How many projects at a time

[EpicFox15]

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.

[Argonor]

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. 

[digid]

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

[WillieB]

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?

[LeadAsbestos]

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...

[Conquistador]

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

[Elbows]

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

[Maspalio]

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

[Will Bailie]

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...

[jetengine]

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