Did anyone here actually turn it around, and go from painting maybe 10 miniatures a year (whilst buying hundreds), to being able to paint whole armies in seasons or warbands in weeks?What changed, what do you do, any tips?I need a new house with a hobby room I think
No nigga I paint one model a year at best
>>96953270>What changed?I became a father>any tips?I stopped giving a shit:- Complete each painting step for the entire unit, Tailor-style- One layer of primer, zenithal if feeling generous- Either one layer of base colour, or just one layer of contrast. Use 2 colours, 3 max, for the full mini. No need to have a distinct colour for the buckle or whatever.- fix the details you messed up, but only if they are really obvious- Shading (skip this step if you used contrast)- Dry brush highlightVoilà, that's it.And do that shit during zoom meetings (seriously, this actually helps focusing, while before I used to derp on 4Chan and ending up not listening to anything)
I paint a lot more and and keep my interest very high when im working on skirmish gangs of individual unique blokes, and I can usually get 1 a day done to a relatively high standard.But nothing kills my enthusiasm faster than painting 30 of what is essentially the same thing for a full army, which is partially why I dont play 40k anymore.
>>96953270>>96953329>I stopped giving a shitThis is the most vital step. There's this expectation that A; you VILL love ze painting and B; you will always strive to be better at it over time, or else you're not a *proper* hobbyist. Real progress comes when you accept that for you, painting is just a chore, something you do out of necessity because using unpainted models diminishes the tabletop experience for everyone and shows your opponent disrespect, and when you then further accept that you don't really need to "get better" at chores, what matters is that they get done to whatever standard is necessary for people to not notice that they haven't been done.I'd say have a look around at the various speedpainting techniques and strategies you can see online, pick out two or three with what you think might have the right balance of effort to result to satisfy you, and then set aside a few evenings of hobby time to just try them out and see which one annoys you least. That might be bog-standard slapchop or oldschool dipping, it might be something a bit more involved like Juan Hidalgo's approach(once you learn to ignore the Vallejo shilling he has some useful boiled-down techniques and processes to get a better result than basic contrast painting without *too* much extra effort or skill). All that matters is you remember that it doesn't need to be competition standard, and that you're under no obligation to improve over time - you CAN just slop some colours on there and be done with it, and doing that in a way that doesn't look completely shit has never been easier.
Another guy I can recommend is/was Sonic SledgehammerHe's gone full Army Painter shill since they sent him a full set of paints, but especially before he had some really great distilled power armour tutorials. We're talking coloured primer, basecoating trims and pouches with traditional acrylics, then "marine juice" wash and maybe a bit of weathering and a varnish, and basing. You're talking painting 10 Space Marines in a couple of days to a fairly nice standard.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JL8dbnoB3I
It always helps me to have only the project/unit I'm working on at my desk for obvious morale/psychology reasons. And try to do a little bit each day. Even if you're not in the mood maybe you could do some basecoating or drybrushing when you're unwinding with a documentary or movie you've seen before. >>96953329This is huge too. Started branching into historicals when I got into my 30's and a lot of the Boomers in our club grind out armies at an insane rate. The figures don't really photograph well but they're adequate for big games where you only see them from a bird's eye POV.
>>96953270>take ten random unfinished miniatures from the current project>take ten different paints that are used in the project>select a paint at random, go through all 10 miniatures using it>you're done when you've painted 10 miniatures with 10 colorsIt's a nice manageable routine
>>96954036There was a guy in Wargames Illustrated last month called Kevin Krause with more than a quarter of a million 15mm miniatures. And he wasn't even that old.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-1XfOpqWQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-1XfOpqWQ
