In the past month, I've painted around 1500 points of Beastmen, an Imperial Fists Tactical Squad, Rorsch for Trollbloods, and around ten Khador models. I've been efficient and organized, and I've enjoyed the experience. I haven't had to sacrifice quality, because I've gotten to the point where I'm happily painting up to my optimal standard very quickly.
And therein lies the problem.
Just as in every other aspect of the hobby, it is my belief that when everything is going incredibly smoothly with your painting, things have to change. It's not my life goal to become some sort of sweat shop model painter, churning out good models at high speeds. Instead, it's always been my goal to continually improve my painting. While the work I'm doing makes me happy, I've stopped improving in the name of speed.
So here's the plan:
I'm going to finish my Beastmen, Khador, Imperial Fists, and Trollbloods for Libriarium Online's Tale of Painters. Most of these are down to a few models, except for the Beastmen, which will involve painting a lot of Gors and some Chariots.
After that, I won't have more Privateer Press to paint. As much as I love the models, I've come to the realization that I am not going to play Hordes or Warmachine. I don't dislike the games, but I have limited free time, and as it stands, I like WFB a lot more than anything else.
What I will have is a) more Space Marine models than I can shake a stick at and b) a new Warhammer Fantasy army to start working on.
So I'll start painting the new Space Marines (Blood Angels? Space Wolves? Salamanders?) and probably what will be a joint High Elf / Wood Elf Avelorn themed army. Instead of rushing them through, I'd like to make each of these armies an army of individual, detailed models where I push myself to paint and model my best work.
That's the plan anyway. Here's hoping!
Good job getting all that painted. I wish I could have been at the last tournament to see those Beastmen. I think you have reached a good place when you feel you can paint fast at a quality you are happy with.
ReplyDeleteI tend to paint a whole bunch for a couple of months, then I don't paint anything for a few months. My school of thought is it is better to get them done, and then go back and do the extra highlights and details. Granted, I usually don't. My other problem is I tend to paint faster than I play so it is harder to tweek my army lists to fit my play style.
I don't go back and fix things either. I want to have my next armies push me to that next level of painting.
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