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I seem to have too many projects going at one time. I am not talking about buying new stuff to add to the pile, but actual projects that you are currently working on. I seem to have multiple things on the bench more and more all the time. I used to limit myself to 1 army and 1 terrain item at t time, but have lost control. I now have way to many.
Currently on the bench is about 80 vikings.
I have about 30 western figures for Dead Mans hand.
About a dozen buildings etc.
A hand full of figures for FrostGrave
A bunch of Pulp Figures.
More germans for Bolt Action
A few 15mm Chariots for Fustus Furios that looked like it would be an interesting game.
I seem to hop back an forth on the projects, I am getting stuff done, but sometimes its a bit discouraging, looking at all the projects on the work bench.
Anyone else with this issue? Any advice on keeping focused. Time to paint and hobby has been hard to come by as of late. Work, Family, stuff around the house. I used to try to get in 1 or 2 hours a day, seems as of late I am lucky to get in 2 hours a week.
Digid
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I currently have about 10-11 projects on the go, and started another small one yesterday.
I'm sure you'll getter better advice on focus from those who post after me - as undoubtedly they get more done than I do!
In my own defence however, I would say that I do this for fun. I therefore don't see any reason not to have a variety of projects to plug away at as the mood strikes me - afterall, progress on anything is still progress.
One thing I do try and do however is stick to doing one unit/squad/gang/group at a time for any given project. Not only do I get a better consistency that way, but by breaking projects down into unit/squad/gang/group I actually stand a decent chance of completing a useful block of work for any given project.
However, I don't have all the projects out at the same time on the table. Not least due to space considerations, but also due to the distraction factor. I'd rather get a project out, and then work away at it until I either complete it, or until I get very strongly pulled by another WIP project - in which I will swap the projects over. This also protects my WIP so that I can pick them up again without worrying that they are dirty/dusty/damaged in the meantime.
Another is that I do try and sit at the hobby table for a bit most days - even something silly like applying a wash, doing a single pass of highlights, drybrushing bases, etc., all helps to make progress. If I don't sit down at the hobby table though, it's just too easy to drift off and get distracted by low-engagement stuff like TV or surfing the internet. And although it can take me a bit to get started, once I get going in an evening, I do actually always get into it (which should be obvious, since I do it fun afterall!).
Finally, and this touches a bit on the way I tackle painting a unit/squad/etc at a time: I am in this hobby for the long-haul. As long as my models do get painted, then over a period of time I will inevitably end up with enough stuff complete for most projects.
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I've certainly got less projects on the go than I did previously, due to my protracted house move, but I tend to categorise them as follows:
Planning - lots of scribbled paper all over the house, dozens of webpages over on my browser, and book purchases that don't necessarily get read anytime soon....
Hoarding - ok, so the project has made it past the first hurdle, but I'll still want to get a decent pile of "stuff" together before I actually do anything - I tend to work best in focussed stints of work, so I like to have something decent to go at.
Build - not just scenery, although often its this stage that grabs my attention first, but also figures, often including commissioning new sculpts.
Game - now and again something gets finished, but let's not dwell on this stage!
Planning
-Modern Naval
-Zombies 15mm
Hoarding
-Game of Thrones 15mm
-Game of Thrones 28mm
Build
-Star Wars 1/2256
-Aliens 28mm
-Battlestar Galactica 28mm
-Stargate 28mm
-Apocalypse Isle 28mm
Game
-Zombies 28mm
-Space Opera 28mm
-Pirates 28mm
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You are by no means alone in having several plates spinning at once...
Planning;
GOT/LOTR 3 to 4 scratchbuilt half timbered houses for medieval hamlet
GOT palisaded marching camp
On back burner;
25mm GOT Tully 'scorpions' and crews
25mm GOT light cavalry
25mm GOT Ironborn
25mm LOTR Rohirrim
25mm LOTR forces of Saruman
15mm Transcaspian railway scratchbuilt armoured trains, locos and buildings
Currently on work bench;
25mm Karstark, Rosby, Rykker, Hornwood, Glover, Tallhart factions and skirmishers
The trick is to stay on point and focus on getting small jobs done. It helps that my 'workbench' at work has very limited space before it looks very messy. The 'distraction' and space considerations factor in.
