Cult Of Games XLBS: Speed Vs Detail – How Do You Prefer To Paint?
November 6, 2022 by crew
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It’s the XLBS Show…….Happy Sunday Fellow CoG’s! As to this week’s question….”What Are Your Painting Habits?” My painting habits and styles have changed many times over the years. From crappy paints and bad brushes, to really nice paint and artist-worthy brushes. Also, my time per minis has fluxed quite a bit with the passing years. Sometimes is 10’s of hours per mini, sometimes it’s 100’s of hours (or feels like it), to only minutes per mini. It depends on the game and who I will be playing against I think. Also, if I’m painted just to play or if I’m… Read more »
Happy Sunday everyone.
Happy Sunday, I’m still wearing shorts. It’s not cold here.
Details? DETAILS?!? I’ve got 180 goblins to paint!!!
No details here mate, no sir.
Painting details. ??
When Gerry zoomed in to Justin’s ships all I saw was the mould lines……I’m thinking dear god get rid of those…lol
Happy Sunday COGz.
We need the cold to kill them fing wasps or well be overrun by the bar stewards.
So when is the I.R.A. Theme park opening up then Guy’s.?
I thought that was Tayto Park
Lol.
Woohoo! A beautiful Golden Button!
Thanks so much for the kind comments, and for another great show! ?
Is that not why they have new paints paint an stain/dip an done.?
John John do a video John you need to do a video John if possible???
TANKS John?
Kid’s kid’s it a long time since I’ve been cauld a kid it’s usually another c word I’m cauld Lol.
Ooh a MkII universal carrier?
Nice one guy’s and great button winners.
Happy Sunday.
I never make notes of what paint I’ve used for something, I’ll just eyeball it if I need to repeat a paint scheme later. If it’s different I’m not too fussed and sometimes I find I’ve done a better job with the new way.
I tend to paint everything on a miniature, even behind shields, since I mainly play skirmish games time isn’t a big factor. If I’m itching to play a new game with no miniatures painted then I won’t say no to using unpainted miniatures, although this is quite rare for me.
Nappy Sunday *yawns* 00:00 still to warm here. 01:45 Welcome to the crisps podcast 03:30 It was Dystopian Wars week? I hadn’t noticed! 04:45 sparkly dress ladies? I’m sure Heresy Andy has some of those! 05:45 Jabbas barges! 07:35 Huuuuuge gap! 08:40 Liiiiiines 11:35 MY EYES! 13:30 Thunderdome! 15:30 SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED! 17:15 Squirrel! 21:30 building hobby during work hours?! That’s cheating! 22:00 BMB! 25:20 Oh, @brennon is still awake! XD 27:15 The first beep after almost 30 minutes… that’s a record! 28:30 Sad thing about writing down formulas: it doesn’t prevent you from not getting the paints again when the paint… Read more »
Napoleon made Dominion Tank Police as a toy tank. Also, it was pretty good art as was Appleseed
As asked Gerry…..speed paint for rank and file ,detail for Hero.
Choose a uniform or mass colour for your army and prime with this, pick out maybe 2 or3 other colours, job done. Your eye won’t/ can’t pick these out on the table at 3 feet.
If you do the hero’s concentrate on the face as this is the area that the eye is drawn too.then a little highlighting,and drydrushing to Artis Opus levels for example.Or you can push it to Golden Demon standard it is your army so go as far as YOU want.
A precious golden button, thanks very much for the kind words and even being Gerry’s leg for a short time. The SRS bases are wraithbone with Talassar blue over the top and dry brushed with white.
Happy Sunday,
always remember the Greatest movie ever made.
When I first stepped away from GW games to play bolt action, I wasn’t sure I’d stick with it so I went for a different way of painting the army. For the first game I had the force assembled. Then for the second I had everything undercoated. For the next game I had all the next colour applied, etc. For a pre-defined list it worked well and I had everything done in a few weeks, with games played along the way. If I had decided I didn’t like the game I could have stopped early and wouldn’t have put in… Read more »
I think my biggest shortcut was not painting a lot of the leather work on the Empire footsoldiers. Their belts, braces, any sort of straps are all missing. Picking up a single model it’s obvious but with 50 ranked up together you’d be hard-pressed to notice.
Contrast with my earlier 28mm WW2 Brits where I used three near-identical shades of green for their equipment. Now whittled down to one. I look at my collection of Vallejo green drabs and roll my eyes at my earlier fussiness.
Happy Sunday, i just follow John’s rule of army painting, if it looks good from arms length it will look good on the table top…
Speed versus detail, oh the neverending dilemma. Yep, John called out the analysis paralysis of Overwhelming Build Syndrome. An army build with so many units that you collect piecemeal for the ideal force. By the time you get it all together you likely well say “sod this what else can I be doing?”. This is where Gerry’s project butterfly effect comes in to play as you rediscover the last 7 or 8 projects you were doing before (under a few layers of dust) and fall in love with hobby again.
Colored primers and washes. Not only do you skip the inconvenience of spray priming (especially when you paint at night), but you don’t have to buy a new set of paints. You can use the colored primers as regular paints, and they cost less per ounce because they come in larger bottles. For individual miniatures, I use premade wash. For terrain, it’s DIY. I don’t have armies to paint. Still looking for a good DIY wash, as I had no luck with Les Bursley’s (sp) recipe for some reason. ):