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Well there are different kits and they generally take different amount of time.
But how long does it take for you to assemble ( assuming its your first time working with that kit )
and take in account trimming the mold lines?

Small Sized = Sentinel / Walker / Calvary / Transports / Bikes /
Medium Sized = Squad / Land Raider / Battle Wagon / Valkyrie / Trygon
Larger Sized = The super heavies

I just want to know if im really slow at this... because thinking back its ridiculously slow of me.
for example Storm Lord i spent 10 hours , Stompa i spent 12+ hours.
Im not sure how that is possible , maybe my brain died from the plastic cement -_-

1 hour for small kits. It took me 3 hours for the land raider. It took me 16 hours to open, assemble and paint a basic ultramarine landraider only taking breaks to eat.

That's not a terribly long amount of time Luna, my Shadowsword probably took me a little over 6.5 hours of working on it exclusively to put together.

Simple/repetitive stuff (obviously) takes me a much shorter amount of time. I can slap together a tac squad in almost no time!

It usually takes me no time flat to put together just about anything. However, when I built my 10 man veteran squad and command squad it took me a good 5 hours. Most of that was me deliberating whether or not these 10 guys should be a veteran squad or a troops squad, and how I was going to distribute the cool command squad bits.

I assembled a Baneblade in around 3 hours.
Land Raiders take around 90-120 minutes or so.

Smaller kits take less time. Rhinos take around 30 minutes.

Anyone have instruction booklet for land raider ><?

Umm... a little broad, don't'cha think Luna?

I mean, prep and build a Marine? Not a long time. Prep and build a Russ? 'Bout 8 nano-seconds, with my eyes closed, and using only my feet. Prep and build a CoD building? Considerably longer!

I've got one for the old crusader (which is a basic land raider with metal bits) - will that do?

chromedog wrote:I've got one for the old crusader (which is a basic land raider with metal bits) - will that do?

Its alright , i was going to build it tonight. Tommorow i'll ask my cousin if he kept any booklets.

I'll assemble dread first xD

Im very dissapointed the venerable cockpit doesnt fit on iron clad body -_-

I'd say I spend:

30 minutes to an hour soaking them in detergent

about an hour to 2 hours, depending snipping from the sprue and filing down lines, and filling gaps

a few minutes priming, and at least 24 hours of drying time

probably 10 to 15 hours painting, washing and highlighting

5 minutes of dullcote, 24 hours of drying

and, interspersed amongst the previous steps, anywhere from a few weeks to a few months of vacillation and neglect




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and, I can scan the instructions for my land raiders when I get home, if someone has not beaten me to it. I'm at work for the next 9 hours.

It depends with me, if it's metal 12 odd hours to dry, but some things I did pretty quickly, took me 1 1/2 hours to put together a Monolith.