Painting Frenzy

[laurence]

What\'s the longest time you\'ve spent painting without a real proper break?

Background: Last Friday night on returning home after my 13th co. army copped a whipping over at my mates place, I decided that I\'d meditate for half an hour and then finish painting my \'White Dwarf\' mini so I could enter it in the GW instore painting competition.

Yep, I painted my little Dwarf buddy from 1am through to 11am and made the entry deadline. Once I\'d entered the mini I left to get other important stuff done.

I don\'t wan\'t to sound boastful, but I won the painting comp. I mean let\'s face it, it\'s only local level stuff but hey, I won a AUS $18 mini \'Wolfguard Terminator\'.

Anyway, now that I\'ve got that out of my system, what\'s the longest painting session you\'ve had and how did it go?

Thanks guys,
L.

 

[Corvus]

probably 3-4 hours... an afternoon of painting, with some minor toilet/food/drink breaks

 

[Astonia]

Usually I work in 10 hour shifts during the night, but in may I went to a swedish convention, LinCon, to play wfb, and I had to paint 100 skavens in about a week before that. *Phew*. I painted up until the very last minute and all of my 168 men(rats) strong army were actually painted when I put them on the table for my first, and successful, game!

 

[Dragonsreach]

I think that the longest I\'ve ever painted was about 12 hours straight (minus pee breaks).
But the longest amount of time on a mini was 30+ for the Ursakar Creed and Jaran Krell set.

 

[Gin1906]

Due to my day job, my kids, my husband (building a 20x24 shop) I do not get to paint very often, when I declair a painting day (Translates to DO NOT BOTHER ME) I am not feeding you, cleaning up after you...nothing! Then I paint in long stretches, 10-12 hours at a stretch, till my eyes blurr, my back aches, then I go sit in the hot tub...ahhh, unfortunatly I only get to paint about one day a month.. sometimes two.

 

[Taer]

I\'ve spent a straight 24 hours painting before and the results weren\'t to shabby, but the next day was on par with a heavy nights drinking. So usually I paint in 10 hour shifts, with the occasional 15 hour one thrown in if I am getting close to finishing a project (well, as close as 5 hours worth of work sems!):flip::bouncy:

 

[DragonPaint]

Hmmm... about 12 hours.
Last year I have started my LOTR entry for the Italian Golden Demon at 7 pm and ended at 8am of the next day, then a 200Km drive to enter it to the competition.
It has passed almost all the selections and ended in 4th or 5th place because \"...it\'s not a scene from the film but a single miniature\"

I was really happy about it but this year I\'m working on a \"scene from the film\"

Paolo

P.S. a friend was painting with me and in the same time touched up his \"Warg attack\" that goes away with the Golden Demon
(here\'s his entry http://www.wolfbane.it/gallery/wargs1.jpg)

 

[Warworks]

pre-convention

Well, the poll goes from 12 to 24 hours, but my longest stint was 16 hours. I had an exhibitor\'s booth at the LA strategicon, and I had to get as much stuff painted as possible before I went... two days before, I painted ten character models (two each of five sculpts) in a little over 16 hours. Sold \'em too, which was nice - paid for the whole trip.

But let\'s not talk about the day after, shall we?

 

[dauber22]

I\'m confused

Is the question how many straight hours I\'ve painted or how many hours have I painted while straight ??? :innocent:

 

[sin3br]

Well, I\'ve once painted from 13 o\'clock to about 23 o\'clock, but there were some toilet breaks and one dinner brake.. dunno if they count as \" proper breaks \"..
a man has to eat and once he does that he\'ll also have to use the toilet lol , so I guess these don\'t count as proper breaks.
Nothing spectacular I know, but more than my usual 4-5hours of painting per time.

 

[Gypsy]

I rarely paint longer than 2 hours straight. I find that my concentration lessens rapidly after two hours so I prefer to stop and take a break instead of having to repaint something later because it looks messy.

 

[Boothdom]

On a single mini? probably about 6-8 hours. After that I think I get really frustrated and disappointed with my work even if it\'s o.k! There\'s nothing like a break to make you re-evaluate what you\'re doing.

For the Grand Tournament final last year I had a week to do a unit of 20 swordmasters. I ended up painting solidly from 6:30 (when I got home from work) to 3:30am. Then got up at 7:00 to go to work. I did this for 5 days and got the unit done. Unfortunately I was like a zombie at the actual tourney and played abysmally!!! Ho hum!! ???

 

[kevinsho27]

I painted my steam tank in about 11 hours on the day GamesWorkshop had its steam tank painting contest. I won first prize. Of course, I was the one who showed up.

 

[Calavera]

Oof, about 4 hours maybe.. I\'m not much of a planned painter. I\'ve got all the time in the world to paint and when I feel like it I sit down and paint some.

I think i\'ve done 4 hours tomorrow and around 3 today. Painting a Garagrim Ironfist mini.

 

[Helga]

the longest time I painted without a break was on a saturday morning from 7 am to 2 pm.
I got to leave work early on friday and went to my local gamestore to pick up some paint before closing time. Got the paint and an ugly dragon mini (special occasion cheap price). On the drive back home it just occurred to me how this mini should be painted to be good. Got to prime it before I was picked up for cinema and party by my chums. Kept the imagination of the rightly painted dragon in my head all over the night, kept sober and went to work as soon as I returned home. I worked in a frenzy because I knew I could not hold the image forever and would give in to sleep sometime. I stopped at last because my hands shook so much.
This happened 12 years ago now, the dragon is still unfinished, I did not touch it with a brush ever again. I take it out of its box and look at it now in a while, and it looks disproportionate (ahem ... ugly) with somehow off colours, but I still recall that I once knew how to put it right... but cannot quite grasp it .

Normally I paint about 3-4 hours sessions

 

[Skrit]

Around 13 hours! Minus some time for uhm...stuff.

After i reached the 13 hour mark i stopped finding the number of hours quite appropriate.

Squeek squeek.