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Mine has to be painting corrugated tubing or painting black and yellow striped cables. What are your favourite odd things to do?

Painting the Rims of bases, just so good
Washes also really satisfy.

I hate tidying mold lines, but when you shave the little ridges on the forge world resin models down and it smoothes just right, I like that.

When you apply Agrax to your model and it turns from goofy/comic/bright to an actual miniature. Liquid skill...

Peeling away masking tape after a long session, looking at some incoherent mess of plastic, tape and colour in front of you for hours, then seeing the result. It's an amazing feeling.

When your WIP looks like a pile of garbage, but transforms into an impressive model after a few coats of paint. Sweet vindication.


When you use an airbrush for the first. Oh, the speed. The smooth coat of paint.

When you're painting your Farsight army and a trailer for Iron Man 2 comes on the telly and you've suddenly got a spot colour. Sweet serendipity there...

The spray of undercoat that turns a conversion covered in green stuff into a coherent figure.

Tikay Fortooun wrote:
The spray of undercoat that turns a conversion covered in green stuff into a coherent figure.

This.

When green stuff gets to that consistency where you can sculpt it without it sticking to your tools, and you can just glide over it.

Suzuteo wrote:
When green stuff gets to that consistency where you can sculpt it without it sticking to your tools, and you can just glide over it.

Yeah, greenstuff sticks to metal like bees to honey. Takes as long scraping it off with a scalpel than the thing you sculpted lol

Mix your GS with milliput for less stickiness.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Mix your GS with milliput for less stickiness.

I only use millput for flat or curved stuff as its far easier for filing.

Dip your tool in a tiny bit of Vaseline (stop giggling!) to stop green stuff sticking to it. Also gives the gs a super smooth finish.

Pin washes. Got into oils this year and it's transformed my painting output.

When I cut apart something into a couple of segments and join them back up and they’re actually straight (like adding a spear to the upper and lower parts of a guy’s fist).

I use wooden tools. And by tool, I am describing sanded down takeout chopsticks and toothpicks. LOL.

For me its gotta be the drybrush. I am a VERY impatient painter. I also have 2-3 jobs and a kid.. so its all about the fastest results without sacrificing quality as much as I can. Basecoat and shade looks great, but get the exact right amount of paint on the drybrush and picking out those details just makes the model come to life for me!

Mixing UHC glue with green paint to get all the slime for Papa Nurgle models

I love the moment when I apply an Agrax wash to silver and it turns from pretty-boi shine to grungy gunmetal.

When you dry fit two pieces and they fit just right.

 Danielle Rae wrote:
I love the moment when I apply an Agrax wash to silver and it turns from pretty-boi shine to grungy gunmetal.

Oh yeah. Agrax Earthshade on silver and brass is how I roll.

The moment you find that little thing that was bugging you about your paint scheme and fix it. Like getting 90% done in a model, hating how it looks, then pick out that one colour or finish that one layer and suddenly you can see how great it'll look finished.

I like painting rust with Typhus Corrosion and Ryza Rust.

Removing dried paint in big chunks from Citadel paint pot rims

Painting the eye lenses on terminators. It's like putting a soul into them. You can almost hear the space marine quotes in Dawn of war.