(1) regarding preferred and favourite colours. It used to be blue: I painted some Ultramarines and Deathskull Orks back in the day.

Then as time and my skills progressed it became purples and torquises but that kind of went out the window when liche purple and hawk torquise stopped getting made

Now I like painting skin, reds, granites, greens of various types, black, greys and gold. This is kind of a progression with getting better at painting, trying out different paints, learning new techniques, improving, playing in new settings and enjoying different factions and subfactions

(2) that’s a tough one I will come back to. It’s not straight forward to me at all. What I will say is since privateer press improved their sculpting technology and skills in the last few years, and they were always pretty good – some of them like Menoth and Skorne models went over the top with details, different surfaces, textures and overlapping items that, while cool, are hard to paint and a tad over the top. Like walking chandeliers

(3) assuming they are well cast and your pin picking out what you want and have a nice selection, then I can’t see them detracting at all. They help add to the setting, theme and story of your army. It increases the immersion

(4) I think that’s less a question of space, the design of the game and the hobbyist and moreso: we have never had a more diverse and broad selection of range and games to choose from.

This sums it up better than any write up I could detail: