I spent most of my sunday painting some of my Imperial Fists.
I needed to fix some of their equipment (change a plasma pistol for a combi plasma, add some pouches and convert a random marine with a bolt pistol and auspex to be an apothecary) in order to make them work properly in my new marine army.
I just basecoated them with Averland Sunset and painted a quick coat of a brighter yellow on top.
Later on I washed them with a sepia wash and went to sleep.
Through out the years i've been kinda hesitant to paint a pure yellow army by brush but when I got into it and threw away that loathsome idea of "Yellow it's a hard color to paint" things started to flow nicely.
Sure, they might not be the miniatures with the hardest techniques to prove my technical prowess but they will look nice on the table and that is what matters to me on this ocasion.
Through out the years i've been kinda hesitant to paint a pure yellow army by brush but when I got into it and threw away that loathsome idea of "Yellow it's a hard color to paint" things started to flow nicely.
Sure, they might not be the miniatures with the hardest techniques to prove my technical prowess but they will look nice on the table and that is what matters to me on this ocasion.
This notion of "technical perfection" on miniature painting creates some nice questions:
¿is it completely necessary for a would be painter to paint superb miniatures all the time?
¿is it completely necessary for a would be painter to paint superb miniatures all the time?
¿Is it necessary to always show the skills one has when working on stuff of their own?
And the most complicated question of them all (at least for me):
¿Why is the miniature painting community obsessed with technical prowess and super cleanliness on the models?
¿Why is the miniature painting community obsessed with technical prowess and super cleanliness on the models?
What do you guys think?
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