A race to the end (of the year)

17/12/2013 2 Comments

Following the last couple of months that have been terrible due to the ongoing building works, I thought I’d update the Painting Log. On opening the file I found I had not updated it since June. So I scrabbled around and listed all the stuff I’d done. So far about 790 figures (equivalent) this year, lower than the 900+ I’d done last year.

However, I have a lot of the new Dark Elf plastic figures on the go. Half painted but with Xmashammer (28/29th December) due, a true incentive to finish them off. Should take me to the 900 mark.

And as you can see I’ve been tidying the Playroom, and have a bag of sprues of stuff to assemble. If I can get all the figures built I can clear out another area of space as well. This should mean I finish off (HA!) the Dark Elf army as well as making space and tidying the room up. An extra rank for the Ladies of Spears, and extra rank for the Silver Talons, an extra unit or two of CoK, and so on.

Now all I need to do is paint them… 🙂

Having a painting loog is certainly one way of energising you !!

How do you focus your energy ?

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Paint Log 2012

05/01/2013 5 Comments

In order to remind myself how much I have done and taking a leaf out of Roughage’s blog, I have been keeping a log (spreadsheet) of all my painting (sad git).

Last year I painted the equivalent of more than 900 figures which is pretty good going. Since I started the log (2010), I have painted 2200 figures:

Figure Equivalents

Year

Total

Scenery

15mm

AVBCW

BoB

Warhammer

2010

749

116

121

512

2011

581

163

43

349

26

2012

912

262

20

196

226

208

2013

49

8

0

0

26

15

2014

0

2015

0

Total

2291

549

184

545

252

761

%

24

8

24

46

33

I am doing this to keep myself motivated and remind myself just how much I have done, as I grind my way through the endless unpainted, unassembled desolation that the Playroom seems to hold in a TARDIS like style.

So when I commented about the Lustrian scenery, I remembered that I had a terrain piece by that company featuring The Hounds of Tindalos. So that is one of today’s easy wins for painting – hopefully photographed shortly.

In rummaging to find that, I came across another piece of scenery I dimly remember buying, and now needs some attention, for quite what purpose I have no idea but it’ll come to me in time and should be an easy paint, after I’ve watched some more DVDs to remind me of colour schemes. 😉

The current hiatus on AVBCW is due to me having an artistic block on the BUF Cavalry, the diea of painting more black, and more horses both at the same time has really dented my enthusiasm to paint them. Maybe after my current WHFB binge over the w/e I’ll get back to them.

NB: Not all my painting gets a posting – sometimes the latest batch of 10 DE Spearmen aren’t worth it.

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