Late Night Painting

Finally winding down on the last 5 empire Swordsmen in my 1000 pt Empire army, I should wrap them up and dullcote them by the weekend. 25 units total and its taken me about 5 weeks to paint them. Although I've done textured move trays, terrain and have been assembling dwarfs during my hobbytime time as well. Painting wise if I work at a pace of 5 units a week, its going to take me about 5 more months to finish my 2300 pt army for Adepticon 2008, that should give me roughly two months to work on a display base and tweak stuff. Still its pretty daunting project.. considering I have another 24 Swordsmen and 19 Flagellants in the Army. Empire figures are a difficult unit to paint in comparison to say the "Skull Pass" miniatures because they have loads of little details that are time consuming, I took a night off to mess around with Skull Pass a week or so ago and I painted up three dwarfs and a night goblin in an evening, certainly makes me pause at going with the uber-detailed army. It's the same thing with my Ultramarines, they take awhile too, granted I am faster and better at prioritizing details than I was earlier this year, but still I can't do more that 2 or 3 marines in a week and that's a good pace, the highlighting just takes forever with those guys. Anyway Late night painting it's almost 3am, got to be in the office by 10:00am..Photos are coming, just been lazy with the camera.