I'm getting really frustrated with myself. Work is the scion of a she-wolf and a rabid Chihuahua (yaps a lot then bites your leg off) and family matters are somewhat ... involved, I have no wargames table at the moment, and I have managed to completely clog up my painting table with no fewer that 5 - count them - current projects.
- I still have some infantry, helicopters and airliners for the 1960 "somewhere in the Middle East" to complete
- Forked out for some 28mm Perry's for a leaving pressie. These have been undercoated and I'm researching some heraldry.
- Some C12 infantry glare balefully at me from the sidelines - base coats on
- 1:600 Coastal craft and aircraft - some painted, some prepped, some waiting an order from another place
- My brother bought m some 1:600 WWI aircraft for my birthday - so I dived in ("dived in" - geddit? Geddit? Please yourselves.)
This ignores the Marlburian stuff chucked in cupboard in a fit of pique, the ACW "extras" mouldering in a box and goodness knows what else.
Is it just me? How does the better organised members cope?
Quote from: fsn on 03 August 2015, 12:16:27 PM
How does the better organised members cope?
Do you words "organised" and "members (of the Pendraken forum, I suppose) belong in the same sentence? :o :o :-\
Mollinary
I have two sets of 10mm fantasy awaiting basing finishing, a bunch of 28mm Sea Peoples half done, some 10mm pike to slip the basing onto when they dry, and some 1/4800th boats from Tumbling Dice to cut out mount board bases for and print off some flags for. Oh yeah and do the Italian Wars flags for said pike etc. And that's just ON MY DESK and personal, never mind commissions :D
Organised, moi? NEVER I SAY!
On the painting table at the moment:
10mm WW2 Germans
10mm WW2 Russians
6mm Sumerians
6mm Bronze Age scenery
1:2400 Armada ships
1:2400 Armada period fortifications
Not currently on table but still to be painted .... lets just say that most cupboards and wardrobes in my house need to be opened VERY carefully if you don't want to be showered with lead, plastic or resin :)
I have tons of stuff everywhere in various states. Life is too full of stress as it is without stressing about the stuff that is suppose to de-stress you from the stuff that is stressful.
Chill, I find the bigger your lead pile the better, buy now beat inflation :D
I have on the painting table at the moment rather a lot ;D :
10mm all Pendraken :
WW2 British NWE
WW2 British 1st Airborne Division
WW2 German 6th FJ
WW2 Russians
WW2 Early war Germans
8th Army
DAK
WW2 Italians
AWI Brits, USA, Germans
Malburian Austrian, Bavarian, French
Napoleonic Russian and French
AVBCW x 6 factions
various 1/300 aircraft
loads of terrain and approximately a 100 buildings :o
I think I am a bit of a Pendraken addict ;D
You ar enot alone. Your story resonates :)
On the table I have 10mm French Naps waiting for final touches before basing
Behind them are two painting sticks of 15mm Romans, ditto
To the right a 25pdr battery in 15mm, undercoated
On the cupbaord behind them two units of Indians for the AWI, just need some highlights
In the garage two regiments of 10mm Parliamentary foot, undercoated
Also four units of C12 Polish infantry, needing basing
In the garden shed platoon of 15mm Stug III and a Tiger I, waiting for weathering coats
Also in the shed some Wars of the Roses cavalry, almost finished
On the dining table a box of painted 15mm Byzantine cavalry awaiting basing
I also have a company of 15mm WWII Japanese infantry newly delivered an dready to be unpacked.
The arrival of two kittens has rather brought a halt to painting at the moment as they are into everything.
needless to say, my wife's patience is getting a little short s she keeps finding little metal men and tankls all over the show :o
Mongols
Poles
LOA
Goblins
Barbarians
Evil men
OOTS
Supreme Littleness Buildings
Mongols and buildings at the basing stage, Poles and LoA base coated and washed, next Mongols. And OOTS under coated...
All on the table, stuff that not... Too numerous to count!
On the painting table:
6mm Bavarian division
15mm WWI Belgian infantry
9 15mm western theatre Confederate command bases
30 15mm Confederate infantry awaiting Columbus issue uniforms
30 15mm Confederate infantry awaiting motley and battle shirt outfits
10mm half timbered house
16 10mm 1870 Prussian dragoons
So, not as bad as some it would seem. Oh yes, a 28mm Da Vinci flying machine to construct.
I don't want to think about all the projects I (allegedly) have on the go :(.
Thank goodness. I was worried it was just me.
"I can resist everything except temptation." - Oscar Wilde
For me:
The 4 d&d adventure system boxes (about 160 minis)
Pendraken/dropzone commander future zombie war project with just some vehicles done
64 pendraken confederate infantry to finish my acw project
a bunch of reaper bones for various rulesets
Black scorpion pirates
witch hunter and possessed warbands for mordheim/ SOBH
A bunch of microwing kits
deadzone rebels and marauders
The ever ongoing painting of LOTR miniatures
Epic 40k space marines and orks
Various scenery projects
And some odds and ends
The fun about having so much going on is that when you get bored of omething you can (theoretically) pic up something entirely different
Quote from: fsn on 03 August 2015, 12:16:27 PM
Is it just me? How does the better organised members cope?
