Painting faster

So, after all these years and I still haven't finished painting one army. Really terrible on my part. I tried to paint the miniatures to look better in pictures. Doing so made me get tired of painting fairly quick and take long breaks between painting sessions. Well, no longer. I am now painting to a lower standard but that's getting me to get ready to play faster.
For example, here is a 1500 points army ready for the tabletop:


I had the wave serpents, the wraith knight, hemlock wraith fighter, and the farseer painted. I painted the dire avengers in one go:



and the wraith lords and war walkers at the same time:



Now that I got that done, I'm starting with a chaos space marine army. This was the second army I got and was unpainted for the longest time. I have only gotten one game with it and most of the models were gray at the time. Next time I get them out to play they will be painted and looking good:






and I'm currently painting a vindicator, predator, and two rhinos:



I will paint all the bases at once so that they all have a unified theme. I'm happy I'm finally getting my armies painted and will stop playing with unpainted models. Wish I had done this before

wip of dark eldar squad

These two are something new I have been doing for the last couple of nights. One night a model. They are still WiP but I think only the base is missing. C&C are welcome.

Wave Serpent Wip

Both halves are glued now, no going back :P.

There is still a lot of details on the top hull that are missing but I think this week will be the week when I finally finish my first vehicle :o

 this last picture was taken today, as i was able to sneak in a little paint before going to work :D

eldar warlock

black highlights on clothing are very hard to do, I don't think I'm going to put more on these guys but I think they look ok.

new technique

I started yesterday a new technique to paint my space marines. I started 5 sm scouts with sniper rifles and today I can show you a WiP shot. Hope you guys like it.

tau

well, today was a productive day. After the green fever subsided; it gave me a new outlook on how to paint. Painting that ork was a lot of fun and was very fast. I decided to give sergeant tau a go and managed to "finish" him in the course of the day. There were many things to do but I found little bits of time here and there. I think there is a little bit more to be done with the face as now I think it looks kind of meh.

The guns perhaps were the things that I enjoy the most from the tau. They are just fantastic.

Another shot of the guns.

Also, I managed to squeeze some time to paint one necron warrior! haha for a second I didn't think I could do it.

Ok back to painting :)

(edit)

One tau fire warrior managed to sneak in! 3 models in one day... I'm on a row. I hope this trend continues :)

Dreadnought progress

Still not done with this guy, haven't found a name to put in his center banner. Still thinking of a proper greek/roman name for him but my mind always drifts into something else. I have been working on him faster than I normally do but he is a lot easier for some reason.

Still need to work on the exhaust pipes, they need more of a brownish tone. Gonna work on that
I really like this arm, just need to drill the holes for the multi-melta
I need to take a better picture of the details on this arm. It has a lot more than the melta one.
So what do you guys think of this WiP? I still need to do the metal on everything to make it look like the paint has fallen but it's almost there.

Terminators almost done, and a little something something

While I didn't like to paint the white, the rest was a blast. I really enjoyed this squad and I'm glad its almost done. Ready to move onto more eldar now.

Need to tidy up the checkers on this one, the ultramarines U needs to be fatter and a bigger round hole in the middle, gonna work on that tomorrow. Also on this picture the promised drilled guns.
Oh power weapon, I read online how to do this red effect and couldn't wait to put it on Mr. Termy here.
Writting with a brush is a real pain. Not going to bother with fixing this :P
I did the shield on this one second and it looks a little bit better.
I liked the way the terminators on the AoBR read me had letters on the shield so I copied it.
Same
They are moving to get some sand beneath their feet :D
And this is the little something something. Gonna have a blast painting this SM Predator :D :D
Next up 3 eldar :D

Painting Faces

It's hard, specially the eyes. Spent all this afternoon painting mr eldar here.

I don't want to touch his face anymore though. I feel I'm going to screw something up.

Update from black Reach

Holy week is over. Lots of beer were drank and pounds gained and no space marines were painted. Sucks cause I wanted to paint all the tactical SM, oh well. Before Holy week I managed to paint a couple and I'm about to finish space marines 8 and 9. Hopefully before sunday's game.

I decided to take a group photo. The camera didn't want to focus on anything so this is the only picture that had any focus at all.

This one I like very much. His helmet looks very cool, I tried to paint it well but I feel like I'm rushing them.

backside of cool-helmet-space-marine.

This one, I noticed there are some parts unpainted.
Backside


I "finished" the sergeant and added the text on the scrolls as suggested.

I added some text on his knee and a number on his shoulder too.

Also, I left the back skull gold but I added more wash until I was satisfied.
Here is a photo of my photo booth. Very simple... don't laugh :P

I have only started using washes and they are awesome. I want to paint orks so I can use them more often.

What do you guys think?

4th Space Marine

Ok I hope this week I get 1 Space Marine done each day or two.
I think my highlighting improved on the face of the space marine at least.

I made a mistake by not being careful with the brush and painted the face with tin bitz. It was promptly fixed :P (in the top picture: face painted with tin bitz >_<; )

I really liked the way the seal ended up but I didn't want to take three pictures (back front side) so a half side half back picture will have to do.

C&C are always welcome

Some progress on space marines

I did some work on the space marines. I decided to work on 6 at the same time, so far it's going painfully slow. I'll post pictures tomorrow. [edit: pictures below]

The space marine sergeant is also a work in progress. After the mordian blue is done I'm going to paint one at a time for the details.

Also, my metallic paints came and I started doing some work on the three first marines:

The bases are going to be a pain, because I'm leaving them for last :P

In the meantime, I fell down during my karate class. I fell on my arm and even though it hurt a bit it wasn't that bad. I got the weirdest bruise I've gotten so far: