Terminator Concept Painting Complete

So usually what I do when I am going to paint an army is come up with the steps I am going to use to paint a model in advance. These are usually some combination of various tutorials I find on the web that I cobble together into my own mix for how I want something to look. I HIGHLY recommend approaching any paint job with a plan ahead of time. If you get a certain way through your paint scheme and then say to yourself “Now how do I want to paint X?” – You might find yourself digging a hole you cannot get out of easily.

So once I have my plan together I start painting… ONE model. I go through my entire plan, making adjustments along the way, and most importantly, writing down what I did so I can remember later! Once I completely paint an entire model (usually without the base being complete) and I am satisfied with the result, I will go ahead and replicate the process across the entirity of the army and/or unit.

Here is case where I approached the painting of my Ultramarine Terminators. I have completed my Concept Model for my Terminators now and I am pretty happy with the results over all. The only thing I am really not satisfied with is the white helm. I attempted to follow Rons(of From The Warp fame) tutorial for doing these, and while I think I was moderately successful – it isn’t quite as clean as I would like. I am hoping I just get better with practice on this technique and I can pull it out by the time I get through all my models.

On the whole I’m not dissatisfied with it – I’m just not ecstatic. That cannot be said for the rest of the model though – which I am a big fan of. The Forge World pieces on the model really make it pop and the Terminators as a whole are pretty nice models in their own right. On the whole I am really enjoying painting this army so far and I anticipate being done well in advance of my April goal date. If things continue at this pace, well in advance of that date. Maybe even going so far as to complete the army by the end of September. My wife and kid are out of town this coming week, so I expect to get a lot of painting done. The following week I am on vacation, so I expect to get even more done then!

I still have quite a bit to do though so I don’t want to get ahead of myself. But I am feeling really good about the progress so far.

So now, as I mentioned before, I intend to push through my first squad of Terminators, and then knock out all my vehicles. Once that is completed I will hit the troops. Normally I would advocate for doing the least interesting of the models first, but I can’t help myself this go around. I am REALLY looking forward to painting the vehicles with the Forge World pieces on them.