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This is actually a really serious problem for me. I started playing 40k 2 years ago and IG was my first army. Since then, I've stripped and re-painted my army probably 4 times. I come up with a new scheme, love it, paint the whole thing in those colours, and a few months later I look at it all with disdain and the cycle repeats itself. Has anyone else had this problem? I don't really know what to do cause I don't think I have it in me to strip them again.

Thats one of the reasons I have more than one army. I also do orks which allows for non conformist conformity.

Yeah, lots of small armies are the way forward. Also, when I go back to armies, I tend to touch them up, and add more detail, rather then repaint. Often, I'll rebase the army in a more interesting/detailed way, which then completely changes the look of them...

I did the same with my SoB. They're currently on their third and final scheme. The first I wasn't too much of a fan of it anyway and the second was basically the first but with blue instead of red. But for me it was more of wanting to improve them. Having another army helps out, but you can also mix it up with some armies like Eldar.

I didn't start to paint my marines until I had a scheme I liked enough to commit to.

They aren't going to change from that. Period.

White armour with blue pauldrons and a blue stripe on the helmet (down over the crest) with black weapons.

My IG likewise will only ever sport one colour scheme. Red and blue (my NovaCastrian 99th - red and blue will forever be associated with my city) due to certain sporting teams (not that I care or follow them) also because Red and blue go well together in the "Praetorian-like" colonial militia uniform scheme.

I have the same problem, except I will get to the point where I am 3/4 done with a guy and I just don't like it and will keep doing different things. I have stripped all my guys like 4 times at this point. Its at the point where I think have OCD with just 40k.

This is what you do: Play empire. That way, you can just make the next batch come from another city. simple, eh?