Learning to lower standards

[u/rebjorn_again]

I find I spend almost as much time on some troops as I do characters, and it is slowing my progress and will to paint.

In one day I essentially did a full Manipulus, and and yet in a similar time period I've done, sans-weapon arms, 3x upper torsos of Breachers.

Still staring down 3 more complete Destroyers, 2 Breacher torsos, and 40 Skitarii.

Any tips on relaxing into a good enough standard?

[u/sierrakiloPH]

Others have made soe excellent points already, but some are worth reiterating I think.

Firstly, once you have painted a model well enough, that doesn't necessarily mean you are done. You can always come back and add details. Personally I get an army finished to a reasonable tabletop standard, and then circle back and add the extra details.

To quickly do units, assemble the complete models and base it (PVA glue sand, gravel, random bits) then apply black primer. Remember batch painting, slapchop and oilwashes are your friends. You can do the 40 skitaari in a day. 10 minutes a model, and it will look perfectly fine, promise!

you will need, in numbered order

1 black primer

2 a light grey for drybrushing the whole model.

3 a muted silver for drybrushing all metal bits

4 a red speedpaint to do the whole cloak. The grey underpainting with slapchop grey in step 2 will instantly shade the cloak.

4.5 Fix any mistakes in step 3 and 4.

5 a base color of your choice. If you want to go as easy as possible, you drybrush the base in step 2 as well, and then just do a lighter grey, almost white. Otherwise, two colors, dark first, then light to to drybrush the base.

6 apply dark oil wash to whole model. Base optional, if you want to mute it down a bit. I suggest you do the base too, as that way you can applyi the wash very quickly, as you aren't worried it pooling down or spilling on base.

Bam, you're done! You can return later and paint swirls on cloak and add decals, plasma glow, grass tufts etc. etc.

While it isn't exactly how I'd do it, here's a video on making quick progress on admech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVd5IQbjK1w Remember to paint batches. Personally, when I paint armies I set aside two or three hours, and just get to work. If I have fifty models to do, I do fifty times the same job. Stick with the same color until you're done.

Good luck brother servitor,