How do you paint your infantry?

[Deleted]

just wondering what process you guys use to paint your guys.

i'm just looking to see what you guys think works the most efficiently to finish infantry squads faster...here's what i do...

*prime all sprues.
*cut and assemble 10 legs and 10 torsos to 10 bases.
*cut 10 gun-arms (leaving left arms attatched to sprue).
*paint basecoat of armour and clothes to half-assembled guys.
*basecoat gun-arms and left arms(still on sprue).
*re-paint everything painted already with the main color.
*assemble painted arms and unpainted head and knife/canteen *accessories to body.
*paint head
*paint face and hands followed by all metallics and pouches.
*paint all highlights and final details.
*base models.


i preffer 10 at a time since it breaks up the monotonous assembly line a little bit..
i used to assemble the full models and prime them all and paint them in groups of between 4 and 7...but it seems to take me longer.

what's your process?

[starwoof]

Well my usual way is:

Build all infantry models
Prime
done.

But with my IG I seem to have adopted:

Build one model
Build him some friends (1-5)
Base
Prime
Paint visors
Paint all the fatigues
highlight fatigues
play some WoW
paint the armor
highlight the armor
Metal
Paint the base
boots
hands
white
touch ups
stare at the finished models for a while
decide I want some more
repeat

[F3L1X]

i generally

-build all
-base them
- convert if i see fit
- undercoat them all
- paint the fatigues
- higlight
- paint armour
- highlight armour
- paint hands and face
- highlight hands and faces
- paint leather bits
- metal bits
- white parts
- then paint the bases

[jaxafett]

-thinking for one hour for new poses so there won't be any repeating in squad
-cutting parts
-head->torso->legs->base
-base colour to fatigues and armour
-washes/inks to armour and fatigues
-normal colour to fatigues and armour
-highlights to armour
-weapons
-boots, gloves and belt
-face
-grenades and belt-staff
-eagles
-touch-ups
-putting them to my case and thinking "oh god, there's so many left so i can play at least 1k..."

production line capacity 3-5
but soon i'll make it more at a time, it takes too long...

[The Refined Gentleman (M.I.A)]

I just assemble, convert, undercoat, paint. Simple as that.

[SirAndrewD]

Step 1: Assemble Minis
Step 2: Procure Lawn Chair
Step 3: Beer
Step 4: Sit in Lawn Chair, drink beer
Step 5: Get up, put minis on box 1 ft away from lawn chair
Step 6: Sit in Lawn Chair, drink beer, spray minis with can screaming "Yee haw"
Step 7: Paint one arm red, one arm white with a tub of Sherwin Williams and a $1 brush from Wal-Mart. Three colors and done.

Now, what I really do fully assemble and prime, usually black. I then just assembly line rank and file. I go 5-10 at a time, depending on my need to rush. One base color at a time on each. After based, do some close in work on each individual, move to next batch.

[Deleted]

1. Assemble 3 minis as much as possible (leaving shields, cross-torso gun arms and the like off)
2. Spray said minis and any loose bits that go with them (aforementioned shields/arms)
3. Paint all base colours onto mini, assembly line style. Leather areas brown, armour areas grey, and so forth.
4. Fully shade/highlight each base colour in turn, assembly line style.

The reasoning behind this is that they're absolutely table-worthy after step 3, which means you won't have to rush step 4 just to get them ready. You can take the time you want to really make them look good (I'm first and foremost a painter, to me painting a unit is pointless if I'm not proud of it afterwards). And limiting myself to 3 minis at a time means that there's a nice variety of colours and techniques, and if I loose interest, I'm never more than 10-15 minutes away from having finished a particular colour on them.

[Deleted]

As i wanted to bring a load of minis to work to paint and have limited space in my bag and didnt want to bring glue etc heres what i did this time (x40)

1. Take everything off sprues, trim flashing (not very well.. ARSE!!)
2. Build Everyone
3. Model webbing, assualt vests, berets etc (and other green stuff bits)
4. Stick mini to base, put sand on base
5. Undercoat everything black
6. Paint base (3 colours, not worrying about getting on boots\legs)
7. Bring the whole lot offshore.
8. Uniform (not worrying about getting colour on armour)
9. Highlight uniform (not worry etc)
10. Armour (bit more carefully)
11. Skin (let it get on the weapons, should probaby have dne this before the armour\helmet)
12. Weapons, webbing (and other bits the same colour like chin straps)
13. details (aquilla, bayonets etc)

40 guardsmen, done.... well actualy i'm up to step 13 with 10 and and step 12 with the rest.... oh and one finished... he's on the picture posts under 12th Tyrihans Rifles if you're interested lol

[Commissar]

* * * ASSEMBLE * * *
* * * PRIME * * *
* * * PAINT * * *
* * * BASE * * *
* * * DETAILS * * *
* * * VARNISH * * *
* * * A LIGHT SNACK * * *

[3ff3ct]

1.Soapy bath time
2.Cutty out time
3.Mold lines
4.Stick torsos to legs
5.Look in bits box for fun stuff
6.Stick on arms + fun stuff
7.Basecoat spray
8.Drybrush
9.'Wet'brush khakis and shoulderpads, helmets etc
10.Touch up crevices in khakis
11.highlight khakis
12.paint camo pattern
13.metal bits
14.paint and attach heads
15.looks in bits box for fun stuff
16.stick fun stuff on bases along with sand, rock, other weird crap
17.paint bases
18.stick blokes on bases

*steps 1-9 have been done 2-3 boxes of cadians at a time, and the rest are done per squad
**15-18 are usually done per box over an evening, then picked out and chosen according to which geezer looks the coolest on which base

[Deleted]

2-3 boxes at a time?! that's alot of guys to do at once...it takes me about 5 days to complete 10 guys...at about 2-3 hours a day after work...obviously on weekends i can make better time as i have more time to waste.

