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sixth and maimed posted:I didn't log the time I spend painting my Kruleboyz Gutrippaz but judging the by number of evenings it takes me to finish one, I guestimate it at about 8-10 hours to finish one, basing and varnishing not included. I know I'm taking really long but I see it as time spent learning to paint better. I'll get faster eventually and it's something to do on an evening. Really happy with my progress so far, too. When I was planning out a speed optimized paint job, the most useful thing was minimizing the number of steps in my process. I also chose paints with enough coverage to mostly need only a single coat. Fix only the really obvious mistakes, and leave all the fixing to the end. It just doesn't matter if one of fifty dudes has a dab of brown on his knee or something. Years of painting has given me somewhat better brush control compared to my early stuff, so fixing mistakes didn't take long. I got my IG down to about 13 hours for batches of ~20 models, including priming, bases and varnish. I never timed my early work, but my fastest work used to take a minimum of an hour of painting per model (+ basing). The new method is 2-3x faster.
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I've been working hard on eliminating my pile of shame the last few years. For my IG, I thought I was almost done. It's was really disheartening feeling when I opened some random bits box and found a small cache of models I'd forgotten all about.  I guess they're all something other than basic infantry, so they'll be interesting to paint at least.
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Nessus posted:I ordered a drill but this pin vise is new. I was having success just holding the figure in place for 2m then if necessary moving it to the kitchen with the exhaust fan to cure. I did throw in some double sided tape for securing the minis on scraps of cardboard for priming. I don’t have an official Crafts Space at my place but I am confident I can use some scrap cardboard as a backstop for priming spray A pin vise is a small handheld manual drill (it holds the drill bit). Just clarifying, since it seemed like you might be talking about the kind of vise that holds objects to a work bench while you work on them.
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Feb 27, 2024 20:33
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I would be terrified to gently caress up models with any kind of powered drill, especially while drilling out barrels. For pinning large models I guess it would be quite useful, but I've managed without the few times I've worked on something large and brittle.
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