Time trial: Marauder horseman

Howdy fellas. This time I'm tackling miniatures from a bit different point of view. You see I had quite a long lazy period in painting and in that time only a few minis ever end up finished. Nowadays I'm more active. Getting the painting routine up and running is not easy, at least not for me. I was struggling with my new Mordheim warband (pictures come later) for a quite some time. Painting was hard, it seemed as I wasn't as skilled and fast painter as I used to be. Lack of routine, I know. With my Mordheim warband I just started gluing pieces to together and then painting. This might be perfectly okay to most people but not for me. I quickly lost interest to the warband because of the lack of planning I usually do with new minis. That got me thinking. With good planning and preparation, how fast could you paint a tabletop-quality mini? Enter the Raakhafargar the Humourless, Champion of the smallest northern village and the Incinerator of three, yes three, outhouses. Raakhafargar had recently suffered a minor flu and sees this as a sign from gods. He is planning to make a big deal with Nurgle next tuesday.

The fella in question is marauder horseman from my vast collection of unpainted miniatures. Picking up the parts and cleaning up the mouldlines took about 15 minutes.

Horse took about 30 minutes to finish. Decent tabletop-quality at least on my standard. Not perfect, but that wasn't the point.

Raakhafargar himself took about an hour to finish and I spent about half hour making small corrections and basing the model. So my marauder took total of 2,5 hours to finish. Not bad I thought. Lesson for me was this: Make plans. Paint on daily basis and with coherency. With groups try to apply the same colour to every mini before moving on to next one. Don't get stuck with hard or boring stages of your miniartures. The result is usually worth the trouble.