"What do you hate to most to paint?" Topic

I think everyone has stuff they absolutely hate to paint.

For me it is chinstraps.

What do you hate the most?

Cheers,

Burkhard

It varies from figure to figure for me!

Oh, and it varies by scale too!

Any form of bare skin, but especially faces. I love power armor, full face masks, enclosed helmets etc.

Jeff

The colour Black. I can never get it to look anything but a mess.

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miniatures.

Really, I'm with Jeff and hate flesh.

Cavalry riders. Horses are fine, it's those guys on their backs I hate to paint!

Wheel spokes, horses, the spare room.

Horses are really just a mental block. There's nothing difficult about them, I just hate painting them and don't know why.

Tartans. I can do them, and they aren't even as tricky as a really good skin tone, but I just hate doing them.

It definately varies on the period and army but generally limbers, followed by Cannon.

Horses…oh and trucks and stuff that you need for WW2 games but are well….a bit dull.

Steve.

It's not the proper painting, it's the undercoating! I loathe undercoating.

Chainmail is a pain too.

undercoating, horses and trucks. I love chainmail…

Figures, as opposed to scenery or vehicles. I can paint them fairly well but incredibly slowly or I can paint them fairly quickly but rather badly.

hat lace

By the time I get to boots and bayonet scabbards I'm fed up and blitz through it.

The nooks and crannies in a figure. Seems like no matter how much I turn a figure, I always find some angle that didn't get a small amount of paint in the crook of an arm, etc.

Cavalry

28mm.My output is so much slower than 15mm.

What I detest painting are the black rubber around the rims of tank road wheels and return rollers – especially for things with loads of wheels like the Panzer IV, T-26, etc.

Bingo! You beat me to it. I have several tanks that are complete, except for the rubber on the road wheels. I don't know if I will ever get around to painting them, I have mentally checked out on those paint projects and taken them off my modeling table, even though I know the road wheels are calling my name.

Napoleonics, yet I like painting SYW. It's just something about Napoleonic uniforms that really irritates me.

Limbers

Horses.
As said above, it isn't the difficulty so it's probably the monotony. Curiously, the way I dealt with it recently was by painting almost a whole army's worth (100+ 15mm horses) before anything else. It meant I could do a whole load in each colour which seemed to save time.

There is nothing I absolutely hate painting.

Eyes for personalities and RPG figures. I don't usually do eyes in 25/28mm armies, but made an exception for my Picts.
I was a loony by the end.
What honey?
She says not that recently.

Endless straps.
M

Shields!

I agree on the tank wheels.
Now depending on the finish, I use Mig powders or the Tamiya pens for mud and cover it up . Yes you still see the wheels but the effect looks good.

Re: nooks and crannies- that's why I do a dark brown wash first to fill all those in.
Re: rubber rims on tank wheels. My tanks are very muddy so the wheels and tracks are all brown and spattered.

I hate painting Renaissance figures and anything Ottoman. Damned hard to find references that match the figure so you know what the heck that thing on the figure actually is!

White straps on dark coats.

faces and eyes

shoes/boots

The same figure more than once.

Boot soles.

Horses.

Gauls.

which make mounted Gauls the absolute worst ever.

If I never have to paint another Gaul again it won't be too soon.

I hate painting black because it is hard to get a good highlight on it without the black looking dark grey.

Turnbacks. I only do it for cavalry as they are hidden on most infantry (15mm)

Yeah,

Limbers, limber riders, limber horse teams. I hate these most of all.

mjc

Mobs of irregular troops, or militia-type forces wearing mostly civilian clothing. Uniformed troops I can power through very quickly without losing quality, but civilians--especially mobs--always slow my painting to a crawl.

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Artillery pieces and horses.

I pretty much hate to paint…

Bridles.

chinstraps, I've largely bailed on it, what do I care if there hats fall off, and there only 15mm high so how close do you have to look?

Ceilings. Hurts my neck and back.

Can't believe this thread go so far with no one dropping to my level!!

Stenicplus ruined it, now we have to start over

What I detest painting are the black rubber around the rims of tank road wheels and return rollers – especially for things with loads of wheels like the Panzer IV, T-26, etc.

Try using a marker pen. This works really well for horse bridles, straps etc

According to my wife the only way to get the house painted would be to shrink it to 1/72 scale

Horses.
Bores me to f$%#*&@ tears, almost literally.
One of my favorite things about having a Feudal Japanese army is the ratio of foot troops to mounted: 10-to-1.

Dapple Gray Horses. Which is a pain, because one of my favorite cav regiments is the Scots Grays.
Weaselhoffen.

British Infantry Napoleonics first you have the primarily white lacing and straps then the straps on the backpack and rolled greatcoat. They are obvious if left off even in 6mm

EYES.

I f'n hate painting eyes.

annd of course, chinstraps & horses.

But eyes… they're the worst.