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Hey so im in the middle of painting 3 pred tanks for my army after already painting 2 rhinos and im starting to get a little lazy, i really dont want to paint the inside because, well it will never open so yeah.

How many of you paint the inside of tanks that will never see the light of day?

I use Army Painter spray for my vehicles, so I usually give them a quick spray down with that. That's about it though.

I have the army painter black primer, but it differs from GW matte black, and has a bit of a shine to it :\

I paint the inside of rhinos, yes.

I stopped painting the inside of land raiders, though. You can't see anything in them, anyway.

My pred doubles as a razorback/rhino, so I painted the inside. If you are glueing everything, don't bother.

Yes for transports with functioning hatches. No for gun tanks.

Rhino/land raiders yes, predator/vindicator no.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Yes for transports with functioning hatches. No for gun tanks.

This. Same goes for my fliers.

if it is likely it will been seen I paint it, if not, then I don't

 Backspacehacker wrote:
I have the army painter black primer, but it differs from GW matte black, and has a bit of a shine to it :\

I use the Space Wolves grey, makes my life so easy.

As I'm in it for the modelling, not only do I and will I paint the interiors of all my vehicles, I'm also adding details.
I'm only on my first vehicle, a Waveserpent, but I've added into the cabin: floor where there was some missing, a holoscreen, two extra seats and seat covers for all the seats, a first-aid box, graffiti and a pin-up and I sculpted away some of the beams to make them curved. and I'm currently building engines where they should be instead of the simple vents that it came with.

I glue my hatches down so I have an excuse not to paint the inside of them.

As someone else said, yes for transports no for gun tanks.

I never paint inside tanks. I rarely paint the bottom of tanks either.

 Griddlelol wrote:
I never paint inside tanks. I rarely paint the bottom of tanks either.

Same here. I used to paint the bottom of tanks so I could flip them over if they were destroyed, but I got tired of damaging the paint on the top, having my Storm Bolters break off, etc.

 Kingsley wrote:


Same here. I used to paint the bottom of tanks so I could flip them over if they were destroyed, but I got tired of damaging the paint on the top, having my Storm Bolters break off, etc.

Yeah, taking the turret off and putting some cotton wool in the hole looks way better anyway. Stops you from damaging your models too.

Yes. Painting the interior is the best part!

I used to, but then I realised I glue the door shut anyway.

I still paint the interiors of the models..and glue them up...I am loco like that esse!

I painted the insides of my two rhinos, but I'm debating whether to do it for my chaos rhinos. the only time I see the inside of my C:SM rhinos is when I'm swapping the top hatch for a razorback turret

If at any point the doors will be open then yes. Otherwise, nope. Too much other stuff to paint to spend time on something no one will ever see.