Painting: Breaking Into The Hobby, Part 1

Because I am lazy.. tired... and running out of time. Here is a great post for all those people out there interested in starting a wargaming hobby.

"Painting: Breaking Into The Hobby, Part 1: "So, you've just picked up that shiny new box of miniatures, and you're ready to start painting them, but you aren't really sure what this whole "painting miniatures" thing is all about in the first place. You may have some questions that are holding you back - "What paints do I use? What do I have to do to prep my miniatures? What kind of brushes do I need?" - and so on. No need to fret, my fellow hobbyist, that's what this guide is for."

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Painting again!

Ok, I was never all that good at painting all those years ago. I tried, and from what I can tell from my later attempts (i.e. a force of 8 white lions) I was starting to get the basic ideas right, but never seemed to do anything that achieved... Well, something worthy of pride.

Enter my first attempts for 5-6 years... Some Dwarf Ironbreakers!

I purposefully chose to start with the rank and file members of this unit so if I made a total hash of it they could be hidden somewhere to the back of the unit to be removed from the tabletop in shame as the initial casualities of any game. But in the end they were... well, satisfactory. Quality control of some areas could have improved somewhat (as can be seen on the shield of the single pic) but the overall effect is good enough I think.

These were done at the beginning of last week, I enjoyed it so much I totally lost track of time! Next up its either going to be basing a load of slayers (which are almost painted, again by someone else) but just need that one finishing touch, or the command group of this Ironbreaker unit.

And it starts again.

"Right, time to stop messing around Anthony. Its time you got back into tabletop war gaming." Said the voice in my head.

This voice seemed unable or unwilling to respond to pleads of "But, its too expensive!" and "But, that part of my life is over, I don't want to go back." It persisted. And I cracked open the old box (Games Workshop delivery box, circa 1994) and arrayed the small pitiful, largely unpainted host I had with me in Heald Green.

From 20th October 2010

Ha!

So here is the line up.

3 Drunken Dwarfs (unpainted, and undercoated in white, which was the style at the time)

1 Lord (unpainted)

1 Cannon (unpainted)

12 Warriors including command (mostly unpainted)

10 Thunderers including command ( mostly unpainted)

9 Ironbreakers including command (unpainted)

11 Miners including command (unpainted)

1 Runepriest (exceptionally painted... by someone else. A story for another time.)

1 Pony and cart (unpainted)

...And some High Elves, prancing around like they were southern pansies from somewhere around the Southampton region.

I have more... In the world. But no idea where. So this is it. The start. Lets see how the painting and collecting will go.

Considering the state of my painting area... Probably not too well!

From 20th October 2010