I think I am brave enough to take the plunge into starting a new painting project - my Battlelore minis.

I am wondering what people's experiences have been - should I paint up every unit in a similar colour scheme, and solely rely on the pennants and banners to distinguish troops during a game, or should I try to paint up two quite distinct colour schemes ?

Are there enough minis in the game to allow the painting of two separate factions and still have the numbers for the scenarios?

It doesn't make for a quick turnaround time (not that anything really does - applying sharpie to the bases is an all day affair ), but I prefer the different paint schemes amongst even figures of the same unit. If I ever get around to tackling the task, that will be the direction I take (for the first few figures anyway ).

Take care and good luck.

I think you'd be better off painting the units by their colour level instead of their faction unless you have two boxes of the base game.

I'm in the middle of doing mine. I'm painting them by rank color with white for the standards and yellow for the penants. I figure it will help give the sides a unified look but not be so noticable to get in the way if I have to combine sets or something.

As for the order of painting... well, this is really the first time I've ever painted miniatures. So I started with green infantry and archers, then the red. I'm in the middle of the blue cavalry before tackling the infantry. I'm saving the goblins and dwarves till after.

Although-- when I finished the green units I bought the Troll and painted that as a little treat to myself. I've been using a production line style and so things have been going fairly quickly. (It helps that I'm inbetween work and have a lot of time to paint, and that my standards are pretty low.)

If I were doing it again, I might consider painting units by mission... paint all the figures for a scenario, then play that one. That would also be a neat way to reward oneself.

Keep in mind that if you decide to paint your units depending on their faction, that means you'll need to buy two of every expansion (if you want any, of course)

You can still keep the expansions generic and use the banners to denote which side they're on.

Yea... I keep the expansions generic just in case I want the units to go one way or the other.