Hey everyone!
Our competitiveness poll has closed and the results are in! While a third of you are hard-nosed tabletop killers looking for the challenge of serious competitive play, a near-majority favor a balanced approach with a good representation of both knives-out tournament play and storyline campaigning. Finally, a handful eschew the serious stuff completely and stick to their beer, pretzels, custom scenarios, and cool storyline gaming. Thanks for voting and letting us know what you think!
This time, we're looking to get an idea where you guys are when it comes to painting, especially after some of the recent discussions about adding detail to your minis. Do you toil at the painting desk to make every model a masterpiece? Maybe a quick, table-ready 3-Colors-Done scheme is your style, or maybe you never quite seem to get all your models painted, no matter how much you try. Let us know!
-Dis.
Once I start hitting serious diminishing returns, I'll stop. "I could make this 2% better with 50% more effort...no." For the most part it's basic colors, some washes/drybrush/minor highlights. Any freehand I do is pretty basic, I'm not one of those painting 1000 freehand skulls or something like http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-viewimage.jsp?i=77643 . But I also don't want to play with bare models at all if I can, and not for long in any case.
ReplyDeleteDepends on the size of game in the system. My 40K stuff tends to receive 'three colours and a glaze, done' treatment (centrepiece models might warrant some highlighting), but my Hordes army is settling more around 'they look good but aren't perfect', simply because there's less stuff involved. My Skorne are the only army I mess with freehand on, precisely because there are so few of them and I won't have to repeat my results across half a hundred models.
ReplyDeleteI am a fan of the more the better.
ReplyDeleteI'll spend weeks on a squad so each mini looks great.
Of course as an Architect it is in my nature to be anal and detail oriented.