"Least favorite thing to paint?" Topic

Hey all!

So, another thread had me thinking; what is your least (or are your least) favorite thing/things to paint?

For me, I would have to say 25mm horses. Uuuuughhh. All that work, and no satisfaction. Wish I could paint a cavalryless army, but that would look funny in ACW and TERRIBLE in Nappy.

So… what about you all? Least favorite thing to paint?

Funny! I'm with you -- 25mm horses. 6mm horse are okay, though.

Eyes – absolutely HATE painting the eyes! No matter what I do (or how I do it) they always look bug-eyed!

15mm Tanks. Vehicles of any description. In fact, I now only buy them painted.

But I love to paint micro-armor. Go figure.

Eyes! 28mm eyes. Sometimes they look nice, sometimes its fish-eye hairy oddball. I keep trying.

White straps over white small clothes and red or blue coats. White is hard to paint on with one coat.
Then, makingthem look separate and discrete without painting ugly black lines.

Yuck.
I wish I didn't like AWI so well.

Napoleonic highlanders in 28mm. The hat bands kill me.

Another vote for horses, any scale. They seem so much more time consuming than foot figures.

Highlander bonnet bands are not as bad as dicing on the hose. THAT one really kills me.
Figures. I like to paint highlanders too.

Anything! I believe in mercenaries, commissioned from professionals.

Rick

Just about anything that is yellow, although the Vallejo yellows are better than anything that I have tried before!

Gotta go with horses in any scale. Twice the work as a foot trooper.

Horses in any scale

Hair. Don't know why, just hate that bit.

I don't enjoy painting horses, but what I really hate is little pouches hanging from belts. I don't know why, I always make them look like limp pastel colored balloons.

Boring figures. Knights in full armor… black base, silver drybrush, done. Mostly nekkid chicks, flesh tone, hair, done. Bleah. Give me fiddly straps and pouches any day over bland boring minis.

Muskets, especially the banding on the barrels.

Everything. I get a kick out of building terrain.

French line infantry napoleonics. So many figures so little variety, I have painted thousands in 6mm, wore me out.

Yup, muskets ..! What a snooze!

28mm horses.

There's always seem to be spots between the legs you miss. Fiddly and boring. Unless painting dappled horses, but it's been about seven or eight years ago I did that.

Funny, I really like painting horses.

While I don't hate them, I like painting Samurai the least. I have difficulty painting the black armor and the armor lacing is just tough to plod through.

Eyes on 2mm figures. Just cannot seem to get them uniform;)

The lace on Hussar saddle cloths. Lots of very small triangles, usually lighter colours over darker, and they have to proportional, or they just do not look right.

ilodic.

Horses! I absolutely loathe painting horses. A pity as I like chariot armies. At least AWI doesn't need huge lots of cavalry. Some how my Dark Ages armies are all ending up with large mounted contingents.

Hah! See, I always knew people generally hate horses!

I have an entire Perry samurai army that is just sitting, waiting for paint; I painted a unit and it scared the bejesus out of me; no more samurai!

AWI. 'Nuff said.

Rob

Long Yellow stripes over the Pfalz Silbergrau base. Never looks good when you get done.

mjc

Yes horses, 15mm ACW Fire and Fury. Rider, horse, then the dismounted trooper and horses for the horseholder. GOD I HATED THAT!

Duplicates …hate ,I mean dislike intensely painting the same miniature more than once .

Ohhh… horseholders.

My buddy has two rather large civil war armies, maybe 30 or 35 units a side with 20 men per unit. He also has maybe eighty or so cav, total… mounted and, yes, dismounted, with horses painted to match. Woof.

I am SO glad Napoleonics don't need horseholders.

I agree with muskets. Few people pay attention to them and they're deathly boring to paint. No reward.

Miniatures! I can paint vehicles, scenery, cannon, the house, car, your house, your car, etc… but painting minis is agonizing!

Brian

"Highlander bonnet bands are not as bad as dicing on the hose. THAT one really kills me. Figures. I like to paint highlanders too."

Print your dicing out and glue it on, like I do my persian pants.

Me personally? I hate painting scale boxes.

Black! I can never get any sort of highlight that looks good. Whatever I do, it comes out a muddy gray!

Painting. Period.

Gracias,

Glenn

"Black! I can never get any sort of highlight that looks good. Whatever I do, it comes out a muddy gray!"

Ditto!

Landsknechts – and thank the good lord they don't make them riding horses!

Well, horses are great hearted and noble creatures, and my painting doesn't do them justice, but I don't really dislike painting them. But camels now--camels, I can't get enthused about, can't get the right colors for, can't do the color changes on the beasts. I've got a unit of Arabs on camels, and several pack camels, just sitting there waiting.

Oh, yeah, stripes--can't paint stripes worth anything and it depresses me to try. And I've got a Celtic army waiting to be painted.

Does selecting armies that require me to paint things I don't like to paint make me sound masochistic?

Grelber

For me, straps in general, but particularly the straps that go around the rolled greatcoat which is attached to the top of Napoleonic French backpacks.

Nightmare.

I must say that I hate painting dragons because of the assembly problems and the size. I work under a magnifying lamp and the dragons become hard to position under there.

While I dont hate it, I find it really challenging to paint super detailed sculpts, like the best sculptors do such as Confrontation, Tom Meier, etc. The eyes just arent there to find that tiny sculpted pupil, lol. I love the figs though.

Hair. 10mm, 6mm even 15mm – I just hate painting hair.

Tires on vehicles are a close second.

1st dry brushing anything

2nd horses (15mm for me but true of any scale)

3rd artillery guns

Funny thing is I prefer painting cavalry to infantry, I just hate painting the horses.

Cheers,

The Bandit

Bases. I often have a regiment well painted (for me) but for the bases then they stay on the work table for months before I do the bases.

x42

I hate painting white straps. White paint never seems to flow right. And so many figures have tiny overlapping straps.

I actually like painting horses (but mine are 15mm). They present a chance to get a little creative, and add a little variety, and they are a challenge to make them look alive. And I think I'm getting pretty good at it. Maybe I should cut a deal with some of you: I paint your cavalry, you paint my infantry.

There is a niche for a painting service starting out.

25mm horses.

I wonder if we all might support prepaints for the mounts.

Interesting concept – buy a bare lead Cavalry man with a painted horse. You can still say you painted the figure.

Button-hole lace on British Line and Light Infantry – half hidden under cross-belts and the Trotter pack chest strap – all in white! Geesh!

(Which is why I don't have any British troops! lol)

I don't paint eyes in 25/28mm. They just get a red/brown wash. That way, if the enemy holds fire till they see the whites of their eyes – mine are invincible!

Pet hates – hussars and 6mm highlanders. I LOVE to kill hussars – taking it out on the little blighters who put me to so much trouble.

It's been a while since I painted any cavalry, but I didn't have a problem doing so.

15mm WW2 infantry, on the other hand, are tedious beyond belief. At last count, my 8th Army dudes had flesh, khaki clothing, beige-ish webbing/packs, tan helmets, metal and brown weapons and black boots and hair. 7 colours (more, once you include shading/highlighting) on one fiddly little mini. And there's about a hundred more to do!

Mmmmm…

Usually nothing, I like painting. My only gripe is when I paint "in chain", painting 40 Denison smocks 25mm at the same time gets boring.

Painting mounted and dismounted variants of the same figure can be a real chore. You need to paint three things for what is essentially one playing piece. I've just done this for my US Cavalry for Legends of the Old West.

Working out cammo schemes can be also be painful.