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How long has it taken you to finish assembling and painting your entire army?

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    How long has it taken you to finish assembling and painting your entire army?

    For me it's one year and still going.

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    Grim_Reaper46
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    well it took me a whole year,I didnt get it all at once cuz GW is greedy basterds.Well for like a special character like a chaplian If I wanted to do my best it takes a week to finish or three days at the most.Cuz I go over detail after detail,dry brush after dry brush also more expecements to upgrade my painting skills.Ive went to sloppy to people look at my models saying you actually did this.

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    7 years...(started with my first HQ of honour gaurd for my 8th birthday!) growing ever slowly since then
    500 Days...

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    What's a recommended number of infantry model to paint per day?

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    wolfjunkie
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    a normal squads takes about 1hour/model i guess...so, about a squad a week

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    orkdom
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    6yrs an' countin'... ill probably never finish. i buy faster than i can paint...

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    element7
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    Quote Originally Posted by CanadianGaurd
    What's a recommended number of infantry model to paint per day?
    Depends on how detailed you want them to be, I generally take 4 hours on a basic troop, but then my stuff is mostly for display. If you're painting a few squads for a tournament and only have a couple of weeks then you basically use an assembly line technique, ie undercoat the whole lot, then take 5-8 guys at a time, paint armour, heads, weapons in a line, by the time you reach the end, the first coat will be dry on the ones at the start of the line.

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    im in ur mech, crittin ur sl0tz
    my new IG has taken me about two months and still going. i give it one more month.
    Look at the bright side, kid - you get to keep all the money.

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    Dark Lord
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    I have going on for 2 years and have more than 140 models and it's half painted

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    DarthFelth
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    hmm, i bought a khorne army when the new ones came out, i bought a land raider when it came out, and erm, i still ant finished my land raider, is till ant finished anything really, i think i have 2 units of berzerkers done and i ant happy with them anymore

    I've been collecting chaos warriors since god knows when and still ant finished painting them

    i can spend anything from a day to a month on a model depending on wot mood im in

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    Cailet
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    I have 3 1000 point armies finished in 2 years. I'm starting another and then i'm gonna make a 2000 point WFB army.

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    I'm getting close to a year on my Ork army, but I am almost finished. I still have to worry about my Lobba's and crew, my bikes, more Lootas, and one more Ork in Mega Armor.

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    Vexer_s
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    i have my choas 40k army painted took me about 1/2 month but not got a lot of models in it,a chaos army in WFB didnt take long at all only had 27 models in 1000 points and i have a dark elf army that is well over 3000 points and i ddint paint that it was painted by a gd m8 who is a ex staff member who gave me it when he left

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    Quote Originally Posted by wolfjunkie
    a normal squads takes about 1hour/model i guess...so, about a squad a week
    ur kidding right? just one hour?...i mean there is primeing them, painting in the veryins steps, finishing touches, basing, then fixing any last details before encasing it in a finish of some sorts.

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    DarthFelth
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    i wish my WHFB army was easy to paint, now they go brig out these new chaos warriors again, i still have some of teh old, old chaos warriors to paint :/

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    actually dante, i think he meant just painting.

    my process goes as follows:

    -assemble and base EVERY model in the army
    -basecoat EVERY model in the army
    -divide into sections by a multiple of the whole, eg. an army of 120 into groups of 12.
    -paint all of the main color on all the 12 models in the group
    -add the other colors and details to every model, one by one
    -highlight the models one by one
    -flock
    -paint the flock
    -varnish

    the first three steps should take about three hours work total. each model after that should take about an hour.

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    Imperial marine
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    well i don't know how long it will take to paint blood angels

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    Took me bout a month to do my first army, eldar with about 75 guardians, a few tanks, and a couple aspects warriors on top of the HQ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Imperial marine
    well i don't know how long it will take to paint blood angels
    wuts that supposed to mean???!?! :hmm:

    Red is one of the harder colours to work with!!! argle...

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    lol, yeah, honestly. i needed three coats to get my blood red right on my parody marine chapter, the hotdog patrol.

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    Blood Angels have one of the most basic techniques to look good,
    prime white - basecoat blood red - ink with chestnut ink - block high light blood red - then finish up with highlights by adding blazing orange for a few highlight stages.

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    Been working on it for almost 2 years. Started with Guard, then Grey Knights, then Blood angles, then Sisters of Battle. None completed to this day.. but still working on it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roddy666
    actually dante, i think he meant just painting.

    my process goes as follows:

    -assemble and base EVERY model in the army
    -basecoat EVERY model in the army
    -divide into sections by a multiple of the whole, eg. an army of 120 into groups of 12.
    -paint all of the main color on all the 12 models in the group
    -add the other colors and details to every model, one by one
    -highlight the models one by one
    -flock
    -paint the flock
    -varnish

    the first three steps should take about three hours work total. each model after that should take about an hour.
    Varnish? I never heard you had to varnish your models. Is this really necessary?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CanadianGaurd
    Varnish? I never heard you had to varnish your models. Is this really necessary?
    varnish (AKA clearcoat) is almost necessary on metals. It's not such a biggie on the plastics. Still, it helps preserve the durability of the paint by not being able to chip easily :bandit:

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