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I need some help. I've got 500 unpainted and 2 months to do it. Any good tips, hopefully with washes. No videos please, preferably pics.

Thanks mates. :wo

Holy crap, that's alot of guardmen.

I'd recommend. Finding a base color that you can spray on with camo colored spray paint. That will take care of prime and basecoat. Then do the base colors and either washes (somoene else will have to explain) or if you can find a Malaysian product similar to Minwax Polyshades, -a Stain Plus Polyurethane product that works like Army Painter Quickshade- and you can dip the miniatures. Or you can just buy Army Painter.

Traitor guard are a good candidate for dipping as they are supposed to be a bit grimey.

My Brush-Dipping Tutorial.
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2012/01/with-liberty-and-brush-dipping-for-all.html

what color scheme are you looking for.

I would spray a coloured primer, then drybrush and wash for the main colours. Then go in with secondary colours and metallics where needed and wash those. Bugger doing propper highlighting on 500 guys with only 8 weeks to do it!

Dipping might be another option, But dipping tends to lend it self to certain models and not others.

What color scheme did you want to do them in? As suggested, you could prime either Khaki or Camo Green, pick out flesh, straps, boots, and metallics, then give the entire figure a brown/black wash.