Usually more than one on the go; one being prepped, one just primed, one initial painiting done, none of which could be conected, and there could be a kit under construction as well.  Variety, as they say  '...is the spice of life.'

Basically, always!

It's not quite the same thing, but I have anything up to half a dozen 'projects' on the go at any one time.

Very rarely, I'll have just a couple on the go.

Even when I was doing all the Korean War figures (Does that count as one 'job'....or do I count all the different nationalities & Summer and Winter kits as separates ?)......I was converting 30mm master metals for one of Leon's friend's firms.

I like doing those.....But the desk does get VERY messy with all the white metal dust, all over the place !! 

Cheers - Phil

I have projects, yet unfinished, that started in the 70s.

If I don't have at least half a dozen "active" projects and three times that "on the back burner"  it's because I have more than that!

I have not finished anything, and I have been painting toy soldiers since 1973...

 

Eg, I have just sat down after preparing some 2mm/3mm scenery for painting (used a Brigade Models factory as a stand in for the Tishamingo* Hotel in Corinth), whilst at the same time adding completed 10mm French standard bearers to half a dozen FPW command stands.

*I think that's how it's spelt. Can't get up to faff about looking it up.

Quote from: Leman on 13 January 2019, 04:18:11 PM
Eg, I have just sat down after preparing some 2mm/3mm scenery for painting (used a Brigade Models factory as a stand in for the Tishamingo* Hotel in Corinth), whilst at the same time adding completed 10mm French standard bearers to half a dozen FPW command stands.

*I think that’s how it’s spelt. Can’t get up to faff about looking it up.

And women say we can't Multi- task !!

From my limited experience, only having (re)entered the hobby about a year ago and currently on my 4th & 5th armies that will fight each other, I'd say 1 project at the time. I tend to go overboard/get gready/develop an OCD on whatever is my current project and build up a mountainous lead pile on that alone. I want all the various types of troops and in convincing numbers.
This drive towards completeness comes with a drive to complete. Doing more than one project at the same time would leave me unfulfilled for too long, and if there is one thing I do not want from a hobby, it is frustration (believe, I've had my share of that in other hobbies).
So:1 massive multifacetted project, preferably with one or two armies i can later find more new enemies for (in my case1870-1900 Colonial Brits, many different enemies after the Afghans I'm starting out with.)

For the last couple of years I've been trying to concentrate on a single project at a time, but it's really not easy as I'm so easily distracted.

Take care

Andy

Quote from: Ben Waterhouse on 13 January 2019, 12:00:48 PM
I have not finished anything, and I have been painting toy soldiers since 1973...

Curses. I think that means you've been at it a year longer than I!

Quote from: FierceKitty on 14 January 2019, 01:38:09 PM
Curses. I think that means you've been at it a year longer than I!

1967 with Scuby miniatures (after visiting him in Visalia, CA.)

My first painted miniatures were Airfix figures painted (well, for a certain value of "painted" at least) in a hotel in Scarborough. Self, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents had virtually taken the place over. Second week of the holiday I was diagnosed with chicken pox and forbidden to go out with the rest of the tribe so was left in the care of my grandfather. He was a carver and painter of exquisite wooden toy yachts as well as Foreman of Joiners at the naval dockyard, so had some knowledge of Humbrol paints so I became the proud possessor of a box of figures, a random collection of paints and a brush. If painting hands and faces pink, guns brown, boots black and blood splats on the dead and wounded red counts as painted then that was my start. I felt there was no need to paint the rest because the plastic was the right colour for their uniforms anyway!

That would have been the summer of '62 or 63.

Shortly thereafter I graduated to Airfix ships and Fletcher Pratt rules and started real wargaming, exchanging marbles for measuring tapes!

As a child I remember being told by my older broither that I was too young to paint ... but my first semi-serious figures must have been 1973 when I bought Altmark's German Combat Uniforms 1933-45. It was the first time I'd seen camo smocks; all the film and TV depictions of German soldiers wore coal scuttle helmets, jackboots and beautifully tailored jackets with bottle green collars. Thus, my Airfix German infantry (1st type with the sPzb 41) got liberally daubed with Airfix gloss brown and vivid green - also gloss. The paint was so thick, it did resemble a shapeless smock.

Happy Days.

To be fair, my painting hasn't improved much since then.

You're right, Nobby.

The Airfix paints were so 'thick' back then !!

I can remember repainting a Subbuteo goalkeeper's hands, where the paint had chipped off.
It looked as though he was wearing a pair of salmon pink boxing gloves.

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 15 January 2019, 08:19:01 AM
You're right, Nobby.

The Airfix paints were so 'thick' back then !!

I can remember repainting a Subbuteo goalkeeper's hands, where the paint had chipped off.
It looked as though he was wearing a pair of salmon pink boxing gloves.

Cheers - Phil

And were in those little screw top glass bottles with an " interesting " smell...

Now painting 2/3mm ACW scenery, French FPW standard bearer bases, and setting the table for a run out of From Shako to Coal-scuttle. At the back of my painting table are the 15mm dismounted WWI German dragoons.