How many is to many

[Womble67]

Hi all question am I being greedy how many projects do you have I have the following

CGW
FIW
AWI
ACW
AZW
WWII

perhaps I should consecrate on one or two projects

Take care

Andy

[petercooman]

Zombie/dropzone commander mash up
28mm d&d minis
long running epic 40k project
terrain projects
ww2 fighter planes

Never too many projects, means you can switch up to prevent boredom or painters block!

[Ithoriel]

I have the following in various stages from entirely unpainted to fully painted.

3mm Armies for

1943 Germans/ 1943 Russians

6mm armies for

Sumer/ Elam/ Amurru/ Melukkha/ Old Kingdom Egypt/ Later Roman Empire/ Ostrogoths/ Visigoths/ Huns/ Blemye/ Sassanid Persians/ 1812 French/ 1812 Russian/ 1943 German / 1943 Russian/ 40,000AD Imperial Guard/ 40,000AD Space Marines/ 40000AD Chaos Warriors/ 40000AD Eldar/ 40000AD Orcs/ 40000AD Dwarves

10mm armies for

High Elves/ Undead/ Lizardmen/ Chaos/ Albion/ Empire/ 1943 Germans/ 1943 Russians/ Aliens & Marines   

15mm Armies for

Later Roman Empire/ Sassanids/ 1812 French/ 1943 Germans/ 1943 Russians/ Science Fiction RPG

20mm Armies for

Science Fiction RPG

28mm Armies for

Fantasy RPG/ 1943 German/ 1943 Russian/ Science Fiction RPG

There are probably others lurking in dark recesses I've forgotten and that doesn't include all the air/ naval/ deep space stuff I have!

[Subedai]

To list everything here would mean I have to go rummaging through my boxes and I can't be ar*ed. Let's just go with lots, shall we?

[Tawa]

40k CSM/IG
ECW 15mm
ECW 10mm
ECW 6mm
ECW 2mm
Warmachine (Pirates!)
Bolt Action IJA
Wild West 15mm

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

10mm
AWI British
Later Imperial Roman
Renaissance LOA and Samurai and Poles
Warband Undead, Elves, Minotaurs,  and Egyptian Undead
15mm
Not much, sold most of my unpainted stuff over the summer, a few platoons of US WWII paratroopers (anyone want them?)
6mm two armies half painted that I should get shot of, Macedonian/Greek and Viking (cheeper to a good home)
A few random 25mm projects including the Minibits Kickstarter figures and some Goblins, nothing more than about ten figures, no idea when I will do them!
French Aeronef fleet
Studio Bergstrom sci-do spaceships
Order of The Stick figures
Three buildings for a mate!!!

[Womble67]

I feel a bit better now I've seen what your all doing. I was kinda feeling overwhelmed with stuff but never seeming to get anywhere.

Take care

Andy

[Steve J]

I've given up trying to list what I have on the go. I normally start something then work invariably comes along and throws a spanner in the works.

[Nosher]

6mm
ACW (both armies) for Longstreet - must have had these nearly four years.....
Principles of War Colonials - Zulu and British - 5 years plus.......
WW2 Early Germans for an unfinished Sealion Project - 3 years at least
Landing Craft for Operation Overlord - 2 years
Epic Squats for FWC - 5 years
Two other Dark Realm Minis armies for FWC - 5 years
Various buildings

10mm
Vikings for FoG Ancients - 3 years at least
Medievals including Scots and Welsh - probably 4 years
ECW - both armies for FoG Renaissance - 2 years at least
Bavarian Napoleonics for Blucher - less than a year
French Napoleonic Cavalry for Blucher - less than a year
French Napoleonic Generals - a month!
Warband Goblins - just started on these
Warband Dwarves - just started on these
Post Romano British - 2 years possibly more
Various Buildings

15mm
British, Hessian and American's for Muskets and Tomohawks - had these at least 10 years, have offloaded a bundle of them and kept the core figures to rebase for M&T

28mm
Half a dozen or so support options for my WW2 US - 2 years
Dads Army and Home Guard figures - 2 years
Scots and Irish for SAGA - 3 years

And that's just what I can remember off the top of my head. No doubt if I could be arsed going through my cupboard and other hidey holes I would find other stuff....

[Chad]

3mm
Arab-Israeli wars -not started

10mm
1866 - nearly finished
1859 - nearly finished
LoA - not started
WSS- largely finished, but enough figures to add more
Ancients - AIM figures for Punic Wars. Started but never finished and probably never will

15mm
French Revolution - not started

28mm
Napoleonics - Russians, Prussians and Austrians to finish
SYW - had them for years but never finished them

[Leman]

As with Sub - lots!!

[fsn]

I tried to count them. I even took my shoes and socks off, so it's more than 21.

