Painting Tally, August 2025

I try to post at least once a week on the blog, but sometimes life overrides that, just as in this case as I'm preparing for my bar exam.

Still I could take a few days off and get done with painting.

My rather limited goals for August were:

- play a game related to International Naval Wargaming Day - succeeded, although a few days late

- paint 28mm 17th c. Eastern European figures - success

- paint 6mm figures - success

The secret of success lies in setting reasonable benchmarks I guess.

On to the actual numbers:

28mm

Completed

8x Cossack rabble infantry (Frostgrave conversions)

2x Cossack gunners and a small gun (same as above)

9x homecast Cossack spears and a sergeant

Painted

8x Winged Hussars (metal figures so they shall take another two weeks to varnish and base, but the painting work was the most tedious part)

1x wolf dog for the winged hussar commander

Primed

9x Cossack infantry

12x Polish cavalry (Warlord conversions)

6mm

Completed

192x SYW / Flossian infantry

This brings my Painting Unit value for this month to 1008, a respectable number given the circumstances. Painting 6mm figures is easy and fun and this sort of saved me from getting boggled down with the 28mm project.

Purchases:

Now this list is a lot longer.

I bought a larger batch of figures from Warlord Games, the winged hussars, a 12-figure cavalry regiment and a 18-figure firelock storming party set. The plastics are in the process of being converted for my Polish army.

Then I got a bunch of tools, including a glue gun, a cordless rotary tool, silicone sculpting brushes and burnishers (which I mainly needed to sculpt chainmail). I also replenished my stock of green stuff.

Further I bought a few more organizers, a large cabinet with drawers and a tall plastic container for my Italian Wars figs. I also bought a small Ikea wooden drawer cabinet but it hadn't arrived yet.