Struggling to get projects done? Tired of painting but still love the hobby? This video can really help! Learn some tried and tested approaches I've used over the years to help me stay motivated to collect 14 different 40K armies! I hope this video will be helpful:)
One thing I like to do when I'm not in the mood to paint, is find a story to read about the factions I collect. It helps bring them to life and makes me want to bring them to the tabletop. Nothing cooler than reading about Chief Librarian Tigurius take on a Malceptor then painting him up to do it for real on the table.
I'd really love to see a video called "Inside the Scorpions Lair", I'm really interested in the behind the scenes stuff. Would be wonderful to see what goes into making your videos and what goes into your hobbying. Could be quite inspirational for others.
Great points! I use the “I can’t use it if it’s not painted” rule you’re talking about. That makes it hard to stay motivated to paint models you Don’t have in a list. I’ve got extra Ghostkeels, Broadsides, and Stormsurges; I’ll need an invitation to an Apocalypse game to get motivated to paint them. My gaming club a while back had an escalation league that required painted models and objectives. Between game weeks, we held painting events and gave bonus points based on how much you got painted during the event. I think I had never been more motivated to paint before that and ended up in the top spot at the end. Last point - Sometimes all I need is a different model or a different color or I need to build something. I’ve been switching between my red Tau and my green Drukhari, splashing in purple - and that has kept the ball rolling devoid of outside distractions.
I pledged once that I would never play with unpainted models, and it forces me to complete models I want to try, which sucks sometimes when I just want to play, but I would agree that it is the perfect way to keep yourself from getting burnt out on the hobby
100% agree with only playing with painted models and having a tidy workspace! One thing me and my friends do every once in a while is just hang out and paint a bunch of stuff together, usually terrain. We get a through it a lot quicker when working as a team!
I agree everything you said! Every tip and trick works, at least for me, and I've done all of them. What I want to add what you've said is what you don't do. Don't buy a big pile of models. It will be more that you can chew. I did that and now it is a daunting task to get everything painted. I work through it myself with small steps, but it will still take a lot of time. What helps that I stopped buying models, and focusing on just painting. Or if I really need/want something, then the rule is paint up two box worth of stuff before buy another one. I personally keep myself very seriously to the rule, only play with painted models. It is indeed a reward when I can put the new models on the table. I wish more people would do that. Most of the time I play against half painted / not painted / proxy armies. Which is still fun, but seeing two fully painted army on a good quality table is the best. I've tried doing battle reports a few years back, just with pictures and text, but my friends unpainted stuff looked bad on the pictures.
I started my journey into 40k a very similar way. I saw my friends Ork Codex at school and was fascinated by the cover artwork. Fast forward 15 years and I still love 40k. Some good tips here, I regularly clear my desk as it does get overwhelming looking at unfinished units, armies. I’ve even gone as far as having a cupboard next to my desk to store unfinished projects. Thanks!!
Very important video, I would agree with the points you made. Great stuff. I like to have a couple of different factions to work on. When I'm tired of Eldar, I just move over to my Necrons for a while. At some point I start looking forward to getting back to Eldar. It's like taking a break, but still getting stuff done.
Some really good tips in this video. Thanks SS! It's awfully consumerist, but I find nothing motivates me to paint more than a brand new paintbrush or brand new pot of paint... Especially with a nice quality brush, if you have been struggling along with a brush you've had for a while, and it's started to split or shed hairs... Treat yourself to a new, high-quality brush and the difference will remind you why you liked painting in the first place. As for paint... everyone loves opening new paints. Especially if it's a new paint from a brand you've never tried or a colour you wouldn't usually use. Reach out into those and you will be curious to try the paint in practice rather than leaving it sealed.
I really needed this video. I have 2k of Death Guard that need to be ready for Adepticon and I just haven't been able to build up the desire. Then you brought up the point about cleaning up the desk and I looked at the myriad of unfinished projects on the desk and got to cleaning up. Maybe I'll finally get some work done.
