What do you watch while painting?

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**Matthew**

If you're like me, you easily get bored while painting. I've recvently been bringing me iPad to the painting room just to watch some YouTubes, and it really helps m,e concentrate. If you already don't, I recommend you to start.
Now, back on topic, what sort of things do you watch while painting? I usually watch some Vsauce or Miniwargaming (Science and 40K!).

**Desubot**

Not really an OT thread topic more like a painting and modeling one...... buuuuuut i usually sit on youtube to listen to music. usually game OST since they last at least 2h hours long.

**KaptinBadrukk**

I watch nothing. I just paint my minis.

**Nevelon**

I’ll listen to music, but don’t watch anything.

**Eldarain**

Podcasts, epic length music youtube videos, and movies/TV shows I've seen so many times I don't need to watch to enjoy.

**squidhills**

I don't watch anything. If I'm watching something, I'm not painting. I usually paint at the gaming table during D&D nights, but if I'm painting at home I'll put some music on in the background.

I watch TV/DVDs when I'm assembling models, though. Just not when I'm painting them. Painting requires too much attention.

**Lord Scythican**

I usually play one of my favorite movies that I have seen a hundred times like Alien, Predator, Aliens, The Thing, or a similar movie. I have seen them so many times that I can just listen and glance up every now and then and know what is going on.

**angelofvengeance**

I get more done with music than videos, but stuff like the Avengers movie or Wrath of Khan I can glance up at it every now and then.

**nels1031**

I've recently taken to watching The Wire again, now that its re-released in HD. Seen it enough that I don't really have to watch it, unless its one of my favorite scenes, otherwise its just noise.

**Overlord Thraka**

Music mostly. The occasional Audio book. I don't have a computer near where I paint, (I paint upstairs, we only have a pair of desktops downstairs)

If I DID have a PC at my paint station I' be watching Naruto Dubbed or something I don't need to look at often.

**skyth**

I have a flat screen TV in my dude room. When I was painting minis, I often had Babylon 5 on in the background.

**Iron_Captain**

I am so stupid...
How come I have never thought of this before? I always get bored and distracted after a while of painting. Watching a movie while painting could really help with that! Maybe now I can finally get more than 1 mini a week finished.

**Grey Templar**

I don't watch anything. I'm looking at the model. I do listen to podcasts.

**TheDraconicLord**

I either am listening to Let's Plays, Podcasts or documentaries.

**timetowaste85**

Comic book movies, usually. Mostly cuz I've seen them all 100x.

**Da Boss**

I listen to podcasts about politics or history, watch videos about video games or documentaries on Youtube, and every so often I rewatch all of LOTR.

**chromedog**

What do I watch?

The model I'm painting.

Anything else would be a distraction.

But If I am focussed on painting the model, I won't even HEAR anything so even music becomes irrelevant.

**Jihadin**

Fox News or whatever I feel throwing in the DVD player

**Pacific**

Normally something that is a low-intensity watch! Test match cricket or golf perhaps, or at the moment the Australian Open tennis. Just a bit of noise in the background and I'll occasionally look up while shaking a paint pot, or if I hear a challenge or the sound of lots of applause.

Also dramas that I've started to watch but have lost some interest in, but need to finish watching to get to the end of the story!

**Haight**

Usually i put movies on in the background i've seen a million times. Star wars. Indiana Jones. Matrix trilogy. Braveheart. Mad Max. That kinda stuff. The longer the better as its less often i have to get up.

**Jehan-reznor**

I paint and model usually when i am watching something on the Discovery channel, wrestling or Sumo.

**eskimo**

All of the above, Youtube, documentarys, podcasts, etc. Recent stuff has been:
28 weeks later
Matrix
Red Dwarf
Angry Joe Show

No bat reps tho. They're either too long and boring, or too short with no explanation so you havd no idea what's going on unless wstching.

Was considering listening to some 40k audio books. But dunno, concentrating on fictional books is an effort, strange i know.

**insaniak**

I used to go with just putting on music, or movies that I knew particularly well.

Lately I've taken to putting on movies with the Director's (or whoever's) Commentary turned on. Takes away the need to pay much attention to the screen, and has given some quite cool insights into some of my favourite movies and the people behind them.'

The commentary on the new Star Trek was brilliant. On the other hand, turns out Michael Bay and Irving Kirchsner are kind of irritating...

**Avatar 720**

Every blue moon, when I get out a few pots and brushes to spend several hours painting a single model to TT standard, I just have music on. I can't stand my own thoughts--especially when they're just endless streams of criticism and wanting to stop painting and do something I actually enjoy--and even the ticking of a clock pierces the silence to personally drive me insane. My hands are unsteady enough as they are, so since most of the TV shows and films I watch are comedies, they're wholly unsuitable. I'd rather not void the hour I spent getting something to look right enough to move on with laugh-induced shaking.

**KalashnikovMarine**

I put a movie, TV show or dubbed anime on if I'm actually watching something.

**englishfury**

Podcast's or Music, I tried Anime and Movies but i end up watching more than painting, and I don't have a lot of free time, so I need to focus a bit more.

**Hanskrampf**

Sitcoms and comedy series like HIMYM or Arrested Development. Listening to them is usually enough to get the jokes and I rarely look up.

**Dropbear Victim**

Nothing. I don't paint.

**gorgon**

insaniak wrote:
Lately I've taken to putting on movies with the Director's (or whoever's) Commentary turned on. Takes away the need to pay much attention to the screen, and has given some quite cool insights into some of my favourite movies and the people behind them.

This. Highly recommend it.

**Ratius**

Went through a stage of watching star trek voyager from season 1-5 whilst working on my Nids.