TOPIC: How Fast Is Painting 6mm Really? |
Busy with painting for Blücher. Watched the clock to be able to compare this project with an earlier 15mm speedpainting project. I wrote a paint blog with pictures, here. "The tin soldier melted down into a lump, and the next morning, when the maid servant took the ashes out of the stove, she found him in the shape of a little tin heart." - Hans Christiaan Andersen - The Brave Tin Soldier |
Standard User Posts: 16 hangarflying 12th Apr 2016 07:19:16 In the very short amount of time that I have been painting 6mm, I have come to the conclusion that painting 6mm is a lot like watching Bob Ross paint one of his pictures: up close and in progress, it just looks like a jumbled mess of crap, but you get to the point where you're adding those last few finishing touches, and the magic spell is completed, and a jumbled smudge of vari-colored crap looks like a miniature happy little soldier. |
Standard User Posts: 4 cardophillipo 12th Apr 2016 09:56:19 Too true, just done my first unit of French 1914 Cavalry (Cuirassiers) and all the time I was painting them I was thinking not sure if these will look any good but when they were finished I was really pleased with them. Cheers Richard P |
I speed paint by using white undercoat, bright colours and then a wash of Army painter ink. A little goes a long way |
Standard User Posts: 20 tdumontelle 17th Apr 2016 02:55:20 I too am painting for Blucher. I did a test unit of infantry and cavalry and it took about 4 2 hour sessions. I completed the French starter box in about a week and a half. I am currently painting a 300+ point Russian force and I find that I can paint any part (jacket, pack, musket, horse) in an assembly line and it takes about 3, 1 hour sessions. And that is about 30 infantry units, 20 cavalry units and Artillery. I mount my strips to popscicle sticks - 5 infantry strips to a stick. |