Painting Progress, Color Tests, and One Small Victory Over the Pile of Shame
A hobby evening in three acts
Some hobby updates are about huge milestones. Others are about something much more relatable: getting some paint on a model, testing colors, and trying very hard not to buy yet another army before finishing the current one.
This time, we had a bit of all three.
Wilini: “That’s it for today”
Wilini dropped in with the kind of update we all know well: a solid bit of progress, followed by the completely realistic admission that tomorrow’s shift probably means no more painting.
Sometimes that’s just how the hobby goes. Not every session ends with a finished miniature — sometimes the win is simply moving the project forward before real life barges in.
And honestly, we respect that. A model that is more painted than yesterday is still a hobby success.
End3r: testing greens for the Kharadron
The main painting discussion of the evening came from End3r, who discovered that the green metallic Aztec Gold wasn’t quite doing what he wanted.
That’s always one of those slightly annoying but very useful hobby moments. A color can look great on the bottle, great in your head, and then on the miniature it just doesn’t click with the scheme.
So naturally, the answer was more testing.
End3r compared a few metallic options against his older base model — the one on the left, painted at Michał’s place a long time ago. At this stage, everything was still without Nuln Oil, so this was very much about checking the raw tones before committing.
The key point was the trousers. If the whole army is going to be painted in one consistent style, then that color has to feel right. No point forcing yourself through an entire force with a shade you don’t actually enjoy.
So End3r made the only sensible hobby decision: order three different green Army Painter Speedpaints and keep experimenting until one really works.
In the meantime, the plan is to spray and drybrush the rest of the Arkanauts, then come back to washing and finishing them in one coherent style once the rest of the Kharadron are further along.
Honestly, we love this kind of approach. It’s practical, it keeps momentum going, and it avoids that awkward moment where the first few models in an army end up painted in a completely different scheme from the rest.
Michałbe: the strongest painting-related decision of the night
Then came what might actually be the biggest achievement of the evening.
Michałbe found a marketplace listing: 4000 points of Death Guard for 2000 zł.
And instead of immediately convincing himself this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he looked at his existing backlog and said:
“Nah, I still have a lot of unpainted stuff.”
To which we can only say: incredible discipline. Truly inspirational. Possibly the most powerful anti-pile-of-shame move we’ve seen in a while.
Naturally, congratulations were offered immediately.
Stas admitted he had seen the listing too and instantly thought of Michałbe — but decided not to encourage this sort of behavior. A true friend.
End3r summed it up perfectly: the channel title obliges. If we’re talking painting, then maybe, just maybe, finishing what we already own should sometimes win over buying more plastic.
The real hobby progress
So no, this wasn’t one of those evenings where someone finished an entire army.
But it was one of those very real hobby nights where:
- a model moved forward,
- a paint scheme got tested properly,
- a whole-army color decision got taken seriously,
- and one dangerous purchase was heroically avoided.
That counts.
Sometimes painting progress is brushstrokes. Sometimes it’s planning. Sometimes it’s color research. And sometimes it’s closing a sales post before doing something irreversible.
All of that is part of the hobby too.