For example this weekend I assembled just 4 Fireforge figures to turn into Karstarks, which I will be adding greenstuff cloaks to this week. They needed round bases for transport, so I did a batch of those as well. I also wanted to convert some of my more generic proxy Ithiliens culled from C13 and C14 figure ranges into potentially more GOT skirmishers. A run of the mill re-basing job that will almost instantly treble the number of skirmishers I have...
Keep it small and achievable and you will soon find the list gets a little smaller each day. I agree with Major Gilbear, concentrate on one squad at at time. Since I started working on 10 man House factions, my GOT project is progressing by leaps and bounds.
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Focusing is good - probably a max. of 2 projects at a time is healthy, as it allows for some respite from any project becoming a bit of a chore.
I am rubbish at this unfortunately, and in spite of my best intentions I am down the road to hell, to the extent that I am planning to just have fun picking at this and that instead of planning projects I never finish.
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As many as needed to actually stop me finishing one lol
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Oh good god; the amount of projects I have running is staggering. But I only have 1 to 3 on my desk at any time. I'm like the Major up there; I do this for fun, so everything I paint/convert/sculpt is 100% win. :)
Right now, I have 2 projects on my desk; my ongoing fantasy undead army (WHFB Vampire Counts), which is mostly rank and file painting right now, and a small side project; a squad of Khorne berzerkers led by Khârn the Betrayer. I'm only in the conversion and building rpocess on that one.
So, just for the heck of it, I'll try to list all my ongoing projects here. This might actually be an eye opener for myself too. For concience's sake though, I will not list the packed away unpainted ones that I have not even started on yet... ;)
- X-Wing repaints and DIY ships
- Generic Scifi space combat
- 40K (Imperial Fists, Dark Angels, Fiery Lions (DIY chapter), Imperial Guard, Sisters of Battle, Dark Eldar, Khorne, Necrons)
- Space Crusade update
- Necromunda gangs (Esher, Cawdor, Arbites, Genestealer Cult, Scum etc)
- Gorkamorka Orks
- Infinity (Pan Oceania, Haqqislam, Aleph)
- Dropzone Commander (Scourge, Resistance)
- Deus Ex cyberpunk
- Battletech @ 15mm
- WHFB (Warriors of Chaos, Vampire Counts, Chaos Dwarfs)
- Myth
- Hero Quest update
- Frostgrave bands and terrain
- Warmachine (Khador, Cryx, Cygnar)
- Pulp (for an RPG campaign)
- WWII (Fallschirmjäger, but soon also Dutch)
- Tanks! (Germans, US)
Damn... ::)
OK; that was a bit sobering. Especially since I haven't even included those projects I have collected miniatures for, but haven't even started on.
Most of these projects have ran for many, many years though, and get taken out of the cabinet or box whenever I feel the mojo to continue on one or the other. So I'm working on all of them to some degree. Some get a lot of attention, others lie dormant for years, but when the mood strikes; pop, they're on my desk.
What can I say? I have the attention span of a concussed goldfish... lol
But in the end, in the precious hobby time I can free up, I can do whatever I want and feel good about it. I tried sticking to just one project, to finally finish it, but then it quickly becomes a chore and that's where the fun ends. Sure; there are stages in every project that are tedious and less fun, but I don't mind those, as long as the inspiration is there.
I do admire those people who decide to start a certain army and then actually do and finish it within the year! my hat is off to you ladies and gentlemen, but I have long ago accepted my own limitations and know that I won't be able to do so and keep it fun at the same time.
What I'm trying to say here is: don't fret about having too many projects, as long as you have the space to store them, have at it. The thing is; I do always have all of my projects in the back of my mind, so when something comes along that triggers a certain project, I'm all over it. It's when you start forgetting that you have a certain project on the backburner stored away somewhere that you might want to consider maybe shutting it down.
But as long as you are having fun with them, as sporadic as it might be for some projects, for pewter's sake; keep at it! This is a hobby after all, and it's meant to provide relaxation and distraction from real-life, so you can regain some energy for the daily struggle.
So it better be fun! :)
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How many projects at a time?
All of them. I don't call any project finished until it gets abandoned and sold, there are always new figures or units that can get added.
Probably 40+ different games/collections underway currently (although "underway" includes things for which I have bought and paint stripped or assembled figures but not yet started actual painting). From where I sit now in my painting room I can see in progress figures for 12 different collections (although 2 of those are major re-basing rather than new work).