[zumbaz]

well to be honest I have 6 legs and 16 arms. So I can do Everything at the same time, but because I'm lazy I only use 2 legs and 2 arms at the same time and do it this way:
* Glue and cut everything
* Prime all together
* apply base colors
* paint and detail clothing
* paint and detail Armour
* detail whatever is left and possible redo some parts of clothing or Armour
* put them away and go doing something else

Mostly per squad of 5 - 10

[kommissar]

i often paint skin and then armor/costume,

[Deleted]

I've tried several methods, the first I thought was too time consuming, and sloppy. They both pretty much work out to be the same, I don't think there is such things as quickly building guardsman.

base sprues
cut out the pieces i want to build
glue them
paint them
-fatigues
-flesh
-armor
-weapons

This is what I do now
cut out ALL the pieces I want to assemble, throw them in respective piles
glue the torsos to the legs
glue arms to torsos
glue bodies to bases
glue head to rest of model
base
paint
-fatigues
-flesh
-armor
-guns

Now, I HATE gun teams, in fact, I have 9 left to assemble, along with 20 guardsman, and a tank.

What do you guys to do paint your gun teams? I found glueing to the base and all that leaves lots of gaps that I can't get my brush into. Do you guys assemble the guns teams before putting them on a base, then going from there? I want to try that, but I'm worry about stuff not lining up properly, and the arms from the gunner to the weapon will break. Maybe I just need to stop being paranoid and do it.

[Deleted]

i haven't painted my gun teams yet...but i have them assembled...i have the guard and his heavy bolter glued to the base...the other guy helping him is put together, but i'll be painting him and then glueing him to the base afterwards...i was concerned of the same thing when i was about to glue him on and decided seperate was the way to go

[Commissar]

Assembling guardsmen is like making a hamburger.

[zumbaz]

Oct 12, 2008 13:37:56 GMT -5 Commissar said:

Assembling guardsmen is like making a hamburger.

Yeah they all do taste very good,
but they taste better with ketchup!

[Commissar]

Also a nice tomato slice and some lettuce.

However its true; you assemble them much like you would a sammich.

[Removed]

I use paint to paint my guys...

LOLWUT

[ssgtdude (M.I.A)]

Gee you guys do quite a bit of work there. I've taken lately to tying a bit of thread to the base and dipping them into a pot of paint and throwing them onto the table.


No seriously, My entire army is metal so it is more or less that I have to clean the lines, finish any conversions and then prime, paint, and wash.

It usually takes me a couple days for each figure so I'll go ahead and toss out a couple at a time by doing all the same color at one time. (Flesh on all, highlight on all, primary color on all, etc...) in an assembly line fashion

[aeonian]

This how I do it:

- soapy bath
- cut away/file away all mold lines
- prime bits
- use blu-tac to place the bit in an advantageous position on a piece of cardboard
- basecoat the bit
- do all that funky stuff (i.e.: primary colours, highlights, inks, washes, etcetera!!!)
- Once the entire 20 man sprue has been painted, I simply glue together, and every bit is painted, even in the places that you can't see without looking really hard and at the right angle!

That's how I do! You should too!

[3ff3ct]

Oct 20, 2008 11:02:40 GMT -5 @aeonian said:

and every bit is painted, even in the places that you can't see without looking really hard and at the right angle!

Oh yeah, youre damn right

[Deleted]

1. Use college money to buy 1500 points worth of stuff.
2. Assemble the cheesiest army possible.
3. See how many gaming stores I can get banned from.
4. Cry.

[ReWolf]

Oct 20, 2008 11:02:40 GMT -5 @aeonian said:

This how I do it:

- soapy bath
- cut away/file away all mold lines
- prime bits
- use blu-tac to place the bit in an advantageous position on a piece of cardboard
- basecoat the bit
- do all that funky stuff (i.e.: primary colours, highlights, inks, washes, etcetera!!!)
- Once the entire 20 man sprue has been painted, I simply glue together, and every bit is painted, even in the places that you can't see without looking really hard and at the right angle!

That's how I do! You should too!

amen, brotha

[aeonian]

It's always worked for me...although I used to not do that *sighs, and remembers being ten years old and trying to paint an un-primed Sergeant Octavian from his Battle for Maccragge set*...yeah, good old days of ignorance and bliss, painting my space marines all yellow, red and blue and thinking they looked cool...