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I don't know if others have found painting this way, but some models are SO quick easy to paint and look so good with minimal effort and others are complete and utter aggravation and do not look good no matter what you do. It doesn't seem that it is a matter of detail or brand. It is just some seem to flow and other do not.

Which models have you found to be easy. Which have you given up on.

I bought a Warmachine (Dwarf) Ruhlic Merc army and the entire 60 point army was complete literally in 3 days. I was amazed. It was like they painted themselves. It wasn't a huge army or anything 8 jacks and 25 infantry models, but they looked REALLY good with minimal effort.


Also I found Obliterators quite easy and seem to flow.

Conversely

I have found Mega nobs almost impossible to make look good. They are beautiful models, and I REALLY tried like 3 times to paint a squad of 9 I had. I finally wound up selling my entire Ork army because i couldn't make this one squad look good. Other Orks are usually easy. Especially their vehicles.

Space wolfs using Space Wolf Grey. I wound up changing the entire army to a codex grey. It finally looks good.

ORk sculpts are difficult (god i hate lootas) because of all of the details. MANZ are the same way - all kinds of little details that you MUST paint for them to look good. It is really demoralizing to paint full squads with all of those worky bits going on.

I had a problem painting the eSevvy model from warmachine, as it has lots of bulk, that is not detail on it. Hard to describe i guess, but there are parts on the model that should not exist, and they are just there to create relief in the sculpt - kind of hard to paint.

Tyranids.
Nids were the first army I tried, back in 3e.
After trying to paint my first Hormagaunt, I said *F* this and traded them off.

I mean, I know they can look good with minimal effort, but the kind of obsessive personality I was (am still a little, but was WAY MORESO at the time), every model had to be painted to character level (I was previously a RPGer... It was all I knew). I was meticulous and picky. It was miserable.


Eric

For me.. right now.. Skeletons are a peice of cake.. TOMB KING skellies.. those Vampire Counts skeletons.. much much harder for some reason. Zombies are also a chore, and I think it is because of the skin coloration.

My Orks also had a lot of steps.. whereas my Nids were a piece of cake (or baklava, depending), primer white, hit with a carapace color and dip!

porkuslime wrote:Zombies are also a chore, and I think it is because of the skin coloration.

Well, you'd better find a way to do them. God knows you've got enough to paint!
: )

Eric

Hard for me to paint: WWII German Armor it never turns out how I'd like it to. Horses of any kind just hate painting them.

Easy for me any type of undead

Easy: My IG troopers. Dark blue dry brushed with light gray. Churn them out at an amazing rate.

Tough: Ogre Kingdom models. No clue why. They just never look as good at the test model I did.
Funny thing about Ogres, my buddy Al can turn them out in less than 60 minutes each and they look paint competition ready every time.

The hardest I ever had to do was from the Death Korps range from Forge World. It didn't matter what kind of paint I used (enamel, oil, acrylic, pastels...didn't matter), it would flake off the edges and flat areas of the models(coats were especially bad). This was AFTER a double wash of warm water with Palmolive for removing the releasing oil from the model components.
...That, and anything that is a base of yellow.

The easiest have to be Orks or and kind of Space Marines. I have found that batch painting techniques for them are the best way to go and then go back and pick out the little 'bits'. After those would be anything else to a lesser or greater degree, with the aforementioned being at the bottom of the pile-but they do look nice when you get em done.

Easy:
Beastmen, tan/brown primer. Chestnut wash and/or brown wash.
Chaos knights and warriors. Black Primer. Dry brush silver/gold/bronze/tin bits.
Skellies. Spray white primer. brush with a wash mix of minwax and two other colors..I got the formula from a WD article..don't recall the colors, brown, yellow..black?

Battlefleet Gothic ships. Spray prime grey/gray. highlight done. Spray prime black, light drybrush grey/gray. highlight. done.

Hardest..anything/everything else. I can't see the detail anymore or hold the brushes.