I did try working on only 1 project at a time but found that it tended to reduce the amount of time I spent painting. If I did not fancy continuing with what I was painting rather than working on something else I would go and play XBox or PC games instead.
For me jumping from project to project is much more rewarding and productive.
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On the worktable: Active right now:
painting, in various stages of readiness
- for Hail Caesar:
- casualty markers for Hail Caesar
- Gaulish light cavalry unit
- Gaulish infantry unit
- Carthagene African veterans
- Carthagene spearmen
- horde of various elephants
for Pike and Shotte era:
- field fortifications for artillery
- unit of landsknechts
- unit of very early reiters
waiting finishing touches on bases and varnish - for Hail Caesar
- more Gauls
- Italian light cavalry
- Poenic citizen cavalry
- Spanish Scutarii
- Italian medium infantry
- Italian light infantry
In boxes and shelves of the painting station,in various stages of painting, not actively worked on, but ready for inspiration:
- platoon of republicans and nationals for SCW in 15 mm plus some odds and ends
- Ottoman silahdars, janissaries and irregular infantry for By Fire and sword (15 mm)
- various reiters, musketeers and pikemen for By Fire and Sword
- 15 mm crusaders originally intended for SAGA now expecting to see action on Lion Rampant
- quite many samurais and servants on 28 mm for Ronin and maybe Lion Rampant
- houses for Central Europe
On assembly and basing line more Iberians for Hail Caesar.
Primed and base coated some houses, walls and camp
Since winter is coming and I do my priming outside I may concentrate next on assembling and priming stuff I want to paint until spring - probably mainly noble poenic soldiers and their allies. Maybe some turks for sheer fun they present.
I should also finish those troops that need basing and those annoyingle numerous units requiring "just some more details". My opponent is getting his legion ready so Hamilcar should get ready.
I have tried to get more ready units by concentrating on one or two units at the time and pushing until I actually finish them.
To a certain extent I have made progress even though I let myself start with new fun units even though old projects wait my attention.
I do get inspired by actually seeing ready units and game-ready armies so pushing to completion actually adds to inspiration. I am still seeking for the ideal batch size though too large batches become a chore as well as doing too much repetition of same stuff. (By Fire and Sword gave me trauma on horses that is only slowly healing - now I know I need to finsih the horses off any cavalry before working on the fun part, ie the troopers.)
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Hmmm. All depends what you mean by "at one time". I generally have a project that's my primary focus, and most of what's on my painting table will be to do with that (although there are usually a few stragglers). So at the moment it's goblins and dwarves for Dragon Rampant & HOTT (and any other fantasy rules I can tweak the basing for).
Every few months, though, the pendulum of enthusiasm abruptly swings to something else - or rather, I gradually sense a falling off of enthusiasm for what I'm currently working on. Then I know I'm ripe to switch; the trick then to redirect (or revive) enthusiasm towards one of the many half- or quarter-done projects boxed up and waiting for their time to come round again.
So, right now for example, I think I'm coming towards the end of my current fantasy stint; fortunately a visit to SELWG yesterday and a look at Simon Miller's game there set me thinking, so I'm now slowly unboxing Early/Middle Imperial Romans and endless undercoated Germanic hordes for another crack at a project I started about five years ago. I expect I'll get a couple of cohorts done and maybe a warband or two before I lose steam. But it's all progress, and a chance to fill in gaps in the project with anything that's caught my eye since it was last unboxed (about six months ago, I think).
But I'll probably keep a good few dwarves and goblins on the painting table, for a change from painting uniform or mostly uniform units. And for sheer fun, of course.
But as for how many projects I have that stand a good chance of making the rotation: well, from time to time I make a list of all of them that are even nominally alive. When I last did this, about a year ago, there were at least two dozen; I've probably added a couple since then. Of those, maybe eight to ten are things I've returned to in the past couple of years; but I've certainly bought the odd figure for other things deeper down the lead pile..
I used to worry about all this a bit; but my firm conclusion now is that this is a hobby, and I need to allow myself to enjoy it as I enjoy it. It's great to finish projects once in a while, but mostly I do this to relax and have fun. One of the myriad ways it's fun, for me at least, is the endless planning and replanning and repurposing of dormant projects.
