Reply To: Where do you draw the line on detailing?

[captainventanus 5097xp 1]

It very much depends. I like the idea of really well painted miniatures fighting it out over immersive tables, but practical considerations catch up with reality.

In terms of setting up tables and painting terrain I will add in as much detail as I can – and sometimes I do go overboard – to the principle bits of terrain. I will not spend any time on scatter terrain or elements purely to make it look better. The reason is simple enough it takes even longer to finish and it ultimately often just slows down the game.

For my main 30k and some 40k units I will spend as much time as it takes to get it as good as I can – which will take a long time. For Infinity at the moment I do really quickly paint jobs with the intent to come back later and redo them when I have better skills.

For everything else (which isn’t that much) I have come to the conclusion I am more interested in gaming than getting things perfect so I tend to do simple jobs. Right now I am painting up some Star Wars Legion units, and after much experimenting around decided to keep things very simple because the early models just aren’t that good to warrant spending a lot of time on them.