The Miniatures Pledge
Over at The Miniatures Page forum, in the Painting Message Board, there's an ongoing monthly topic called "The Pledge". It's a nice way to try to stick to some goal for the year and keep ones-self motivated to try and shrink the lead/plastic mountain.
Much like Jeff "Chirine" Berry, I find that I enjoy modeling about as much as I enjoy world-building and DM'ing. I may not be good enough to put minis on CoolMiniOrNot.com but they work well at the table and I have fun with it.
My pledge for the year is to limit my miniatures buying to any of the new Ral Partha figures coming from the Chaos Wars Wave 2 Kickstarter, and any figures in the future to support specific things in my campaigns, if needed. So that might mean some elves in 15mm. And possibly some levies/peasants in 15mm. But I'm keeping it as minimal as possible. I want to paint everything in my backlog, which at the beginning of January was at 415 to paint.
In Jan and Feb, I bought/received 10, painted up 66, so I was at a net of +56 miniatures.
So how did I do in March?
I started March with 359 in the pile.
I added 3 from going through a scrap/miscellaneous bag and finding figures that could be used.
I painted 30 figures:
4 - 25mm D&D Monsters
8 - 25mm D&D PCs/NPCs
2 - 25mm wargames figures - Elves
11 - 15mm fantasy cavalry/knights
5 - Battlemechs, including a Crescent Hawks Phoenix Hawk LAM.
For the year, I have a net of: +83 figures.
And no purchases! Two months in a row and counting...
Pictures are coming! I just have to put down the paint brush and figure out my photo rig and camera set-up... I have a ton of figures to photograph and share with you all.
Much like Jeff "Chirine" Berry, I find that I enjoy modeling about as much as I enjoy world-building and DM'ing. I may not be good enough to put minis on CoolMiniOrNot.com but they work well at the table and I have fun with it.
My pledge for the year is to limit my miniatures buying to any of the new Ral Partha figures coming from the Chaos Wars Wave 2 Kickstarter, and any figures in the future to support specific things in my campaigns, if needed. So that might mean some elves in 15mm. And possibly some levies/peasants in 15mm. But I'm keeping it as minimal as possible. I want to paint everything in my backlog, which at the beginning of January was at 415 to paint.
In Jan and Feb, I bought/received 10, painted up 66, so I was at a net of +56 miniatures.
So how did I do in March?
I started March with 359 in the pile.
I added 3 from going through a scrap/miscellaneous bag and finding figures that could be used.
I painted 30 figures:
4 - 25mm D&D Monsters
8 - 25mm D&D PCs/NPCs
2 - 25mm wargames figures - Elves
11 - 15mm fantasy cavalry/knights
5 - Battlemechs, including a Crescent Hawks Phoenix Hawk LAM.
For the year, I have a net of: +83 figures.
And no purchases! Two months in a row and counting...
Pictures are coming! I just have to put down the paint brush and figure out my photo rig and camera set-up... I have a ton of figures to photograph and share with you all.