Blipvertus multigame Dwarf army

Be lazy.

I paint whole armies and I just don’t want to spend a lot of time painting any one thing. Heroes and special characters, sure. But not whole armies.

Here’s my way. My way is not THE way. It’s A way. And it works for me.

First, choose good minis. A nice sculpt will look good with less effort. Bad or very plain sculpts will require more effort because the painting will have to be of a higher quality in order to impart some character to the models.

Second, just sit and look at the minis and think about how you’re going to paint them.  Have a plan, try it and see if it works for you. If not, try another plan.

Third, where practical, combine steps. I generally like to base coat with colored primers to save a step. And generally I like to Prime in a color that’ll be the majority color.

Now for this army and it’s horde of chain mail clad dwarves you’d think I’d go with a metallic silver. Instead I went with the Wolf Grey.  While the hands and faces are still accessible on most of the minis, the cloth coats are very small details and surrounded by other details.  So I decided those would be Wolf Grey, as it’ll be a nice contrast to the chain mail, and base coating in Wolf Grey will save time because I won’t have to try to be super precise to get to those smaller details.

Fourth, paint from the inside out. For this army, from the skin out. This is because on sword and shield armies the flesh is usually in the most recessed parts of the minis. And that’s generally the case here.

Fifth, paint in assembly line fashion. Choose a color, then paint that color on all the minis. For this army I’ll group the minis in Saga sized units of eight or twelve minis at a time. This is a small enough number of minis not to get overwhelmed and when finished, I’ll have a complete unit. Both of these points will help to keep my motivation up.

There it is. That’s my plan.