Funnily enough I've just run into a wall trying to get motivated, tidied up my workbench, found four part built kanz and, now I've got a clear workbench, I've got another four kanz I can finish building and then have room to paint them too :-)
Cheers mate. Perfect Monday lunch time pick me up after an unproductive weekend with my Tau. Hope to have a list painted before another update hits. Been an army of half jobs for 12 years :)
Another couple of things that I find motivating is joining a painting group on social media. Also when I'm painting a model or squad I sometimes put out models I've already compleated so it looked like the army is gaining reinforcements. As well as the things you mentioned here also. Watching your vids also help bud.
subassembly painting can help, painting 10 bolt guns, 10 heads, 20 shoulder pads it can really help as its small and when its done you get a sense of completion especially when you do the final fit
One video that always seems to motivate me is your first video with the Eldar vs Tyranids Apocalypse Slide show, the music and the close up pictures of the Eldar really get me in the mood to get my Eldar army done, im not sure how much work is involved in making them but id love to see more little videos like that with the other newer armies
I followed the 'no paint, no play' rule until one time when I put a squad of solid black Fire Dragons on the table. As soon as the game started I wished I hadn't. That was the last time. Huge reward for putting a newly painted squad down for their first run.
I understand painting fatigue and have wanted to just put all my stuff away more than once but two things that always seems to help me is switching to a new project (usually a new faction) for a while for something fresh to work on and putting a time limit on painting. I'm one of those that gets on a mission and would paint all day just to power through a project but by the end I'm just not having fun anymore. So I've found setting a 30 minture to an hour time limit or a project time limit (such as finishing all the gold trim on a set of figures) and then making myself put my brush down. These things have really helped me in the past and kept my hobby fire burning bright. Great video and great tips btw!
Great advice, learned some new tricks to help me with my painting. I have a rule that I go by, it is that i can't paint a hq or bigger model if i don't finish 5-10 "normal" models first. Because I enjoy painting the bigger things more.
It was 1990 and I was 13. I was in a book store and happened by a copy of the White Dwarf Presents: Warhammer 40k Compendium. The artwork sparked my imagination right away especially the back cover of the Eldar Harlequins.
I'm very lucky in that respect in that I am a creature of habit, I love my routines etc BUT what does help is a) doing the boring, repetitive things when I'm tired and listening to an audio book or TH-cam such a thing as the bane of my life which is GETTING RID OF MOLD LINES. 2019 .. and we still have mold lines on minis guys b) the old switching building and painting from game system to system or terrain to vehicle to miniature etc b) going out and exercising and experiencing the outside non-fantasy / digital world helps
Some great tips. For me batch painting is a huge killer of motivation, I've started painting in 1's or 2's and find that the satisfaction of completing a model will carry me over to the next one and so on. I don't get that same level of satisfaction of saying, I've painted all of the gold, now onto all of the red!
Awesome vid ! One that works for me is to read some lore about the army your painting. Really gets me motivated! On the flipside ... if you read some lore about a different army though it will make it worse because you then want to go out and by that army instead and just dig yourself a bigger hole lol (know from experience haha)
I started 40k at the tail end of 4th Ed and played into 5th Ed until I couldn't afford to continue collected and moved on to other hobbies. Now something like 5-6 years later I've started up with 8th edition and revamping my old CSM army into a proper Thousand Sons force.
I do a colour at a time, no matter how small it is. I can sometimes complete the task while waiting for the kettle to boil (A hob kettle). However I am struggling to build 10 Gargoyles at the mo.
Glad to hear your still in to the hobby you dont no it but your videos over the years have thought me so many tips on painting tactics army list your my favorite channel. Im a die hard 40k dark eldar player but recently really got into age of sigmar you should try aos also would be awesome cheers brotha!
I buy stuff only when i want to paint. Sometimes, i have a fire inside me and i just need to paint and do good looking stuff. Recently i bought 2000 points of eldar for cheap thanks to the battleboxes of Xmas. I painted all the 2k points in 30 days, i felt a bit of fatigue during the few last units. Now i started to paint the GW container box and tried a new technique on some primaris and i feel fine because it's fresh. After that i will finish my drukhari army. Whenever i start a new army, i buy a lot of different stuff, i have to paint the same things over and over. A unit of 10 of something is painfull to me. But a big unique model is fun and refreshing, even if the big model may take more time to paint.
