"What details do you tend to leave out when painting?" Topic

I paint 99% 28mm figures. Primarily AWI and now SYW. Some Colonials.

So, I hardly ever paint:

Eyes. Every time I see a painted figure with eyes, invariably they're too big. Googly eyes. Since I use Contrast paints on white prime, the face gets naturally shaded.

Hat lace. Naaah. Too hard to get consistent. I don't want to go back and paint black over the lace that went on too thick.

Buttons. Nope.

Yeah, same here. The Minwax 'dip" shades the face well enough. I might put inn the time to do eyes for a special figure but rarely.

I do drybrush hat lace on but as you say, do not coreect.

John, are you using the acrylic markers? I am finding that they are a LOT easier for doing lines, and also for correcting when a line is too large or askew. I did the yellow on the cavalry's legs using a fine tip, and then corrected the mistakes with the lt blue marker. Better results and FASTER than a =brush.

"So, I hardly ever paint:

Eyes"

This would explain John's nearly unbroken, winning record on the wargaming table. His enemy will shout, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

And, as a consequence of the OFM's cunning wheeze, they don't fire at all….

eyes .. at 28mm and 15mm, darkened slits do just fine

I don't do eyes.

Details? I don't need no stinkin' details! (OK. Someone had to say it.)

Depends a little on how bad the casting is. With a good casting, the face shades well with modern paints. Some of the older and more decrepit recasts, it's back to a fine white line and a tiny black pen.

Sometimes I do eyes and insignia, but usually not.

Lots on 6mm and 15mm

Eyebrows, finger and toe nails, and anything for which I can use a decal (eg mitre fronts- inevitably the decal is better than my hand-painted attempts).

I decided to stop painting crossbelts, canteen straps, etc. on the Epic 13.5mm ACW figures. Almost no one can paint eyes correctly.

Eyes for 15mm and 28mm

Can't do eyes.

Eyes as well

Yep. Eyes. At best I do a pin-point drop of black or in monsters/magical critters a bright red, orange, yellow, green or purple. But an actual eye pattern? Nope.

I forgot to mention Comanche and Texas Rangers.
But the idea is the same.
I think I owe it to the Comanche to at least attempt warpaint.

Boots for tank commanders…

Horse's hooves

I've largely stopped putting markings on vehicles. Maybe turret numbers and national insignia, but TAC numbers, formation signs…. no.

I only paint eyes on creatures larger than man-sized. Even then its basic,no catch light, etc.