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Post by steve on Jul 23, 2017 16:44:48 GMT
I try to Stick to painting one army at a time but get bored after a while, so I end up painting three different boxes at a time, usually different armies also, to increase variations I try to paint a cavalry set, infantry set & an artillery set. Currently I am painting Hats mounted French chasseurs, HaT Highlanders in attack & Hats Swedish artillery sets. I usually paint 8 infantry figures, 6 mounted figures or 1 gun & crew at a time. Out of interest what is everybody else's painting habits ?  . |
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Post by fredg on Jul 23, 2017 17:55:26 GMT
At present I'm working on a couple of boxes of 1806 Saxons (a break for summer slows that down). With this number I tend to select each pose to work on in sequence. I'll paint different regiments so there is some variation. If it gets monotonous I'll feed in a cavalry unit or a unit from a different army. There are always a few individual characters that need painting too.
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Post by davidmac on Jul 23, 2017 19:51:12 GMT
Right now I'm painting WWII Russians, but in (shame) 15mm (/shame).
Next on the list is AWI in 1/72.
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Post by jock52 on Jul 23, 2017 19:55:36 GMT
10mm Scots Covenanters, 28mm dwarfs and tyranids.
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Post by Contrarius on Jul 10, 2018 6:35:50 GMT
Currently painting some HaT British Napoleonic Light Infantry. I've been experimenting with largerx batches, trying to speed things up, but I get bored easily. Currently have 16 identical figures glued to two wooden slats. Seems to be working pretty well. Certainly quicker than having a range of different poses glued to plastic milk bottle tops. I think when painting identical figures you quickly learn what needs painting and don't need to go back to tidy up so much. A lot less faffing all round.
Also on the go, I have about 25 casualty markers, which are a variety of casualty figures from about 15 different boxes of old Airfix figures. Among them are Highlanders, British line infantry, French line infantry, imperial guardsmen, plus dead horses and dismounted cavalryman (mounted seperately from their horses). I've been trying to finish them for several weeks now, but am finding it slow going because of the different colour schemes and basing requirements.
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Post by zirrian on Jul 10, 2018 8:39:13 GMT
Usually I paint n different armies, because I don't play too much, and just do what I fancy. In case I play, for example a Napoleonics game, I paint those figures before, and if any left, after too so next time I can field a completely painted army.
But in short: WW2 Finns, Brits, 'mericans (15mm), Sikhs, Winter Germans, Colonial Scots, in 28mm some old Warzone stuff, SW: Legion...
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Post by greentiger on Jul 10, 2018 11:48:45 GMT
I paint everything all the time in a number of scales and form a number of makers. I frequently lose stuff on my painting table.
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Post by paintdog on Jul 10, 2018 13:50:30 GMT
One of the reasons I do 9 periods (Bronze Age, Punic Wars, Dark Ages, Renaissance, SYW, Sudan & AZW, ACW, WW2) is I get bored painting one thing. For example, I have some HaT British tank riders & HaT British WW2 machine gunners on the painting desk, right next to some Newline Late Romans. A bunch of Sudan War Egyptians have just been completed & moved to storage.
I don't do more periods because of storage & time (to game).....indeed, 9 is probably too many.
I am only interested in 1/72 & 20mm figures.
donald
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Post by endeavour on Jul 10, 2018 16:02:23 GMT
Having read the other contributions I think I must be different from most. I have been collecting and painting for many years, so now I'm just filling in gaps or updating regiments with newer or better figures. I'm currently painting my 15th (of 22) Prussian Landwehr Infantry Regiment as those are the only figures I currently need/want that are actually available.
I tend to paint the basic colours for the whole regiment, then divide it up into manageable chunks to complete the detail. This usually means 8 figures or 6 horses or 4 cannon/Limber etc.
Once the Landwehr are done I'll be replacing Revell Prussian regulars, IF the Hat MAC Prussians are re-released, or back filling 71 French battalions with the Elite companies in Greatcoats that may appear over the next year.
After that production will stop until someone, somewhere, produces Prussian Artillery Limbers/Caissons, Netherlands Carabineers or Hussars suitable for the Netherlands, British and Hanoverians. That is of course if no one releases something better than what I have to replace any other part of my Hundred Days collection.
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Post by waynew on Jul 10, 2018 22:12:15 GMT
Currently I'm adding new figures/"regiments" to my Napoleonic British Army. I've been blending new sets into what I already have, touching up paint jobs done over twenty years ago and "retiring" some figures that have needed it for some time (with honors, of course). Currently I'm painting about one hundred - plus Highlanders still on the sprues. I paint assembly line fashion - doing a major color at a time - usually one a night and then retouch as needed until satisfied.
After that, I have about one hundred or so 1/32 Alamo figures to paint and my next job after that is going to have to be the new HaT Prussian Landwehr waiting for me. One day I'm going to have to get around to finishing my Spanish Army I bought when HaT came out with their Spanish line.
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Post by Contrarius on Jul 10, 2018 23:56:45 GMT
One of the reasons I do 9 periods (Bronze Age, Punic Wars, Dark Ages, Renaissance, SYW, Sudan & AZW, ACW, WW2) is I get bored painting one thing. For example, I have some HaT British tank riders & HaT British WW2 machine gunners on the painting desk, right next to some Newline Late Romans. A bunch of Sudan War Egyptians have just been completed & moved to storage.
I don't do more periods because of storage & time (to game).....indeed, 9 is probably too many.
