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For me it's basing.

I like building, and I like painting. Basing, though... by this point I just want to be DONE with the mini.

Assembling the model together and filing gaps.

For resin minis will be cleaning up the flash, the vents and mold lines. Then filling with a putty of some sort any bubbles or missing details,

I used to hate basing before Texture paints because A) getting sand stuck to model's legs and B) after 1 week the basing grit would brush off, leaving my bedroom carpet filled with sand and flock.

I prefer texture paints as they're more stable but they still have the same problem of getting on the model. I've taken to now doing the basing after priming and before painting but the problem then goes the other way of getting, say, bright red paint on the dark green base, which is much harder to cover.

Other than that, I hate priming in general as its such an effort to get the models primed all over. I have to block out a 2 hour chunk in which we don't have food (because I spray in the kitchen on the cooker-top so the extractor fan can take the fumes).

Leather bits. Belts, Pouches, boots. All stuff that adds a step, requires you pay attention to what you are doing, and doesn't have a giant effect on the miniatures outcome, but does if you skip the step.

Preparing resin, specifically Finecast, and painting small figures.

I love basing! I love assembling and kitbashing. Worst parts for me are cleaning off any mould lines or flash, and the bit where you've got your base coats down, you've got a few highlights down, but the model just looks like a mess... I hate that bit

I also dislike touching up the bits that have been chipped off because your cat has it in for you, especially if your on highlighting duty

Removing mould lines. That's literally the only part of the hobby I don't enjoy. Especially on ribbed areas like power cables or plasma gun coils.

Try to split up your basing work, it might make it more fun. I apply gravel, ballast, rocks, terrain, etc. after modeling and before painting. Then I'll paint the base as I'm doing the feet so weathering is more convenient. By the time you've finished, all I you have to do is flock and add foliage at that point, which basically becomes putting the icing on the cake!

As in it is fun and rewarding, not that you should eat it.

 Duskweaver wrote:
Removing mould lines. That's literally the only part of the hobby I don't enjoy. Especially on ribbed areas like power cables or plasma gun coils.

Agree on the ribbed sections. Designers really need to avoid mold lining those sections because its almost impossible to not flatten the ribs with a file, or use a scraper at all.

My most hated aspect is base-painting and doing the initial color-blocking on a model. Idk why, but all the work of putting down 2 or 3 layers of base paint to still have the model look like butt because I still need to shade and highlight is just... Aggravating. Contrast paints are incredibly helpful thankfully. I enjoy using them in place of the standard base colors.

...maybe this was just a problem of using a black primer since I lean towards a watercolor-like painting technique. *Shrugs*

Edit: not trying to get around the profanity filter, so I'm just gonna change that quick

And i hate assembling also because im always afraid i have not put the things together correctly, even though theres nobs that fit in to slots. So i usually press the two pieces too hard against each other because i want dont want gaps, but then this some times is dangerous, because your fingures slip and you can accidentally get super glue on a part of the model it was not supposed to be lol.

 Stormatious wrote:
And i hate assembling also because im always afraid i have not put the things together correctly, even though theres nobs that fit in to slots. So i usually press the two pieces too hard against each other because i want dont want gaps, but then this some times is dangerous, because your fingures slip and you can accidentally get super glue on a part of the model it was not supposed to be lol.

Erm, why are you using superglue for plastic when there exists plastic glue?

Building, I like painting, but don't find cutting pieces off of sprues, cleaning up mold lines, dry fitting, gluing, filling gaps with Green Stuff any fun at all.

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Stormatious wrote:
And i hate assembling also because im always afraid i have not put the things together correctly, even though theres nobs that fit in to slots. So i usually press the two pieces too hard against each other because i want dont want gaps, but then this some times is dangerous, because your fingures slip and you can accidentally get super glue on a part of the model it was not supposed to be lol.

Erm, why are you using superglue for plastic when there exists plastic glue?

Whats the big deal?, i have only used super glue for ALL of my models lol. ( not a real laugh because im slightly worried )

Why should you use plastic glue over super glue?.


Thank you very much.

 Stormatious wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Stormatious wrote:
And i hate assembling also because im always afraid i have not put the things together correctly, even though theres nobs that fit in to slots. So i usually press the two pieces too hard against each other because i want dont want gaps, but then this some times is dangerous, because your fingures slip and you can accidentally get super glue on a part of the model it was not supposed to be lol.

Erm, why are you using superglue for plastic when there exists plastic glue?

Whats the big deal?, i have only used super glue for ALL of my models lol. ( not a real laugh because im slightly worried )

Why should you use plastic glue over super glue?.


Thank you very much.

Because plastic glue is not instant, you can however use less force and get an overall more stable model due to it generally partially melting and then hardening the plastic combining two pieces into one.
It's also more forgiving overall if you made slight mistakes.

might help you in the future.

Removing mold lines and basing for me.

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Stormatious wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Stormatious wrote:
And i hate assembling also because im always afraid i have not put the things together correctly, even though theres nobs that fit in to slots. So i usually press the two pieces too hard against each other because i want dont want gaps, but then this some times is dangerous, because your fingures slip and you can accidentally get super glue on a part of the model it was not supposed to be lol.

