The End of 2021- What Did you Accomplish?

[Deedles]

I painted about 2/3rds of the the proposed plan, with lots of 15mm WW2 terrain and German forces completed along with a few bits fir 28mm Sudan .10mm ACW has moved very close to completion with just some cavalry left to do

 A new project was injected that has progressed massively - the 28mm Vietnam has been good fun to create and still has legs next year . With the first very large game today !


We completed another large D day game - Sword Beach - 2 down 3 to,go


The Sudan collection was featured on TV as part of “Exterminate the Brutes” with a re-creation of Omdurman


Storage wars has been re-visited with more RUBs and MDF inserts being set up

The last few months has been taken over with dealing with the death of a close gaming friend and sorting out collection  which has been a sad duty .

[JollyBob]

I find myself sitting squarely in the Venn Diagram where "naff" meets "all". 

Some (not enough) commission bits painted, possibly a dozen figures for myself, and yet continuing to fill the drawers to bursting with additions to existing, unpainted collections....

So a typical year for me, really. 

[Codsticker]

I am inclined to think that my 2021 was in no way more productive than previous years although I did a get few mins painted, some games played and some terrain made. Early in the year as part of the Analogue Hobbies Challenge I got a number of early medieval figures done (ostensibly for Saga):
Irish by Crusader:


Normans from Conquest Games:



Crossbowmen from Crusader:


Some Brigade Games Cowboys and a Perry Store:


As part of LAF's Build Something Contest I got a start on my terrain tile system with some 'Difficult Terrain':


18mm Crimean War Turks and French from Eureka:



I finished my Black Stone Fortress project I started in 2020:



I enhanced my terrain collection by adding some trees and  spent quite a bit of time enhancing a Warbases church:



I am currently working on 15 Warriors of Gondor from GW's MESBG which will probably be done by the end of the year.

I also got a few games in including two ECW games using Pike and Shotte, a game of Age of Eagles, a Crimean War game (featuring the unusual occurrence of freshly painted figures not only not running off the table, but also gaining the victory!), Black Powder and my first  game of What a Tanker.

[Flinty]

I find myself sitting squarely in the Venn Diagram where "naff" meets "all".

I suspect that Jolly Bob is far from alone. Im still living with ill-considered aquistion, starting miyriad new projects I swore I wouldn't touch, and unable to manage the even near completion of anything.

But one day, one day, you will look on my works ye mighty and despair!

Which means I have had a throughly engrossing and enjoyable year again.

[Mindenbrush]

2021 was quite a good year despite the usual setbacks.
PROS:
Played 14 games.
Painted 672 figures (1 more than 2020) comprising of 230 x 15mm and 442 x 25mm figures.
Re-modelled my painting table.
re-built my gaming to an 8ft x 5ft to give a bit of extra room on the flanks.
CONS:
Bought far too much new lead :-)

[AKULA]

My list for 2021 is as follows:

Game of Thrones
Painted 108 figures plus a dragon and a ship












More here

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=113100.0


Started a new project

After the Bomb - 1980s

Painted 81 figures plus a whole bunch of vehicles and an enormous transport plane









https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130954.0



Build Something Competition - “A Feast for Crows”

Really enjoyed the competition this year - some really inspiring entries.







https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=130639.0

[RSDean]

I’ve been keeping track of painting since 1995, and games played since about 2001.  This has been a middling year, with participation in 28 games (a mix of refereeing, playing, and solo), and 160 figures painted (spread out over about seven projects).  No painting projects reached a planned completion, and three entirely new projects were acquired. 

A solo campaign has moved sluggishly along, but I didn’t develop a new campaign for the 40mm 18th century imagi-nations project, so that goes at the head of next year’s list.

[Jemima Fawr]

This year's been a fairly rubbish one for games, but it was a good one for me on the painting front:

Napoleonic Russians (AB 18mm) - 72 Foot & 6 Guns
Napoleonic French (AB 18mm) - 24 Horse
SYW Bavarians (OG 15mm) - 76 Foot, 1 Horse & 1 Gun
SYW Austrians (OG 15mm) - 12 Foot
SYW French (Eureka 18mm) - 263 Foot, 83 Horse & 6 Guns
SYW Prussians (Eureka 18mm) - 232 Foot, 5 Horse & 1 Gun
SYW British (Eureka 18mm) - 84 Foot
SYW Hanoverians (Eureka 18mm) - 128 Foot & 1 Horse
SYW Reichsarmee (OG 15mm) - 68 Foot & 3 Guns
SYW Hessen-Kassell (Eureka 18mm) - 16 Foot & 1 Horse
SYW Schaumburg-Lippe (Eureka 18mm) - 12 Foot

Total 15/18mm - 963 Foot, 114 Horse & 17 Guns

ACW Union (Pendraken 10mm) - 371 Foot, 38 Horse, 15 Guns & 11 Vehicles
ACW Confederate (Pendraken 10mm) - 217 Foot, 44 Horse, 6 Guns & 2 Vehicles

Total 10mm - 588 Foot, 82 Horse, 21 Guns & 13 Vehicles

Out of idle curiosity, I calculated how much that lot is worth at current catalogue prices... £1,080.23!    And being a typical wargamer, I bought at least twice that amount of models during the year... 

I also painted three villages'-worth of 15mm buildings and village tiles from Total Battle Miniatures and built the 6'x8' Stones River battlefield for 'Warfare' (and won 2nd prize for best demo game).

Gamewise, I did a solo 10mm ACW game during lock-down (Shiloh, the Hornet's Nest), a small refight of Buford's delaying action at Gettysburg (to teach a friend the rules while he was down here on holiday) and then the aforementioned Murfreesboro/Stones River game at Warfare.  I also played three games at Phil Portway's place; a 15mm Peninsular War refight (the name of which I've forgotten - sorry Phil!) and two 15mm SYW refights - Lobositz and Gorlitz/Moys.  We also played a couple of nostalgic games of Spacehulk, but that's been it.