[Bodvoc]

This year I have worked on...
28MM Gauls for Impetus
15mm ECW
28MM Frosgrave
28mm Dungeon saga
28mm more Elves for Kings of War (you can never have too many elves!)
10mm Warband: Barbarians, High Elves, Orcs and Goblins, Dragon men and will get some Wood Elves soon (you can never have too many Elves)
10mm Dark Ages, Normans, Saxons and currently working on Vikings
6mm Greeks and Persians for Impetus and sword and Spear, though will be trying out 'To the Strongest' soon.
28MM Dark Ages for Lion Rampant and am looking forward to getting Dragon Rampant soon.

Many of these projects have been on going for a few years and will continue into next year, adding a few units here and there before butterflying off onto something else. If newline Design would pull their finger out and complete their 10mm Trojan War range I would be working on them too.

[Orcs]

You had to ask !!!!!  Now I am getting the jitters

I have the following in various stages

1:3000

Russio- Japanese war small fleet for both sides

6mm
German WW1 Awaiting basing 8+ years
British WW1 Awaiting basing 8+ years
Russian WW1   Awaiting basing 8+ years

FWC Epic Imperialist not started

10mm

WW2 Poles Mainly done just approx 50 infantry to go
WW2 Belgian Unpainted Unpainted (2 years)
WW2 Early war Russian Unpainted (2 years)
WW2 Early Falshirmjager Unpainted (6 Months)
WSS British part done (5 Years)
ACW both sides  Just arrived in post
Crusader / Norman army unpainted Bring and buy impulse

!5mm

AK47 Dictator ship army to go with other army . Vehicles done infantry part painted (10 Years)
Italian wars  Ongoing project since I started proper wargaming in 1978  400 Mikes models (old Essex to go)
DBM hebres - being rebased  4 years

20mm

NW europe ongoing project 20 Years

28mm

30 Dark age warriors to paint
Orcs 50+ to paint ongoing project ( I have approx 600 done)
Gondor 100+ Ongoing project (300 done)
Elves 80+ Unpainted

Plus a few Prussian airships for Dystopian Wars

Remember the three main life rules for a wargamer

1 When you paint your last unpainted figure YOU DIE
2 A Wargamer NEEDS his own weight in unpainted lead,resin and plastic  for true happiness
3 There is no such thing as to many in wargaming

[Chris Pringle]

Projects that were completed but fell into disuse long ago:
Medieval Hungarians (cost me about £100 for each time I've used them - lovely heraldry though)
WWII aircraft (I was into "Check Your Six!" for about five years, wrote the "Aces Over Hungary" scenario book)
WWII skirmish (just not into skirmish - I want to be a general, not a corporal)
And no doubt other stuff long forgotten about and consigned to a drawer in the War Room ...

These days I concentrate on just two core periods:
19th Century, using "Bloody Big BATTLES!"
WWII, brigade or division+ games, using Kampfgruppe Commander

Of course these are immensely rich and varied periods and you could easily collect dozens of armies for both. On my wish list are 1848 Hungarians, more Austrians for 1848/1859/66, upgrading my 1877 Russo-Turkish armies. But in our group we have enough armies to do pretty much anything we want with a bit of proxying. And I have zero time for painting, so any armies I do add I will be paying others to paint.

Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/BBB_wargames/info
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.co.uk/

[Norm]

 Well, to actually get somewhere, I think you have to focus on one project.

A second becomes a manageable distraction that undermines the first project and beyond that I think it just becomes a mess, to the point that I can just stall and go into total inactivity with nothing getting done as I get pulled into too many directions.

[Womble67]

Thanks for all your comments I've been a bit stressed recently and probably feeling a little down if I'm honest.

So it appears I'm not mad its a wargamers normal state to have numerous projects on the go at once.

So I should maybe pick two as my main interests and have all the others as nice distractions.

Take care

Andy

[Chris Pringle]

Andy,

For me it has made a huge difference to have a bunch of regular gaming buddies who share my enthusiasm. We motivate each other and it gives purpose to the projects.

If you can team up with just one good reliable gaming buddy and agree to pursue a project together that may help.

Good luck!
Chris

[Womble67]

Andy,

For me it has made a huge difference to have a bunch of regular gaming buddies who share my enthusiasm. We motivate each other and it gives purpose to the projects.

If you can team up with just one good reliable gaming buddy and agree to pursue a project together that may help.

Good luck!
Chris

I totally agree about sharing ones enthusiasm with like minded friends I've got some brilliant mates at my regular wargaming club (Grimsby Wargames Society).

We've teamed up on a number of projects romans v celts awi and now acw and this is in 10mm.

Take care

Andy

[Nosher]

Most of my gaming is solo so I am always collecting both sides for any conflict I take interest in, even if it's a new thing at the club I invariably end up collecting both sides so I can play at home (with myself, but that's a whole different post/forum....)