Reply To: I paint every mini like it's my last!

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When I got back into wargaming 5-6 years ago I wanted to get everything perfect and not to waste a single model in the process. Nothing ever go done because I was tinkering around for just the right colour combinations, looking a new techniques. Youtube is doubled sided here, a great wealth of information, but there is always going to be something else.

The result was that we played infinity and when though 8th edition 40k playing with grey armies. And it was a paradox because we were perfectly happy to play like that or with fully painted perfect models, but not with just good enough ones. As I did know what the final army recipes were going to be anything that needed to be built in subassemblies for painted never hit the table.

With a busy job and travel I would never have gotten things complete though. And the reality was time was the most valuable thing. Now I have given myself some interim armies as practice projects which will make the table more colourful in the short term while I work towards my main army goals. Buying extra models and their cost is nothing in comparison to the lost time worrying about getting things right first time around or not having something ready for the rare weekend we can actually play.