I find also that going for units to a single model also helps. Like say you finish your 10 skitarii vanguard, then as a reward you paint a dune crawler, back to another unit of 10. Things like that 😀
Tip: Create a deadline for your painting project. I'm currently staring at 3-4,000 points of Orks that I decided to paint in January, which might be overdoing it. :-) I second the reward trick. There's a Cor'bax Utterblight, Daemon Prince of the Ruinstorm, from Forgeworld sitting in a box, waiting for me to finish Da Boyz before I can unpack him. :-)
Great Vid! :) For me it is really helpful to paint some characters from time to time :) Or even some Age of Sigmar...Some totally different to the standart Marines I have to paint up all day long. That helps me alot! :)
last point is definatly rigjt i painted 20 red scorpion intercessors and took me forever i hated grey for months after. i have 3 armies and like to switch between them. also gonna paint up some terrain next to give that a try
If you are going to shelve your half finished army take notes on what colors you are using. It is hard to figure out what uou were doing a year or two later
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Struggling to get projects done? Tired of painting but still love the hobby? This video can really help! Learn some tried and tested approaches I've used over the years to help me stay motivated to collect 14 different 40K armies! I hope this video will be helpful:)
One thing I like to do when I'm not in the mood to paint, is find a story to read about the factions I collect. It helps bring them to life and makes me want to bring them to the tabletop. Nothing cooler than reading about Chief Librarian Tigurius take on a Malceptor then painting him up to do it for real on the table.
I'd really love to see a video called "Inside the Scorpions Lair", I'm really interested in the behind the scenes stuff. Would be wonderful to see what goes into making your videos and what goes into your hobbying. Could be quite inspirational for others.
Good idea for a video:)
Great points! I use the “I can’t use it if it’s not painted” rule you’re talking about. That makes it hard to stay motivated to paint models you Don’t have in a list. I’ve got extra Ghostkeels, Broadsides, and Stormsurges; I’ll need an invitation to an Apocalypse game to get motivated to paint them.
My gaming club a while back had an escalation league that required painted models and objectives. Between game weeks, we held painting events and gave bonus points based on how much you got painted during the event. I think I had never been more motivated to paint before that and ended up in the top spot at the end.
Last point - Sometimes all I need is a different model or a different color or I need to build something. I’ve been switching between my red Tau and my green Drukhari, splashing in purple - and that has kept the ball rolling devoid of outside distractions.
That is some very sound advice and would recommend this video to anyone who was suffering with painting fatigue, nice one.
I pledged once that I would never play with unpainted models, and it forces me to complete models I want to try, which sucks sometimes when I just want to play, but I would agree that it is the perfect way to keep yourself from getting burnt out on the hobby
Great video Luke, its very true that clearing away all your unpainted models really helps. Also not buying too many models at once
Absolutely love these kinds of videos! Sterling advice. I completely agree with the "No Paint No Play" rule for models. Works a treat.
100% agree with only playing with painted models and having a tidy workspace! One thing me and my friends do every once in a while is just hang out and paint a bunch of stuff together, usually terrain. We get a through it a lot quicker when working as a team!
Your ork army is what motivated me to paint mine up and finally get playing , I've got 2k worth now and moving onto skitari with your tutorials 👍
great to hear that!:)
I agree everything you said! Every tip and trick works, at least for me, and I've done all of them. What I want to add what you've said is what you don't do. Don't buy a big pile of models. It will be more that you can chew. I did that and now it is a daunting task to get everything painted. I work through it myself with small steps, but it will still take a lot of time. What helps that I stopped buying models, and focusing on just painting. Or if I really need/want something, then the rule is paint up two box worth of stuff before buy another one.
I personally keep myself very seriously to the rule, only play with painted models. It is indeed a reward when I can put the new models on the table. I wish more people would do that. Most of the time I play against half painted / not painted / proxy armies. Which is still fun, but seeing two fully painted army on a good quality table is the best. I've tried doing battle reports a few years back, just with pictures and text, but my friends unpainted stuff looked bad on the pictures.
