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Offline red bull

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How long to make a miniature?
« on: April 18, 2010, 09:34:27 AM »
Hi, I know there is a webpage for how long do you spend on the hobby, but what I really want to know is how long it takes everyone to get a miniature from in the box to fully painted.

That includes, clipping, filling, assembling, painting and basing.

Could you please give me howlong that takes, for say a halbedier.

Thanks.
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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2010, 04:03:38 PM »
normally, a few months, if there is a tournament next week about 5 mins per fig.
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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2010, 04:29:38 PM »
I can never seem to get it under 3 hours.
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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2010, 04:37:40 PM »
hmm... I think I landed on something similar during my last regimental painting session. But of course it depends on the minis...

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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2010, 05:31:53 PM »
1 hour for a rank and file mini.  :icon_cool:
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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2010, 05:47:31 PM »
Cheers :::cheers:::
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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2010, 05:55:59 PM »
Maybe 2 hours for example - free company guy...

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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2010, 06:29:58 PM »
Honestly, I don't know because I don't do single miniatures. The more miniatures you work with at once, the less time it takes per miniature. I can't finish a halberdier in one or two hours, but I could probably finish 5 halberdiers in 5 hours. I can easily finish 20 halberdiers in 20 hours.

Another thing that skews my records is the fact that I have quit gaming so I have very little need to paint miniatures fast, let alone assemble and paint whole regiments in one go. I might prepare a handful of random miniatures one day, glue sand on the bases the next day, wait overnight and touch up the bases a bit, wait 7 months and before undercoating them and finally start painting them 2 years later, just to lay them down the next day and buy, assemble or paint something else. Rinse and repeat.

If I were painting a new army for say, a tournament, it would still take about two days at minimum after opening a box to even undercoat the miniatures. Plastics are total pain in the a** if you need to finish something quickly, metal models are so much easier. My deep hatred towards assembling plastic regiments means that I almost never even try to make models from box to finished as fast possible.

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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2010, 06:41:46 PM »
It depends on what I'm painting, if its a rank and file troops twenty minutes tops, if its a warrior priest or master engineer an hour or two.
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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2010, 07:17:14 PM »
1 hour for a rank and file mini.  :icon_cool:

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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2010, 09:01:37 PM »
If i want it to look real nice, like, a Character, or such, it'll take quite some time.. i think the best i've managed to do is around four hours..

i don't know about others, as i don't paint them individually, i use the "Assembly line" Method(Take 5, Paint the legs of all first, then the arms, then the faces, and so on.) But i guess i could do it in 1-2 hours.
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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2010, 09:50:35 PM »
I reckon, using the assembly line method (5-10 models at a time) I can get a unit of 25 done in 10-15 hours overall. Of course, they aren't the best painted models in the world and I cheat a lot with washes, but they are of table top quality.

Characters normally take a bit longer per model, maybe 3-4 depending on what I go for.

Time seems to fly by when I'm painting or modelling anyway, so I don't really mind at all.
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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2010, 10:40:49 PM »
From buying the boxes to fully painted army ... 5 years ... so far ...   :eusa_wall:

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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2010, 08:30:16 AM »
From buying the boxes to fully painted army ... 5 years ... so far ...   :eusa_wall:

I do it better then that, most models are over 8 years old, still waiting to be painted  ;D
But if I do start on one and keep focus on that it would take me about 2-3 workdays for 1 rank and file model and 6-7 workdays for a character. In actual time line this would be 1 week for rank and file and 2-3 weeks for a character.
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Re: How long to make a miniature?
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2010, 12:34:00 PM »

I've been tracking my progress on a blog...

http://paintmachine.blogspot.com/

However, these track how much time I spend on a unit of figures, step-by-step and total time at the end.

But that's painting only. So it doesn't include cleaning, filing, assembly, basing, etc.

They've been mostly non-GW figures so far, but my next batch will most likely be Warhammer figures.