Possibly preaching to the converted...but here goes anyway.

[kev1964]

Cheers Paul, i'll try and get the gun done in the morning, i'm a one finger typist so it will take me longer to write it up than it did to paint them 


kev

[Steve J]

I too stick mine to the base and then paint them.

[nikharwood]

(Unless you can paint armies at a time like some clever git (gritted teeth) who managed to turn out TWO SYW armies in 24 hours.)

Now that sounds sensible. Clever git. 

[Hertsblue]

I too stick mine to the base and then paint them.

That's fine for moderns and other periods where the figures are well spread out, but it's just too fiddly for close-order, base-to-base, rank-to-rank horse and musket types.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Stuck to bases, yeah, Did my awi and all 9 Franco-Prussian Corps, plus all my 15mm like that btw... 

[FierceKitty]

That's fine for moderns and other periods where the figures are well spread out, but it's just too fiddly for close-order, base-to-base, rank-to-rank horse and musket types.

And where a sloppy paint job doesn't matter anyway.