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As long as it takes.

It depends on the miniature and the base I'll want for it, so the correct answer for me would be "as long as it takes".
Anyway, on a basic skeleton minion I spend a total amount of 15-20h + 2 days on the base (counting the drying time). In a "only paint" recount It would be 3-5h more or less.

I know this is a little late, but a few minutes. As long as I can play games with them, they serve their purpose well. However, I am learning patience.

it depends. If im doing squads of basic troops as described, I use the batch method. That al,lows me to paint a full squad in 2-3 hours. However, if i'm doing a vehicle or heroic fugure.. it takes substantially longer...

I want even my basic troops looking good so I spend several hours on them.

Depends on the infantry model.


If its a Guardsmen. (one of MANY) then I try to make it a few min in an almost assembly line style work.

Its its a Skitarii or an "important" infantry model such as a custom guy it can go for several hours.

Im trying to bring my paint time right down so i can get my armys painted . Im saving my warlord and special models they will take me about 5-8 hrs each but they are painted to a display standered . Im really trying to find the balance between having a fuĺl painted army and it not taking years to complete

several hours not counting in drying time.
im not a good painter and i keep to tabletop standard but i am a perfectionist in my mind.

this is allso the reason i loose inntrest long before even one squad is finished, so i have to stick to skirmish games that only have a handfull of minis.

Bolt Action, Russian troops...far too many to spend a tonne of hours on.

Still, they get good love and attention

I tend to paint troop type miniatures in batches (I do with most characters as well, if they have a similar colour scheme); so start to finish it's several hours, but on average probably works out at around a half hour per model (for troops) so that's what I've put, though 45 minutes or so would probably be more accurate.

I voted several, in reality it's around the 2 hour mark. The vast majority of this is waiting the 30-45 mins for the ink wash I'm using to dry.
Also, I do a production run of around 6 models at a time, so even though it's 2 hours, it's for several models.

Several weeks for me.

I just don't have (or take) as much time to paint, and sometimes I just lack a paint and the project grinds to a halt for a week or two before I get to be near a shop to purchase paint. I know, online stores, postal delivery.
It would probably be feasible to get one basic troop miniature done in a couple of hours from spray priming all the way up to and including basing, if I have no distractions, and all my materials and paints are sorted and present. And while parts of it are drying, I would pick up the next miniature, assembly line style. Right now I have a line of 20 Genestealers primes black, painted their skin tones with three progressively lighter shades, and waiting for me to start on their carapace and teeth and claws.

I batch paint so I can't really pin down how long it takes for any one model, given that I do it over the course of at least a few days. I think my first test model that I did alone though took about 2 1/2 hours though.

Several hours and I have to force my self to stop as I strive for prefection

I aim to paint 10 men in a hour or so using batch painting, averaging at 10 minutes a model.

If only I could be bothered to spend longer on them...

Several days as I always find something to improve/correct.

Oh boy, I can spend almost 6 hours making sure that this one guy is as perfect as I can get him to be

batch painting, over the course of several days once or twice a week as I get time, averages to maybe 6 or 10 hours for 10-20 models, so maybe 30minutes-1 hour each depending on the model.

Depends on the army, Deathguard miniatures have far more detail so I can spend hours doing them but a standard tactical marine maybe a couple hours and a Necron warrior and hour or less

It varies. I only paint for myself so my general rule for my models is, the more of them I field, the less detail is needed. A swam of 50 orks on the table and they get about 15-30 mins each. same for guardsmen. But things like tactical marines and such which run in smaller units and will be under closer scrutiny I tend to spend a little more on. Vehicles are a similar thing. But on a longer scale. Leman russ tanks I spend about 2-3 hours on as I may field 5 at a time. But someting like a Storm Raven or Baneblade will be there for half a day making sure to do it to the best of my admittedly average ability.

Several hours of actual painting time per model, I usually paint 5 minis at a time though. So depending on my work schedule, family life, sleep deficits, it's somewhere between 2-4 weeks for every 5 models.

I'm a quazi-perfectionist so I can't really do less detail as it would really bug me. Unfortunately that translates to it taking much longer to 'finish' an army. But I will take longer and get more advanced techniques in on my character models, only work on one or two at a time, etc.

I batch paint my Guardsmen and normal Marines, so I don't really have a definite time for them. I know I can get through about 10 in a day, including food and other breaks.

My current Primaris army is something like 3 hours a model, for a basic guy.

Several hours. But I batch paint. So it's hard to say.
But I can usually churn out 6-12 models in maybe 4-6 hours.
I've done 48 in 12 hours before.
Including bases obviously.

Vehicles I can churn out in 4 hours or spend 2-3 days working on depending how nicely I want it to come out.

Depends... My grey knights I paint one at a time to a character level and can take a couple hours.

My guardsmen I paint in batches of 5 and prob takes about 1h to paint all 5 +time for washes to dry

Depends on the army / model; basic Guardsmen should be plentiful so quickly painting them is fine, however adding extra details and bits is the way to win awards as it shows you have taken that extra effort!

Around an hour or so? But it depends upon the model as well.

As long as it takes. Each army is different.

Depends what it is. I've not painted any basic 40k troops for a long while, and I still have 10 Deathwing Terminators that I started 2 years ago, airbrush undercoated in what I think is possibly a Vallejo variant of Ushabti Bone, it it's not actually Ushabti Bone, waiting to be painted...

Having said that I have recently been painting my core set of Warhammer Quest (1995) models, doing the greenskins, and typically I take about an hour to do one Orc model on it's own. But I'm not a great painter and they're not painted to any high standard, just basic colours and a couple of washes. I try to paint in an assembly line, but it gets boring very quickly and I give up and paint a whole model!

Really depends on the model;

A plaguebearer: Couple of hours
A chaos space marine: Couple of years of trimwork.

Depends on how I'm doing them, and how good I want them to look. My personal T'au take me a lot longer than my brother's entirely 3D Printed 'Nids. A single firewarrior can take upwards of 3 hours, 6 genestealers took me 45 minutes.