Painting for dummies part II

So, you've met Steve.  Now it's time to meet the rest of his gang - a 20 strong unit of Night Goblin Spearmen complete with champion, standard bearer and musician.

If my first golden rule of painting is to paint neatly, my second golden rule is to have discipline.  When I was younger I'd flit between models and projects like a gadfly, resulting in a wide variety of single models or units of a handful of painted models and a lot of unpainted ones.

Well, with age comes wisdom (or so they say), and I now have a bit more perseverance than I did when I was a teenager.  So, I pressed on with the rest of the Spearmen unit now that I had painted up Steve as a test goblin (with a name like that I can't help but think he should have a yellow and black suit and a blank expression and be smashed through some little goblin car windscreens... but I digress...)

I found the easiest way to do this was to pick a colour and paint every model with that colour before moving on to the next one; faces and hands first, then spear shafts, then spearheads and so on.  At times it felt like a never-ending process, but there was a great pay-off at the end when all 20 models were finished more or less at the same time!

I spent a little more time on the champion, musician and standard bearer - which is only right as they're more detailed models and deserve a little more attention.  Still nothing fancy, however, as I wasn't quite ready to get started with anything more than a basic paint job.  Washes, highlights and so on could wait - all I wanted was a neat and tidy finished unit to admire - and you can see the finished unit at the top of the article.  It's amazing how high-resolution photography shows some of the little flaws, though!

I should add that the models were based in old-school fashion with modelling flock to look like grass, and I made up a tray for them using the modular movement tray set - more on both basing and the movement trays at a later date.