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Poll suggested by MrMerlin

I usually spend an hour and a half to two hours (setting up the airbrush, then painting)

I voted half an hour.
But it really depends of the number of troops I'll be using in an army.
For example; skaven clanrats I can do in less than 15 minutes each, and the basic paint job plus wash/highlight looks good because I'm fielding 200.
For GK paladins, I tend to spend 1 hour for each one, or longer if I don't get the frost-fade how I want it the first time. These need to look better individually because I'm fielding a lot less of them.

An hour for me makes my figures look table tob ready. And also pick up and stare at ready ;D

I think the longest I spent on a Basic troop was 3 days. But I tend to spend a few hours on a every model.

However I spent 3 minutes on my Necron Army

For my beastmen I got it down to 15 minutes I gor but I paint around 20 gor at a time

About half hour per mini so i don't get discouraged by the tediousness, some i'm painting slowly over a few hours but I always have a 'fast' army on the go that i can crack on with quite quickly, at the moment, Dark eldar are a fast army for me with less than half hour per mini and my Sallies are a slow army taking a couple hours each one.

Nerdfest09

Hey lego, thanks for adding my poll

its several days for me; i really hate having a model in my army that could look better; though my first 30 boys were done in half an hour each..... AAARGH

Takes me about an hour per Fire Warrior...Crisis Suits are about 2.5-3 hours...Man, I'm a slow painter

I paint my squads in batches, using the production line method, and it takes me about 5 hours for a squad of 10. So I said 1/2 an hour for a single troop.

Well , i have 120 miniatures to paint .ORKS FTW!!!! got them in august , Have not painted them , but i guess it takes a long time.

I takes me over a month to convert and paint one basic CSM sadly, but it's worth it in the end.

Several hours, but sometimes over the course of days or weeks.

I think it depends on scale and format.

For example, a 28mm figure would take me longer to do than a 15mm figure, and even longer than a 6mm figure.

And it depends on the style of the game. I'll put a bit more effort if each model is on it's own desperate base, as opposed to being in rank-and-file during play.

Coloured Primers save an awful lot of time! about an hour per troop (total) using the line painting method.

I voted several days, as I tend to take my time no matter what I am painting. Sure I could churn out acceptable table top standard in about half an hour per model but this is my hobby and I take pride in it. I suppose I also model and paint far more than I play.

Well, I've got about 5 veterans sitting on my desk that have been waiting for me to paint them for more than a year...

A few minutes, in multyple sessions.

For my CSM, it probably takes about an hour each.

For my SM, it will take longer, probably 2 hours each, as I have a lot of airbrushing and masking to do on each one on top of the regular painting.

My IG took about 30 minutes each.

Other. reason being is I don't complete them in one sitting. I do a batch of 10-15 a time and it takes me about a week. So I guess the cumulative time for one model would be half hour, hour...ish.

vigilante87 wrote: Other. reason being is I don't complete them in one sitting.

well, i guess those who chose "several days" dont do it in a single sitting either.......

Depends on what it is. But about 30 minutes for every Eldar model.

Hard to say, as I paint units at a time. I think, though, that dividing the steps by the number of models would yield an answer of over an hour per man.

9.9998382 minutes.

NO!

9 minutes for most but beastmen 4 min a gor

I personally paint all my basic troops in batches, but they take about an hour individually. (ORKS!)

I also paint in batches (Orks as well), but I'm a fairly quick painter and my standards aren't that high considering it's a horde army. I probably spend about half an hour or less per mini, but it still winds up being about 9 colors for each guy.

It can range from a few hours to a couple of days. Depends really on if i'm doing them in one sitting or not.

Basic troops I aim for 30 mins at the most.

Vehicles about 2- hours.

Elites and HQ I try to go for about 2 hours a model...

I just cant spend an more time on basic infantry guys knowing they just get dragged off the board en masse.

I just spent 3 weeks painting these firewarriors aren't they pretty!

dakka dakka dakka...

Please remove your pretty firewarriors please.... Thats 12 hits with no saves.

The more you paint at once the less time they take per head. Makes sense right?

The last units I painted were my Dogs of War and they were several hours a night for a week or more. So it's over an hour per miniature.

As long as it takes.