How Long Does It Take..

[MichaelStockin]

For you to paint a typical model.

One of your standard normal run of the mill rank and file troopers to your normal standard regular typical level.

(assuming they have a uniform and are not a cheeky nekkid skellington).

 

[Eric]

About 35 years I recon. Seriously however tough to know since I drop in and out when painting models so figuring out the total hours, hummm, might take a punt at say it must be about 5-6 hours, err probably give or take quite a bit. I'm going to have to time one now and see...

 

[ManicMan]

depends on how you want to measure... If ignoring all the debating what colours to use, getting up some energy to want to work on it, to force yourself start/do some more etc.. and maybe ignoring just 'waiting for it to dry' time.. maybe 30mins to 2 hour for me.

If you include all that stuff.. oh dear... maybe I can do a decent skaven clan rat at a rate of.. 4-5 a month

 

[chrisgoodone]

Cor good question.
'Back in the day' with better eyes and motor skills (and arguably a better outcome) maybe 3-4hrs?
More recently (after a 35yr break) I have been painting 'units' for the first time to be ready for a battle and it's a real learning curve and a massively different experience. I quite like it. I can see me slowing down now again, but still painting 5 or 6 at the same time - if you've got some leathery strappy bits batchblast em etc.
My latest crew (those beastmen) I did in two 2-3hr sessions from basing and undercoating to where they are now - so an hr a model if you want to view it that way.
Nothing's ever really 'finished' tho is it?

 

[KingOfTheLeadPile]

Depends on the detail on the mini mostly. For the Gnomes I painted for Gnomevember, it took me about 6 hours for a batch of 5.