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 Nordicus wrote:
Really depends on the model;

A plaguebearer: Couple of hours
A chaos space marine: Couple of years of trimwork.

The new more baroque ones certainly don't help that situation

Probably around 3-4 hours in actual painting time. As pointed out with batch painting you kind of go through the different colours/details in a conveyor belt.

My basic guardian scheme is yellow over black so thats many many thin layers so takes loong.

My first miniature took me more than a week to paint, but of course, I wasn't painting every day. From start to finish it took 20 hours. I was learning on my way, redoing a lot of stuff, working very slowly. Though, I love to paint and have attitude that it is better to spend as long as it takes to get a result you are satisfied with than to rush this process.

I’ll spend maybe 90 minutes on a guardsman, maybe longer. I’m a fairly quick painter, but I like having every detail correct.

About 19 years, apparently.

LeperColony wrote:
About 19 years, apparently.

Big oof

All in all, this basically depends on the troops that it is you're going to be painting.

When it comes to some imperial guard squads, or more mundane space marines. This can be done with relative ease and with very little preparation.

I can spend upwards of 15 minutes painting singular models in a round robin rotation. Basing, washing/dry brushing and highlighting. Can all be taken care of rather quickly.

But generally, yes. If this takes into account all of my troops from the army that I'm building. Several hours will have to be my choice.

Ahhh god I spend days and days on each model.. I just like to get them to a higher quality and can’t bring myself to take shortcuts, which really affects time efficiency xD But I like to think they look good after!

I voted a few hours, but it really depends on my mood, and the paint scheme, so for example, I painted my looted rhino in only an hour, due to it mostly being blue, metallics, a few other colors, and weathering (is that the right word?) of dusty paints to make it look like it's in a dust storm, and the fact that it is mostly flat also helps, but I can spend an outrageous time on grots.

Depends. My cadians I can batch paint quickly, and can finish 10 in a couple hours. My grey knights get a few hours per model.

However long it takes for me to be satisfied with them.

No rule. I hate painting but when I finally decide to do this I can be very picky and sometimes I can return to some minis or even details to paint/repaint them over and over again until I am satisfied.

I find this really hard to answer because I assembly-line my basic troops and some are MUCH easier than others. I can bang out Plaguebearers much faster than I can finish Genestealer Hybrids.

Depends. 15m per guardsmen. 2ish hours a grey knight.

Usually spend an hour on an ork because of my moron painting skills, but after picking up chaos legionaries it takes me a couple sessions depending on time I have.