Anyone else finding painting a large number of same figurine boring? Are you constantly trying to make up new ways to get the job done faster and get the figures to the table quick? I certainly am. But I'm still pretty bad at it. It feels easier with limited color schemes like Stormtroopers (though good white is difficult to paint) but goblins etc. ugh.
Sorastro's LOTR JIME episode 1 gave a pretty good method on the base game goblins and orcs and I went with that for the expansion. The end result is not spectacular but it's fine with me.
So, zenithal highlight, drybrush with white to highlight all the edges even more and then really thin colors on top of that. The goblin loincloths, bracers and orc whips are painted with the only Citadel contrast paint that I bought for painting a wolf quickly or something. Then thinned washes on top of everything except the contrast paint and they were done except the base.
Where I saved some time is by cutting corners on base color since I had forgotten to apply it to some underside parts of the figure like some goblin hands and the right shoulderpad. But since they're not visible, I feel it doesn't matter. Also, I painted the rope belt with the same color as the loincloth itself. The few "extra efforts" are the orc taskmaster different color loincloth/skirt and the somewhat varying skin tones though it's not as apparent after the wash.
Next one: the spiders. The unique one requires some extra effort but I'm thinking about ways to be lazy with the small ones:
They're primed and just need some drybrushing with white before I start painting. I was thinking about going thin dark gray base color with lighter gray wetblendedd on top and then maybe go with different colored washes like dark blue for two, dark purple for two and dark green for two. I think it could produce an interesting subtle variation. But...what do you reckon? Is the wet blend too time consuming?
Also, the big spider. Is it standing on top of webbed eggs or something?
If you've painted the spiders, I'd love to see how they turned out since I've never painted a spider or bug figure before.