I have 6 painting rods, fits just under 100 figures. If it isn't on those rods it hides in a box and is out of mind. ;)
Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 03 August 2015, 01:20:20 PM
... Life is too full of stress as it is without stressing about the stuff that is suppose to de-stress you from the stuff that is stressful.
Chill, I find the bigger your lead pile the better, buy now beat inflation :D
Well said that man =D> =D> =D>
I also buy for the future. When I finally came to paint up my £10 10mm ACW ironclad the price had risen to £18.
When I re-organised my painting table I decided that the two existing supermarket produce boxes were more than enough for all of the undercoated, 1/2 painted, waiting to be based projects so they are in the cupboard until I can be ar*ed to start them again. No more than two projects at any given time, I said...that's gone out of the window. It's now only two sizes at any one time! This is completely ridiculous as I only fight solo games!!!
Currently scattered around my painting area:-
6mm Tibetans -undecoated the 10 x LC blocks -soon
6mm WW II British -started painting 34 models awaiting first coat of varnish -ongoing and quite important
12 10mm Mongol cavalry -mañana
2 6mm multi-period civilian wagons -soon
5 6mm Irregular vinyard lengths -soon
4 6mm blocks of ashigaru -mañana
44 15mm Vikings -important
More cereal card buildings for my 5mm Napaoleonic and fledgling WW II campaign -ongoing and quite important
"This is completely ridiculous as I only fight solo games!!!"
Impressive :D
I think you are much the same as the rest of us. :)
Remember the rules of wargaming-
1 A wargamer needs at least his own weight in unpainted lead to thrive.
2 When you paint your last unpainted figure you die!. ( I am going to live to at least 183)
On the Painting table- After completely clearing it up 10 days ago
Zvezda 20mm British Recon - Just assembled at 1am
Zvezda German Recon - awaiting assembley
Zvezda MG42 Awaiting assembley
3 PSC 20mm Shermans part painted
2 Armourfast Cromwells Haf assembles and tracks half painted
20mm Telgrapph pole assebled awaiting painting
Warmaster Steam tank - half painted
Half a dozen 10mm AVBCW vehicles and carts
Plus in my Den cupboard
40 odd base coated early war germans
4 big 10mm armies not started
200 20mm WW2 figures and 20 part painted 20mm vehicles
Then I have the Garage loft where I store terrain and "Lomg Term Projects" - dont ask!! suffice to say it has 18 feet of shelving all full. and box upon box of terrain and buildings, and more trees than Thetford Forest
Currently awaiting Rymans opening tomorrow morning for a bottle of Burnt Umber undercoat.
12 bases of warband type fellas 2mm
12 bases of regular infantry type fellas 2mm
3 bases of Roman Commands 3mm
3 bases of Celtic Commands 3mm
a pack of Coritani 15mm rendered walls
a large Coritani swamp and a pack of Baggage Train 6mm reeds.
That's it, the total sum of lead & resin left unpainted in the house :o Allowing paint drying time a good day will wipe that lot out ;)
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 04 August 2015, 12:24:33 AM
Remember the rules of wargaming-
1 A wargamer needs at least his own weight in unpainted lead to thrive.
or
her. There are females these days, and the hobby is much the better for it.
I know exactly how you feel FSN....I can't claim to be well organised :-[
Having inherited several DBMM armies that need a little work to make
them fit for the table I dug out a whole lot of 28mm medievals that I
got painted several years ago. hmmmm some (Well most actually)
require at least partial repaint and rebasing to be fit to join the one
true army (Charles the Bold's Burgundians).
Next project for me once 1914 stuff is done.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 04 August 2015, 01:34:16 AM
or her. There are females these days, and the hobby is much the better for it.
The "Her" was implied, I am fuly aware there are ladies in the hobby and on the forum.
We could of couse go down the Monty Python "Life of Brian" routine here ;D
I cope by hardly ever painting anything at all.
This can be done by focusing obsessively on the period 1850-1900 and getting endless use out of the armies I already have, including ones I painted up when I was a teenager, supplemented occasionally by troops I paint up specifically for a particular action I'm planning to fight, or by ordering ready-painted armies if there is a serious gap.
Not that I don't find painting figures satisfying - I do love it when a unit is finally based, varnished and ready for action - but time is limited and I'd rather spend it researching battles, writing scenarios and playing the games.
Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
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Quote from: Chris Pringle on 04 August 2015, 12:08:26 PM
I cope by hardly ever painting anything at all.
Alas, I do that too.
But it doesn't stop me buying new things :(
Which I'm then too busy researching the period, reading and evaluating rules and planning the next project to paint ... DOH!
Not sure if I should enter this conversation as I don't have a 'lead mountain', or even a mole hill.
