Stop Painting So MUCH

GW's cruelest joke is having so many hoard armies have so much detail on their troops. Like good lord Orks.

I agree, it's good to (only once in awhile) put more effort on hero/boss minis as you paint. This way will help you improve your mastery overtime. Painting is fun, factory production line isn't.

New merch shirt "We live in an amazing age of skulls" Laughed out at that and scared my dog.

Funny how it takes another set of eyes to see through the forest. I've been painting since the early 80's and never once thought about not painting every little detail. Now maybe I can get more done. Thank you!

"Who's that then? " "I don't know. Must be a king." "Why?" "He hadn't got $*%! all over him."

Both my son and I paint minis. I tend to lean towards the less is more train of thought while he loves painting every little detail. His favorite Chaos Marines are Death Guard and Red Corsairs. There is so much detail, but he paints it all and the models look great. But I can paint several warbands or crews for This Is Not A Test, Stargrave, or even Kill Team in the time it takes him to paint just a handful of miniatures. He loves it, but I want my little plastic men ready to kill other people's little plastic men more than I want them to look like they're going to win a Golden Demon. But hey, each his own. It is hard sometimes to get your mind in the zone of "I don't need to paint this".

I personally paint because it is therapeutic and gives me a much needed moment of peace. Granted, my pace is slower, and I paint most of everything on a model but it feels so good when I go the extra mile. I don't worry to much about getting everything perfect because at the end of the day, I don't want my painting to feel like a job.

Alleluia brother, there's way too much pressure to push things too far in this hobby at times, people need to be comfortable with whatever standard they paint to. Your videos are great at helping in this space.

Unless it's a big centerpiece model, you're not really going to appreciate very small color differences at the distances most games operate at. Dense, complicated gradients of subtle color variation can even make it harder to parse at those distances, because it overwhelms the senses with detail. The real key to a good paint job, most times, is contrast. Breaking up the model into coherent blocks, so you can tell far away what everything is supposed to be. You don't need three different shades of brown for all of the figure's leather. You just need it to be clear where the leather ends and the metal or cloth or skin begins. Obviously, this is for tabletop painting. For display painting, you're meant to make it look as good as possible, because you're supposed to look at it real close.

One of my favourite things about the building process is when you get to the end of the sprue and it's like here are 20 optional daggers, guns, bottles, crests etc. You can attach to your mini and taking a hard pass every single time on all of them

This video is like a direct intervention to me. I so over paint and obsess over my minis all while knowing half the work will look essentially the same.

I remember John Lyons at @ontabletop noting that the US army in WWII stuck spades, boxes, etc on their tanks and then sprayed them green. So literally everything including wooden handles ended up same colour.

I actually love going back over my models and fixing screwups or hit areas that I once either couldn't do or just overlooked

Most of us aren't going to win awards for our painting? We just don't want to play with grey models. I try to explain this to people who are terrified of painting their minis in case they 'mess up'. Most have watched tutorials that spend hours on one figure. As great as those figures might be, that isn't how most of us paint, especially armies. And 'messing up' is how we learn. We strip them and start again. All gain, no loss.

I’m not a great painter so one of the things I find helpful is limiting the number of colours I use to a minimum, ideally three and no more than six. I saw a really nice space marine that was just painted black and dry brushed silver (including the bare head) the only other colours used were red and white for the purity seal. Sometimes less is more.

Important message for all miniature painters, honestly. <3

Thank you for this video. All these small parts make me overwhelmed and not wanting to paint. I'm going to keep things simple from now.

"We live in an amazing time of 💀 ☠ 💀 skulls" is now my favorite Uncle Adam quote.

Thanks! Never thought of painting the way you did with the pouches. Sounds so stupidly simple it's brilliant.

Great video with a great point! Have definitely left myself burnt out trying to turn myself into a factory painting line, now I’m painting up a necron army with a 4 colour (not including primer) scheme entirely drybrushed. For anyone struggling getting over painting every model meticulously, I recommend just trying to paint a small force of something with simple techniques to appreciate how good a consistent force really looks compared to one or two great miniatures with a gang of grey mates. And the best part is once everything is painted to a basic standard, you can always go back and add more details later