In fact this is in one strong way a return to where I started in the hobby, three and a half decades ago, when my ambitions always far outran my income and I spent long hours planning armies I could never afford to buy. These days, I buy more, and probably plan a bit less (time is shorter now than when I was a schoolboy!); but it's still fun to do both.
I suppose to sum up my approach, I've tried to accumulate a critical mass of very different projects so I can more or less bounce around between them without finding myself compelled to start something completely new (well, not too often anyway).
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I only have maybe four or five major projects I've done. When I start one, I tend to concentrate heavily on it, until it's up and running (ie. playable). Then I add to it sporadically afterward.
I have a massive Old West collection/project.
I have a large dungeon crawling project.
I have a collection of gladiators which are done.
I have a Battletech project which is effectively done.
I have a large old school 40K project which is 70% done.
I don't mind small side projects (ie. skirmish warbands for small games, etc.) but full scale projects are limited by storage and terrain/etc. If I do a project I normally go pretty heavily into it.
Painting/building-wise I keep stuff unassembled/primed until I'm ready to paint/build it. I do my best not to allow a build up of stuff on the painting table.
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I know the feeling and talking to Deothar doesnt help, as we give each other ideas! I used to game with him when we lived nearer. lol
Just bought the pike and shotte starter set plus dragoons 2nd hand for a project next year.
Doing AZW british and Zulus to follow
Doing Boer War for the men who would be kings, Got ACW cavalry and artillery to convert using perry afagan war british.
With Bolt action 2 got another 2 boxes of germans for a Early war German force to fight the Early war Dutch I pre ordered. Plus desert rats and afrika corps to finish.
Frostgrave gnolls and cultists and of course pre-ordered barbarians
Tanks -Germans -British
AWI Americans need finishing
Just bought Napolionic french box from victrix 2nd hand.
And this is all before crisis, the best wargame show in EU (outside UK) where no doubt more nice figures will catch my eye.
I do think this time ive gone too far. Problem is people at the club keep selling stuff! :o
Old wargame stuff never dies, it goes from one attic to another.
I kind of have an 80-20 rule when i only ever finish 80% of the models for a project. I know this and therefore buy 120% of what i need to negate this effect hahahhahahahha ;D
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I break up the actual things I'm working on in terms of scale. I don't like to have more than one 28mm project on the painting table but I can mix that up with smaller scale (10mm) projects.
Currently I've finishing my Dark Eldar (28mm) and working through a large pile of 10mm fantasy figs (Dwarfs and Vampire Counts) for Warmaster.
In terms of planning and hoarding...well that list in near infinite.
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I must have about 10 projects at various stages of total non completion and just starting another!! >:( I sold of a load of stuff that was never going too happen so have pruned down a bit!! Really should focus but I tend to flit bakc and fore. :)
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Have just one, 10mm Vietnam. Finish that and I could do whatever I want!
But, I just can't seem to find the interest to finish it up.
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Thanks to this post I've made a list of my current projects, which are the following:
- Infinity: Yu-Jing and Haqqislam forces
- Confrontation: Alchemists of Dirz band
- 15mm sci-fi: A Yan-drassi army (30 figures)
- Some Marauders for Deadzone, using 40K orks
- My fantasy project based on Kill Six Billion Demons webcomic
- Commissions: 32 figures for an "updated" Heroquest
All of these are growing more and more. Thank the gods I'm poor to start any more projects.
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I'm like Severan further up.
One main project on the table with a few stragglers to work on while paint or glue dries on the main project
But I have many projects on the back burner with figures primed and assembled waiting to become the main focus for a month or three.
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This is like the "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" question?
To which the answer may be 32....according to Terry Pratchett.
My projects?
On the work table, scenery for VBCW, EOTD and Chicago Way. Some of it will be interchangeable, but most of it won't be.
Paint bench - VBCW, Back of Beyond, EOTD, 7TV and 15mm TYW
Planning - 55 Days at Peking (been on the blocks for 20 years), Stargate, Mars
Plus lots of other projects on a back burner
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I guess I'm in the minority then, with my keeping to as few projects as possible.
- Mage Knight figure replacement. This is the oldest project and I only do a few figures here or there. The fact that I already have all these figures and I'm only replacing or repainting cruder (but still fully playable) the actual prepainted plastic figures on the dials means this is the lowest priority project (though I have some figures as my top priority just at the moment because I owe a friend some painted figures).
