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I was going to put this in painting and modelling but I don't have any real models to show, so I wanted to avoid getting people upset about that fact.

Anyways, I had recently just finished painting another squad of cadian guardsmen, when something struck me for at least the 10th time. I don't like my color scheme anymore. It happens every time. I get excited about a new color scheme and get right to work. After about two squads of guardsmen, I get tired of the way they look I suppose. But throughout my long guard career I have changed the way my cadians look time and time again.

Is there anyone else who just cannot get their models the way they want them to look? Or am I the only one who can't get his act together?

I'm having trouble settling on a color scheme for my Tau. Initially I had the same problem when I did my Space Marines, but not for the same reasons. I picked Imperial Fists, but found it too hard to paint. (Yellow is really hard.) So then I picked White Scars. (Guess what the second hardest color to paint is?) Finally I settled on Salamanders. I think the green looks really good, but that's just me.

I've had that when I started repainting my Eldar. But I looked up an online paint scheme thingy (the blank ones you fill in by clicking colours) and played around with it until I found a nice paint scheme. Painted a pilot guardian and now I'm happy with it! I would try looking for an online paint scheme program, or look up pictures of guardsmen for inspiration.

Go to coolmini, find a scheme you like and do it up.

Be sure you're in love with it before you start however.

I have a similar issue sometimes: I decide for a scheme, enjoy painting it for a while, but at some point I start looking through blogs, WD issues, or the dakka gallery, and another scheme grabs my attention so I suddenly want to paint that one.

So basically it isn't that I was bored with the first scheme, but I get hooked on another one. I mostly do continue to paint the initial scheme, I just allow myself to do a one-off miniature in a different one from time to time.

Okay, now upon rereading that for spell-check, I realise I could easily rephrase that a bit:

I have a similar issue sometimes: I decide for a girl, enjoy spending time with her a while, but at some point I start looking through the web, a nightclub, or just somewhere on the street, and another girl grabs my attention so I suddenly want to spend time with that one.

So basically it isn't that I was bored with the first girl, but I get hooked on another one. I mostly do continue to spend time with the first girl, I just allow myself to have a one-off evening with a different girl from time to time.

Okay, so this second part isn't really true, I just realised it was funny.

I pick a scheme I like and then become an ostrich. I purposely do everything I can to ignore other paint schemes (stop looking, delete or move pictures to archive) until I'm about 3/4 of the way done with my army and by that time even if I find another paint scheme I like, it's 'too late' to worry about it now. Maybe the next army will get that new paint scheme.