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Saturday, November 26, 2016

German Trench Mortar


I haven't been terribly productive this past week for… reasons… Largely I spent a couple evenings just taking stock. I’ve been getting distracted thinking about future projects. NEW future projects and I thought perhaps it was time to do a little stocktaking – mostly to shame myself into not considering any new projects for the next year or so… but more on that in another post….

I DID manage, in the meantime, to finish up this little German trench mortar team from Great War Miniatures.

(Remember: click on the pictures for a bigger version):


Lovely little kit. Very easy to put together.


I particularly appreciate the little details GWM throws in with these kits – the case with mortar bombs and rifle, etc.


Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

Perhaps another battalion of Great War Canadians…

Or perhaps a bit about the stock-taking I did over the last week. honestly I’m a little embarrassed to post the figures…

Anyone care to guess at how many 28mm figures I have and what portion of them are actually painted?

I tell you what - if I get at least six guesses I'll post the results.  

11 comments:

  1. A good guess, Stu... a very nice exact number.

    But consider I had over 8000 foot and another 500 mounted back in October of 2009 (of which about 4000 foot and 150 mounted were already painted) when I last did this in October of 2009:

    https://saskminigamer.blogspot.ca/2009/10/more-lies.html

    and looking at the total acquired and painted that I keep track of over on the left there... (current year is near the top, scroll to the bottom for the previous years...) I have a bought a painted quite a few more in the previous seven years...

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  2. You seem to be in the high hundreds every year. I'm going to guess, 13,400 with 6,300 painted.

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  3. 17,000 painted and 900 unpainted. Nice mortar team by the way.

    Is project planning and taking stock one of our favorite hobby activities? It is for me!

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    1. Good gracious, no!

      (I wish!?)

      Closer on the total - put nowhere near that many painted! (You did read the bit about being embarrassed to post the tie figures, right?)

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  4. Lovely trench mortar, I really like the spades worn by two of the chaps, lots of nice detail, and I guess if you have 20,000 figures and just under half are painted it's fine because a:you cast a load of them yourself and b:the rest of them were bargains and inflation is coming along so really you've saved money when you bought them! Yeah well...
    Best Iain

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    1. You know me waaaaaay too well.... it's a little frightening...

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  5. A wonderful vignette, very nice work Tim! Cheers!

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