- Pulp stuff. Currently the "main" priority normally. Stalled out on a big group of Nazis. Need to finish building a few more and then paint them. There's plenty of other figures to do too...
- 40k. This is only in the thinking/planning stages. Probably yet another Inquisimunda/Rogue Trader-type skirmish game, using Pulp Alley rules and a large number of non-GW minis (very similar to what several other LAFers are doing). Have a number of figures in mind and have bought a half-dozen or so, but I'm not going to move on this until I get much more work done on the first two.
I'm also working on scenery usable for Pulp and fantasy, but I kind of consider that to be part and parcel of those projects rather than some sort of standalone.
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I tend to have a few at a time in my study, with countless others being dipped into now and then.
In the study now are:
70cm long aircraft carrier
Steampunk tank, planes & helicopter
125 points of Dust Axis (then loads more to follow)
Dust Allies character and tanks
Steampunk Dragon
28mm Ashigaru
28mm Steampunk British
Konflitk 47 Americans
More Confrontation Dwarfs for Dragon Rampant
Then in the loft are simply mountains of stuff, but the next to come down are:
Rather large steampunk robot army
Confrontation Cadwallon & Mid-Nor
Arado 234 for Dust/Konflikt 47
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One main one and 23 others waiting to become the 'main one'. lol lol lol
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On the painting bench: 28mm ACW Union, about 150 infantry/artillerymen and 3 guns.
Painted and waiting for basing (or rebasing): 15mm SYW French, assorted 28mm Seleucid generals.
Next project: 28mm War of 1812 British/Canadian.
Backburner: Assorted individual units - 2nd Punic War Roman cavalry, 28mm medieval siege equipment, Arab civilian bazaar, couple of 1:56 WW2 vehicles, 28mm SYW/AWI Hessians.
Cheers,
Paul
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One main one and 23 others waiting to become the 'main one'. lol lol lol
(starts humming the Game of Thrones theme song)
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Thanks for all the comments, its good to know that your now alone. I did not mention the planning, or waiting to be started stuff. That is more vast then I have space to type!!!!
I also seem to change interest in different games and that does not help. But like was mentioned this is a hobby and what I do for fun, so I guess in reality it does not matter. I am having fun, and getting stuff done.
Thanks for all the comments, it is very encouraging to hear we seem to have this multiple projects thing in common.
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I always do one project at a time, but I have a tendency to shelve a project when it is only 50% complete, and return to it after working on other projects. Focusing can be fine; if I were offering advice to myself, I would recommend making projects as small as possible, to make them as easy as possible to complete.
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I also have quite a few things planned or in progress, but in terms of actual painting, I try very hard indeed to just do one thing at a time until it is finished.
That "thing" will usually be a discreet but complete component of a manageable size such as a tank company, infantry battalion or whatever. By working in small but complete batches I can maintain progress, but also have some flexibility.
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The danger of the internet is that you can easily find communities that affirm your brand of crazy... ;D
Like many here, I have lots of "current" projects on the go. I tend to rotate through a diverse group of projects from a range of games/scale/eras, but stick to one or two units within each of those, and have a "completionist' attitude to those on my painting desk... "stick with it till its done". So, for example, I might have a Saga unit, a couple of WW2 units, and a Frostgrave figure or two on my painting desk at one time, but I won't start anything else from those era/games until I get done with what is there.
What I choose to paint is mostly determined by the games I am playing - nothing motivates me to get a unit finished more than the promise of fielding it in an upcoming game...
In order to keep the lead pile manageable, and projects focussed, whenever I feel a spark of motivation to start gaming another era, launch another ambitious project, or even to buy another unit for an existing project, I make a note about that (using a simple scheduling app that allows me to "tag" and "filter" results) and let the thought "mature" - I review that list every few months, and find some interests stand the test of time, others fall away... I think of it as my virtual lead pile...
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1/72 Weird War 2
1/72 Fantasy
1/72 Zombie apocalypse
28mm Sci Fi
28mm Fantasy
28mm Fallout/Zombie apocalypse
Lots of minis and nothing seems to really move these days.
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Tend to stick with one project at a time until it is completed - at the moment it is the Anglo Zulu War - in the process of building rourkes drift, a wagon train, artillery limbers and a number of personalities. Thinking about a Kraal but in all likelihood I'll never use it.
