How Much Paint/Hour

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**Ebullient**

If you sat down for a good hour or two and just painted your basic troops with Citadel paints, do you go through several bottles of the paint, or do the paints last longer than that?

**Borkin**

Way longer, though i rarely do more than 1-2 coats.

**fox-light713**

Indeed

**MajorTom11**

Um, I have Citadel paints that saw the early 90's and are still usable... Rarely run out, and definitely, definitely not in the space of hours...

**fraggrenade**

The only time I go through that much paint is when I am airbrushing a few tanks, othewise one container paints upwards of 30 figures.

Then of cource thats me, some people use more, some less.

**Ebullient**

Alright! Thanks guys... I'm just checking everything out before I really commit to the game... I'm stingy like that.

**Brother SRM**

Unless you're seriously ham-handed and just glob on paint with reckless abandon, you should be just fine. I've got pots of paint I've been using for 3 years that are still fine.

**oadie**

I paint painfully slowly, so pots/hr is a less than ideal measure, but even doing something like SM armor in primarily one color, a pot should last you through multiple squads.

**J.Black**

Perhaps if you were using an airbrush to undercoat several tanks....

Use Vallejo paints rather than Citadel if you are stingy

you get a little more in the bottles, they are cheaper, higher quality, and come in dropper bottles so it's easy to measure out the paint

**Gearhead**

Paints usually last a very VERY long time. I've been using a 2-oz bottle of red paint for a friend's IG army (I've nicknamed it The Red Tide,) and I only started to really make a dent in that bottle recently when I bought an airbrush to paint his tanks with.