Human Hordes - which is easiest?

[Valkyrion]

If you had to build and paint 80-100 guardsmen - would it be Krieg, Cadian or Auxilia?

 

Forget monetary values, just base it simply on building and painting.

 

Thanks!

[Dr_Ruminahui]

At least for me, the hardest part would be keeping motivated.  So, whichever you think you would enjoy painting most yourself.  So, at least for me, that means cadian - fairly straightforward with some interesting details and contrasting zones (armor, fatigues, webbing, skin) to keep it interesting (for me).  Between those factors and doing a bunch of cadian/catachan kitbashes in prison stripes, I was about to paint about 200 of them before my interest ran out (these were the 4th models).

 

That said, for me the building is rarely the hard part (motivation wise), so for folks that it is they may have different considerations such as model complexity & fiddlyness in determining which kits are best for continued hobbying motivation.

Edited March 7 by Dr_Ruminahui

[The Pounder]

I’ve collected Krieg on and off for around 20 years. In that time I must have painted hundreds or Korpsmen!
 

So my vote is Krieg, even the new plastics are detailed but have added bonus of not having bare faces! (Which makes them much easier!!)

[Valkyrion]

Fiddlyness to build will be a hobby turn off for me. 

That also includes things like the right arms have to marry the right bodies - space marine intercessors are an example of it done right. I can sit and build the squad of bodies and put them away, before coming back whenever I want to build the arms - I don't have to worry that part 54c is supposed to go with body D for instance. 

If I have to build each model to completion before moving on to the next I will lose interest.

Edited March 7 by Valkyrion

[tychobi]

Easy and horde don't tend to have much overlap. An idea come to mind for speed painting such as night assault lit by flairs. Could dodge the actual colors of the uniform completely? Would take some airbrush finesse to read properly. Otherwise krieg with contrast blue and grey and lots of mud. Oil paint might go even faster than GW contrast. More control. 

[Karhedron]

Kreig and Auxilla  have the advantage that you don't have to paint faces. I would probably go mad painting 200-ish eyeballs. 

[Santaclauswitz]

I like the way you didn't mention Catachans. Nobody wants to paint 80 Catachans!

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

2 hours ago, Karhedron said:

Kreig and Auxilla  have the advantage that you don't have to paint faces. I would probably go mad painting 200-ish eyeballs. 

I haven’t painted any eyeballs in like 15+ years.

[Cleon]

My plan is to break my guard refit into a reinforced platoon of each in a complementary but not exactly matching scheme, But then I come from the days of second edition where that was normal....

[Bonehead]

Secret answer: Victoria Miniatures. I did an army that I'm still adding models to that's made up of a personally-chosen mix of parts from their various ranges, with GW heads and lasguns. The thing that makes it attractive for me is the fact that it's 100% mine, not the relative ease of painting. It's just my opinion, but I think a guard army can be as easy to paint as you want it to be. If you don't want to do comouflage, then bam, it just got easier. Don't feel like doing skin? Just paint the hands as gloves. You get the idea.

What gets me actually painting the models isn't the relative ease of it -although after over a hundred infantry, I have got it down to a very quick process- it's that I'm adding to an already satisfyingly large collection that no-one else has.

I hope that made sense?