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Plenty of guys here are painting just for the heck of it. But I'm interested in people who are trying to build an army and finish some time before the heat death of the universe. When I originally started, I was intent on actually playing Warhammer, not painthammer. But I got heavily caught up in trying to create really pretty models.

Anyways, a year later I think I've hit my stride - I understand the techniques that work for me, I know my tools etc. It seems like my effective throughput is about 1 box / month. Tactical marines, dreadnought, what have you. 1 / month seems like a reasonable long term goal.

So I'm curious what kind of numbers other people aim for. 1 box / month? 2? Less? I guess I would also stipulate : "when you are in painting mode". Obviously, we all take breaks where we might get nothing done for many months. But when we're in the groove and producing - what are we looking at?