I started my journey into 40k a very similar way. I saw my friends Ork Codex at school and was fascinated by the cover artwork. Fast forward 15 years and I still love 40k.
Some good tips here, I regularly clear my desk as it does get overwhelming looking at unfinished units, armies. I’ve even gone as far as having a cupboard next to my desk to store unfinished projects.
Thanks!!
Very important video, I would agree with the points you made. Great stuff.
I like to have a couple of different factions to work on. When I'm tired of Eldar, I just move over to my Necrons for a while.
At some point I start looking forward to getting back to Eldar.
It's like taking a break, but still getting stuff done.
Some really good tips in this video. Thanks SS!
It's awfully consumerist, but I find nothing motivates me to paint more than a brand new paintbrush or brand new pot of paint... Especially with a nice quality brush, if you have been struggling along with a brush you've had for a while, and it's started to split or shed hairs... Treat yourself to a new, high-quality brush and the difference will remind you why you liked painting in the first place.
As for paint... everyone loves opening new paints. Especially if it's a new paint from a brand you've never tried or a colour you wouldn't usually use. Reach out into those and you will be curious to try the paint in practice rather than leaving it sealed.
Excellent advice, I think it's all about the psychology!
I really needed this video. I have 2k of Death Guard that need to be ready for Adepticon and I just haven't been able to build up the desire. Then you brought up the point about cleaning up the desk and I looked at the myriad of unfinished projects on the desk and got to cleaning up. Maybe I'll finally get some work done.
Funnily enough I've just run into a wall trying to get motivated, tidied up my workbench, found four part built kanz and, now I've got a clear workbench, I've got another four kanz I can finish building and then have room to paint them too :-)
Cheers mate. Perfect Monday lunch time pick me up after an unproductive weekend with my Tau. Hope to have a list painted before another update hits. Been an army of half jobs for 12 years :)
Great tips! Everyone needs a hobby boost occasionally
Another couple of things that I find motivating is joining a painting group on social media. Also when I'm painting a model or squad I sometimes put out models I've already compleated so it looked like the army is gaining reinforcements. As well as the things you mentioned here also. Watching your vids also help bud.
Great advice, I tend to keep all my unpainted stuff away from view too, and paint in small batches. I'd love to see your historical stuff too!
subassembly painting can help, painting 10 bolt guns, 10 heads, 20 shoulder pads
it can really help as its small and when its done you get a sense of completion especially when you do the final fit
One video that always seems to motivate me is your first video with the Eldar vs Tyranids Apocalypse Slide show, the music and the close up pictures of the Eldar really get me in the mood to get my Eldar army done, im not sure how much work is involved in making them but id love to see more little videos like that with the other newer armies
ok good suggestion:)
I followed the 'no paint, no play' rule until one time when I put a squad of solid black Fire Dragons on the table.
As soon as the game started I wished I hadn't.
That was the last time. Huge reward for putting a newly painted squad down for their first run.
Very cool to see you take the time to tackle this! I bet a lot of hobbyists can benefit from this video
no problem:)
I understand painting fatigue and have wanted to just put all my stuff away more than once but two things that always seems to help me is switching to a new project (usually a new faction) for a while for something fresh to work on and putting a time limit on painting. I'm one of those that gets on a mission and would paint all day just to power through a project but by the end I'm just not having fun anymore. So I've found setting a 30 minture to an hour time limit or a project time limit (such as finishing all the gold trim on a set of figures) and then making myself put my brush down. These things have really helped me in the past and kept my hobby fire burning bright. Great video and great tips btw!
Great advice, learned some new tricks to help me with my painting. I have a rule that I go by, it is that i can't paint a hq or bigger model if i don't finish 5-10 "normal" models first. Because I enjoy painting the bigger things more.
Great video. I always try and have an event to aim for, a tournament or big game. Gives me the encouragement to get stuff done.
It was 1990 and I was 13. I was in a book store and happened by a copy of the White Dwarf Presents: Warhammer 40k Compendium. The artwork sparked my imagination right away especially the back cover of the Eldar Harlequins.
