The worst part is....

[World2dave]

For me it's the whole process of prep'ing figures to get them to the stage where they're ready to paint.

This involves any or all of: de-flashing, base straightening, assembling, modifying, as least 2 goes trying to fully undercoat, and often basing/texturing too (generally for single figures and 6mms).

By the time all that's done, the original motivation to paint them has been somewhat dimmed. But if it doesn't happen on a regular basis, I'm left scratching around for something that's ready to paint - like right now!

[garyp]

Definitely basing. On second thoughts, rebasing. Both as tedious as hell. Necessary evil though, because the effort is always worth it.

[Stormwatcher]

Reading through this, nodding, and going 'yep,' 'yep', 'yep', and realising that there's not very much of the process that I do like... Except that final bit when the unit is finished and placed on the table. It's only then that the whole futile process becomes remotely worth it!!

[valleyboy]

and I forgot painting white crossbelts which you have to do on just about every figure of course

[Essex Boy]

if you had square bases you'd love it

Tish.

[Shahbahraz]

De-flashing. I actually quite like assembling plastic figures and trying to get nice naturalistic poses. What I hate is when the sprues don't have enough basic parts, so for examples, British WW2 infantry squad sprues containing less than eight rifles.

[RMD]

I'd forgotten how much I hate painting hundreds of little triangles on 'vandycked' hussar shabraques... 16 Russian Hussars done, another 32 to do...

[MarshalNey]

The wolfs teeth are a nightmare - so easy to muck them up..

[grizzlymc]

Wolves' teeth, that's a bit over detailed.

[MarshalNey]

All part of hussar'ness