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Simple question. Been building a skaven army so I have a lot to paint but hopefully Ill have the stamina to end with a fully painted army. Something which seems to be a rare sight in local game stores.

Yes, it was fully painted before I sold it

Which Army?

My Lizards are fully painted. My dwarves mostly painted, but I want to add some more models, so non not really. My Ogres are a work-in-progress.

I can field a fully painted army, but some of the units I prefer to use are not painted.

Edit: To get more expansive. I can do a 2250 force no problem, probably 2500. I don't have enough Core Options painted to do a 3000 force though. My next project was to get some Archers painted to fill that, but I let it go by the wayside when I found out I wasn't going to be attending Adepticon.

I don't have any painted cavalry, but rarely use them in this edition, none of my Phoenix Guard are painted, and none of my Archers are either. Just about everything else in my army is though.

My Dark Elves are painted up to 2000 points

My Skaven army is fully painted and it's about 200 models. Took me about a year, plus an impending tournament to get it all done.

My Empire army is about 150 models and I painted it in about a month and a half when I was unemployed. Again, having a major tournament around the corner made me get it done.

Tip for Skaven - try and paint units of Giant Rats - amazing in game, easy to paint, and cost a decent amount of points (more than slaves, and 2/3rds that of a clanrats. You can get a bunch of the plague monk sprue and the doomwheel, and making scenic unit fillers helps too. I have two blocks of 40 and they are amazing.

Depends on which army

Well... I'm constantly buying more, so... Although the whole armt isn't painted, I could probably almost field a completely painted one.
If I could bring myself to paint my knights, then I would definitively be able to field one.

My Beastmen are fully painted yes. Fully based no. :(

My lizardmen aren't even fully assembled yet. The whole "magnetize the bejeesus out of my Stegadon so it can be Regular, Ancient, Skink Warchief, or Engine-of-the-Gods flavored" project used up the last of my magnets, and my new magnets won't arrive until Wednesday (I just noticed that if I take everything off the palanquin and plop my slaan on it, I can use it as a Mazdamundi - neat!). I only just finished greenstuffing all the gaps and exposed pin holes on my sauruses (including the mounted Saurus hero I made out of various bits and bobs). And, before I can paint, I still need to finish stripping and reassembling a bunch of second-hand saurus warriors, put gravel down on all the bases (I like to base before I paint, then add grass before I seal), and prime.

Fully painted? It's gonna take a while.

I have to say, the hit rate of fully painted armies I have found to be much higher for WFB than with 40k.

I think it's an advantage of the system that shouldn't be discounted - on average, I think the players have a lot more pride in the force they field and having it look good (or perhaps just more spare time to get it painted )

My beasts that I'd take to tourneys are fully painted and based but lists I'd use for friendly games not so much

Pacific wrote:I have to say, the hit rate of fully painted armies I have found to be much higher for WFB than with 40k.

I think it's an advantage of the system that shouldn't be discounted - on average, I think the players have a lot more pride in the force they field and having it look good (or perhaps just more spare time to get it painted )

Not sure if this is true elsewhere but where I play I've found that Fantasy players are, on average, older than 40k players.

A Town Called Malus wrote:

Pacific wrote:I have to say, the hit rate of fully painted armies I have found to be much higher for WFB than with 40k.

I think it's an advantage of the system that shouldn't be discounted - on average, I think the players have a lot more pride in the force they field and having it look good (or perhaps just more spare time to get it painted )

Not sure if this is true elsewhere but where I play I've found that Fantasy players are, on average, older than 40k players.

This isn't entirely true in my area, but I don't disagree with you.

One of the old vets in my neighborhood says that 40k is for kids and Fantasy is a man's game. He finds it to be a lot better balanced and more tactical. He also claims that this is by design, that the dudes at GW view 40k as a game of guns, explosions, and badassery which attracts the new young players and Fantasy as a game of tactics and maneuvering that adults will enjoy more. I haven't played enough games (see above re: unassembled lizards) to say if I agree, but he did used to work at one of the big GW megastores that attracts a lot of visitors from GW staff in the UK, so I can't discount his claims entirely.

A Town Called Malus wrote:

Pacific wrote:I have to say, the hit rate of fully painted armies I have found to be much higher for WFB than with 40k.

I think it's an advantage of the system that shouldn't be discounted - on average, I think the players have a lot more pride in the force they field and having it look good (or perhaps just more spare time to get it painted )

Not sure if this is true elsewhere but where I play I've found that Fantasy players are, on average, older than 40k players.

Yes that is the same situation in my area actually. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but as a general trend.

ElectricPaladin wrote:One of the old vets in my neighborhood says that 40k is for kids and Fantasy is a man's game. He finds it to be a lot better balanced and more tactical. He also claims that this is by design, that the dudes at GW view 40k as a game of guns, explosions, and badassery which attracts the new young players and Fantasy as a game of tactics and maneuvering that adults will enjoy more. I haven't played enough games (see above re: unassembled lizards) to say if I agree, but he did used to work at one of the big GW megastores that attracts a lot of visitors from GW staff in the UK, so I can't discount his claims entirely.

this is pretty well spot-on, from my experiences and opinions.

I first started looking into 40k but gravitated towards fantasy as the army choices are more diverse and balanced while in 40k you tend to see a lot of space marines and some armies are not very balanced. All in all it ended up being cheaper for me to build a skaven force than a tyranid force and in 40k tyranids are on the lower end of the totem poll. Fantasy also seems like a more tactical game though I havent had a chance played yet.

Ive never painted a large force before. Im a battletech player mostly and forces arent very large (though lord knows I have tons of mechs just dont use them all.

Originally I was going to use my own paints but in the end I just bought GW paints so I dont have to worry about mixing and matching colors after painting so many units. Overall Im really liking the GW paints and washes. cuts a lot of times spent mixing and matching colors and washes and diluting things etc.

Anyone know how well they work through an airbrush? also are there lids we can buy that let you attach the pot directly to an airbrush? I hate pouring paints out of pots as you end up losing some of it.

Finally starting Fantasy but want to try and make this army look good and so reading up on techniques and what not to get them to a good standard.
Thats done, so now I just need to wait for the paints and basing goodness and then I shall be closer to marching my warriors of chaos to war, wiping out the pathetic weaklings down south.

Usually I paint some models and then play with them, just never been able to resist playing after fully painting, until now