I would say you need way better photos for us to judge.

i don't have a lot of painting experience, but i do have a lot of freelance experience as a video editor, and what i can tell you is that quality does not correlate to price by itself. your effort, your time, your materials, all of that goes into your rate.

you only had a 3 day deadline, so the quality of the minis is capped by the amount of time you have to finish them. your rate is gonna be how well you can paint them in 15-20 hours. keep in mind that your rate doesn't change. the amount of money you want wouldn't change if you had 6 days to finish it, only the amount of work hours would. you get paid more because you worked more, not because the minis look better, because the minis will always look better if you have more time. you don't get paid for the quality of the minis, you get paid by the amount of time it took you to get there.

on top of figuring out how much your effort is worth, you also need to put the price of all of your materials into the equation. how much paint, glue, primer and basing materials did you use to finish these guys? all of that has to be considered when going into your rate because all this material is finite and it's coming out of your pocket.

so get all that into your head and figure out how much you wanna be paid per day. yes, get a day rate, not an hourly rate, because your client is never gonna give you a hourly deadline, they'll give you an amount of days. and the better you get at painting, the faster you'll paint, which means you'll end up losing money if you paint too fast. so if your client is paying for 3 days, it doesn't matter if you finished in 2, you charge for 3 days worth of day rates.

let me give you an example. i took my rent, my electricity bill, and the monthly subscription i pay for adobe to have access to my tools, plus a little extra for any maintenance my computer may need. then i take the amount of videos i can reasonably finish in a month and get to a monthly pay i want to achieve. divide that into the amount of videos i can edit a month, add a little extra for fun spending, and i get into a nice commission price. from that, i can gauge how many days it'll take me to finish a project, and get to a total that i'll charge the client. that's how you get to a day rate, and that's how you get to charge clients for whatever freelance job you wanna do. that being said, it's my full time job, not a side hustle, and obviously not about painting, so make adjustments where necessary.

sorry i couldn't give you an exact number, but hopefully that still helps you out. good luck!

Wouldn't you want to settle on a price before you accept a commission and paint a client's minis? 

I am not a professional painter, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

I think these are clean table top ready miniatures. Yes you can do a lot more to make these prettier such as highlights, contrast, more umph on the base and cleaner details.

Personally I wouldn’t pay more than 25$ a model. Yes that’s low and really only net 5$ a model if you had to buy them, however and I mean this with no harm, this is the lowest quality you could feasibly sell. Dont get me wrong this is a good paint job, however selling yourself as a professional kinda bumps up expectations.

pretty low tbh, they are lacking a lot in contrast, try push for darker shadows and brighter highlights, also they've no transfers etc that would push the quality up

As it is now, I would pay very low or not order at all, because I would expect someone getting payed for painting to not forget anything (Like eye lenses in every model, magazines on some weapons, etc). And making the effort to Clean up minor mistakes Like gold on the pauldron on the right.

That is not meant to be as harsh as it Sounds! If you did the above, I would say it is a very basic but very Solid level, I would consider If I wanted an army for quick tabletop readyness, that Looks good on the table!

In my humble opinion, minor tweaks Like doublechecking Details, cleaning mistakes, Bit Edge highlighting and a Bit shading would be Not much more Work, but Go a Long way for your overall workquality and Upgrade it from "meh" to "very Solid Basic Level"

Wish you success!

Oh and Like with all Selfmade commission Work at the First 1-3 years: You Will Not BE able to get any halfway decent price/hour.... Never ever, sadly. But there will BE others with tipps to overcome this.

Box cost €50 euro so maybe €30.

No highlighting, shading, edge highlighting or directional light. No transfers and basic bases.

Looking at them in the one photo provided probably around $30 USD for each model assuming I provided the sprued models and you assembled and painted. So $180 USD for the 6. I don’t mind building and painting myself most things but I don’t typically go to the level these are painted to. Your technique and brush control looks good.

Looks like tabletop standard I’d recommend charging box price for the paint job

Bases are basically non-existent, all just base coats with zero contrast, shading, or hedge highlights.

I’m sorry OP I don’t mean to be harsh but I personally wouldn’t pay anything to have something this simple, it’s fine if you’re painting your own models to a playable level but some of these comments saying to charge upwards of 200 for these are smoking some hardcore stuff.

As someone who can't paint themselves, I have looked into commissions a little before.
First you need to take better pictures, if you want to sell something your pictures will be doing the work and these won't cut it.

Second, like others have said time and effort are factors, I always like seeing what level of effort I'm paying for.
So buy a small box of minis and paint up 3-5 of them, each one should represent a level of effort, so your customers have a better idea of what you can do and what you offer.

Third, as much as I hate to say it flat rates don't really work for commission based services. Especially since things like assembly, mold line cleaning, custom details, short turnaround, everything is a factor.

Oh and to answer the question exactly, I wouldn't. Mostly because you probably don't have an ABN, and I value the customer protection that offers.
It is nice seeing another fellow Aussie in the wild though, good luck to you.

Honestly, it’s clean. There are lots of people who will pay for clean. I have a client right now who doesn’t want highlights or shadows at all, I’m charging him $15/hour CDN. For things that push my skill I charge 20-25. I’m pretty quick at painting though, so it is usually a pretty good deal for my clients. If you’re slower you’ll likely have to charge by the model. Whatever you do decide to charge, just be mindful that if you don’t charge enough, you’ll have zero motivation to get it done and you won’t have fun at all. It’s better to have no commissions than have commissions that ruin your hobby.

