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I'm starting my very first 40K army, and I chose RG as my chapter. I've been reading a lot on different forums (here, BOLS, B&C, 40KO) as well as old posts on a couple blogs, and while I've found a lot of good information on painting really nice RG, I haven't found anything on painting just OK. I have a feeling that it's because most people frequenting painting forums are there for the obvious reason; they enjoy that aspect of the hobby. As I'm getting into this, I'm having a hard time motivating myself to paint. I've for 2 tac squads, a dev squad, and an assault squad all pried and ready to go, but no motivation to paint. My first batches came out alright, and I'm happy with them, but painting just doesn't appeal to me.

So, the question is, what is the quickest method for getting a bunch of troops painted up in a short period of time? Today I sat down with one marine primed black, painted a base of codex grey on white areas and the purity seal, and boltgun metal on the metal areas, and let that dry. I went back and washed those areas with black, and came back over and did white highlights on skulls and the chestplate and red on the shoulder pad, eyes, and seal.

All in all I think it came out alright for the little time I spent. I feel like I could assembly line like this en-mass, and cruise through a lot of models if I really put my mind to it. I guess my question is this; are there any other quick and easy touches I could add to this process? I'll try and get a pic up tomorrow with what I got done.

So I guess my next question is what is tabletop standard? I seem to remember 3 colors being tossed around quite a bit. I guess I'd be covered with black/white/red/metal for the majority of my models. Is this actually the case?

My one big thing is chapter markings. I'm truly miserable at detail work and the idea of painting 50-60 RG insignia on shoulderpads is daunting at the least. I've played around with making a stencil from the BOLS decal sheet, and I got something decent on a larger scale, the top doors of my rhino. I'm going to try cardstock instead of just thick paper, but looking at the shoulder-size decal on that sheet, it seems a bit small to be able to cut the detail without ripping the paper. Has anyone tried anything like that with decent results?