Warmaster Weekends "speed painting" take two

         This is where I left off, prior to Holidays in Argentina. Nothing else has been accomplished with the shield transfers. All I have done is make a pile or two and get reorganized. It is the first weekend back and while the girls watched a movie, I got some time in.

         Elephants! It's like a semi truck doing 25 coming at you with no breaks. It turns like a ship. 12,000 pounds of "I'm gonna stomp you." If you seen them or not, pretty sure your shitting yourself.

         Elephants

Cleaned, based, primed, and flocked (sand paste applied) in 21 minutes.
Washed in stone tone, tusks, blankets done in 15.

Bases flocked and base coated 20 minutes.
Roughly an hour for 5 India Elephants with castles.
Details and free hand 15 minutes each.

         Skirmishers. 

Cleaned, mounted to blocks, primed. 11minutes
Man dresses, Spears, Hair, skin painted in 30 minutes
Based, flocked, base coated 20minutes

Hand painted shield 5 minutes

+/- an hour (1 extra base include from last weeks counting problem)

         African Heavy Infantry

Cleaned, mounted, primed 20 minutes

Washed, skin, armor, cloth 30 minutes
Spears, belts, sandals 15 minutes

Rear rank based for shield decals

Transfer problem. Detailed transfer post later.

Shield transfers.......what a bitch! I am tossing out the first package of transfer paper. Amazon sent me a different manufacture and I got some of testor's expensive paper also. I will be screwing around with that for the next week or so.

Results

Large beast (3 of them) can be banged out in about 1.2 hrs. 3 stands Skirmishers can be completed in under an hour.

Barring transfer issues. A unit, 3 stands, can be finished in an hour. The number of dudes does not matter.

The key to painting Warmaster 10mm and getting an army on the table in a time frame that one would not loss focus is;
     1) painting blocks
     2) every dude facing the same way
     3) proper spacing on the block and dudes checkerboarded on the opposite side.
     4) Airbrushing the primer and majority base color.
A side note; paint about 40-60 dudes on the same type at once. At least 6 bases worth. It is possible to cut time by 25%