A painting analysis

[ochoin]

I've just finished painting 8 Hun archers & their mounts.

My usual practice is to put paints away after a painting session but this time I didn't - amassing the several colours etc used to take them from bare metal to completion.



So: 1 primer, 1 metallic, 6 washes, 29 hues. From Vallejo, Army Painter & Citadel.

They weren't particularly "colourful" figures so I'm surprised. Do you use many colours?

donald

[Jeremy]

It depends what I’m painting. Medieval and fantasy generally see more, and a greater variety, of colours used than say WW2 Russians.

[ochoin]

Yes. It just occurred to me (I'm a bit slo) that no two Huns were painted alike, being tribal and all.
So more paints than usual.

donald

[valleyboy]

I think it shows an indecisive mind or character flaw- you probably should just have painted 2 opposing armies - one in blue and the other in red

[ochoin]

That's called 'Stratego' & there's a copyright.

donald

[Spanner]

What Jeremy said. My WotR figures take three times the colours to paint than do my SYW, even if most of them are in some sort of livery jack.

Revel in the diversity, mate.

[tim.w]

But what kind of blue.

I'm surprised how many paint colours even go into a block painted shiny toy soldier.

[Jeremy]

These paints painted those 5 dwarves and artillery piece.

[DougM]

I tend to leave the paints out when I am painting a core unit, so I can write down the colours I used, nothing worse than going back and trying to figure out whether you used silver grey or sky grey as the base. I counted 20+ on some dragoons.

[Wg Cdr Luddite]

Is this the place to mention that I have 6 x 4 index cards detailing the colours I used on every model since 1991 ?