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Milisim wrote:Basic troops I aim for 30 mins at the most.

Vehicles about 2- hours.

Elites and HQ I try to go for about 2 hours a model...

I just cant spend an more time on basic infantry guys knowing they just get dragged off the board en masse.

I just spent 3 weeks painting these firewarriors aren't they pretty!

dakka dakka dakka...

Please remove your pretty firewarriors please.... Thats 12 hits with no saves.

yeah, but its not only about playing with them. Its also about having an awesome army.

I did take alot of time on my grots, even though they rarely ever survive turn one.....

I just spend one whole day, probably 10 hours, figuring out my 2 test Eldar Guardian Defenders. I may be able to cut the time down, but the level of detail, shading and edge highlighting 'm striving for will probably still take me 3-4 hours a model, I can be slow when doing precise details. Usually it's a few hours a day, for a few days each, on a set of models, like me working on 2 Farseers for an hour or two a day for the whole last week. It can take lots of time to get the right effect I want - basecoat, wash, drybrush, wash, touch-up, all for the bleached bone/sepia ink on my Eldar - now let's do another color on the armor/robes!

I said several hours, mainly because when I paint troops I paint them all together. It's nice that I can paint one colour on them all before moving on to the next, but it gets boring so I usually walk away and wander aimlessly between layers of paint.

Are we counting smoke breaks and being lazy into this? I have pretty much a thirty min. paint job. But because of my lungs needing smoke and me finding something else that seems better, it takes forever to get models painted.

Not quit sure, I paint most of the models on the spur, then assemble them and then add details. So the time I spend painting my basic troops is for a whole squad, so maybe 20 minutes per.

I also tend to paint basic troops in groups but I think up to one hour per base.

To paint one troop models would take me a day of two. However I do them in big batches which really takes over a week, more if it's a complex unit likeTyranid warriors.

I'll let you know when I finally finish one.

2 hours average per model because theyre orks and making every single one slightly different with checks and dags takes awhile.

A ghood solid paint job is doable in about an hour for a mini I have painted in the past.

It's actually probably more since I paint fairly slowly, but burning more than hour on an IG model that will spend less than 10 minutes on a game board has never seemed right to me. I'm blessed with a fairly gifted hand though so even though I think I'm slow, what I do is done quickly and acceptably well. I take a whole lot more time on the models i really like though, as well as everyone else does I'm sure.

For mass-combat games, maybe an hour overall per meatshield.

For skirmish games, about 2 hours. This includes cleaning and prep, assembly and painting.

Here for a good time, not a long time. Life is too short. Slap some paint on them and set them to battle.
(I may not be the world's best painter - I don't claim to be - but I won't play with an unpainted model.)

I take my time on my skirmish game minis - I took 5hrs on a Fusiler mini for Inifinity even though he will never get to the field of battle (he was a test model for colour schemes)

I tend to paint in short bursts, spread over a rather long period of time. I probably spend several hours finishing one model, but it usually takes me a few weeks to actually put that time in.

Granted, it does vary with the complexity/desired finish of the model. I'm currently working on an Infinity fig that's taking me about as long as I usually spend on a small batch of Ork Boys (which I tackle 4-6 at a time - more would break me, less loses any benefit to assembly-lining).

If I think about the time it scares me!

I paint troops in batches of 5 and probably have them looking good enough to scrutinize at about 1-1.5 hours per model.

I also always have 3 things on the go so while one coat is drying I'll assemble something else or spray some terrain etc etc.

I can paint about three marines in an hour and a half, doing them simultaneously.

I spend a couple of hours painting basic troops. But only as I've gotten older.

Before that I'd spray the base colour (blue, red or silver) wash, highlight and add details. Gotta love Space Marines huh?

Now I don't touch GW minis with a 12 ft barge pole, I lavish as much care and attention as I think the mini deserves. I'm in no rush and tend to paint because it helps me relax.

depends, but between 30min and 1h

Half an hour for the basic Tyranid troops (the little guys), but I'm a crap painter anyway, so..

I have several armies to paint, At the moment I am in a small room with roommates. I have a mattress and a chair as my work space so, only a few at a time. It takes me 2 hrs to build and paint 10 bases. Each model on top of that takes about 3 hrs to paint, and the last hour is just touching up everything for all the models.

susejo239 wrote:As long as it takes.

Well played.

I was able to crank out plague marines about 30-45 minutes a pop (not counting conversion time, just painting), but dark eldar has slowed things to a crawl. After about 8 hours I have one wych 70% done. Ouch.

I voted several hours, but that mainly just comes out to me being kind of a gakky painter. I enjoy painting, just takes me awhile, and I am not very good at it.

Thanks to the fact, that i'm a beginner, i usually spend several hours to paint only one gk pally Now after a few piece i'm a bit faster, around 2-3 hours Just finished a stormtalon under 23 hours :O (coffee and cigarette breaks included)

Depends on the mini.

For a basic DA I guess about 1 hour. Base green, silver, red, bone. Washs, add a mid green, red and bone, drybrush the silver and then highlight. Not much to them.

DA's in robes take a little longer, probably 1.5 hours.

Orks, annoyingly, take even longer as they have more colours, the green takes more layers. 5-6 diffrent shades, although some only have 3 (I try and make every batch with diffrent skin colours. The way I see it they won't all have exactly the same skin colour, and as long as I mix the models with diffrent skin in squads it looks good).

Tau, probably about 30-40 mins. Not to many colours and they look good with a flatter paint job.

mega_bassist wrote:Takes me about an hour per Fire Warrior...Crisis Suits are about 2.5-3 hours...Man, I'm a slow painter

Takes me 5+ hours for a crisis suit (paint mine white)

Melkhiordarkblade wrote:I said several hours, mainly because when I paint troops I paint them all together. It's nice that I can paint one colour on them all before moving on to the next, but it gets boring so I usually walk away and wander aimlessly between layers of paint.

LMAO YES!!! i do the exact same thing! ahaha

On the single mini, if I only painted it? Probably about a half hour.

For my gaunts, a good third of that time is waiting for the ink to dry.

I'm an IG player, so things have to be quick and easy. I spend about half an hour on my basic troop type.
Not including drying time!

I've found using coloured primers, block painting and dip means I can pump out table ready figures very quickly, 1 hour tops not counting drying time

it's hard to tell, because I paint the models over several days, but only like 1 hour a day.