On the painting desk I've got 36 10mm arab archers, 12 Arab Cavalry 10mm based for SAGA Crescent and Cross and 5 Dystopian Legions French Marines for IHMN.
On the corner of the desk is an old whiskey tin containing all the figures waiting to be painted, if I can't get any more figures in the tin I don't need to buy any more. Every couple of months I empty the tin on to the desk gto see if there's something interesting in the bottom and if I can't remember what some figures are for I bin them.
I think this atitude started when I was unemployed then back at uni, about three years of being absoluely skint made me make sure I really needed figures before buying any and now it's just a habit I've got into.
Quote from: DanJ on 06 August 2015, 02:18:59 PM
I think this atitude started when I was unemployed then back at uni, about three years of being absoluely skint made me make sure I really needed figures before buying any and now it's just a habit I've got into.
But ...but.... You do need them, you always need them! You die if you have painted everything! It's like insulin for a diabetic! :o :o :o ;)
I have been pretty disciplined for my painting projects. Currently I am painting all the FPW Corps for the Imperial era. This is for my Sappy Nappy rule set. I am only doing one project at a time.
For the French I have the VII and the XII Corps to do and for the Prussians the XI, VII and the VIII as well as the 3rd Cav XX. Just finished the HQ for the XI, VII and the VIII Corps. I do plan to get into the 3 Prussian corps that came up later (I, II and VI as well as some landwehr). Also a couple of the republican period corps.
I didn't start these until I finished my 6mm Peninsular armies at 20:1. I have Massena's army (3 corps plus supply), Wellington's at the same period (less 3 or 4 independant Portugueses brigades, and a Spanish army of 5 divisions of infantry plus cavalry.
So waiting in the wings are 2400 scale WWII ships, 6mm ACW and maybe someday going back to finish the 15 mm ACW for Gettysburg.
Well I'm not going to say anything rude.
Nice of you. I have become more patient in my old age.
Quote from: kipt on 06 August 2015, 03:46:18 PM
I have become more patient in my old age.
I'm just the opposite !.....Victor Meldrew, eat your heart out ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
QuoteBut ...but.... You do need them, you always need them! You die if you have painted everything! It's like insulin for a diabetic!
No! I am strong, my will is strong and I am determined not to weaken.....
But don't get me started on how much I've spent on climbing gear over the years, last year I was finally convinced that I didn't need four tents and a camper van so now make do with three tents and a camper van. :D
I have my vices but a lead mountain isn't one of them. ;)
Dan - still my hero!
I have two tents, and an offer of a loan on the camper!
TOO MUCH - IS NEVER ENOUGH !!
I too have a lot of stuff lying around... Napoleonic French, Austrian and British, and Flames of War germans that need to be done... and two entire armies of 6mm that I havent decided what to do with yet.
I think its also important to have multiple projects of different "types", ie 15mm and 10mm, modern and napoleonic, so that when you get bored painting brown, green and dunkelgelb, you can switch over to painting Napoleonic French, and once that gets tedious painting all that line infantry, paint some Austrian Uhlans, and so on. Diversifying is important so you dont get the painters block from repetitive tediousness.
That said, I haven't touched my Flames of War in a while - just not that inspired with the ruleset anymore, and Battlefront and I have put our relationship on hold (like many others).
Quote from: Leon026 on 06 August 2015, 09:48:14 PM
That said, I haven't touched my Flames of War in a while - just not that inspired with the ruleset anymore, and Battlefront and I have put our relationship on hold (like many others).
There are, I believe, other WWII rulesets ;)
Have to agree with 026 - multiple projects keep me and my painting fresh, hence the 15mm Belgians at the mo. I particularly like the headswaps I can do with the PP figures.
Far too much unfinished, like most of us I guess? :(
At the moment (started but not yet finished):
28mm
GW Dark Elf army (for AoS)
Bolt Action Russians to finish (mostly cavalry)
AVBCW to finish (mostly bicyclists, and other weirdness)
Necromunda gang
Mordheim terrain board
Perry Samurai (for Ronin)
4 boxes of Perry WotR soldiers to build and add to my army, plus about 20 metal cavalry
GW 40k Space Marines (repaint job from Raven Guard to Crimson Fists - plus add ons)
GW 40k Ork army (some of the vehicles have been pinched and used for my VSF 28mm collection, re: In Her Majesy's Name...)
GW Bretonnians (which i'm painted for use with Lions Rampant
15mm
Russians (ImagiNation) for Maurice
Medieval Swedish (for DBM)
10mm
Warband dwarf army
Warband goblin army
Warband barbarian army
Pd FPW French army
Pd Russian Napoleonic army
Other
Dystopian Wars Empire of the Sun additions (mostly rocket escorts, & flying aircraft carrier)
Uh...all that depresses me...
And then coming up are Warband undead and taurians, and of course a 28mm fantasy army for Dragon's Rampant...
Maybe this is why i'm playing X-Wing a lot. No painting!!! ;D