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For me it depends on the cost of the model - I very literally define how long I spend on a model by its price.

Aside from basing and assembly, here's my model:

1-20 points:

2 hours (usually paint about 10 at a time, so this can be about 5 hours.)

21-60 points:

3-4 hours, large models (larger than a marine) 6 hours.

60-100 points, not HQs or Centrepieces

4-8 hours, depending on size

100+ points, not HQs or centerpieces

5 hours average, 10 hours maximum. Large models can take longer, but they're usually centre pieces.

HQs and centrepieces I Take my time with. For example, I have painted a herald of khorne using a skullcrusher model. This took me about 4 days but I was painting very slowly. Karanak, on the other hand took about an hour because the scheme is mostly drubrushing.

Speed is decent atm. keep on going. When you finish your army look at the quality of your first model and your last. You will see a massive difference.

I atm am starting by painting the models I hope are easiest to paint and moving onto the harder ones. I do sometimes worry about ruining models with poor quality painting but thats what stripping is for.

The minis look nice enough to me, get some basing on them and it'll make them even better!

At 1 mini per day you'll get an army done in 3 months easy which is more than most people manage to get painted.

 scarletsquig wrote:
The minis look nice enough to me, get some basing on them and it'll make them even better!

At 1 mini per day you'll get an army done in 3 months easy which is more than most people manage to get painted.

That's what I was thinking... My baby will be born in September and I know my painting time for a while will be scarce, that's why I want to finish the army by then... lol

 carlos13th wrote:
Speed is decent atm. keep on going. When you finish your army look at the quality of your first model and your last. You will see a massive difference.

I atm am starting by painting the models I hope are easiest to paint and moving onto the harder ones. I do sometimes worry about ruining models with poor quality painting but thats what stripping is for.

My Tyranids are the opposite, the first ones look really good, but took me 2 hours per gaunt to paint. So I picked up the pace and later ones look worse but only take me about 45 minutes to paint, lol.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:"Table top quality" is a meaningless term. Every army I've ever painted I consider "table top quality" and they have all varied wildly in quality. Compared to the first army I collected when I started playing... I'd call what you have table top quality.

What a commission painter calls "table top quality" is a higher standard than what you have there, so what you have would be called below "table top quality".

But IMO, "table top quality" is basically just what you can paint reasonably quickly to put an army together... that's why it varies wildly from person to person. The quality I can paint in an hour is not the quality you can paint in an hour and is not the quality a commission painter can paint in an hour and if you have a lot of free time on your hands you might consider an hour per model too short of a time anyway.

TL;DR.... table top quality has no strict definition and even if it did, it would vary from person to person.

Exactly that. Tabletop differs greatly from person to person. The more you practice the more your
tabletop standard rises

Dalymiddleboro wrote:So they aren't looking pretty good? For min i fooled myself. That's the best i can do. I guess I'll stop wasting my time.

Your minis are above average especially for the time you spend on each one. Keep practicing
and keep posting pics asking for advice. You will be amazed by the improvement you can make
on your painting this way.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Speed is decent atm. keep on going. When you finish your army look at the quality of your first model and your last. You will see a massive difference.

I atm am starting by painting the models I hope are easiest to paint and moving onto the harder ones. I do sometimes worry about ruining models with poor quality painting but thats what stripping is for.

My Tyranids are the opposite, the first ones look really good, but took me 2 hours per gaunt to paint. So I picked up the pace and later ones look worse but only take me about 45 minutes to paint, lol.

Takes me longer than 45 min to get the base coats done.

Ok, let me start by saying they look good. I've seen much worse, and painted much worse, to be honest. Not real sure where you are at in the hobby (as in how long you've been painting), But I have to agree with the folks who say if you're happy with it, its good. I always point out remember who you are painting for - if its for sale, then yeah, you've got to keep the client happy, but if for yourself and you like what you're doing then good.

Now for the questions - you say you're doing one a day. Are you starting by assembling, waiting for the glue to dry, then priming, waiting for it to dry, base colors, drying time and so forth? Are you painting while working on other things? If so, then yes, 1 a day is a good rate. There are some suggestions I would give if you want to speed up a bit though.

I tend to do it this way - Assemble all figures. Let dry overnight. Prime all figures. Let dry. I then work from the skin out, assembly line style - do all one color on a figure, move onto the next and so forth until its time for the fiddly bits and any retouching.

steelcult wrote:
Ok, let me start by saying they look good. I've seen much worse, and painted much worse, to be honest. Not real sure where you are at in the hobby (as in how long you've been painting), But I have to agree with the folks who say if you're happy with it, its good. I always point out remember who you are painting for - if its for sale, then yeah, you've got to keep the client happy, but if for yourself and you like what you're doing then good.

Now for the questions - you say you're doing one a day. Are you starting by assembling, waiting for the glue to dry, then priming, waiting for it to dry, base colors, drying time and so forth? Are you painting while working on other things? If so, then yes, 1 a day is a good rate. There are some suggestions I would give if you want to speed up a bit though.

I tend to do it this way - Assemble all figures. Let dry overnight. Prime all figures. Let dry. I then work from the skin out, assembly line style - do all one color on a figure, move onto the next and so forth until its time for the fiddly bits and any retouching.

Everything is built. My one a day is literally painting an already primed model, I do do an additional base coat though. Black is a tricky color... So I got advice to mix it 50/50 with a very dark teal and black, then wash with nuln oil. I do that, then do the edges and everything else seen on the model. I've been in the hobby for 1 year and 8 months.

You're painting much better than I did at that long in the hobby. Hell, you're doing better than I do now, 30+ years later. I would say the only thing that would speed it up would be working on more than one piece at a time.