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So I love this game but I need tips because its getting kinda annoying lol.
So my army is mostly unpainted (like 7 cultists painted) and my attention span is real low, at times I got all my paints and models and was ready to paint and before I really did anything just got bored and stopped lol.
This seems clear I should get a freind to paint them, except that would annoy me because I want them painted by me XD.
Please help me, I want to actually have painted models XD

I find the best thing to do to get me motivated is enter a tournament; you need your army painted and based to enter so it becomes a necessity to do your painting rather than just something I want to do.

The thing with the friend is actually a good idea, but don't let him paint your models, each of you paint their own models. That way you can talk to each other so you don't get bored that fast and you can give tips to another if one of you is particularly good on a special technique.

Seek shortcuts. Find low-precision techniques you can do quickly (basecoat a light colour, then glaze down). Paint somewhere you can have a movie/TV running in the background so if you get bored you can take a quick break without walking away from the table/clearing stuff up.

Hang with a friend and put something on the tv you don't have to watch; something like standup comedy or something you've watched already. But painting with a friend is a HUGE help!

Keep your painting sessions short.. one day say "I'm going to base coat all the skin on there 5 models". Maybe next day hit those 5 models with a wash, next day highlight, ect ect ect. Don't layout 100 models in front of you that's just a morale killer and seems like a never ending task.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Hang with a friend and put something on the tv you don't have to watch; something like standup comedy or something you've watched already. But painting with a friend is a HUGE help!

I like the ISO-standard Hunger-Games-clone dystopian-teenagers genre (ex. The 100, Shannara (for things on Netflix)) for this. You can still follow the plot pretty easily even if you're only actually watching every other five minute chunk.

Play Imperial Knights.

 n0t_u wrote:
Play Imperial Knights.

The logic behind this suggestion (paint a few big models instead of a bunch of little ones) also applies to playing Guard Armoured Company, 30k Knights, 30k Mechanicum, Farsight Enclaves, and to a lesser extent Deathwatch, Grey Knights, and White Scars/Ravenwing.

Keep your sessions short but constant - an hour every night will see you churning them out.

Paint in batches of 5 to 8 minis. Do one colour on every model, then the next, and so on. Painting five minis this way takes a lot less than painting five minis one after the other.

As others have said, sit with the TV on, or the radio. The commentary tracks on DVDs are great for this.

Again, what they said - paint with others. Or sit in the room with your partner, if you have one, while they do hobbies or watch TV.

Use every trick in the book. You can paint uniforms by layering washes, then actually paint the boots, face, belts and weapon. Looks brilliant. Another way that some people use is to drybrush up from a dark basecoat (grey or black) to white, then use coloured glazes to stain the model.

Use the dip. Or its equivalent with coloured washes on each area. Honestly even just basecoat + wash can look decent if you're careful and sparing with the wash (you can wipe off excess wash before it dries). I usually do a couple more coats - tidy up the basecoat and a thin edge highlight to make the model "pop". Remember the majority of the colour (80%) is likely to be the main basecoat colour, unless you're doing fine filigree on armour.

Want very thin washes that only settle in the recesses - for example, the panel lines in Marine armour? I part GW shade to 1 part Lahmian medium to 1 part water and you get a lovely thin wash.

Painting neatly and in colours that work well is a big step towards lovely models. Read up on colour theory and use a colour chart to see what works together.

Sell all off, start again with an elite army that you really like. The sort of army that only needs max 30 models. Buy them in the lowest quantity possible at a time. Do not buy the next box until you have painted the previous one.