"Production rates and time" Topic

I can spend about 16 to 20 hours a week painting. With 15MM, I can get a good paint job 7 plus on a 10 scale with these production rates:

British or other more elaborate infantry like French Guard 40 minures

Other 30 minutes

Cavalry add another 20 minutes

Therefore I can produce about 30 to 40 infanty or 20 cavalry per week or around 1,000 per year.

I mass base once a month.

Anyone else has timed production rates on same or different scale?

I`ve never timed myself(painted to a clock),but i have a rough idea with 15mm Napoleonics. The last squadron of Chasseurs 4 figures took around 2,5 hrs,
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The Lanciers (one squadron,5 figures)i done on sunday morning & again around 3 hrs;
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So i could be producing around 20 cavalry in 16-20 hrs(including basing)
Regards,

For 28mm foot figures, it takes me an average of 30 minutes to complete a figure. I paint them in groups of 12 to 15 most of the time, but they average out at 30 minutes. When I've painted sample figures, I tend to get the same timing.

Been a while since I painted Nappies, but I could do about 5 x 15mm/hour for a reasonably good paint job.

I really not dare sit down and work it out. I paint slowly and can't keep up steady production runs like many can so I don't really know. The best I've managed is a unit of 12 AB dragoons and horses in a ten days doing a bit in the evenings and more at the w/e. That's about as quick as I'll get and that excludes basing. I'm getting close to giving up 28mm for good though as I know they just take too long…

The only 'time & motion' study I ever ran (from pure curiousity) was on a battalion of 28mm foot, requiring 54 distinct paint layers, with an average time per figure of just under 2.5 hours.

I paint nostly 28mm. For Napoleonics/Lace wars, It usually takes me about 2.5hrs or so for a command figure / musician, depending on the complexity of the figure. For regular grunts, i'd halve that. My problem isn't my painting speed, it's finding the time to paint!

Last I timed it was about a year ago. If I recall I did 72x 15mm in ~18 hours (not straight), but I found it is not sustainable, shoulders get tired, etc.

What I did find is that there is overhead. Painting 15 figures and painting 30 figures is about the same, painting 45 figures and painting 60 is about the same, painting either is more than 15-30, etc. So the deal is to find the "sweet spot" where the number of figures is at the max without increasing the bench time any.

If that made no sense, never mind I'm drunk and started this post hours ago. If it was helpful, excellent.

Cheers,

The Bandit

Funny this question just came up. Last night I was trying figure out how much I have painted since last October. In almost 1 year I've painted & mounted the following units:

Napoleonic 6mm
Adler (Austria)
4 Grenadier Battalions
4 Line Battalions
2 Artillery Batteries
Some command bases.
That gives me the complete Austrian 3rd Army Unit from 1813 plus some of the reserves.

2 French Light Batt.
2 French Line Batt.

Baccus (Bavaria)
3 Light Battalions.
16 Line Battalions.
3 Cav. Regiments.
3 Artillery Batteries

Originally, I was only going to build 8 Bavarian battalions for the 29th division in 1813 but when my wife placed the order (as a gift for me) she double ordered the infantry! I couldn't just let those figures sit there so I painted complete regiments so I could use them in 1809.

That doesn't include my WW2 Polish 10mm company plus support and my Iranian army for Iran-Iraq war I just started.

Probably my most productive year in the last decade.

Dale