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I normally paint Imperial Guard (Steel Legion) or C18th British Line Infantry so tend to bloc paint 5 or 6 at a time of one colour, then go onto the next colour etc... Normally takes about 1/2 an hour to do one colour, though depends on the colour.

It really depends of the army, with my Orks, I still have a lot to paint, but I still end up taking around 30 minutes - 1 hour per boy.

Put simply, too long.

As Orkz are best painted in an assembly line kind of way, I do just that. Painting my first batch of 5 Boyz took 10 hours because I tend to focus too much on details for my own good

Over an hour per guardsmen, about a day of work to batch paint five. As for Sisters, ten hours per model.

As long as it takes to get it where I'm happy with it. Generally between 30 minutes to an hour, though.

with forgeworld ten man tatical squad costing £60 i take several days to paint one mini but i do heavy damage and use oils pigments the works also the bases are a pain using powder

When I first started I tried the assembly line technique and ended up with models that today I'm very frustrated to look at let alone field on the table.

These days it depends on the army. For some reason space marines with their smooth lines and armor joints I can only do one a night after work; about four hours... but that's several layers of paint, highlights, eyes, glow/power effects etc. I can crank out three or four Krieg units with the same level of detail in the same time it takes me to do one marine.

For independant characters I take several days in chunks of about four hours.

One question I have for folks out there is: Do you guys fully assemble models before painting? Paint on sprues? Or partially assemble, paint something that might be covered by say a bolter across the chest, and then move on?

I put everything but the arms/weapons together, then paint it. Paint the arms and guns and then set them across the chest if that's where they're going to go. Exceptions to this are when the arms/weapons aren't covering anything.

With Space Marines, I assemble completely before painting. With Eldar, I partially assemble the bodies, and paint the arms/head/weapon on the sprue, for accuracy.

I do my troops assembly line style so it might take an hour to do a line of troops in one color and then five minutes with another color so...it really varies.

There was one occasion where from start to finish I did about 15 termaguants with fleshborers in about 4 hours, by the same token I'm working on a Deathwatch Kill Team and Rhino for them and while the black is relatively simple it's all the other colors they have that really make them take a lot longer. I put about 4/5 hours into the rhino alone, and probably have put 9 or 10 in the troops, which is about an hour a guy and that's just the basic troops, but I still have the more complicated characters from the unit left.

I assembly line paint my basic troops like my battle sisters, so I really have no idea how long it actually takes to paint them.

I take about 3 to 6 hours per basic trooper, but it depends on the army. Usually, dark eldar take ages due to all the different colours whilst space marines take about 3 1/2.

My word bearers, cultists, and imperial guardsmen all take me about a half hour because i'm mass painting and don't actually care a great deal about them individually (I don't play the army, I have them for our deathwatch rpg)....my black templars take anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half, I've painted about a hundred of them and have it down to a science

Several hours. But since I don't get the chance to paint much, this may be over several weeks.

Days. I'm pretty terrible at painting.

1068SCP wrote:
Days. I'm pretty terrible at painting.

Taking time doesn't mean you are terrible.

all my time. i play tyranid.

A normal marine or catachan takes me around an hour to 90 minutes.

Usually I paint the whole unit at once and it take a few hours, with all the drying and whatnot.

Ive recently been painting up some imperial guardtanith first, and all i have to do is spray them chaos black and finish off details with a brush, which all takes about 10 mins, discounting spray drying times and converting/painting camo capes, but i used to spend 1-3 days on my csm when i first started painting

I'm new and thus very slow, hoping to speed up though. When I get back home I plan on getting some of the P3 inks and trying those on my MEQs

can't really say, since everything almost all my normal troops are batched. Fastest I recall doing was 20 bloodletters in about 6 hours, so that about 18 minutes per. Longest was about 4 hours per for a CSM squad.

I tend to do them in batches of 5 for my Black Templar... takes a few days as I've gotten to the point of individualizing most of the troops lol...

I'd like to put as much time in on a basic trooper as it takes to make me feel good about the end result of it.

Not counting assembly, but counting all other prep, flocking, and sealing work, it takes me about an hour for each model. I might be at a point where it is more like 50 min.

About an hour all up.
Cleaning, assembly and painting.

Rank and file don't get special treatment.

I spend at least a couple hours on each marine, across several sittings. I work on anywhere from one to five troops models at a time, but I've moved away from the assembly line method because it's just not fun. I'm hoping to speed my process up a bit for my CSM army without compromising quality at all; get the airbrush more involved, etc.

that's just painting time, mind you. clean up and assembly is easily another hour each. damn mold lines...

I spend far too long on them!

if priming counts as painting, I did a 3000 point Black Templar army in about 45 seconds. lol

Even in batches it averages a few hours per model, i suppose this is why my armies are never finnished. oh well, if they look good its time well spent.