Pain(t)…
I love painting, I do, but getting an army done seems like a task impossible to me. This started back in the days when I started to play wargames and continues to the present day. I enjoy to sit down and paint, but I am so slow to finish anything that it takes forever for me to get a cohesive force painted up, and by the time I finish a whole bunch, the old stuff looks bad, due to me improving, and then gets stripped and redone. I hope this will change with my Skorne. To motivate myself I took all the stuff that is assembled and put it out on the table:
My host in all its glory, or the lack thereof.
Now, I have a whole bunch of stuff painted, only that this wasn’t by me, so it will have to be redone. I will possibly finish it in the next ten years, unless Skorne becomes unplayable, then I possibly will trade them away. For me it usually takes 10-15 hours over 3-5 days to finish just one model, at least that applies to the warcasters. They do look quite good after that, if I may praise myself, but it is very inefficient. Over the next week or so I will try to paint faster without compromising on the quality of the paint. Some of the stuff I painted is here:
Master Tormentor Morghoul
Master Tormentor Morghoul
Now, this post does not have much discussion potential, but I would be grateful if you would be able to share your painting strategies, or tips how to motivate myself to get stuff done in a timely fashion, without ‘burning out’. If anybody has any tips, please share! Painting red and gold is very exhausting and anything that would help me get my stuff done would be great. I am currently working on finishing a few models, and I will make sure to share those here, maybe even get a step-by-step for something going, even though it might not be the best instruction as I include many ‘unnecessary’ steps in the painting process, which I seem to be unable to avoid. Thanks for reading, a ‘real’ post should be up in the next few days discussing some models in specific.
Mike
February 28, 2010 at 00:58
I tend to avoid painting everything in the same colourscheme, to be honest. If I were painting Skorne, I’d use the red’n'gold scheme on most of the army, but be sure to have (for example) Ancestral Guardians and Immortals in a different colourscheme, use some slightly different colours on the Void Spirit and Kovaas, paint up the odd Minion unit (Skorne synergy be damned) in between times, maybe even do a small Magnus the Warlord battlegroup so I could paint something blue now and again. Having something completely different to go and paint when you’re sick of your primary colourscheme can’t be underestimated.
I also think it may be worthwhile to eliminate those unnecessary steps – if you’ve identified them as unnecessary, do a test model without them and see if it stands out next to the others. You might be making work for yourself with an overcomplex method that you could afford to cut down and still achieve a so-similiar-it-might-as-well-be-the-same result.
March 7, 2010 at 05:17
Hey, nice Templecon recap, I’m one of the NYC players, hopefully I’ll get to challenge you SOBs during one of the TOGIT events soon.
I played you in an Eternal War friendly, and I remember it being quite brutal… for me :cP