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Post by nangwaya on Aug 20, 2019 22:50:54 GMT
I used to paint in batches when I was doing up 1/72 figs. for a War of 1812 campaign, and at times found it one heck of a chore. I now paint one fig. at a time, and enjoy the experience far more. I've tried both over the years & found that painting in limited batches suits me best. I choose maybe 5 or 6 elements (usually needed for a particular list or options & try to blitz them before getting hung up on the next obsession. Still have an Everest of unpainted figures though so maybe I'm still doin' something wrong... Regards, j You are talking to a fellow lead mountain climber, and I suspect almost every member here has a lead mountain, just the nature of this black hole of a hobby we all love  |
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Post by j on Aug 20, 2019 22:57:14 GMT
I've actually tried to make a spreadsheet for how long it would take me to finish the figures I already have at a rate of 2 hours per day, 5 days a week & I'd have to live until I was at least 104 to finish them all. Yet I still buy more. It's a disease. Maybe I can get some sort of grant or something to help me out?
Regards,
j
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Post by gregorius on Aug 21, 2019 4:04:14 GMT
I tend to batch paint, but with the proviso that the figures are similar troop types. For my current project, II/73 Early Anglo-Saxons, there are 11x4Wb, 1xPs and Camp Followers. So, I've broken the 44 Wb figures into 3 lots, those with chainmail armour (16 figures), those with cloaks (8 figures) and the lesser warriors (20 figures). The remaining riff-raff, 2 Ps figures and 3 CF figures, are the final batch.
Cheers,
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Post by paddy649 on Aug 21, 2019 5:52:09 GMT
I've tried both over the years & found that painting in limited batches suits me best. I choose maybe 5 or 6 elements (usually needed for a particular list or options & try to blitz them before getting hung up on the next obsession. Still have an Everest of unpainted figures though so maybe I'm still doin' something wrong... Regards, j You are talking to a fellow lead mountain climber, and I suspect almost every member here has a lead mountain, just the nature of this black hole of a hobby we all love Follow the maxim: “A wargamer who doesn’t own at least his own body weight in unpainted lead (or resin) is a danger to himself and his friends.” Luckily however I limit my DBA unpainted to a single 4 litre box....but also have another 4 litre box full as a sort of pending pile for my painting table (a different concept) and then I have another which was my pending box when I was doing 7th Edition. ....THREE! I have limited my DBA unpainted pile to three 4 litre boxes! On top of that I only have one tool box full of HOTT unpainted (which isn’t DBA so is totally different) and one for WW2 and one for Napoleonic - OK one for each Napoleonic Nation - French, Prussian, Austrian and Russian so only 4, not forgetting that the French Imperial Guard also have one...so 5. In fact the only thing I kid myself more about is my own body weight which has stayed resolutely at 160 pounds since the age of 18. Honest! |
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Post by mark leslie on Aug 21, 2019 5:56:32 GMT
I batch paint for the masses but do leader/ Hero types (mainly fantasy) individually, which includes Elephants and massive four horse chariots that seem to require inordinate amounts of time and attention.. The problem I find with batch painting is that not much progress seems to be made til right near the end which can discourage. I'm very bad at finishing projects. I do find that painting the face and all the flesh to almost done helps, a bit. Almost seems like once they have some recognizably human features they gain a little personality, it feels like a step has been taken and makes it easier for the next. A bit like putting the eyes in an Easter Island statue.  There all inanimate, but some are less inanimate than others. |
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Post by Cromwell on Aug 21, 2019 6:42:01 GMT
Batch painting for me. Individual for leaders and personality figures
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Post by sonic on Aug 21, 2019 12:57:25 GMT
Small batches of the same/similar figures, between 8 and 12 for me.
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Post by Piyan Glupak on Aug 21, 2019 13:27:08 GMT
For 15mm figures I tend to do batches of 6 to 8. Sometimes I like to have more than one batch going at a time (often one batch will be one army and the other batches will be different armies). I couldn't envisage painting 6mm figures in anything but batches. Usually a batch of 6mm figures will be what goes on a base.
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Post by vtsaogames on Aug 22, 2019 11:19:28 GMT
Once I told my wife about the old line "when you paint your last figure, you die", she told me not to paint the last one. I told her not to worry.
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Post by larryr on Aug 26, 2019 19:05:06 GMT
Coming from a background of Napoleonic wargaming I used to do mass paint, factory line. One thing that attracted me to DBA is the small armies. I actually enjoy painting so individual or small batches will get that for me. However, I have collected what I need to do my first DBA army I have yet to put paint to them.....too busy in life right now but since kids are gone to college, its time to start!
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Post by paddy649 on Aug 26, 2019 21:59:30 GMT
Coming from a background of Napoleonic wargaming I used to do mass paint, factory line. One thing that attracted me to DBA is the small armies. I actually enjoy painting so individual or small batches will get that for me. However, I have collected what I need to do my first DBA army I have yet to put paint to them.....too busy in life right now but since kids are gone to college, its time to start! Hoooray to that! I totally agree. Napoleonic - 36 figures was a battalion. WW2 - 36 figures was a Company......but with DBA 36 figures could be an Army! And then even with 48 figures you get as tasty, well performing army like the a Polybian Romans. Even a complex “all options army” usually comes in at about 120 figures - which is less than a WW2 battalion or a Napoleonic Brigade. |
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Post by nangwaya on Aug 26, 2019 22:15:22 GMT
Coming from a background of Napoleonic wargaming I used to do mass paint, factory line. One thing that attracted me to DBA is the small armies. I actually enjoy painting so individual or small batches will get that for me. However, I have collected what I need to do my first DBA army I have yet to put paint to them.....too busy in life right now but since kids are gone to college, its time to start! Hoooray to that! I totally agree. Napoleonic - 36 figures was a battalion. WW2 - 36 figures was a Company......but with DBA 36 figures could be an Army! And then even with 48 figures you get as tasty, well performing army like the a Polybian Romans. Even a complex “all options army” usually comes in at about 120 figures - which is less than a WW2 battalion or a Napoleonic Brigade. I so agree with your posts!
I just counted the figures for my 1/72 scale American army for the War of 1812, and it comes out to 232 figures, and that isn't even all the options.
Add to that the British forces and it took me over two years to paint them up before I could play the bloody game with them!
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Post by sheffmark on Aug 27, 2019 13:04:04 GMT
Once I told my wife about the old line "when you paint your last figure, you die", she told me not to paint the last one. I told her not to worry. My wife told me that I probably don't have enough life left to paint all the figures I've got! Trouble is she's probably right! Which puts me in mind of another jolly thread we could start: Who's going to get your toys when you shuffle off this mortal coil! |
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Post by vtsaogames on Aug 27, 2019 23:43:58 GMT
Surviving members of my club, if they want them.
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Post by gregorius on Aug 28, 2019 6:15:16 GMT
Bury the figures with you. Perhaps the only way of affording a lead lined coffin 😉.
Cheers,
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