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If you remove the time it takes waiting for paint to dry & just consider the time spent painting I guess it'd take me about 5hours per mini. But I tend to paint in bulk so overall it rounds up to less than that.

I am relatively new to painting seriously. The first complete troop squad I painted successfully was a GK term squad - It took me 2 days to complete the last 5 - so I'd say about 3 hours per model when all is said and done.

I once spent 8.5 hours applying over 22 paints to a skittari ranger.... In one sitting

Imperial guardsmen I feel the pain 4 hours on 20 of them

A squad of ten rank-and-file marines will usually take me about six-seven hours.

But my nebula eldar take much longer as they are done individually and take several hours.

I paint mini's while I watch series.
It takes about 2-4 episode of ~45 min for a few rank and file troopers or a single hero .

It all depends. I classify models under tiers of textures, the more textures the more time. Basic space marines are 2 tier models (armour and metal) so about an hour, whereas even the basic ork boy is a 4 tier model (armour, metal, cloth, flesh) So they take upwards of 2-3 hours. Bear in mind all this is with layering, proper airbrushing and micron pens have sped up painting models for me by at least 50%.


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 commissar yager wrote:
Imperial guardsmen I feel the pain 4 hours on 20 of them

Here's a quick way of doing awesome guardsmen

Prime white
Apply watered down khaki, enough that you can just see the white but not the recesses
Carefully apply watered down forest green to the armour and guns
Watered down elf flesh (or whatever it is now)
Lightly dry brush from a top down point of view, it should be going on like a light dusting.
Paint metal.
Agrax earth shade the bejesus out of it.

The end result looks really good for the 15 minutes put in and you can go back and layer and wet blend them if you like. I painted a 1000pts of Plague marines in 12 hours before a tournament and came in 3rd for painting.

I kept a bit of track when painting a few squads of DeathWing terminators and I seem to average about 10-12 hours a model including prep.

I paint assembly line style, so i dont know the time it takes to paint 1 miniature, large or small, troop, elite HQ or otherwise

I barely paint. Can't stand painting.

The few models I have painted probably took me 3 hours for pretty terrible paintjobs. And thats with half-arsed rushed "drybrushing" which was more like spreading a normal brushworth out over the whole miniature and no highlighting whats so ever.

The few times I get in the mood to do it, I waste a tonne of money on the paint, get home and stick it in a box or drawer because I no longer want to do it by then. It usually dries out before I want to paint again too as I usually go years between getting them back out.

About half our per guy.

I'm a very slow painter but I also don't like playing with unpainted models. I'm cursed....

even for a nurgle themed army i still take a half hour to an hour to paint one guy. i did take over an hour to two hours to paint each guy in my troop of noise marines. six guys almost 12 hours. twas fun though!

I selected several hours, as I often do 5-10 at a time and takes a few hours

Not the best question. It depends on the faction. Eg for Warhammer 40K, grey knight > skitarri > eldar > guardsmen > grot.

This is hard to answer, as I do all my infantry in batches, usually in groups of 4 to 10 models at a time. And it depends on how steady my hands are and if I have to do a lot of touch up on the models before I can call it "finished".

Really, my best answer would be "as long as it takes"

Far too long. As in, way longer than I should do.

I do assembly line painting for basic infantry which makes it a bit hard to tell but I think it takes me about 4 hours per model.

Depends on what I'm painting really. My Empire Army I usually batch paint in groups of 5 while watching whatever on netflix. usually a few hours because I am easily distracted while doing it.

My current Project of Ogres can be a few days as I have spent quite a bit of time on each model....also while being easily distracted. Took me all day to finish an Ogre Irongut from beginning to end.

I'm new to painting and I feel like I'm super SLOW! I am trying to paint models in bunches of 3-5 at a time.

I would say a couple of hours, if we don't count drytime in various stages. Of course it varies per faction, but it's usually in that time-sphere.

I usually spend about an hour which is why I do sometimes but a big blob of ork boyz already painted on Ebay

I've gotten into a good rythm with my SW troops but still spend several hours on each mini, usually a 5 man group will take a day to base paint and a day to finish. But I think whether you use an airbrush or paintbrush can really mean the difference on time, especially with the priming and base painting. I use a paintbrush btw.

Hard to say because I paint in groups of 5-10, but I'd say several hours per figure even for the simplest of infantry.

I'm going several hours per mini. I'm also throwing in prep time for the occasional gap filling and the cleaning of burrs and mould lines.

Small infantry models I take on in squads. About a day per squad depending on conversions. I can bang out a knight in a day with motivation. That said not one drop pod I have is anything other than base coated because feth them.

I loathe painting, but I'm also prideful and fairly a perfectionist, so I can't face getting them professionally done but they need to be up to some sort of personal standard. It usually takes days for a single 28mm figure or FoW infantry base, and squads can take weeks if I even manage to stay motivated.

The last army I painted was Italians which were rushed and only really 75% done. The entire process was like pulling teeth. Got a German army that needs doing for about two weeks... I don't even get any feeling of accomplishment from it, just a feeling of "I never want to do this again".

 ThirstySpaceMan wrote:
Small infantry models I take on in squads. About a day per squad depending on conversions. I can bang out a knight in a day with motivation. That said not one drop pod I have is anything other than base coated because feth them.

If you can paint a squad in a day I wouldn't expect them to be anything but basecoated honestly... that's insanely fast!

One hour on average, but it greatly depends on the models. Night Goblin Fanatics I could do 20 in about 2 hours.

I put down a few hours, but that's because I do a unit at a time.