I must admit I've never started 6mm as it looks like a lot of work to me. And I'm notoriously lazy...
Ah, 6mm is the really lazy person's scale! It is so quick to paint once you get the technique right that you can complete whole armies in an afternoon. I am also very lazy, so much so in fact, that I only base my armies on 40mm x 20mm bases instead of the 60mm x 30mm bases that I feel I should be using!!
Pete Berry at Baccus reckons he can manage 1 figure per minute. That means one normal infantry stand as shown on my blog takes 16 minutes to paint. I reckon I take about 20 to 25 minutes to do that. Compare that with the time and effort required to paint just one 28mm figure and you quickly see that 6mm armies are perfect for lazy people.
Cheers,
Ruarigh