Erm, why are you using superglue for plastic when there exists plastic glue?

Whats the big deal?, i have only used super glue for ALL of my models lol. ( not a real laugh because im slightly worried )

Why should you use plastic glue over super glue?.


Thank you very much.

Because plastic glue is not instant, you can however use less force and get an overall more stable model due to it generally partially melting and then hardening the plastic combining two pieces into one.
It's also more forgiving overall if you made slight mistakes.

might help you in the future.

Wow interesting, thanks for that.

 Stormatious wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Stormatious wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Stormatious wrote:
And i hate assembling also because im always afraid i have not put the things together correctly, even though theres nobs that fit in to slots. So i usually press the two pieces too hard against each other because i want dont want gaps, but then this some times is dangerous, because your fingures slip and you can accidentally get super glue on a part of the model it was not supposed to be lol.

Erm, why are you using superglue for plastic when there exists plastic glue?

Whats the big deal?, i have only used super glue for ALL of my models lol. ( not a real laugh because im slightly worried )

Why should you use plastic glue over super glue?.


Thank you very much.

Because plastic glue is not instant, you can however use less force and get an overall more stable model due to it generally partially melting and then hardening the plastic combining two pieces into one.
It's also more forgiving overall if you made slight mistakes.

might help you in the future.

Wow interesting, thanks for that i never knew.

NP: no master dropped from the heavens yet.
Atleast not to my knowledge

Superglue is fine though for resin miniatures. Resin generally does not react with plastic glue. Superglue would be nice though in that case but general Resin model rules apply in that preparation.
( Washing, wearing gasmask equivalent, fixing bayonett in case the kriegers tries funny things that sort of thing)

I think the reason i used it was because if you ever needed to take some thing off the model, super glue was easier to break it off with instead of slicing through it. But i dont see why i would ever need to break some thing off so it doesn't make much sense i guess, but i do like the feeling of being able to possibly pull a peice of the model off with out having to cut it or what ever.


But i'll have to think about this one next time.

Edge highlighting for me. I always put it off due to a fear of making a mess of it yet I don't recall ever making a paint job look worse because of my highlights. Quite the opposite actually.

 Stormatious wrote:
I think the reason i used it was because if you ever needed to take some thing off the model, super glue was easier to break it off with instead of slicing through it. But i dont see why i would ever need to break some thing off so it doesn't make much sense i guess, but i do like the feeling of being able to possibly pull a peice of the model off with out having to cut it or what ever.


But i'll have to think about this one next time.

You can do that still easier with the plastic glue, the bond whilest stronger then Superglue is still somewhat easy to break, if you don't dump the model in it so to speak.

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Stormatious wrote:
I think the reason i used it was because if you ever needed to take some thing off the model, super glue was easier to break it off with instead of slicing through it. But i dont see why i would ever need to break some thing off so it doesn't make much sense i guess, but i do like the feeling of being able to possibly pull a peice of the model off with out having to cut it or what ever.


But i'll have to think about this one next time.

You can do that still easier with the plastic glue, the bond whilest stronger then Superglue is still somewhat easy to break, if you don't dump the model in it so to speak.

Oh cool, thank you.

Cleaning mold lines and flash.

I could never do that again and die a happy man, but I know there are many more models to clean ahead in my future.

I superglue plastic all the time. superglues are easier to find in shops and i can buy millions of them. I've only ever seen poly cements in model shops. I have a pot of GW poly cement from conquest but its not often used.


Cant believe the hate for basing here. Crazy

I quite like building, and find priming with my airbrush quite satisfying. I find going from 'primed plus a base coat' to 'finished' the most annoying. All the detail work just takes me forever to get to a point where I'm satisfied.

1. Cleaning any kind of resin/finecats..
2. Putting down base coat on a batch of dudes... Zzzzz..

I probably enjoy the basing side and doing fine detail/highlighting /edging the most.


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 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
I superglue plastic all the time. superglues are easier to find in shops and i can buy millions of them. I've only ever seen poly cements in model shops. I have a pot of GW poly cement from conquest but its not often used.


Cant believe the hate for basing here. Crazy

I know right?? I like it as it allows me to go nuts and experiment with different textures.

All of it.
None of it.

Contradiction? Indeed.

If painting gets tedious, I assemble. When assembly gets tedious, I prime. When priming gets tedious, I paint. When painting gets tedious....

With this hobby, there are so many steps, and thing you can do, that no part of the process should be any more tedious than any other. I prefer to see it all as part of the process, and if I don't feel like painting, there's always something else that needs to be done. And that alone injects enough variety in the process that it shouldn't ever feel tedious.

At least that's my approach. And I always enjoy any part of the hobby.

Base coating. The whole process of slapping on the base colors and getting every part neatly filled in is easily the most mind numbing part of the painting process.

But the worst part of the hobby process overall is the assembly. Doing a single hero or vehicle isn't too bad, but 40k often demands assembly of dozens or hundreds of the same model. Building multiple copies of the same vehicle sucks. Building 30+ infantry sucks.

Monopose makes this even worse. Even if monopose figures are a little easier to build, the payoff is significantly lower for the amount of effort involved, since you are literally doing 100% identical work for a 100% identical end result. We invented machines to do precisely this sort of thing.