Painting Tally March 2025

From January on I started summarizing what I paint, the first two months being the test period for the method. I keep the total tally in a separate diary, but thought it would be a good idea to post it here.

Further on I limit my scope of activities to up to five projects per month, which helps me focus better on the current tasks instead of meandering and starting minor side-projects, never finishing one.

1. Hobby Projects

My main projects for the month were:

- Reduce the Perry and Warlord Italian Wars pile - not a success, hadn't done any of it except three riders from the ECW/TYW lot

- 1/2000 scale Denmark Strait and 1/1000 scale Trashy Fleets- good progress made with seven ships finished

- Start gaming the Floyet House mini-campaign - no gaming at all. I painted a chicken coop/sheep pen, and purchased some scenery (green fields of corn, hedges)

- KiK block proxy armies - no progress at all

- The fifth was left blank at the beginning of the month, this became a 6mm SYW venture with my Commission Figurines purchase from last year.

For the most part I was able to limit my activities to things related to these, but some other things also came up, like some Oldmarines, 1/72 interwar vehicles, and pirates.

2. Painting Total

From 1-31 March I finished painting:

1/1000 scale ships

1x battleship

1x TBD

4x monitors

1/2000 scale

1x battleship

28mm:

1x space marine dreadnought

1x terminator captain

2x regular oldmarines

3x Warlord mounted mousquetaires

3x homecast Cossacks

2x giant forest spiders (Halloween toys but in roughly 28mm scale)

6mm:

2 command

4 cannon and 16 crew

96 infantry

24 cavalry

I primed a bunch of 6mm figures, assembled a few 28mm plastic ones and did some terrain pieces. There is a Zvezda 1/350 galleon on my desk which awaits a layer of varnish and oil wash.

I also came up with a value-based system to monitor my output per month in comparable numbers, so I invented the Painting Unit, which gives me points after each finished/painted/assembled figure.

Total Painting Unit for the month: 1134

As you can see sometimes I finish a lot more than I submit on the blog, the best example is the Orcs I recently posted but finished about two years ago. It takes good natural lighting conditions and motivation to start taking photos, and I found it's better to do them in droves than one-offs. 

3. Purchases

These days I usually buy a few smaller items per month as The Pile is already growing rapidly and I have to keep up with storing/organizing the collection.

This month I only bought:

- a 1/72 Vickers light tank and a Sopwith Camel

- three pots of paint 

- a 2' section of hedges from a railroad modelling store

- a box of Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago crewmen for a pirates project

- a bunch of 25mm clear disc bases for the pirates

- two plastic containers from Jysk to house my 17th century collection (will most likely purchase more)