Quote from: fsn on 12 December 2020, 09:10:20 AM
I have cut down on my lipstick use.

Well it was a bit excessive
Regards
Sean

I am NOT counting how many unpainted figures I've got.....

There's a very big box full.

I DO want to get the paints out again, at some stage...But as I've said before....I'm not sure which end of the brush I'm supposed to hold, anymore.

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno II on 12 December 2020, 10:46:49 AM
I am NOT counting how many unpainted figures I've got.....

There's a very big box full.

I DO want to get the paints out again, at some stage...But as I've said before....I'm not sure which end of the brush I'm supposed to hold, anymore.

Cheers - Phil

step 1 Start with painting blood red.
step 2 check your hands veery five minutes. if nothing repeat step 1 and 2 , if it looks like yet another trip to emergency room, turn brush around!

Quote from: fsn on 11 December 2020, 09:36:29 PM
Pendraken: 11792 infantry, 1371 cavalry, 626 artillerymen, 189 guns, 865 vehicles, 400 command
1187 aircraft (mostly 1:600) and 301 ships (mostly 1:3000)

Lead mountain - 5734 pieces.

Average purchase 173 pieces per month
Average paint 271 pieces per month
Estimated 51 months to clear the mountain

I do love a spreadsheet!

That is.a lot of figures!

I'm quite interested in your counting method - especially as you seem to count artillery crews and guns separately. Do you count bases, and then what is on the base? I've thought about listing my figures a couple of times, but each time I start to think about it, I start over thinking the whole categorisation thing, and then don't end up doing anything!

Ah! I count guns and men separately. That is because I do not have a fixed number of gunners per gun. A 2pdr may have a crew of 3, a 17pdr 4 and an 5.5" howitzer I think I put 6 on.

I don't count bases as the number of figures per base varies.  Mortars tend to be groups of 3 bases - 2 with 3 figures and 1 with an added command figure. A British section is a Bren base (3), a command base (3) and a rifle base (4).

What I do is I put together a project and work out how many packs I will need. For example if I want 2 units of 60. That is 4 packs of infantry. What tens to happen is that my unit size miraculously fits with Pendraken pack sizes - odd that, isn't it? The Dark Ages units are 32 figures each - one pack plus two command. Works nicely as 8x4 figure bases.
 
Then, I note each pack I buy.  This gets added to my lead mountain as I buy them.
When I paint, I make a note, and this comes off the mountain.
Extra figures get used up padding out gun crews, command groups and as status markers (pre 1900). Very few go into the spares box.

Works for me.

Painted

6mm	11,110
10mm	7,439
Ships	655
15mm	350
Total	19,554

I won't bore you with the break down into foot mounted and 'models' (vehicles, guns...)

I use a spreadsheet to calculate my orders that almost never come to complete packs Thanks again Leon & co for your patience with my part packs

I then use the spreadsheet to track my painting

Unpainted 678 10mm  I think I need to start planning my next project

Being lazy Paul ?

Painted this years, as of 13-12-2020:-
4530 figures, of which  2366 are mine.
Best year by volume ever.
Should go up by 72 in the next day or two too!

Quote from: paulr on 13 December 2020, 01:26:20 AM

Unpainted 678 10mm  I think I need to start planning my next project :-

678? I don't know whether to be impressed or disgusted. 

Quote from: fsn on 12 December 2020, 10:48:05 PM.
 
Then, I note each pack I buy.  This gets added to my lead mountain as I buy them.
When I paint, I make a note, and this comes off the mountain.
Extra figures get used up padding out gun crews, command groups and as status markers (pre 1900). Very few go into the spares box.

Works for me.

A very different approach to me. I see things that I like the look of, and buy them, adding them to the lead mounting for that project. It's quite rare that I actually work through in detail what I will need. The Samurai are one of the few exceptions to that - where I planned the purchases quite carefully. But I have added to that project, before I finished the first part of it.

Only having 678 unpainted would seem wrong...

678!!??

Even adding a zero I doubt you are touching the sides of my lead mountain!

Looks like i'm not doing too badly with my count 

In honesty the stuff that tends to stick in the unpainted pile is mostly 28mm. They just go so much slower than the small scales.

Out of curiosity I've just done some counting of painted 10mm figures
Sengoku Japanese - 330
Dwarves - 550 (some high density units here)
Forces of Nature - 270

Each of these take up approximately 1 A4 sheet of paper in area. Which might seem a strange measurement, but as much of my stuff is in box files, really useful boxes, or Bisley drawers, each of which has the surface area of approximately A4, its quite convienent.

My only concern is that on a previous count, I had 113 A4 equivalents of figures (both painted and unpainted).  And taking a rough average of 400 figures per A4 layer, that gives some 40,000 figures...

Tanks and larger scales will bring it down (I hope).  But unpainted will have higher counts.

At this stage I'm not sure I want to continue with counting or not....

Quote from: fred. on 13 December 2020, 09:54:51 AM
A very different approach to me. I see things that I like the look of, and buy them, adding them to the lead mounting for that project. It's quite rare that I actually work through in detail what I will need. The Samurai are one of the few exceptions to that - where I planned the purchases quite carefully. But I have added to that project, before I finished the first part of it.

Only having 678 unpainted would seem wrong...

Freight costs are a major factor for us in the Antipodes, it is common practice to combine orders and share the freight costs

If you need a few more x the cost of freight and the time delay is significant

Hence the need to think about my next project

Quote from: fred. on 13 December 2020, 09:54:51 AM
A very different approach to me. I see things that I like the look of, and buy them, adding them to the lead mounting for that project. It's quite rare that I actually work through in detail what I will need. The Samurai are one of the few exceptions to that - where I planned the purchases quite carefully. But I have added to that project, before I finished the first part of it.

Only having 678 unpainted would seem wrong...

I haven't settled on my purchasing style yet.

I have carefully planned out a couple of projects in the past and buy all the figures, only to completely rethink them once I get them. I don't really like having excess figures for a project, but find I can usually make use of leftovers as casualties and the like and it's nice having a pool of figs to draw from.

I've a more standardised basing now so could probably carefully plan better, but I've taken to starting small with an army pack or the like then build from there rather than massively increasing the mountain. Having recently done a few armies I've allowed myself a new addition.