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 Mixzremixzd wrote:

What's been your reason for repainting? I'm trying to see if I'm onto something, overthinking things or just need a break.

So back before gathering storm I believe I painted somewhere around 80 marines, Ultramarines to be specific. After painting Guilliman (relatively well, but not up to my current standards) I wanted to repaint my men. So I stripped roughly 80 marines in large batches and went back at it and painted maybe half before Primaris came out and stole the thunder.

Basically I stripped them for practice. I really enjoy painting and want/wanted to get better. The more you paint the better you get. But this was before I figured out that you have to paint different things to get better. But I am really good at painting blue men!

Ps: if you do strip all models. Use 90% rubbing alcohol. Takes the paint basically right off with no damage to the plastic

Tyranids: I originally painted them dark red with black carapace and after a while I noticed my painting as a whole tended to be quite dark and I didn't like it, so I repainted them electric blue, black carapace with bright orange details. If you've ever seen a can of Irn Bru they look like that.

Necrons: again I had darker tones of navy blue but with bright yellow details around their Sci Fi Lines which aside from being a nightmare to paint was incredibly tedious. I found necrons in general to be incredibly tedious to paint so I repainted them a colour scheme I could knock out as quickly as possible. So silver bodies and magenta weapons/eyes/ribs it was.

Not for 40k, but I repainted 3 warmachine armies, multiple times.

Stripped and repainted my khador from generic red/grey to the green of the fifth border legion.

Stripped and repainted my brown retribution to metallic plate armour.

Stripped and repainted my circle/tharn to do a better job.

I've only ever stripped and repainted a Space Marines tactical squad and that was because the matt varnish frosted up.

I've never discarded or completely repainted anything just because I didn't like the way it looked. Sure I've had a lot of times where the vision in my mind wasn't being realized, but if I don't like the direction a project is going, I develop a new approach and figure out a way to make what has been done work. Sometimes that involves changing the vision a little.

Repainted my tyranid army since I have painted about 800 pts, contrast came out and I was determined to see how I can make a pure contrast/drybrush army work.

No regrets! Never spat out termagants quicker!

I repainted 6k of Craftworlds as i couldn't get the mqin colour anymore. It was a handy lock down project to pass the time.

 Mixzremixzd wrote:
I'm at an interesting spot hobbywise where I'm just a few Immortals and a Monolith short of completing my Necron collection and about halfway through in terms of painting (Which I do love by the way) but for the past few weeks I can't seem to shake a certain unsatisfying feeling and I've narrowed it down to the paint scheme.

Funny enough the current scheme I have is everything that I initially wanted it to be, easy to batch paint, primarily washes and drybrushing and focus on more realistic or desaturated colours. I suppose while functionally it does everything I wanted I think I've missed the mark aesthetically which is why I'm seriously considering stripping everything and starting over.

What's been your reason for repainting? I'm trying to see if I'm onto something, overthinking things or just need a break.

Well basically if a) I'm not happy about the colour scheme b) I'm also short of other painting projects. Recently point b has been big stopper(I have about 400 unpainted AOS models alone...I don't have time to repaint...) and been able to avoid a as well lately.

My space marines when I had went over number of colour schemes as I got bored with one and wanted to do bit better one.

IG army I redid once because I could not figure how to replicate old colour scheme with new one

Knight army I did was too similar to the official one whose rules I didnt' like at all so I altered colour scheme a bit to make it clear it's custom colour scheme rather than this subfaction I didn't want to play.

I repainted my Harlequins last year. Painted the first batch of the army when the plastics first came out 5 or six years ago, and then added more models in two future batches. I never painted them the same way the second and third reinforcements, so ended up looking different. Also, after 5 or six years of heavy use, the models were getting pretty beat up.

Stripped them all, bought another couple boxes of troupes for spare parts to replace broken heads/weapons, and repainted them all with a contrast paint focused colour scheme which was a lot easier to replicate.


Thinking of doing the same with my space wolves, as my two batches of models are painted a little differently, and are done with a time consuming method, and want to re-do them in a way which will be quicker to paint. Time is the main factor, I spent a good part of the lockdown last year having plenty of time to work on the Harlequins, but now I'm busy with work again, and have a puppy and wedding coming up.

