How many projects at a time

[Reed]

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.

[jamesmanto]

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.

[fastolfrus]

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

[FramFramson]

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.

[Coronasan]

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

More here: https://coronasan.wordpress.com/

[Hu Rhu]

One main one and 23 others waiting to become the 'main one'. 

[Youngster]

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

[Elbows]

One main one and 23 others waiting to become the 'main one'. 

(starts humming the Game of Thrones theme song)

[digid]

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.

[rebelyell2006]

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.

[MartinR]

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.

[Sirius]

The danger of the internet is that you can easily find communities that affirm your brand of crazy...  

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...

[Redmao]

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.

[Eric the Shed]

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

[SteveBurt]

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!