There should be oodles of bits left over on sprues to do any necessary fixing

Terraformer wrote:
relish in the spreading mess of equipment that will slowly migrate from your work table to fill your entire home with bottles, chemicals, putties, clippers, brushes, half finished models and exacto blades.

and die, eyes bulging, gasping for air as your wife chokes you with such a rage induced strength you have never seen before, before dousing the house in petrol, and watching it burn while screaming "f***ing wet blend this!"

Ditch the wife and kids, run away with your ture love, the emporor, he protects! Er in all seriousness, I know what you mean, especialy when you are building in stage by stage and painting too, what I done was I made an army to play with, just quickly ( A battleforce for example ) then I bought the rest of the army and built it stage by stage and painted as I went, it's pretty good doing ti I guess, I am now building and painting orcs, but playing mt IG, so it balances out Good luck with the wife!

If you want them together quickly, just use blue/white tac to hold them roughly for now.

I usually get a few hours free at work. (hour lunch, then breaks when the tacograph kicks in)
I usually bring a unit or so into work with a few paints.
As soon as i get a break i use it for painting time.

Failing that, just go full tilt on a weekend and get as much painting done as possible.

That's kinda the same as using hot glue.

For my gray hunters I am modeling they with there arms away from there body so I can glue them together and still get paint onto them. LOL looks like I will be going for more of a table top look for my wolves.

Feel free to check out my gallery and vote!

Paint so that the models look acceptable at arm's length.
(This doesn't take nearly as long as a GD winning paint job).

I assemble marines sans weapons, paint them and then add the weapons (after they have also been painted separately) - but I don't paint the eagles on mine, I leave them the base colour.