.... painting TIE fighters for Armada; it just sucks.

I’ve had a squad of stormtroopers sitting on the painting table for months... I just can’t get myself to paint them. Blech.

Anyone else find stormtroopers one of the worst minis to paint?

No, actually! I followed Sorastro’s guide on YouTube and had lots of fun painting mine. They paint up pretty quickly, really.

I find them fun since they are easy to learn hard to master and i can improve them constantly without having to strip paint

Yes and no. On the one hand, they aren't difficult or time consuming. On the other hand, this is the 3rd game I've painted them for and I am just done, hence why I did an all-snowtrooper army instead.

I find them to be pretty quick. The only part I don’t like is the repetitive nature of the beast, which I get with any squad unit over single minis.

2 hours ago, TheGreenKnight said:

No, actually! I followed Sorastro’s guide on YouTube and had lots of fun painting mine. They paint up pretty quickly, really.

Agreed. They are great for people with not that much spare time. I can finish a box in a week with a descent result.

Teri Litorco has a nice little tutorial on YouTube as well. I mean, Sorastro's good, but her tutorial is easy and fast. Might be the way to go.

Painting Storm Troopers has helped me master painting white. The more you do the better you get at it.

1 hour ago, Praetorate of the Empire said:

Teri Litorco has a nice little tutorial on YouTube as well.

Her videos are the best ones around for practical purposes. As in no excuses, fully painted armies on the table. Using her rebels tutorial I paint a squad in under 2 hours of brush time. Probably under 1 hour of brush time honestly. You could mess around getting one or two painfully slow painted minis that no one notices amidst a sea of grey. Or you could watch her videos and just paint the army already.

I already know what I'm doing but her videos 1) helped me adapt to the scale creep and 2) saved me from sacrificing my spare heavy weapon models for color tests.

Yeah, I agree they are tedious (mainly due to the repetitive nature of painting them), but like others I found they helped me with technique on something that was harder to mess up on than other minis where there are lots more colors where mistakes could be bigger issues. I still have one unit of Stormtoopers left to paint, but wanted to get my Scout Troopers painted first (while they are sort of similar to painting the Stormtroopers, I was more excited about them because of they were different and look great). To break up the monotony of painting Stormtroopers, I painted one unit as Shadow Troopers, which was of course very quick and easy

I panted three units of stormtroopers and had my son do one unit as well since I was so tired of painting them. I wasn't very happy with how any of them turned out. There is just something incredibly tedious about them. I had no problems doing snowtroopers and scouts. I even did snowtroopers before I finished all of the stormtroopers. After painting scout troopers, I do feel like I can finally do stormtroopers well, but I really have no desire to paint more.

I just primed mine grey, drybrushed 2 coats of white, then picked out the guns, hands, (plus one knee on the bazooka guy) and eyes in black. Black paint that is, except the eyes which were a carefully applied black wash. Then, a grey drybrush on the guns and hands. Tidy up with white as needed. Paint bases sandy yellow. But I only intend my core set Imperials to be used in demos, I don't really care about them. The scout troopers on bikes were similar just... more black to fill in.

The thing is, after Imperial Assault, and a ton of WEG lead stormies, I do NOT care about owning and/or painting more standard stormtroopers. At all. So it kind of just worked well to paint my demo figures to a standard that any new person can aspire to easily.

I kind of went all out on IA Stormtroopers- each got specialized markings for their unit, in the spirit of the 501st Clone Battalion, treating IA’s Stormies as “Vader’s Fist”.

That was enough. Legion troopers all got primed, spray paint base coat white, wash, detail black on their suits, dark grey with lighter grey and metallic dry brush on guns, final white dry brush to clean up after wash- they’re good enough. (Honestly, they look good enough- nothing fancy, but simple and effective.)

Used Tamiya for the sprays, usual acrylics for details. They’ll work.

Rebels were more fun, as were all of the characters so far.

2 hours ago, MarekMandalore said:

(Honestly, they look good enough- nothing fancy,

Good for you cause that's around 9 times more work than I'm willing to put into another other stormtrooper collection at this juncture.