 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby-cheating video and today we're gonna talk about strategies to get your army painted Sometimes getting that full army is the toughest hurdle we have to overcome and today I'm gonna give you the tips the tactics that'll get you from gray to painted army. Let's get into it The strict techno man sir that is Vincy V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V I think there's a lot of people in this hobby who play for years and yet never really get themselves to that fully painted army And that's rough now as with any video like this There's only so much advice I can give and everything I say may work for you or may not So I want to say that right off the top that we're all individuals we're all beautiful individual snowflakes and What works for me may not work for you But I've worked with a lot of people for a long time on painting and I hope some of these tips might be useful to you So let's see what we can do tip number one it sounds a bit trite and it's become so in the modern world but Don't be afraid to quit and get rid of things that don't well. Let's just say it spark joy Now it might sound strange that my first piece of advice When it comes to getting something painted is to stop painting and sell stuff, but that's is what I'm saying If you're the type of person who's been in the hobby for a while And you have a ton of half finished projects or things that you look at and go Well, I might return to that one day or there's a chance I'll finish that or oh I'll just put those to the side and you know Maybe I'll have a chance to get to him if the stars align and I suddenly don't have a job anymore And I win the lottery and also my kids suddenly spontaneously become adults in some kind of big situation Then I'll have the time to paint that army Stop fooling yourself stop lying yourself and stop letting all of those unpainted figs hang over your head like the sword of Damocles If you're not gonna return to the project and you don't actively play the army That is to say you're not playing it as gray. If it's just literally sitting there on the shelf get rid of it Sell it give it to a friend Whatever find somebody in your club who can re-home it lots of different ways you can go But get it off of your plate because when we have too many of those undone projects They be they put a weight of opportunity cost on us every time we sit down at the desk You sit down at the desk and instead of just getting to the project you're working on you think well Should I work on this or should I work on this or there's that old thing? I didn't do hmm, and you go through all of that and guess what you've burnt 20 minutes 30 minutes You haven't painted a darn thing and then when you do paint something you feel guilty about all the things You're not painting get rid of That stuff again only if you're not using it if it is something if you're playing with your friends and you know You're friends have you know play with the gray stuff And you don't care then cool keep it and keep using it and having fun with it But if it's any in any way a weight If it's any in any way a bag of bricks you're carrying around then you need to let go of that bag of bricks And that means getting rid of those fix tip number two I'm gonna call this the ordered work plan Now in my normal daily life I often have to set up project plans and I do a lot of project management It's sort of what I do for a living Which means when it comes to painting I take the same strategy I am fully aware that this is something that will not work for everyone But let me see if I can make it a little simpler for you When you're sitting down to paint an army Think about the units you want to paint the things you need to do to get to 2,000 points or whatever your goal happens to be and divide those up into sort of unfun things and fun things for lack of a better term and Make sure you have to paint one to two quote-unquote unfun things for every one fun thing you paint Let's make that more real if you're painting the average sort of army That means you have some mix of troops guys You have to do in mass to some way or another could be a lot of infantry or some cavalry or something like that And then you probably have some mix of heroes and centerpieces or artillery things or singular type of items Right where it's more just one piece now for me personally I find the heroes and the centerpieces a lot of fun It's one thing you get to experiment you get to make them special and you feel really good when you're done Because sometimes those individual heroes or characters They might be 10 20% of your total army for painting that one fig. Oh, what a win Right, but when you're doing the mass troops, you know, I've painted escaven army I have like 13,000 points escaven It really does kind of suck when you just finish one little clan rat And it's you know less than 1% of your total force effectively That's that can be a bit painful as such I Demarcate those into unfun and fun, but your line might be different You might really enjoy certain troops and not others Maybe it's because of the way they look how they appeal to you aesthetically, whatever But effectively Have your you know have your vegetables before you have your dessert. That's the simplest way I can describe this, right? And so sit down take a unit. Don't try to do the whole block if you got to do 20 30 60 dudes, I don't know some forces have a lot of a lot of inventory Don't try to do all of those do five or ten Get that done then retreat yourself paint a single hero, right then go back do five or ten more Then do you