It's been several months since I last touched a brush to my minis for several reasons, such as needing the tablespace for college artwork, busy working, the lack of incentive to paint an army given how I live in a boring small town with a lack of visible tabletop gamers, that sort of thing...
...though what's probably the main reason is I simply can't decide on what to paint "them" as. Take my Tau, purchased once upon a time when I thought that following the instructions was a good idea so I glued the weapons to my crisis suits. (Oops.) Back then I thought grey armour with blue glowing lines might be a good idea, but since then I've been indecisively muttering about painting them white, or maybe white and blue, or even the snazzy desert camo colours just because it is a pretty snazzy scheme. Basically I look in the back of the codex, like 80% of the offered colour schemes, as well as get depressed that my models look nothing like them. (Since everyone knows that to get good professional results, all you need is just three coats of paint with no practice. )
What's a better way to avoid this sort of indecision? I'm thinking this probably all started with trying to get a whole army done at once. Sure, overall painting a unit is faster than painting a single model at a time, -but- as I type this, I have a hunch that what I should be doing is pick a guinea pig, paint it up while ignoring all the other primed models until that single solitary model is done, and if I (theoretically) don't like the final scheme I'd just be out one model instead of a whole 35$ unit.
(As for the desert camo scheme for the Tau, sure it looks snazzy on the cover, but I have a hunch that 75% of other tau players think the same thing. And white is such a nice clean "futuristic" colour... and an absolute pain to do it seems.)
...though what's probably the main reason is I simply can't decide on what to paint "them" as. Take my Tau, purchased once upon a time when I thought that following the instructions was a good idea so I glued the weapons to my crisis suits. (Oops.) Back then I thought grey armour with blue glowing lines might be a good idea, but since then I've been indecisively muttering about painting them white, or maybe white and blue, or even the snazzy desert camo colours just because it is a pretty snazzy scheme. Basically I look in the back of the codex, like 80% of the offered colour schemes, as well as get depressed that my models look nothing like them. (Since everyone knows that to get good professional results, all you need is just three coats of paint with no practice. )
What's a better way to avoid this sort of indecision? I'm thinking this probably all started with trying to get a whole army done at once. Sure, overall painting a unit is faster than painting a single model at a time, -but- as I type this, I have a hunch that what I should be doing is pick a guinea pig, paint it up while ignoring all the other primed models until that single solitary model is done, and if I (theoretically) don't like the final scheme I'd just be out one model instead of a whole 35$ unit.
(As for the desert camo scheme for the Tau, sure it looks snazzy on the cover, but I have a hunch that 75% of other tau players think the same thing. And white is such a nice clean "futuristic" colour... and an absolute pain to do it seems.)