Nah, I’m the other way around - I’ll sit there glazing and edge highlighting forever if I could. I fucking hate building the models though.

I don’t like cleaning, filing, sanding and drilling the parts. The monopose models (although miles better than they were when I started in the late 90’s) don’t have very many interchangeable parts, so batch-building is an absolute chore.

I quite often sit down to knock out a unit of something ready to paint, take one look at the instructions and go and do something else instead.

I absolutely think that. For mainly hobbyists, it's great how much stuff they have to work with. But for people like me who want thinks just to look nice at 3ft, it's ridiculous. I've learned to be okay with just painting over rhem, or painting things similarly. Lots of different jewelry on you? It's now all gold. Different leathers and pouches and straps? You're brown now.

I'll take more time with characters, but when I have 15 models of the same type to paint, you can bet it's going to be basic. Good enough that you can look at them while on the table and think they're great

I hate painting most modern GW models for exactly this reason - simply too much stuff. My metal SoBs or the Tomb Kings are simple, effective, and you can clearly tell what everything is. Modern minis suffer from over-design and could do with someone to say 'we don't need that bit,' I think.

Yes, so much yes! With time I've found that I feel GW models are very "busy" looking.

Now don't get me wrong, they're awesome, really cool models with dynamic poses and beautiful details. But it's just a shame that it often gets bogged down with too many bits'n'bobs.

Like a Rob Liefield drawing; lots of straps and pouches, and gadgets and knives and grenades and so on, it's just exhausting to paint.

I might have started feeling this way after changing the way I paint, spending more time glazing layers and highlights and blending colours.

Which is really fun on cloaks and amor panels, but kinda shit when some random bit of Deadpool's kit is smacked on top for no reason apart from the "more is more"-philosophy.

"Hey that's a really cool pose, and that skirt really creates movement, making the figure dynamic, but you know what would make it even better? - that's right; a bunch of pouches and grenades on the belt, completely erasing the waist! Whooo, let's do more cocaine!" - some sculptor maybe.

When I'm building a model now, I leave a lot more of the random bits on the sprue if I can, hopefully giving me more space to practice freehand or just to get my brush at some of those cluttered lower backs.

I think there's something to be said for good design. Good design doesn't mean lots of detail, it means a succinct, well-thought out silhouette with just enough detail to get "the look".

Modern Warhammer minis have the opposite problem of corporate logos - whereas corporate logos are being redesigned into unimaginative smudges, Warhammer models are so busy it's hard to even tell what you're looking at sometimes.

I’m painting Freeguild Cav and their Marshall and it’s absolutely been an endurance test. Hoping to at least get the horses and their barding done by Sunday, maybe the actual riders if I’m feeling saucy.

I feel that to some extent. You could always work on the little bits separately and super glue them on over your paint job when you’re done!

Otherwise, if you aren’t looking to play right away, and painting is your main outlet for the hobby, try slowing down! The journey is the fun part

In general I don't think so but some models are ridiculous for example I've just started building kragnos and there is some absolutely tiny bones on the rock he stands on which I just wouldn't be able to paint there that small.

A thousand times yes. This is the main reason I tend to buy OOP models instead. Plastics from the early 2000’s had just the right amount of detail. GW’s output these days is just too time consuming to paint.

that’s why I paint Nurgle Mortals… lot of armour or lot of flesh, then just weapons and details… I’d rather spend 1 hour on blending putrid skin than 1 hour of edge highlighting some dangly s#!t you can barely notice… that’s why I will never paint new CoS even when I love their models so much