Modelling projects. What... me?

My brothers are big modellerers, they make nice looking terrain, paint armies and despite their grumbles, I think they secretly really enjoy it. I have enjoyed painting, for a short period in my late teens when I plowed through an entire Warhammer Fantasy Dwarf army.

But why then and not now, I hear no-one cry!? Well, my Dwarf army had a very simple paint scheme and I was able to batch them out regiment at a time. I'd try and fob the characters off on someone who cared about painting more, because I actually preferred just bosching through hordes of guys who basically looked the same.

Now, how and why would I get back into this?

The why is that my brothers do pester me about it, but for reasonable reasons. They/we have some great tabletop games! Flames of War, Deadzone/Necromunda, old Warhammer/Saga (or Oldhammer, as some people with large beards call it). These are all great games, which I really want to play, and I secretly want my own little forces for each. This has the annoying dilemma of then having models which need paint applied to them and there's only so much good will I can harbour before someone turns around and tells me to do it myself!

The how, well that's only theoretical at the moment. If you don't enjoy painting, but want to play a game that requires models that need painting, you need to find a style of painting to paint your miniatures with, where the paint jobs don't look too bad.

For a Flames of War army, which I think I'd like some plucky Brits and some dastardly Germans, I think this could be quite easy. For the Brits, copious amounts of green, a few splodges of flesh (on their faces preferably), a few detaily bits and lots of tactical washes; for the Germans, exchange green for grey and I reckon that would do the trick. Then some careful transfer placement and Robert's your father's brother!

For Deadzone, I'm yet to really play it, but I'm hoping to use a gang of models which will all cross over into Necromunda. I don't aim to have more than 10 really, and I got a friend to paint two of them! So I think I maybe able to suffer the remaining 8.

There are some interesting speed painting websites out there. If I was to go any further than these games I think I'd need to do some research.