Reply To: Is Anyone Happy With What They Paint?

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Here’s a very morbid way to think about things.  I have 300 models to paint.  Ignore the fact that I gain lots of models every year.  I only really get to paint at the weekend.  Right now I paint a little  north of 300 models a year.  Lets say I wanted to paint to pro standard and each model takes 8 days of dedicated work (I pulled this number out of the air.  Maybe its too much but I suspect not.  Who knows.  Speed improves with quality and practise I suppose.).  That’s 4 weekends or one month.  That’s 25 years of my life to paint everything to a pro standard, ignoring the learning curve.  I might not even live that long.  Or I could paint as I do now, looking to balance quality and time, aiming for painting efficiency, and then I should have my current collection finished by the end of the year, again ignoring purchases.  The reality will be quite different but I am catching up slowly.

Is it worth sinking in the time to get the quality?  For all the models, probably not.  For a handful, perhaps.  It’s a decision we each have to make every time we paint but it pays to think about the scale of our hobby.  It’s easy to forget just how long it can take and how little time we actually have to do it all.