Am I the only one that gets "Painting fatigue"? I can only paint like one or two miniatures a month, and I Am exausted, physically and mentally after, or Am I exaggerating and this hobby is not for me?
>>97965270one or two minis a month is more than mostthe grey tide consumes allALSO, try batch painting.
>>97965270>or Am I exaggerating and this hobby is not for me?Maybe. But why do you need to paint more miniatures than 2 per month? To complete an army?If its just that, look into speedpainting with or without contrast/speedpaints and batch paint the shit out of your dudes, and force yourself to complete your army, and once you are done, you can play pretty much forever and never have to paint again. But if you paint, for the sake of painting, and you still kinda hate it.. just look for a different hobby.But seriously, if its to get an army painted, just use speedpaints. Pic related (+4 vehicles not on the pic) is what i painted in the last 3,5-4 weeks. Bases and base rims is what is really causing me fatigue, so i always do it at the very last step, when i can do all minis at once.
>>97965270Wow, what a genuinely pathetic excuse for a human being. Truly a waste of a life
>>97965390But that is the only reason I paint
>>97965270Depends. If you mean "man I slapchopped and contrasted two minis I'm fucking exhausted" get your Vitamin D and Iron checked.If you mean "I start to finished a complete and complex paintjob" that's entirely reasonable. Practice may make you faster, but there's nothing evil about not wanting to make it a second job.Doing it at all is plenty good. Don't feel like you have to race.
>>97965270Probably not a good hobby for you but you could just play games with smaller miniature counts.
>>97965690best post
I get it welhen there's nothing to look forward too. As in, if I know I have a game coming up, ill be super focused on painting my squads. If its just painting to paint, I dont get much out of it. Usually comes in waves though, the fatigue.
>>97965270My problem is that I need everything perfect to feel comfortable painting. I need to have just dusted the day before (entire room), it needs to be not cold enough for the furnace to run, and I need to have vigorously agitated all of my paints twice (once the day before, once right before painting). And then I can only paint for about two days consecutively before I get neurotic about dust building back up.
>>97965270I cannot stress this enough, paint small parts to completion. Varnish and all. Then go do something else. Coming back a model with a section fully done is mentally invigorating, real dopamine box-ticking stuff. Coming back to a model in a state of colour chaos is honestly draining. Pic related, feels good man.
>>97970048This. Unless you're doing a scheme where you wash the entire figure in a single shade there is no reason to basecoat everything at the same time.It's a choice between grimly going "trust the process trust the process" or actually seeing progress over time.
>>97970584I always batchpaint - color 1, color 2, color 3... wash 1, wash 2, highlights 1, highlights 2 - and 10 guys are done.
>>97970777You would be a great factory worker in china. Batchpainting like this is absolute cancer. Only bug people can endure it.
>>97971293getting shit done is not cancer, its amazing.
>>97970048>>97970584This is rather subjective, I tend to get more of a feeling of progress by blocking in at least the major colours first.
>>97965270Switching to a mini from a different faction/game helps me a lot when I'm feeling a bit burned out with what I'm painting right now. But I'm mostly painting for skirmish games or just for the sake of it. I honestly can't imagine painting an entire big army in any decent amount of time without getting sick of it 33% in. Variety is important.
>>97966390Get your OCD fixed anon. Shit like that eats up your life
>>97970777I used to paint like that but I find I get better quality when I can stay on track with a single part without having to come back to it and forgetting where I was.That said, you're probably both better with speed and quality than I am so this is not that much of a benchmark.
