i love painting with oils and prefer them over all other kinds of paint, but they dry sooo slow. they drag a figure that could be done in about a week to several weeks. so what i would like to know is, is there any way to speed up the oil drying process? thanks in advance.

Justin,
I paint my figures flesh areas with oil paints and I felt the same way. I hated the drying times. So I started putting them in a crock pot (slow cooker) for a few hours. I mount the figure on either a cocktail skewer or a un twisted paper clip and set it into a block of wood and put the whole assembly in the crock pot. Let it sit for at least 2 hours on low heat and voila . Take it out and let it cool before you do anything else to it. Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Bryan

Hi Justin,if you want to follow my posts on the Italian Alpini it shows how to cut down drying time using oils bye undercoating in Humbrol Matt.
Arthur

Another thing that i have done is to put a 100watt light bulb in an articulating arm lamp and place the light pretty close to the figures to add heat.