Painting Time

MadLordAnarchy · Post by **MadLordAnarchy** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:50 am

How long should it take a person of decent skill level to produce a reasonable looking BBowl team? I don't have the time or the skill so I paid a member of my league to paint up all the teams for me in their appropriate team colours. How long should it take as my league season doesn't start for months but I don't want the quality to drop.

Grasshopper · Post by **Grasshopper** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:18 pm

Well I think it depends on the team really...

I kicked out this Human team (the game box plastics) with just basic details in one afternoon/night:
http://home.comcast.net/~reddog10/wsb/h ... 96686.html

The Khemri (in the same photo gallery) took signifigantly longer because of the construction.

At a little more than *DECENT PLAYABLE* level I've got a Dwarf team that's taking me about 6 hours so far and probably another 6 to finish with basing.

Once you get going it seems to fly somethimes (realizing it's suddenly 4:00 am) THe main problem is finding the time to get going.

Just expect the figs with more details to take longer. It takes a lot longer to paint

CD's than it does to do an entire team of

Skeletons.

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:38 pm

including converting, cleaning and priming time, my xmas goblin team has taken about 3 to 4 hours per figure on average. Last count I had 13 playing staff, 3 cheerleaders and 2 musicians so that's about 63 hours now

The trolls took longest, I went all out when painting them and they've turned out really nice.

Bifi · Post by **Bifi** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:21 pm

Yeah, something like that. Big Guys take me about 5-6 hours, mansized models about 3 hours to look good, halflings ca. 2 hours per figure.

MadLordAnarchy · Post by **MadLordAnarchy** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 1:24 pm

So, 3 hrs per average model, around 100 models to paint... I might have to allow some slippage in the quality level.

NightDragon · Post by **NightDragon** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:43 pm

It takes me around 3 days non stop. I like the results. I could do it in slightly less but i think it would detract from the team.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:56 pm

I guess i need about 100h per team.

Post by **Dave** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 7:50 am

same here, maybe more

Kool · Post by **Kool** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 9:48 am

for this team (click on to see detailed):

3 weeks to paint it, less then 3 hours per mini and 6 for the BG

for my new Dark elves team it's another thing 10h (average) per model

Five Minute Lasters · Post by **Five Minute Lasters** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 8:44 pm

Kool wrote:for this team (click on to see detailed):

3 weeks to paint it, less then 3 hours per mini and 6 for the BG

for my new Dark elves team it's another thing 10h (average) per model

wow!!! great ogre!!!

Deathwing · Post by **Deathwing** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 8:50 pm

Currently doing some of phil's Valks...got it down to about 5 hours a pair for a finish I'm pretty happy with..not including cleaning, priming or basing.

juck101 · Post by **juck101** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 10:40 pm

depends on what u consider a painted fig. Takes me around 2-6 hours per model mostly. But can be lot quicker to paint 4models in 10hour session. really depends on paint mix, amount of detail, quality of shading etc.

My mate to make people green eyed can paint a figure in an hour and will look better than most painters in the uk. he won a golden demon and its his techique that gives speed and clarity.

malki · Post by **malki** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:29 pm

Just finished two Black Orcs. The WFB ones with wepon snips, started at 8.30 finished 11.30! The scheme is very basic and easy though! usually spend 2-3hrs per model!

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 3:53 am

Sounds good. Post some pics if you can.

Count Zappa · Post by **Count Zappa** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 7:07 am

Painting time varies.

Depends on the detail on the model and how much work I want to put into it.

When I painted my plastic Humans, I think I did the whole team over the course of the work week. I just sat down a few hours every night.

My Wood Elves took three times as long and a few full days.

That was years ago... I got to a point where my painting time was cut in half because I got good. Now, well... I've finished three minis this year (I did only two last year, which was two more than any year since about '99) and I've noticed I'm slow again.

Oh well. Practise makes perfect and all that.