Warmaster Weekends "painting speed" Phase One

         One unit could have as many as 48 dudes (Unit = 3 stands @ 16 dudes a stand). If one had 10 units of legionaries in a 3000 point army, thats 740 dudes. The speed at which I could paint a unit becomes a big question. Even if I paint in 1000 point blocks. How fast can I get an army on the table? Get two armies on the table?

         Now some of these guys are doubled ranked or in the case of a Phalanx 4 ranks. It may be faster to paint them based. The painting of dudes based and in ranks does create a difficultly in how much of the inner dudes are painted.

         A test for best method is needed. Also which method produces a quality looking group of dudes. The test will be on heavy infantry and Skirmishers.

Phase one; painting on sticks and Phase two based in ranks.

         The procedure will be the same. I will start with dudes fresh from the bag. They will be cleaned, mounted, primed, painted, dipped, flocked, and sealed. Any attention to the shields will be not included.

Phase One;

Cartho Libyans -- Cleaning and mounting and priming, strong tone wash and spears 22 minutes.

         Then the plan totally collapsed as I chose to start doing shields. In the end I had to go back to hit the spots I skip over for shields.

reference sheet 1

         Hand painting shields at 10mm is a bit of a strain. My lighting sucks and there is no wet palette here. My examples are 110% larger than the actual 10mm shield.

Carthaginian Libyan Inf.

45 points

The Numidian skirmishers were much quicker to paint. I just can not count. A half base short.

20 points

 My device for mounting single dudes straight and balanced on the base

 The real reason I was short skirmishers. I stuck a few in support of the elephants. 3 African Forest Elephants.

450 points

 Forest Elephants are much smaller than India Elephants. The forest type is long gone. I did find some handles for these dudes. No riders with big long spears yet.

The next 3 bases to get painted. These are the Old Glory India elephants I got at Fall In.

          Me digging thru the massive mess of 10mm dudes searching for more of this one kind of dude. At least Macs, Cartho, and Roma are separated.