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There is always more then one way to do things. Some time I struggle with some details while work on miniature so I curiouse how you order your work.
For example my looks like:
1. Clean up parts
2. Fully build miniature(except for mini like bullgryns where shield block half the miniature so I don't glue hand with shield)
3. Add basing
4. Priming
5. Painting
6. Add basing details which shouldn't be painted.

So how your painting modeling pipeline/order looks like?

Basically the same, but I'd throw in a varnish step after painting

I’m not consistent.

When building a squad, sometimes I’ll clip 5 at a time and clean build, other times clip and build one at a time.

Sometimes I’ll clean and build in steps. So I’ll clean the torso/legs, glue them. While the glue is drying I’ll clean the arms/head/weapons. Then glue them. I paint in parts if the build is going to make it hard to get a brush places. But as few parts as I can manage.

Once I get enough built, and the weather is agreeable, I prime with a rattle can. Basic white for everything.

Things get painted out of the primed pile. I’m normally pretty good about finishing things once I start, although they may linger in the back of the paintbench and go real slow.

All my base work is done post paint. Mostly flock based. I’ll sometimes wait until I have a few minis ready before I base.

I don’t varnish.

Once painted it goes on the Year to Date shelf, unless It’s needed at the FLGS. End of the year everyone gets integrated into the normal display shelves.

My method is very sub-assembly based, but I do mostly paint for display/competition so it is probably not a good idea for army/squad painting.

1. Clean up parts
2. Assemble parts only to the extent that I can reach every single spot on the miniature.
3. Find hidden spots on the parts and drill holes for pinning on brass rods stuck into corks. At this stage I also make small holes for tiny pins to make sure arms and other weak parts can be easier to attach to the main bulk of the mini once painted.
4. Prime, trying to keep contact points for later gluing protected with blue tack.
5. Paint individual sections, varnish them and then glue them on to other finished parts.
6. When mini is fully assemble I patch up mistakes and cover impact of escaped glue and varnish the whole thing again.
7. Make base separately.
8. Put mini on base (usually keeping a short bit on pins in feet to make sure they are secure on the base) and varnish a bit on all exposed sections likely to be injured when handling the mini as well as all over the base.

At every step of the way I am doing my best not to go back to step 1 on a new mini, but it works badly so the number of subassemblies on pins half-completed and possibly never finished increasing by the day

Cheers!

I like to stare at my unbuilt and unpainted sprues for a long time... trying to use the power of my mind to will them into completion.

So far, that hasn't worked.

So I build a few models...

Write up a list...

Build a few more models...

Find some cool part that will make them look awesome...

Order said part...

Write a new list...

Wait for new parts...

Rebuild units...

Get everything together...

And then attempt to figure out how to paint them...

If it's easy like my Warcry models, I paint them up in a few days...

If it's my IG...

I don't know, I'm still waiting on cool parts.

I tend to do small batches, but have a wide variety of stuff in-process at any point in time. That way while paint or glue on one batch is drying, I have other things to work on, and it's not as boring as doing 20+ of the same unit all at once.

The process for an individual model goes:

Assemble model completely (aside from shields and other items that block large areas of the model).

Prime

Paint

Base

Varnish

Flock.

Although for my dark elves, flock went on before varnish to take advantage of 'frosting', since there was snow on the bases.

For me it is usually:

1. clean sprues in soap water
2. build the model in sensible subassemblies to get everywhere (in some cases, especially vehicles that might mean they are complete, most Infantry models have at least an arm or so seperate)
2b. if I want to magnetize something or install LEDs, do it now
3. prime everything
4. paint the models
5. glue subassemblies together
6. do the basing (quite often it is only now that the minis get glued to the bases as I often prefer painting them without bases to have better access to the bottom
7. clean up loose ends like covering up the lines between subassemblies at least a little bit, fix fiddly parts that got broken off and the like
8. (not everytime, to seldom to be honest) varnish the models
9. glue magnets under the bases for storage

I usually cut a few parts from the frame and clean them from mould lines and sprue connections. Halfway through building it I might get distracted for a week.
Once the model is built i start searching for boxes with the rest of the army its supposed to go into.

I put most of the factions models on a table for display, and crinch at the paintjobs.
I spend some time staring at the might of my collection with the new unpainted model at the center.
Next I give the model a zenital highlight, and while the paint set I start making some quick paint modifications/updates for some other unit from the army on display at the table.

Next Im just about to take the buss to town to buy a brand new unit I just realised I need to back up my newly built model.
I calm down and focus on the new model and have it painted fairly quick. Every part that is supposed to be metal get a black base and then drybrushed with canoptec alloy. Painting sloppy big areas first with gradiants or drybrushing and then focusing in on smaller and smaller details.
Lastly make a new base and put the model on it.
Lastly lastly I realise the new model is my best work yet! However the rest of the army looks horrible, so I need to back and try to fix them with some clever quick fix, like "more shade"