[AKULA]

Out of idle curiosity, I calculated how much that lot is worth at current catalogue prices... £1,080.23!    And being a typical wargamer, I bought at least twice that amount of models during the year... 

First rule of wargaming...never post what you spend....second rule of wargaming...never post what you spend...

Loose lips...sink marriages and all that ...

Back on topic....very impressive haul for this year....can’t believe you only spent £10.80...well done.

[syr8766]

Happy (almost) New Year folks!

First let me say that I'm always agog at what so many of you accomplish in a year, not just in terms of quantity (though that's impressive to say the least) but quality as well.

I won't bore you with pictures of my stuff (I"ve been posting at the Isolation Painting CHallenge on Facebook) but this year was nearly as successful as last, with 650 figures (including larger models, terrain etc.) painted up. All over the place: Warhammer and 40k stuff (especially older figures), Battletech, other fantasy and science fiction, and various historical figures (FIW, Napoleonic figures, including Spanish, French, and British, and World War II Americans, Australians and Soviets).

More importantly, my son (now 14) and I got to our first Historicon, and he and I have been playing quite a bit. He has participated in several Smithsonian "Soldiers and Dioramas" online programs, where he's been working in 1/72 on various historical/military subjects and playing through the scenarios, with adult instructors providing the materials and guidance, and he received a number of Black Seas fleets (yes, fleets!) from friends of mine for his 13th birthday and bar mitzvah, and he's really leaned into painting Napoleonic French, FIW, and more recently 28mm WWII. So I get to be in awe of his skill (Significantly better than mine at that age) and have a lot of fun playing with him as father/son bonding time, and that's been precious to me.

[Jemima Fawr]

First rule of wargaming...never post what you spend....second rule of wargaming...never post what you spend...

Loose lips...sink marriages and all that ...

Back on topic....very impressive haul for this year....can’t believe you only spent £10.80...well done.

Thankfully I've got a good 'un... 

And her eyes glaze over whenever I mention wargames, so she probably wouldn't register what I'd just said.  In my defence, those AB Napoleonics and Old Glory SYW figures were just around 15p when I bought them and they've been languishing in the Lead Crypt since the mid-90s! 

[FifteensAway]

Update now that I've finished this early December 31 morning (where I am) and I know I won't finish any more figures today and as posted in our local club's 2021 Painting Club, keeping a running track of quotas and completions month by month more or less, you can see there was a three month 'doldrum'.  The 170(T) refers to painting 170 pieces of 15 mm railroad track from QRF, some modified as 'fitter' pieces.  Painted a lot of critters, mostly domestic farm animals, like 96 longhorns plus a half dozen dead ones, but quite a bit for East Africa, like another 96 African Cape Buffalo - but only 4 dead.  The vast majority of the people were natives for East Africa, 19th century exploration era more or less.  Why so much poultry?  Well somehow I bought them so I've painted them - or will, geese and ducks already completed, not so many though.  Good enough reason for me.:

December quota: 85
December total: 161
November quota: 24
November total: 34
October quota: not specified (technically 85, my original goal per month, I guess)
October total: 0
September quota: 85
September total: 0
August quota: 360 (stretch goal of 480)
August total: 4 "ka-thunk"
July quota: 360
July total: 309
June quota: 360
June total: 474
May quota: 85
May total: 170(T)
April quota: 85
April total: 132
March quota: 85
March total: 48
February quota: 85
February total: 145
January quota: 85
January total: 154
2021 quota: 1614
2021 Total: 1512 + 170(T) =1,682  (everything in 15 mm)

I got the 85 quota for December finished!  That was the 52 figures for my Maasai-ish figures and the native leaders and great white hunters added another 33 figures.  And then a few things to bring the total up - including the 43 figures for the Witch Doctor force.  And to push hard the last few days I added in 30 ducks and 3 chickens, less poultry to paint - just a whole bunch of chickens, two varieties to finish (60+72 poultry to go).  That got me up to 161 figures for the month and 1512 for the year - not counting the railroad track pieces.  And that means my monthly average, despite a couple of goose eggs and one very low production month, made it to 126 figures painted per month.  And that was a bit of a miscalculation because I thought I was adding enough to get to 151 and just past 1500 but, fortuitously, it was enough more to reach that 'magic' number.  And the end result?  I am going to start 2022 with 125 figures a month as my basic quota - that would be another 1500 figures painted if I reach the goal. We won't know until a year from today if I end up embarrassing myself - or maybe doing like I did this year and blast past my original 85 per month quota I started with at the end of 2020 for my 2021 painting goal which I really thought was a pretty far out there goal, I would have been excited if I only did 500 total figures and I tripled that amount!  I'd say that's worth a Whoo-Hoo! 

(Above only includes what I painted for myself to be kept in my personal collection.  Excluded are the figures painted for me by others - don't have a final tally for that but I'd say around another 150-200 figures - US Cavalry and Old West stuff - of which much more to come in 2022, hopefully.)

[AndrewBeasley]

No idea on the number of figures - technically zero as they all need basing    but did complete two whole armies for One Hour Wargames from blocks and a couple of 40K terrain bits.


Amazingly, for the first time in years I did manage to roll a few combat dice in a handful of games so it's a win for me as well.


Best wishes to all for 2022

[Elbows]

It's about that time...

[Cubs]

I survived ... I painted about 1/10 of what I thought I would for myself, but I did get to paint some great collections for other people and ... I survived.

Look after yourselves, look after your loved ones and ... survive my friends.