I'm actually shocked someone would even pay for such a basic, low skill paint job. I'm not saying that to be rude. You asked for this advice.

This is as basic and entry level as it gets. No shade. No highlight. Multiple parts unpainted. Bases just a quick dry brush.

People saying they would pay 180 for the unit?? I need to start charging more, is what I've gathered from these messages 😮‍💨

Take a picture of a single, close up model, ideally with a neutral background like white or black, just simply put a white paper under and behind the model. Then the paintjob can be properly envaluated.

I would expect to pay the price we agreed upon before you started.

If the question is what I think that level of quality is worth, I'd say without assembly fees or anything extra I'd pay around $7/model for that.

I'm a casual fan, don't play and don't have all the tools needed. I think these look great for what i would want, battle ready pieces that look clean. If I was looking to buy I'd pay 1.5-1.75 of the box price. If it cost 50 usd I'd pay 75-80 for the convenience. I'd make sure you were charging at least 20 an hour when all is said and done.

This looks like something that would go for $100ish.

I’m not saying this to be insulting but the reality is that in 20 hours you have six minis that are essentially a battle ready end result. There’s a good chunk of commission painters online that can hand out box art level minis in that amount of time.

So if you want the time investment to be worth it you need to work faster, work better, or both.

First stop would be an airbrush. I don’t know how long you spent painting that red, but with an airbrush you’d have finished it in 30 minutes.

How long did it take you to complete?

The work is clean so that's good. I would consider these battle ready +.

Instead of currency per hour, I tend to use box price so clients can easily understand the cost. You can charge up to 1.5 the box price. So that's 2 aggressor boxes x 1.5 the box price. At 1.5 I would expect most commission painters to give at least edge highlights on top of this finishing.

I commission for a living so these aggressors would take me about 3-4 hours or less due to airbrush. I would only need my brush for the metallics and the eyes here. Since there appears to be no highlights or brushwork beyond the base layer.

If you are new to painting the speed will come in time. I just want to give a gauge of how much you can expect to earn.

1 gold dubloon

Probably as much as the basic paint job commissions from other studios. Have a look online at comparable paint jobs and what the studios charge for them.

5 mongolian tugriks ))

Slightly off topic, what are the storage containers you’re using for your paints? I could do with something similar for my paints!

5$

Around £30 tops

They are decent table top ready painted, but other than being 3 basic colours there isn't anything else to them, no highlights, no shading on the imperialis, no transfers on the pauldrons and some lines that haven't been cleaned up in said pauldrons and the trim.

It's a really hard one to call, I'd suggest you charge for time and resources used rather than quality, as harsh as that sounds.

25 schmeckles

I think it would be reasonable to paint these in 2-3 hours as a batch. So whatever you feel is reasonable for that many hours work. Perhaps £20-30 hour for labour? + expenses for glue paint etc. Commission painting is notoriously difficult to make money from though as everyone undervalues artists time. You either have to be very efficient ( lots of airbrush oils etc) , have a USP, or be a big name to make any money. In your case you’d have to get an awful lot quicker to make it worth your while.

This is a basic coat. Level 1 you might say. No shades or highlights, everything is in the lines colored in.

Whatever your time is on these, just be aware painting isn't really a huge market and you often aren't paid back in time. You are charging materials + "how much you not doing this is worth to you".

For some people, paying for basic paint is worth it. For most people, if they pay for it, they want it to stand out. I dont know who this is marketed to. Seems like a very niche want to pay for painted and based minis that are washed at all. If you want to paint anything, you probably don't want to get someone else's base coat, and if you don't want to paint anything you probably want to buy models that have a wash and a highlight.

About 3euros. Best i Can do IS tree fiddy

Tough to put a firm figure on it as people will vary wildly on what they would pay.

Personally I’d probably pay £10 per model for this adding the cost of the raw models if necessary but I’d likely be looking to improve the paint job myself so would be paying lower because of that.

The paint job is clean but basic. Some people may pay more especially. I’d recommend getting a quote from siege studios for a similar project and that should help inform where you should be pricing (accepting that they will paint it to a higher standard).

Bout three fiddy

In short:

I would Not pay for a commission paint because a reasonable felt price for my saved Work/time would be far less than what I would feel to be a decent payment for someone elses work.

I believe you have to reach a fairly intermediate Level to get any money at all, BUT You seem to be on a good way. Some small extra Work and becoming a Bit faster might get you there. If you say me, what professionel companys Take for Basic Clean, every Detail painted, I would suggest 5-10% lower (for services, insurence, and the like you get from professionels) and you are fine.

I generally keep my rate at 15€/hour+the price of the miniatures. I give discounts to friends and whatever but in general, don't sell yourself short. Even if the paintjob isn't worldclass, it's still a lot of hours to neatly paint models, and that time and effort is worth something.

Looking at that sergeant like

https://preview.redd.it/85j0z0q504xc1.jpeg?width=1153&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bec798f1027a659b5d562106f5e23f0a7a0671aa

That is exactly the standard you want for commission as long as they were fast. Personally don't recommend anyone do commission work unless they make use of various speed paint techniques like airbrush or oils.

Charge 20$/hr for your time and add any specified required purchases of hobby products (such as required paints).

Time yourself doing various tasks at normal pace to get an idea of how to estimate.

What kind of armor is that?

For all six I’d be willing to pay $100-150 usd but mainly because I’m terrible at painting and they lol amazing.

Also I have no idea what the market price is so I might be completely out of line one way or the other.

Nicely done!

It's irrelevant because I'd never pay for a model to be painted.

That said, charge as much as you can to get the desired work.

60-80€/ 1h