Stuart's Log of Hobby

[Stuart]

Why didn't you like your latest attempt?

As far as I can see your general painting style/system lends itself to good wargaming standard. Your figures always look good to me.

I'd get them painted in your usual style.

Personally (I have so much painting to do) I am now happy to keep it relatively simple and get the main colours on, shade them, with decent base - and STOP. Later I will come back and add some tarting up. My SAGA lot are pretty basic and I do intend to come back and pretty them up. BUT my intent is not to strip and start again, but add to the basic stuff I have already applied. That's the theory anyway.

I was aiming for my usual style but missed by a mile, bit like that friendly fire incident

It just came down to rushing though - I hadn't left myself enough time anyway, but the Vallejo paints I was using had separated and that took some time to sort out leaving me with even less brush time. There was also a bit of an accident with an exploding paint pot towards the end of the evening. The end result was lacking and didn't measure up - the basics weren't there and didn't provide a foundation to build on for tidying up, and the application of quickshade limits what can be done later to a certain extent.

I think some figures are also more forgiving than others - I don't tend to tackle anything extravagant anyway, but my SAGA Vikings are pretty straightforward to paint with solid blocks of colour that lend themselves to quickshade when they are applied watered down. The paras are a lot more fiddly with an increased level of detail, and in particular the desired camo pattern requires a little more freehand skill than my painting-my-numbers technique allows for

I'm trying to aim to play with painted figures wherever possible as that gives me impetus to actually get a splash of colour of things. I've got a couple of weeks to crack on with the paras before our next game so I'm confident that (if I don't leave it to the last minute again) I can get them done to a standard that I'm happy with.

Watch this space