Painting Inspiration

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**imark789**

What inspires you to paint? After spending too much time away from putting together my IG army, I was flipping through the codex and seeing pictures of well painted guardsmen inspired me to get back to work on them. What gets you guys motivated to paint?

**RaptorsTalon**

Seeing my guardsmen, some painted and some only undercoated and thinking:
'Those unpainted ones look really bad'

**Deathshead420**

When i see work like the landraider on this thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/3540/233422.page makes me want to keep going....although it can also make me want to throw mine in the trash and start over too.

**susejo239**

Either playing the game or buying the models. It always inspires me to paint for some reason.

**Joske De Veteraan**

pictures ofcourse.. and tutorials persenal disere to outdo the other..

**yamgrenade**

Mostly seeing my friends models and wishing I could paint as well as him

**imark789**

I never have the motivation to finish my squads either :/ I get them to TTQ and end up leaving them that way.

**tona7**

A lot of the time I just see other models on here or online and that's usually good. Playing works to get me to pain more as well. Also, tutorials that make certain paint schemes look easy always get me into painting.
Finally I tend to keep my unpainted models on my desk where I can see them. When they're always looming over me like that I get guilty if I'm not painting them.

**Nimbosa**

Watching Les Bursley paint (http://www.awesomepaintjob.com/) gets me jazzed about painting my own stuff.

**Uhlan**

Watching my bank account increase after I paint always inspires me to continue...

**imark789**

tona7 wrote:
Finally I tend to keep my unpainted models on my desk where I can see them. When they're always looming over me like that I get guilty if I'm not painting them.

That is a great idea!