They never turn out the GW way!
Good, Now try buying a GW blister of something and painting it how you want (I say blister because it has no pic of it painted on the back). That is their style of painting. Now it\'s time to find yours. There is no bad way to paint your mini unless it\'s not fully painted. Unless your entering to some big competition, don\'t try to please everybody with your painting. Take a look at some of the GD entrants on the site, few of them get 10, and i\'ve seen more with 10\'s that havn\'t entered a GD than I do of those that had.
As I said, get something and paint it how you want. Paint to your desire: orks pink, eldar polkadotted, and Ultramarines something other than blue! I havn\'t seen a single peiceof art, outside the mini world, that got famous for doing what everyone else did. Sure there may be fads (*cough*NMM*cough*) where some painters seem to do the same thing, but you never see two \'Stary Night\'\'s hanging in a museum from different painters (unless your a dislexic with double vision). I cannot see why people seek the need to do everything the same, and just because there are critics doesn\'t mean it\'s bad.
\"everybody does everything to the best of their abilities at the time that they do it\"
now that I\'ve alienated everyone, I pass the podium to someone else.