I found all my armies were painted the same three bloody colours. :p

Raptors chapter, infinity ariadna and khador 5th border legion schemes were all traitor green, greatcoat grey and pig iron (p3 paints). And some khaki fatigues.

Had to strip my ariadna - id wanted to repaint them anyway but yeah, everything thr same colour accelerated my actions .

I've invested in a lot of contrasts so my yu jing and ariadna reprints will.probsvly be contrast projects.

Deadnight wrote:
I found all my armies were painted the same three bloody colours. :p

Raptors chapter, infinity ariadna and khador 5th border legion schemes were all traitor green, greatcoat grey and pig iron (p3 paints). And some khaki fatigues.

Had to strip my ariadna - id wanted to repaint them anyway but yeah, everything thr same colour accelerated my actions .

I've invested in a lot of contrasts so my yu jing and ariadna reprints will.probsvly be contrast projects.

I have a similar issue. Combined Army, Stygies VIII, and Shadowkeeper Custodes, due to capes, were all red and black for me.

Its a trap. Never re-paint. Paint some of the models that you haven't done instead.

I did strip and repaint some older metal models during my youth when I had achieved a relevant stepping stone in painting skill and realised the first attempts had drowned them in horrible clumps of paint.

Nowadays, with a much better painting level, I've mostly been content to touch up earlier models instead of redoing them from scratch. In honesty, though, it might be easier to just do so. Different techniques, individual paints not existing anymore and so on make it something of a pain to carry on from an earlier work.

I have stripped close to 100 Chaos Marines of various stripes for a few different reasons. I don't like stripping minis. I find it arduous messy and thankless work and the results are never as good as I hope, but I'm on a budget hate to waste models.

My first batch were Night Lords that I painted back while I was in high school. My technique back then could be summarised as "blob on some colours so we can roll dice" and they were dreadful.

My second batch were about 20 Khorne Berzerkers that were (as silly as it sounds) TOO red. The paint was also pretty thick to the point of obscuring details.

After that I've done smaller batches here and there for ebay rescue jobs or just erasing evidence of how bad I am at painting.

I have a sizeable Word Bearers army with really inconsistent paint jobs and I just wasn't happy with my Legion of choice, so anything too thick to paint over (most of them unfortunately) are getting dipped and stripped. I'd say I'm about halfway through stripping 3000pts worth after 3 years of small batches.

My most recent repaint (still over a year ago) was my Death Guard. Originally done in a brown and brass scheme I repainted them in Iron Warriors colours after a few months. Thankfully I'm better at painting now and didn't lay it on so thick so I just primed them black and started again, no stripping involved.

When I rebased my Chaos Daemons from square bases for Fantasy to round bases for 40K, I found a lot of them needed so much touching up (or flat out had abysmal old paintjobs) that sort of forced my hand to repaint them.

Oddly enough, my Tzeentch daemons required none of that...

Figured I'd drop by real quick to say It's been really great and informative reading through everyone's experiences.

At this point It's a guarantee that I'm gonna repaint the Necrons I have but the good news is I don't think I'll need to strip them (at least most of them, characters I probably will).

Old Scheme



New Scheme painted over the old.


I was initially worried because the models were varnished but pleasantly surprised how easy it was to just paint over what I'd done already.

Because they were from the era I was using just a toothpick to paint which somehow left both spots of thick paint application and plenty of unpainted real estate on the mini.

Good thing they're nurgle marines which means I can make use of the worst offenders from this era

 Mixzremixzd wrote:
Figured I'd drop by real quick to say It's been really great and informative reading through everyone's experiences.

At this point It's a guarantee that I'm gonna repaint the Necrons I have but the good news is I don't think I'll need to strip them (at least most of them, characters I probably will).

Old Scheme

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New Scheme painted over the old.

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I was initially worried because the models were varnished but pleasantly surprised how easy it was to just paint over what I'd done already.

Looks great mate- much more interesting! Think of it more as an evolution of the scheme - ive been doing that with my Nids - similar colours but a slightly different execution. Well worth taking the time over a scheme especially if its your main/only force.