That doesn't mean I'm not thinking and planning the next project - likely to be Heroic Ancient Greece - or go back to a period I have built and develop some bespoke terrain pieces
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Likewise, one thing at a time. I used to do lots of things and you just end up with lots of unfinished projects.
Now I finish one project completely before going on the the next.
Current one is extending my late Republican Romans back in time a bit to allow them to fight Seleucids and Carthaginians.
That's nearly done - just some velites to do.
Previous one was painting up all my unpainted Biblical stuff
Next one is Carthaginian Citizen infantry and cavalry, plus elephants. I already have Numidians, Spanish and Gauls, so then I'll be able to fight Punic Wars stuff.
Not sure what will come after that; possibly painting up all the unpainted Assyrians; that would more or less empty my unpainted figures drawer, which would be nice!
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Hello all, I'm new to Lead Adventures and this seemed like a good thread to jump in on. There is always a few armies I'm painting up, but the most time consuming is the scenery. Dozens of half-finished projects stack up at a time. Mainly because I just need to switch things around pretty often. I usually finish most of them unless I figure out a better way to do it while working on something else. Scenery is very time consuming.
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To be honest, I've lost track of what projects I have. Could probably find the first 10-20 browsing through my blog alone (which has only been around for the last 5 years or so - anything from the 30 odd years before that goes undocumented. I get easily bored, and thus am easily distracted by the next shiny thing over there. lol
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I was working my list, getting some stuff done and working the projects that I had started or wanting to add to. Then something happened!
Another project on the bench, about 4000 Points of All Quiet on the Martian Front.
Then I realized, I do not have any 15mm terrain!
So I started working on this, and pushed a few others to the side. I am thinking 4 weeks to get it all built and painted, except for the terrain. Then I will get back to my list of projects in progress!
DigiD
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I would list all my projects but my attention span... ooh look!
Seriously, I keep adding to and replacing figures from my Dark Ages collections. Even though I already must have about 2500+ painted figures, whenever a new gem from Gripping Beast, Footsore or Saxon Miniatures comes out I just can't resist. Don't want to either. This is definitely my main project.
Same goes for The French and Indian Wars and the Spanish Civil War but at a more glacial speed.
I fell in love ( I still am) with the new Warfare Swedish and Russian Great Northern War figures and decided this would be my next project. Two years later I have nearly completed one (1!) 24 figure Swedish unit...
Napoleon in Egypt. When Paul Hicks brought out his first figures for this range I simply had to buy them although I had vowed never to do Napoleonics. This particular campaign has always fascinated me ( how's that for an excuse?) since I was about twelve. I remember getting Martini ( yes, the vermouth) magazines from our hairdresser as they always had really great articles on warfare in them. Amongst them a 2 part article on the French troops in Egypt and I spend the next months making line drawings of the uniforms on big A3 size sheets and colouring them with Plaka paint. Alan and Michael Perry bringing out their range really didn't help at all. Again only a few half-finished units to date, but I will at least have enough figures for a decent Sharpe Practice game come next year.
Since my resolve to never do Napoleonics was now shattered anyway, I fully succumbed to the Perry and Murawksi Retreat From Moscow figures as well.
Together with a good friend of mine, Andre, we decided to make 1/600th scale Napoleonic ships for a mega- wargame. In fact this is one of the projects I'm actually quite proud of because It WILL be fished in another 2 years or so. So far we've built 60+ plastic ships, all conversions of the Heller Superbe, Airfix Victory and Shannon and a few others. But to be honest Andre is the one driving the whole thing. By the time it will be finished we'll have 120+ 1/600th ships built, painted and rigged.
And then Iron Duke came out with his Indian Mutiny figures. How did the good Col. Snook know this had always been another fascination to me? Is he a mind reader?
Had to have them and surprisingly enough I just can't stop painting them. Axel, another one of my really close friends, will be concentrating on the British troops ( which I will be doing too of course) and I will tackle the mutineers first. Had hoped to have them ready before Crisis next week but it will be more of a Christmas thing. Still, 220 mutineers almost finished isn't too bad.
Never thought I would become a fantasy gamer! But with Frostgrave becoming ever more popular in our club and yes, another close friend of mine , Koekie, promoting the thing and even starting a campaign how could I resist? So by now I have a Frostgrave warband and am planning on a second one and some extra 'monsters' or bad guys. And suddenly the pattern is becoming clear! It's all my friends' faults! They are the ones always luring me away from my projects. If it wasn't for them I would be a steadfast wargamer that would never stray from the true path.