know some small artillery piece or something whatever that the sense is that breaks it up in your world, right? And by alternating that back and forth You can find that it becomes a lot more fun and you suddenly get the to that full army Without really constantly feeling the paint the worst thing you can do is do all the centerpieces and the fun things first And then all you have stretching out before you for miles and miles is the long tail of the Unfun things and nothing will make you make you quick quit painting an army faster Alright tip number three Tip number three is a different workflow to what I just mentioned if that kind of project management isn't for you Then maybe the Sorbet method is for you. So the Sorbet method is a little different It's sort of a twist on what I just said Some people really like working on different things and they really value having a differentiation of experience So the idea of sitting down and painting only one army for an extended period of time is Pretty much anathema to them. That's okay. You can still get to a painted army The key to doing that is to always have that Sorbet on hand What I mean by that let's let is the following You start with a unit or something out of your army that you're painting could be some infantry It could be a hero could be anything again Don't paint the centerpieces first or don't paint the most fun things still save those for the end but Something else and then instead of going and painting a second unit an army do something else Find alternative projects that are very small that are very self-contained and Do those in between each unit? So for example, let's say you're working in 40k When you do your unit of space marines or something don't keep going in your space marine army instead stop paint up a kill team or do a piece of terrain or Paint a single hero for you know a display model or something if you're into that Whatever right but find a small self-contained alternative project and and terrain and that kind of thing really does work well for this And just insert those in those are your palette cleansers. They're fun They're different you can get sloppy and get messy you don't have to worry about staying in the same color palette You can change your paints. You can get crazy and that's fun Okay, so that's the sorbet method alternate between and again Not only will you then eventually get to the army, but you won't get bored doing so and you'll incidentally find You have a couple tables of painted terrain or multiple kill teams ready to go It's great and by doing so you're kind of tricking your brain Into having a good time by constantly providing a novel experience. All right Final tip tip number four Tip number four is the multi work stream Some people just work better when they have multiple projects They don't like to sit down and take one project completely from beginning to end in a single workflow and that's okay Instead your desk should have two and no more than two Only two two is the key Projects on it Those don't have to both be from the same army or the same force and in fact, I would often recommend They're not this is sort of a variation of the previous method But in this case instead of trying to do one thing to completion and then doing the other project Instead, maybe you've got a big piece of terrain on your desk and then you've got the unit you're working on When you sit down to paint your choices are limited to those two things That's it. Nothing else counts. No backlog. No nothing It is those two things and you will choose between them if while you're painting the unit if you sit down You start working on the unit for for the army and you get kind of bored You're like, you know, I don't feel like this cool. Stop set it to the side work on the other thing Switch over to the other item No big deal. All right the point is let yourself Work on the project that that actually Ignites your fire that gets your passion going at that moment All right, and by having those two projects once you finish one of them You replace it with a new second project Maybe it's another unit from that army if you did maybe put that piece of terrain away or onto your table And you get a new one out or you get out a kill team to the side or Maybe the second project is a box just a box a box of miniatures And your other project is build so if you sit down you look at those two things You're like don't feel like painting today instead I'm going to assemble scoot the painting stuff to the side and instead build and then once you have them built Maybe that becomes the other project you alternate between All right So every time you sit down you're not considering the vast universe of what you could paint and the Opportunity cost of not selecting those things you're limiting yourself to two projects But you're working on the one that at that moment really gets your engine going Okay, so there you go. There's my four tips for getting an army painted. I hope those really help I hope that you can give those a try and they bring you you know closer to getting that fully painted army on the table As always if you liked this give it a like subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future If you've got questions drop those into the comments below. I always answer every question asked Don't forget if you want to take your next step on your hobby journey We have a patreon Focused on review and feedback and you could find that down below It also gets you access to an awesome discord community full of enthusiastic hobbyists. I Thank you so much for watching this one and as always We'll see you next time