Three days. One ten-model squad. No agonising.

The trick is to commit to "good enough on a moving table" rather than "good enough under a desk lamp at arm's length". Once you've made that call, everything else is faster.

I painted ten guardsmen between Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon. They're table-ready. They're not display pieces. That's fine — they're not for display.

Sometimes the answer to a stalled project is just to lower the bar and keep moving.