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I think my best was Battle Sisters in batches of 40 per day for 3 days. Definitely did 30 old Stormtroopers one morning another time, too.

I have yet to start my Termagants, but I hope I can get a day to batch a whole slew of them out.

30 brimstone horrors.

Less than one - must paint faster...

I’m a slow painter as it is, but I also enjoy the odd painting challenge.

Most I’ve put out in a day was 40 squigs and 8 herders.
Even then, I didn’t feel like painting for a few days after that.

It’s annoying as I can push myself to paint that amount yet usually won’t paint that much in a month normally.


The only time I really paint with any speed is when painting a new army, and that’s literally just to get a small force on the table as quickly as possible.
Building that into a proper army can then take me months.

Like ... base primer to finished model? Zero. I've been painting since 1995 and I've never finished a model in a single sitting.

On the other hand I'm pretty good at consistently sitting down to paint every single day so I still get more done overall than pretty much anyone else at my LGS, even if some days I only get a single color done.

The Newman wrote:
Like ... base primer to finished model? Zero. I've been painting since 1995 and I've never finished a model in a single sitting.

On the other hand I'm pretty good at consistently sitting down to paint every single day so I still get more done overall than pretty much anyone else at my LGS, even if some days I only get a single color done.

Slow but steady wins the race!

My normal pace is aiming for 1 mini a week. Maintain that for a year, that’s 52. That’s an army (for many factions) How many layers does it take to do a single mini? 7 or less? Sitting down once a day will get you that in a week. And that’s if you are just doing one mini at a time. These days I try to keep 2 working across the bench at the same time.

I do something like that, just with a squad/tank at a time instead of a single model. My process is 11 steps for each model and three of those are washes that take a while to dry, so I have one unit on the tray and a second on stand-by. If I put down a wash and I'm still feeling like painting I can get a jump-start on that second unit.

From sprue/unprimed to fully painted? Never. Far too much of a hobby butterfly. I see shiny, I get distracted.

Looking at the threads of many others, I am not alone in this. I have done the majority of a tank in a weekend, I suppose as my record. Or perhaps 10 random miniatures over 2 days. I get far too invested in the individual miniatures to rush.

The Newman wrote:
Like ... base primer to finished model? Zero. I've been painting since 1995 and I've never finished a model in a single sitting.

Same. Might get a single color done on 5 models in a day, but then I usually only have an hour or so in any one day to do so. So batch paint a few models, a color or two at a time.

Notice how all the "here's my amazing record" people jumped in right away while the "none, but I'm consistent on getting a little done every day" all waited until page two?

Slow and steady wins the race?

80 Kroot + Shaper + 4 hounds

Surprisingly, they turned out good. It was one of those magic moments when the paint scheme I chose turned out so well they were fun to pump out. Went through a whole pot of Mechrite red though...

Guys ! I think the quarantine is a good time to revive this thread and share your records !
For me it's still the same, it's difficult to say because I tend to paint way more models but one color a time (like, all the red, then all the yellow etc).

Knocked out a bunch of Death Guard last weekend because of Contrast paints. Obviously basing still needs to be done...and 15 more poxwalkers.

But then today, just a single Deathwing Knight

24 necron warriors. By hand, no spray. Including sticking in the glowrods.

I will never finish from sprue to varnish in one day. I like to wait 24 hours after priming to start painting. Just to let it do it’s thing. I also batch paint so yeah not ever gonna happen. Excuses and what not.

I once did 45 3rd Edition Dark Eldar Warriors in a single day (before dawn to well past midnight). A Law and Order Marathon was on.

I am a notoriously slow painter, and I literally have THOUSANDS of unpainted infantry left. With that in mind I am not looking at doing the dip-method for some of the armies I have yet to start painting (Tyranids and Daemons) and using simplified color schemes for other armies.

My record for 28mm(ish) stuff is 17 in one day. About 1 per hour.
They were all individual D&D characters/NPCs, mostly human, & all types of clothing/armor/skin. So each one was essentially starting a project from scratch.

My usual pace is 2-3 models per evening. At best. And that doesn't happen every day, week, or even month....

20, but they were easy.

Still haven't done more than 5 in a day. Now it's taking over a week to get two models done. During quarantine. Imagine that.

(Granted I am doing Skitarii in sub-assembly).

Either 30 grots or 16 orks and 2 killa kanz, depending on what would count as more.

Assuming we're talking about already assembled and primed, I did most of a Nurgle Daemon army in WH in one go. It helped that the colour scheme was basically two shades of green that had good coverage, red and metal details and a brown wash. Think I got 50 Plaguebearers, 6 Plagueriders a Daemon Prince and three Heralds done in a day. I still remember the pain of the Bronzed Flesh wings on the DP - that was not a colour that covered well! For my Chaos Warrior army I was churning out 20-30 Warriors a day thanks to a similarly simple colour scheme.

I find if you really want to paint something quickly all you need to do is figure out the quickest colour scheme that still looks good, usually by choosing colours that cover well so you don't need 3-4 basecoats and you can fix mistakes easily.

Delete.

I think I painted some 40 Soviet WWII 28mm infantry in a day. They have pretty simple uniforms that made it pretty easy.

The fastest I've painted models recently was the new Flames of War boxset, which I did over the course of three days last summer.

I didn't do them model by model, though, I did them in stages as groups, so I don't know what that constitutes in terms of models and rate of completion.