Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

What is the hardest thing (or thing on a model) for you guys to paint?

For me (painting IG, no vehicles hey) is painting faces, and more specifically eyes. They usually end up Derpy, or weird. Some times I don't bother, and just let their helmet shadow take care of it for me. Besides, they're guardsmen, just about the most faceless army in the universe.

I hate bits that stick out, like spikes and stuff. Makes painting a nightmare but that's why I play Necrons

For some reason whenever I paint eyes the guys ALWAYS look to the left, must be something interesting over there...

The hardest part for me is getting started ...

Or proper highlights, especially on vehicles.

 AL-PiXeL01 wrote:
The hardest part for me is getting started ...

QFT.

Getting started is probably the hardest.

The second hardest for me is putting the model down.

Not understanding how to properly thin paints.

And large areas of white/yellow.

I find the hardest part is sticking with it and not getting bored while do the the final highlights and details... so many details...

Other than that, eyes, and also painting white

Im still trying to get the hang of painting decent looking flesh for daemonettes and DE.

Getting the motivation to start, i suffer from fibromyalgia amongst other things, so i'm in pain alot of the time and often laid up(as well as the depression side of it). I just look at the pile of unpainted or half assembled models that i've had to leave half way through, and i think 'meh, when am i going to get to complete a model i've started' haha

Getting the base color done. Weathering and detailing are fun, but doing the exact same color scheme on tank after tank gets really tiring.

just getting started. i love the game, buy the hobby modeling is just not for me.

For me the hardest part is to cose the right colours to get a good contrast. And then not introduse anything that could unsetle it eather on details pr the base.

Yellow, even those small stripes on the helmet I have to do for the company. It's unbelievable how often i have to repaint them.

Being neat consistently, especially when doing squads.

Eyes. So much pressure not to slip up.

Hardest part of painting is...

...painting...

I just hate doing it. But I DO paint my models. Just because uniform grey is just terrible and the pride you get out of nicely painted models... I get all the feels.

I'm something of a perfectionist, and i really like to make each model an individual.
I generally start off with the intention of painting each unit in a production line, but often find that after the first colour, i concentrate on painting a single model

Ironically, despite this, i painted my necron army in record time, because they have very few individuals, but if its even there at my back of my mind that 2 identical models are different, they get the 'must paint them seperately' treatment

The base coat. Once I'm past that I love to highlight because it really starts looking good but I hate getting the initial colors on.

I think it's doing proper flesh and shading that are hardest for me. I just can't seem to get it right. Also highlighting is rough for me too.

Highlights have always been easy for me. Painting faces and eyes, on the other hand, is a damn nightmare. On the off chance I get one model right, I usually forget how I did it and all other models in the squad come out wrong.

Painting Human Skin. Nightmare. :(

Painting Ork Skin. Ridiculously Easy.

Vehicles full stop. They just bore me, but I can happily batch paint 30+ model units.

Skin on my Loyalists and the horns on my Traitors, mostly. It always looks wrong.
Also, proper highlighting and transitions between two colors. I can't get it right :(

And my Iron Warriors Rhino. Oh god, those damn hazard stripes. For some reason, the yellow kept coming out grainy, no matter how much I thinned it or used a different pot of yellow. It took at least a week to do completely and I only put it on the top hatch and assault ramp. Eventually I managed to get it looking decent and luckily could use masking tape to get the black stripes, but Nurgle damn that yellow base coat.

The fac- oh wait don't have any.
The ski- oh wait another minute...

Probably all the bits I add on my guardsmen, lots of possiblities for a twitch to splatter paint where it should not be splattered.

The weapons are a bit of pain to do, never sure how I'll do them, but I think I have an idea for my lasguns now...

Motivation- I have a gakton of models and paint almost every night, but it's more of a chore than fun, generally. Sometimes i get inspired, and then it's a blast

I also paint at work in my lunch hour, in part to get my models caught up, and in part to fill the time.


Also - Straps!

My Orks (and to a lesser extent my DE) have belts, straps and buckles everywhere. I have nerve damage to my painting hand, which makes it a little numb and prone to shakes. Getting those fething straps done neatly is a chore.

Motivation + Straps...hhmmm

Most difficult thing when it comes to painting, my motivation, paradoxically I'm only motivated to paint when I have a huge pile of unpainted mini's lying around. If I only have one or two models I never can manage to get going on them.

Other than that, flesh, I hate it, and I don't even bother with painting eyes.

Painting small things is what I find the hardest cos I find it so god damn boring. I enjoy painting MCs or steam tanks but not gaunts or state troops

Painting flesh, fortunately I'm incredibly neurotic about all of the GK wearing their helmets, so it doesn't come up.

The hardest part for me is choosing what to paint, cause I love painting but I have tons of models to paint and can't do all of them at a time. ^^

When I started I hated to paint skin, but now I like that. Painting white is not the funniest part though.

Surprisingly, for me it's painting metal. For large metal vehicles or units like Lootas with a lot of different bits on the guns, I have a hard time deciding on which types of metal to use, whether to make them rusty looking or not, etc. Faces, on the other hand, are pretty easy for me since I play Orks and the faces generally don't require as much shading or detail to look good.

The other thing is staying motivated to paint. I'm kinda slow and staring at my pile of unopened Ork Boyz boxes is a little daunting.