I really really sucked at painting them
Im no good and too much of a perfectionist when it comes to things like that so I was never happy.
I almost got into it when I was a young teen, but quickly lost interest because of the above.
You can look in the catalogues (no internet back then) and the figures looked absolutely amazing, the one or two I tried to do where just dogcrap, and at the time I could afford a couple of paints at the most, and GW where taking the piss with prices, it was all very expensive.