I am only interested in 1/72 & 20mm figures.
donald
Crikey. Yes, 9 periods does sound a little too much. Not that I’m any good at it myself, but I’d try to set myself a goal not to start a tenth period before at least ‘closing’ (as in finishing or abandoning) one of the nine. Sticking to one scale had the advantage of only one set of terrain - prob the main reason I’ve not been tempted into the slippery slope that is 28mm. |
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Post by Contrarius on Jul 11, 2018 0:08:29 GMT
Currently I'm adding new figures/"regiments" to my Napoleonic British Army. I've been blending new sets into what I already have, touching up paint jobs done over twenty years ago and "retiring" some figures that have needed it for some time (with honors, of course). This idea of ‘retiring’ figures kinda baffles me. Ok, so I’ve retired my old Airfix French arty - at least the guns and limbers - as they’re a complete fiction. But my Airfix French and British infantry I’ll continue to use as I can’t see I’ll ever have enough of them anyway. (Ok, so I’m tempted to replace my Frenchie cuirassiers as several new sets have appeared that are light years ahead in every posdible aspect, but I’ll probably just keep them anyway, for use in larger battles. |
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Post by Jordan on Jul 11, 2018 3:59:39 GMT
No I do not paint one army at a time as I currently working on very small “armies”
I tend to take 74/75 figures for the Napoleonic Era (As much as I can allow on my desk at a time to dry with the paints, the computer, the research books and the associated other tools and room for my elbows with the 75th figure in my hands) and paint by colour on an assembly line basis. I am currently concentrating on The following forces:
The Duchy of Oldenburg (4 more Grenadier figures to do, then done), This will complete both the army of the Duchy of Oldenburg and a Battalion of the French 129e Line Infantry.
The next battalion of the French 129e Line Infantry will have in the Grenadier company two figures of the Westphalian Grenadiers of the Guard, and two figures of the Westphalian Jaeger-Gardee, then 16 Westphalian Fusiliers, and four chasseurs from the Westphalian Light Battalions as Voltigeurs.
The last battalion of the French 129e Regiment has 4 Carabineers from the Westphalian Light Battalions and 4 Voltiguers. The remaining 12 chasseurs of the Westphalian Light Battalions are no longer considered “elite” or “light” infantry and are given standard French Line Infantry uniforms, along with 4 conscripts.
Although these 52 figures are “French Infantry” I would like to believe that there are stocks of the previous nationality’s (Oldenburg and Westphalia) still in the depot, and proper “French Line” uniforms have not reached this regiment.
Next are my additions to my American Army:
10 British Napoleonic Infantry figures are be converted to the US 25th Infantry Regiment with heads swapped with a US 1810 Shako.
The Staff Company of the Montgomery Militia Regiment (former New Spain/New France colonies) (5 figures !!!)
Finally, I am currently working on 2 Austrian Generals and 2 Austrian Hussar Generals, 2 Russian, 1 Prussian and 1 English Generals. The Russian and Prussians are going to be heavily converted from standing figures to be mounted on horses.
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Post by pinotnoir on Aug 15, 2018 4:07:02 GMT
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Post by paintdog on Aug 15, 2018 8:25:48 GMT
Typically, a divers lot on the painting table.
I have my just arrived box of Sextons from the Plastic Soldier Company. Three SPGs for my Late War British (who desperately need them: my German WW2 are out of control).
I'm just finishing up some Tumbling Dice Covenanters. Lovely figures. A properly ordered Pike & Shot unit, with command & flags, is a glorious sight.
And I've just cut my HaT Unmarried Zulus off the sprues. They're next for undercoating & I'm hoping to get a game going in the next couple of months. The 'Married Men' have carried all the burden of fighting up to now.
donald
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Post by traveller1865 on Aug 15, 2018 11:21:04 GMT
I think it's better to paint just one army or project at a time, but now I'm working on Alexander the Great and Porus armies, ACW armies, and 30 year war troops.
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Post by paintdog on Aug 15, 2018 12:01:46 GMT
I think it's better to paint just one army or project at a time, but now I'm working on Alexander the Great and Porus armies, ACW armies, and 30 year war troops. Cognitive dissonance? |
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Post by stevo0113 on Aug 15, 2018 16:53:25 GMT
I try to stick to one set at a time but at the moment I am working on three Hats Napoleonic Russian line infantry, revels us marines & HaT old guard at attention.
I only paint the marines when I get tired & need something easier late at night.
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Post by plasticpanzers on Aug 16, 2018 6:56:31 GMT
My figs are set up for Carnage and Glory at 4-6 figs per battalion of infantry or regiment of cavalry (currently in those numbers my armies are at about 650,000 total 'troops' (not figures). I paint 1-2 battalions or 1 regiment at a time. I figure after 50 years or so painting I have finally got the system down....of course I only have 2-3000
more to paint...(I need a bigger table)
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Post by grumble on Aug 22, 2018 3:40:19 GMT
I paint for the next game I'm running. So a couple of days ago I painted two Union horse-holders in 25-28 mm for an ACW game I'm running in September at Barrage. That completes what I need for that game.
At the same time, I'm working on figures for the games I'll be running in November at Fall-In! 2018, mostly figures for WW1 East Africa. More HäT Tommies in sun helmets, Askari, and Ruga Ruga. Also South Africans from another company. The other game at Fall-In! will be WW2 North Africa, and I think I have everything required for that (famous last words).
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