Andre,
I don't think its necessary to "test a figure" unless you have a completely unbalanced custom pose. And even then, I love the challenge of tweaking bases for non balanced figures.
Overall I love to customize, paint, and detail figures. I also love the aspect of "basing them up", which simply means picking a base style and tweaking that base for a specific performance. I've made it a point to completely paint and detail a figure prior to basing them up. The reason is by holding myself back from tweaking a base for the figure, I am more motivated to complete the painting and detailing. Once I complete painting and detailing on a team or figure its kind of a treat to switch gears to start basing them up. Maybe if you are doing a full team of 22+ players, you could break things up by painting/detailing the offense first then base them up followed by paint/detail the defense and base them up. This could break up the task of painting so that you don't get too tired of that. Also, I like to completely paint/detail and base up one figure before starting on the rest of the team because having a "complete body of work" on one figure is motivation for completing an entire team.
Joe
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