This has given me motivation to complete painting my krieg, aiming for 2k but if I do it quickly aim for 5k by the end of the year
I'm very lucky in that respect in that I am a creature of habit, I love my routines etc BUT what does help is a) doing the boring, repetitive things when I'm tired and listening to an audio book or TH-cam such a thing as the bane of my life which is GETTING RID OF MOLD LINES. 2019 .. and we still have mold lines on minis guys b) the old switching building and painting from game system to system or terrain to vehicle to miniature etc b) going out and exercising and experiencing the outside non-fantasy / digital world helps
Really amazing and cool video mate. Very helpful and informative too 😄😎👍
Some great tips. For me batch painting is a huge killer of motivation, I've started painting in 1's or 2's and find that the satisfaction of completing a model will carry me over to the next one and so on. I don't get that same level of satisfaction of saying, I've painted all of the gold, now onto all of the red!
Awesome vid ! One that works for me is to read some lore about the army your painting. Really gets me motivated! On the flipside ... if you read some lore about a different army though it will make it worse because you then want to go out and by that army instead and just dig yourself a bigger hole lol (know from experience haha)
I started 40k at the tail end of 4th Ed and played into 5th Ed until I couldn't afford to continue collected and moved on to other hobbies. Now something like 5-6 years later I've started up with 8th edition and revamping my old CSM army into a proper Thousand Sons force.
I do a colour at a time, no matter how small it is. I can sometimes complete the task while waiting for the kettle to boil (A hob kettle). However I am struggling to build 10 Gargoyles at the mo.
Glad to hear your still in to the hobby you dont no it but your videos over the years have thought me so many tips on painting tactics army list your my favorite channel. Im a die hard 40k dark eldar player but recently really got into age of sigmar you should try aos also would be awesome cheers brotha!
Thanks for the feedback:)
I buy stuff only when i want to paint. Sometimes, i have a fire inside me and i just need to paint and do good looking stuff. Recently i bought 2000 points of eldar for cheap thanks to the battleboxes of Xmas. I painted all the 2k points in 30 days, i felt a bit of fatigue during the few last units. Now i started to paint the GW container box and tried a new technique on some primaris and i feel fine because it's fresh. After that i will finish my drukhari army.
Whenever i start a new army, i buy a lot of different stuff, i have to paint the same things over and over. A unit of 10 of something is painfull to me. But a big unique model is fun and refreshing, even if the big model may take more time to paint.
I find also that going for units to a single model also helps. Like say you finish your 10 skitarii vanguard, then as a reward you paint a dune crawler, back to another unit of 10. Things like that 😀
Tip: Create a deadline for your painting project. I'm currently staring at 3-4,000 points of Orks that I decided to paint in January, which might be overdoing it. :-)
I second the reward trick. There's a Cor'bax Utterblight, Daemon Prince of the Ruinstorm, from Forgeworld sitting in a box, waiting for me to finish Da Boyz before I can unpack him. :-)
yes me got in day and lot my minis are dun and just got get some place to play will see as you post
Great Vid! :) For me it is really helpful to paint some characters from time to time :) Or even some Age of Sigmar...Some totally different to the standart Marines I have to paint up all day long. That helps me alot! :)
Very good video, my tip paint when all the women soap programs are on, you don't upset the other half, and you are having peace and quiet.
last point is definatly rigjt i painted 20 red scorpion intercessors and took me forever i hated grey for months after. i have 3 armies and like to switch between them. also gonna paint up some terrain next to give that a try
I wouldn’t mind see some epic historical battles
Seconded!
Maybe one day:)
As a Chaos Daemons player painting fatigue happens often. The models have so much detail, and it being a horde army doesn’t make it any easier.
If you are going to shelve your half finished army take notes on what colors you are using. It is hard to figure out what uou were doing a year or two later
Great advice!
Really good tips Luck
I love cookies. My rule is I'm only allowed cookies during my breaks in daily painting.
Am i alowed to use/bring a forgeworld model in a gamesworkshop shop?
whats the most unique painting style you've seen? Does everyone go for 'realism' or are there any glow in the dark tie dye armies out there?
"paint in small steps"
me currently working on 30 conscripts in one sitting...
Crap, I thought this was a video on how to paint fatigues. oops