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Raezyr Veteran

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I usually listen to music or watch a favoirte movie when I am painting or assembling. Starship troopers is one of my favorites to watch when I am painting. I usually have some geek beer or something nicely caffinated to keep me going, on occassion some strongbow. I avoid food when painting. Also I am forced to make a spot on my desk for my kitten who must be involved in all painting activities.
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Oh no! not Felix titanicus! Had planty of cat related accidents over the years.

 

I have recently come across the most powerful motivational tool: have important things to do that aren't 40K based. Got a bucket load of uni work to do at the moment and all i want to do is paint.

 

Al

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Sgt_Dead Novitiate

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Ive got about 35-40Gb of music, ranging from soft rock to death metal (mostly hard rock/heavy metal) and over the last few years ive created a playlist with all songs i listen to that really get my body charged up:

 

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aerosmith - eat the rich

rob zombie - scum of the earth

and most iron maiden/metallica/AcDc etc

 

Ive got this playlist on my Mp3 player, and is great when you need to prolong your concentration, like when youre on a stupidly long train journey or you need to paint f*** loads of models because imperial guard are quite cool, but as theyre pretty much useless, require about a hundred million more figures than anyone else.

 

...youd have though bullets (of any variety) would be a step BACK in technology to lasers

Baal Dropout Veteran

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May sound weird but...

 

I listen to jap-anime OST, specially those that are fast and fun types (like those used in turn-off-brain-type of anime: Galaxy Angels to name one) keeps me sane while painting the grim future... or OSTs of those grimmy mecha anime (Gundam, GitS), these tend to give some "kick" like a cup of hot coffee (or tea)

Thantoes Veteran

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Oh no! not Felix titanicus! Had planty of cat related accidents over the years.

 

I have recently come across the most powerful motivational tool: have important things to do that aren't 40K based. Got a bucket load of uni work to do at the moment and all i want to do is paint.

 

Al

 

Mine has a fasination with my paint water and keeps trying to drink it. Silly Cat :D

Brother Cassern Battle-Brother

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Adderal ( I've got an excuse -- the rest of you don't abuse drugs! ), lots of exercise before hand so my back muscles are all stretched out and I'm relaxed, absolute silence and a cup of cold water with a lid so I don't accidentally clean my brush in it. Although I absent mindedly ave drank my painting water on more then one occasion... maybe it's best to just not have a drink around at all. Paint thirsty!
eyescrossed Veteran

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I absolutely HAVE to have some noise - any noise, doesn't matter what; I just need NOISE.

But I do have a cup of herbal tea which helps stop my shaking hands which my GP stupidly INSISTS isn't a medical problem, or stress, or ANYTHING.

I also like having music with the same beat/sound to it such as MGMT's Electric Feel.

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stayscrunchyinmilk Battle-Brother

stayscrunchyinmilk

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ATM my modelling equipment and my bitz box is in my living room (my laptop + mouse + joystick fills my entire desk) so TV atm (X-files, ER, JAG, NCIS, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSY:NY, Cold Case, that sort of thing, with a Star Wars movie from time to time) When i sit in my own room i usually listen to music. (ranging from Kate Ryan to Eminem to Dragonforce to Nightwish to Disturbed to Star Wars and a few bits and pieces).

 

Holy cow, did i write my answer already and forget I'd done so?

 

Well, no living room (roomshare house) , so my room, seperate tables for models / tv+pc.

Identical TV tastes. I find it best to paint during one's i've seen before, or i turn round, watch and forget about painting. Or music, after too much GNR / whatever takes my fancy i have to mellow it down and I er... sometimes listen to... er... Belle and Sebastian. There. I said it.

 

It is usefull to steady my hand with a beer in the evenings - I've noticed that painting later on in the day makes my painting worse. Maybe it's a concentration thing. (P.S. too much beer leads to stopping painting and converting orc boys mooning/flipping V's/guardsmen with animal heads/Hello kitty ping pong ball head marines/whatever I feel like, spend hours doing, pull apart to re-do later as i'm not happy, and then forget about. There's two boxes of bubble wrapped mini projects that need to either be stripped and scrapped for parts or done sometime.)

 

I also find it best to just clear all models from view bar the five odd i'm working on. For some reason i slow down otherwise.

 

Sometimes i'll do a strictly production line process, with snagging at the end, sometimes i'll do a as-required process, I think on monday I did 12 colours, with only one dip in each pot in quick succesion. (Painting the Shaeffers Last Chancers sniper)

 

On occasion just turning music, tv, all distraction off works well when i hit "the zone" and I thought 10 hours was 2 one sunday, honest togod. (Painting generic guardsmen in batches of three from left to right, one box made + U/coated on left to one box done on right)

 

Most importantly, you have to want to do it. You have to want to be proud of the models. I was painting 10-15 Dark Angels per week for three months straight, but i just can't bear to finish off my 7000 point force (and over £ 2k each model converted too) with full marine company and I just need to do the last 12 men and two rhino's. I've sat down and got back up three hours later having accomplished a couple of green and metal base coats and that's it. Looking at them just pisses me off now, and I haven't played a 40k DA game since the marine codex came out. Heck, i'm agitated now thinking about how to describe my annoyance. F'ing GW.

 

Edit: Oh, and having a break to go do stuff (put laundry on / hang laundry out / make coffee / have smoke / make food) helps keep the concentration working, or I slow down alot. It also allows washes to dry.

 

Never model and paint! Do one or the other or get neither done.

 

I used to live with cats that were like 28mm godzillas. One managed to open and spill ink over a wooden kitchen tabletop once. Games were impossible without rolling dice in a felt lined box (lined to muffle sound or exited cats would jump up and ambust the dice causing furry paths of destruction getting to the dice, and chasing them wherever they'd been swatted).

eyescrossed Veteran

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Having a bear within reacht and either House or law & Order: SVU on the background. This way I can keep painting for hours.

^_^ B) :) :P :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

What do you do with the bear that's within reach?

Pratch Battle-Brother

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Interesting to find that other people use alcohol to calm shaking hands. For some reason if I drink a small amount, it calms me enough to let me paint at my best. Too much beer/wine/cider can lead to some seriously screwed up results such as the blobby pink terminators I now need to strip...

 

I never put a drink next to my painting water. I've drunk paint water (unpleasant) and rinsed my brush in everything from beer to coffee...

 

I usually have music in the background. I tend to listen to Nightwish and Hammerfall. If I've drunk slightly too much, I usually end up listening to a band called Europe (these are the guys who wrote the Final Countdown).

aekold Battle-Brother

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Having a bear within reacht and either House or law & Order: SVU on the background. This way I can keep painting for hours.

 

 

What do you do with the bear that's within reach?

 

Keeps my girlfriend from demanding attention when I am painting :D.

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Ketsum Battle-Brother

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I generally listen to metal/heavy rock, have a cup of coffee at my side, and get painting. Though my playlist is really diverse, ranging from Slipknot and Cradle of Filth, to Dream Theater and An Endless Sporadic, to Scissor Sisters and Weird Al. :)
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Low_K Battle-Brother

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Usually I have the classical radio station when I paint/convert. Furthermore cigarettes have to be within reach as well as some cola. When not listening to the radio, I listen to Iron Maiden, Danger Danger (how many of you know that band eh?), Bon Jovi, Europe or more 80s rock-groups. yes, I know, I'm an old fart :D

 

Live alone, so work on my miniatures in the guest-room which is furnished with only a bed for the guest, and a table, cabinets and posters for me and my miniatures :rolleyes:

 

Kind regards,

 

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