How boring....
And it wouldn't explain my 15mm WWII or Sci-Fi armies. or my 1/2400 Hochseeflotte or my Full Thrust fleets or .. well you get the point...
I hope Warlord Games will be bringing his Lucid Eye neaderthals with them as that Tribal rule set has caught my attention. And it's only a few smallish warbands isn't it?
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WillieB, you are a man of excellent tastes! My Dark Ages project is also my biggest and longest project, I've got the FIW bug in a bad way, (esp thanks to Galloping Major!), and do not hesitate to get Tribal! It is a great game, and you'll find reasons to make all sorts of new little Warbands. I've got Neanderthals, Cro-Mags, Simians, and am now getting Aztecs and their neighbors up and running... :)
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From most active to least active, According to my spreadsheet:
15mm Tarzan VSF/Darkest Africa
15mm Tolkieneseque Fantasy armies - dwarf, elf, goblin
15mm Science Fiction
15mm Fantasy sports teams
15mm Historical/Fantasy/Apoc Gladiators
3mm WW2 aerial
3mm Post WW2 aerial
3mm WW1 aerial
6mm fantasy *
6mm Science Fiction Combined Arms *
25/28mm Spain in North America 1680-1800*
25mm Ral Partha Dwarf and Goblins *
(15mm/25mm) mouse armies *
25mm Der Kriegspieler Lesser Orc/Goblin and Dwarf *
25mm "other" forest dwarf/gnome army *
25/28mm VSF Tarzan and Tibetan monk forces for IHMN *
25mm Gladiators. *
25mm Ral Partha and Der Kriegspieler Wood Elf armies *
1:6000 PTO WW2 naval (Java Sea) *
* = legacy, filling gaps, painting, low priority
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I suppose I'm like a lot of folks - my interests vary. One thing I try to do though is to get a project up and playable before really moving on. Therefore I'm likely to spend a few weeks or months hammering 90% of my effort on a certain project until it's playable/table-ready. After that I can just add bits here and there. I normally don't have a big problem abandoning projects (I abandon ideas of projects all the time!).
One big limiting factor for me is terrain. I will not build into a project if I can't provide a table to play on.
Current projects:
28mm Gladiators: Done
28mm Dungeon Crawl: Playable - never done.
28mm Cowboys/Old West: Vast and playable - never done.
1/285th Battletech: Playable
Oldhammer 40K Eldar: Playable
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Few projects now because i don't spend so much time on the hobby...but maybe it would change one day
at the moment :
- assembling and painting few mechs and other 10mm SF stuff for Horizon wars (I have already an entire Directorate army painted)- CAV mechs, Mechafront mechs, WDM stuff and so on ; maybe purchase some 10mm building for some scenery :)
- assembling and painting my 1st ed. Space hulk genestealers and terminators...I added to this some Bauhaus Jungle Kommandos to play scouts in a hulk
- painting a dozen of vintage med-fan minis to finish my collection for Frostgrave (the fatest project I ever made)
- post apoc projet : dead at this time, maybe will rise again one day
Tomorrow it is Crisis...I think I will add some minis on the leadpile though :P
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Like so many others here, I have more projects than I have time to work on them. One factor that has helped me to focus however is that my wife forces me to tidy up my workspace every evening. We have little kids, and anything left out risks becoming either consigned to the bin (when the Mrs tidies the desk) or being "played with" (as in destroyed) by a four-year-old. Or eaten by a two-year old.
So now, most things are carefully stored beyond easy access to any small children, with just the most current projects readily available (tucked away on the top shelf out of reach). Four-year-old is now very keen on papa's toy soldiers, so even the top shelf may soon be unsafe...
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I've got a fair amount of projects on the go with a few close to completion
28mm WW2 Desert Brits
28mm WW2 EW Germans
28mm WW2 LW Winter Americans
Weird War bits for these
28mm French/Indian War Native Americans
2 Horizon Wars armies just not sure on scale
Malifaux Freikorps
All 3 factions of Marvel Universe game
Saga Normans and Skraelings
Hordes Minions
3 sci fi gangs
3 pirate gangs
7 wild west gangs
Mars Attacks kickstarter