Waterloo in 28mm - My journey log

[MaleGriffin]

Your work ethic is incredible! Well done!

[Bloggard]

green on the nassau's came out particularly well.

isn't that 2,000 figures this year alone? Extraordinary.

[Helge]

Thank you both. Bloggard, that's correct. This project has caused a satisfying pink spike in my painting tracker. Sometime this year I crossed 10,000 painted models (counting 28mm and up as a model, anything below as base=model).



Of course it has also caused an even larger spike in my model ownership tracker so there remains work to be done . That one now crossed 20,000 so I will be busy for a while yet...

[Redshank]

Impressive is hardly the word for the volume and quality of output here.

Apologies if I missed this upthread somewhere but who makes your casualty bases? I take it there is a little number wheel in there? I like casualty bases, rather than putting little dice or other tokens next to my units.

[Helge]

Apologies if I missed this upthread somewhere but who makes your casualty bases? I take it there is a little number wheel in there? I like casualty bases, rather than putting little dice or other tokens next to my units.

All my bases are MDF from Warbases in the UK. This includes the casualty market which indeed has a little wheel. They have multiple version at 30mm and 40mm diameter. Mine are 40mm which fits a lying model just fine.

[Helge]

Bloggard likes the green, so who am I to refuse him some more green boys . I had a lot of left-over command models so here is a small decorative Drummer Corps for the Nassauers.

[Bloggard]

yep - looks great there too 

I'm still reeling a bit from your statistical work above !

[Helge]

What can I say, I like excel . The data goes down to indvidual miniatures, so once in a while I can look back to track my past ambitions, failures and achievements. Even the macro data above shows some interesting eras of the last twenty years. Some are public events such as the death of Specialist Games in mid-00's resulting in a panicked wave of purchasing of those ranges (same of which got painted, some linger to this day) or the death of the Warhammer Old World resulting in a similar purchasing burst. Others are more personal such as my jump onto the North American Grand Tournament circuit in 2003 for several years or my participation in the Tale of Epic Gamers series from 2008-2011. Each one of those saw big spikes in purchasing and painting. Napoleonics is the most recent spike - one that will dwarf all others pretty soon .

[syrinx0]

My charts don't track anywhere near the number of figures as yours do.  But tracking my hobby progress (or lack of), new purchases, sales and individual painting progress is probably my most successful hobby project. Excel has all those wonderful embedded graphics how could you not use them? 

[Wellington Bonaparte]

This project is just so incredibly mad! You are an artistic machine to be able to undertake such a fabulous project, thank you for sharing your progress can't wait to see the French. More power to your elbow 

[Helge]

Thanks Wellington! I am slowly approaching the end of the Allied Army. Though of course I just had a burst of enthusiasm and bought a bunch more units (Vincke's Hannoverian Brigade and much of 3rd Dutch-Belgian Division - all from Perry). But at least the OOB is finite and now I have bought pretty much everything possible to buy for it (except a few Dutch Line/Militia units in 3rd Division for which I am waiting for Warlord's releases). About 700 models left to paint which will land me just north of 3,000 total for the Allied Army.

To make progress in that direction, here is the start of the black Brunswick contingent. 1st Line Btn. These are Perry models. I tried to differentiate the black clothing from black-brown leather, but it's definitely subtle.

[Helge]

And here we have Brunswick 2nd Line. These ones have green facings. Oh the glorious variety

[Ray Rivers]

Another very nice unit! 

I've been continuously lurking on this thread and have come to the conclusion you are totally mad! 

Keep up the, incredibly impressive, work.

[CapnJim]

I haven't checked in here in a while.  But you have more great-looking figures!

[Helge]

Thank you both for the kind words. Here is 3rd Brunswick Line to finish the brigade. Will switch to some more Nassau troops now for variety.