Painting Your Models?

[badgeman]

Hi, I was just wondering how everyone paints their models. Some people at my local GW paint them unassembled. It seems you can get into every recess if you paint unassembled.

Thanks, Badgeman.

P.S. I paint my models near enough unassembled.

[Scizor]

i paint them unassembled mostly. but i can have them partly assembled if it don't affect the quality of the painting. for example, i do glue the heads on the gaunts, i do glue the two pieces of a warrior's torso togheter.

[murah]

i usually leave the arms off, to get the chest and torso easier.

[Pheonix]

ahh... i see i should have read what people posted... yeah i voted assembled cause i tend to leave arms off unless the model is easy to paint (Privateer press models are impressive sculpts so i find them easy to paint assembled, where contrastingly i find Termies impossible to paint assembled.)

[Hive Fleet Green Locust]

I have to assemble every 'Nid model. They only time I don't is when I magnetize arms. I can't stand it when people paint unassembled unless they scrap off the primer before plastic gluing them on. If not, the arms just snap off. And don't get my started on using super glue on plastic, BAD IDEA! Plastic cement actually cements the plastic, super glue deforms it and can snap off.

That is why I always assemble first, because plastic cement works better on bare plastic.

Eldar vehicles on the other hand have to be painted unassemble to get in the cockpit and stuff

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

I like the unassembled, but the urge to see the model built means I usually only leave guns, shields etc off and paint them assembled!

[Pheonix]

adrian said:

but the urge to see the model built means I usually only leave guns, shields etc off and paint them assembled!

yeah baby! totally on your side here.

[gauntsftwlol]

I always paint mine assembled.
I know if you paint them unassembled, you get to all the places you wouldn't with assebled, but my philosophy is: if you can't see it painted, it dosn't matter.
If you know what I mean.

[n00b1n8R]

I used to paint mine assembled, and it was a royal pain in the but.

unassembled ftw.

[krakenfiend]

Well I completely think that this depends on the model...some models I put together then paint (really true of vehicles)...others I leave unassembled...However, most of the time I paint the models unassembled...they almost always come out looking better when you can get to those hard to reach areas (not necessarily the parts you can't see ).

krakenfiend

[Roxas]

i just don't... i only paint when i get round to it which is next to never

[romorini]

I technically should put down that I don't paint... but I have hope! I have found that what little I have done is easier to do mostly unassembled.

[Shas'o Tash'var Kais Pat]

I usually paint assembled because I like having models assembled as soon as possible, but for models with massive shields or such things I leave them off. And after painting a tank assembled and getting rather annoyed, I've started painting tanks unassembled.

[hormagauntsam87]

mine are mostly assembled when i paint them as well, as other people have said. I too leave the arms, legs and guns off untill the very end. Pretty much anything that can get in the way of the brush is left off. As soon as i did that the quality of my models paint jobs took off. I think it's a great method, even if it doesn't allow you to field your brand new models right out of the box. People who haven't tried it should give it a try, the results in my opinion are worth it.

[Side-a-fex]

I semi-assemble them to paint, 4 example:
a space marine:
Put body legs and head together, and arms pads and guns together, then paint seperatly.