An epiphany - I must paint faster!

I had an epiphany while starting to paint these brutes:

Silurid Slaves from the Zoraida box set

In this moment of clarity I realised that I'm painting so slowly these days because I'm actually interested in getting better at painting and this is getting in the way of getting figures on the table. Take the recent Infinity figures and Xiufang. I've taken a long time to paint those figures to a reasonably high standard when they are actually gaming pieces and not display models. Okay, those particular models are one-offs and they are not in a unit of multiple figures, etc, but when starting the Silurids I felt myself falling into the trap of painting them to a higher standard than was really necessary. So I stopped myself and just blasted through them! They're not the best paint job I've ever done, but  they're not exactly crap either. Just a bit rough round the edges. So, if I'm ever going to get through my backlog and fulfill my pledge not to buy anything new, then I have to get my arse in gear. So next up are these two Infinity models:

These will be my first airborne troops for Infinity

I'll try and rattle these out, too, and not spend so much time on them. But...! I also want to keep pushing my skills so I'll paint the odd interesting figure in between cranking out the gaming miniatures. To that effect, I;m actually painting this rather nice sculpt for a friend:

Koi Fisherman from Guild of Harmony

The intention is to use some advanced techniques and see how close I can get to a professional standard. I'll try and post my progress and we can see how it goes!