To date I have painted 454 28mm foot figures – along with a
few mounted, a gun and some terrain bits and a bunch of larger terrain tiles!
Unfortunately I have acquired 962 28mm foot figures! The bulk of that (over
half) was my birthday present from Amanda which was mostly 28mm plastic Hät Napoleonics – enough to
build the infantry requirements for French, Prussian, and Bavarian armies for
Neil Thomas’ Napoleonic
Wargaming and have a sizeable bit left over for skirmishing with
Song
of Drums and Shakos.
I do plan to paint more than I aquire from now on so I have
508 28mm foot figures to paint in the next 6 months. That’s about 2.75 figures
per day or about 18-20 per week for the next 27 weeks. A very doable
amount - for me! It does help,
however, when I have a clear plan.
So I’ve been thinking and planning the last week or so and
trying to figure out what I could get done in the next 6 months.
I had been planning on finishing
up the 3rd Canadian Division for the Vimy
project. I think I’ll finish up the 7th Infantry Brigade (which I
already have figures for) and some Corps Troops – but I may hold off on doing
the 9th Infantry brigade until next year (as I would have to BUY
some figures to complete those and then I have MORE to paint to paint more than
I’ve acquired!?)
And what else am I planning to
paint for the rest of the year? Well as I am studying the ancient world with
the kids this year I thought I’d try and focus my gaming there as well. I have
about 60 more Romans to finish up (Gladiators, Civilians and a few Legionnaires
and Auxiliary troops) which I think I’ll start with over the next three weeks…
Then I think I’d like to work on
my Nubians and Ancient Egyptians Betrween the two DBA armies and some
individually based figures for skirmishing I have about 140 figures plus 4
chariots – which would take me another 7 weeks (putting us at the first week of
September – right around when we start reading about Greeks – if all goes
according to plan).
At some point I’d like to sneak
in a few battalions of Great War Canadians and maybe finish off the final
battalion of Early War French – though I don’t have any Early War Germans to
oppose them.
Over the fall and winter I’d
like to work toward finishing up all the historical and mythical Greeks I have.
I have about 50 individually based figures for skirmishing/role-playing and
about 450 figures to finish up for 6 DBA/HOTT Ancient/Mythical Greek armies
(Spartan, Theban, Amazon, and three generic Greek Hoplite armies). I won’t get
them all finished by the end of the year, but I should get the Amazons and two
of the others finished by the end of the year. The remaining three I hope to
finish up in January/February so I can have a semi-historical Ancient/Mythical
Greek DBA or HOTT campaign for the 11th annual Wargaming Birthday
Bash/Winter Wargaming Weekend! (anyone interested in getting in on that
action!?)
If it were a perfect world I
could hope the momentum would carry on through the next year and I could finish
up the FIVE Alexandrian Successor armies I have figures for and then the three
or four Early Imperial Roman armies I have figures for… and the Ancient Germans…
but that might be asking a bit much of my attention span…. I DO need to get
working on the Vimy stuff if I hope to pull off the Corps attack on the 100th
anniversary in April of 2017!
At some time this year I would
like to finish up a couple of terrain tiles I still have materials for. I sould
also like to build the terrain for the 3rd Canadian Division’s area
of operations at Vimy (and finish repairing the 4th Division’s
terrain) and maybe build a Roman villa or two and some ancient city buildings
that could be passed off as Greek or Roman. Perhaps I could get away with just
making some new tile roofs for my Generic
Middle East Mud Brick Village…?
I had been thinking I'd run some games at ToonCon this year but that now seems unlikely. With my shifting interests and a lot of other projects on the go this summer and fall (building book shelves, etc). I just don't think I'm going to have the time to commit to organizing a good convention game.
As I get going on DBA/HOTT armies again in the fall I might try and organize another campaign - as it always seems extremely difficult to get any number of local guys to come out on a regular weekly basis it might be a hybrid internet campaign like i ran in the past. The Campaign players would actually not be locals and send in their troop movements and diplomatic negotiations via email - and the battles would be played out locally by whoever shows up wanting to play some HOTT/DBA that week.
We shall see...
I had been thinking I'd run some games at ToonCon this year but that now seems unlikely. With my shifting interests and a lot of other projects on the go this summer and fall (building book shelves, etc). I just don't think I'm going to have the time to commit to organizing a good convention game.
As I get going on DBA/HOTT armies again in the fall I might try and organize another campaign - as it always seems extremely difficult to get any number of local guys to come out on a regular weekly basis it might be a hybrid internet campaign like i ran in the past. The Campaign players would actually not be locals and send in their troop movements and diplomatic negotiations via email - and the battles would be played out locally by whoever shows up wanting to play some HOTT/DBA that week.
We shall see...
In the meantime, here is what I finished up last
night…
(Remember: click on the pictures
for a bigger version):
Some Grape Pickers and grape vines from Wargames Foundry.
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
More Romans.
Maybe some game reports of Power
Legion play-tests and possibly a game of Of
Gods and Mortals - I’m pretty sure I have enough Greeks I could pull
off a small game of this…
450+ in 2014?! Amazing! Great looking grape pickers too.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
DeleteWell... 450+ in 2014 SO FAR!!! (only 508 to go - I'll have to pick up the pace just a tad...)
HAH Tim! That certainly blows my 5 figures a week quota that I seem to be able to pull off, well done my man.
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry.
DeleteIt's all in the reflexes.
You are a painting machine! I can't keep up with your painting rate but it certainly gives me inspiration and motivation. One day I will be posting different genres on a weekly basis (LOL). Keep up the good work Tim. Look forward to more Power Legion.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark.
DeletePosting different genres in one week isn't necessarily a good thing - there's something to be said for staying focused!