Monday, January 2, 2017

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics - 2016

With the coming of 2017, it is time for the annual blog retrospective on the year, including stats on painting, expenditures, games played and run, and
No actual pies were harmed in the creation of this post!

Expenses

October 2016
Wizard Kraft Kickstarter  $400 
This was way more than I really wanted in terms of product, but it is one that I really believe in, and wanted to see successfully funded, so I supported it heavily with both publicity and funds. I now have a boatload of great terrain pieces on order; I plan to give a substantial portion of that to Jared in support of his Middle School game club. 

November 2016
Michael's  (craft paints, micron pens, wooden Castle, Wooden Towers x 2
$36.78
Staples - Really Useful Boxes x 6
$72

December 2016 -  Nil


4th Quarter Total:    508.78

3rd Quarter Total: $631.23

2nd Quarter Total:   $93.12   

1st Quarter Totals:  $446



GRAND TOTAL 2016:  $1,679


This exceeded my target of $100/month, but that was almost exclusively due to my support of the Wizard Kraft Kickstarter, as detailed above. For comparison, my total for 2015 was $2,235.28


Painting

January 2016
4 Blue Moon Wagons (100 pts)
Touch up and basing on 6 old Limber teams. (N/A)
Egyptians (Essex)  27 (135 pts)

February 2016
BTD Egyptians  20  (100 pts)
Hussite Characters 6  (30 pts)
Murawski Baden Infantry  36  (180 pts)

March 2016
None completed
April 2016
Murawski Polish Uhlans, General  18 (180 points)
BTD Egyptian Spearmen  24  (120 points)

May 2016
18 Hussite Infantry  (90 points)

June 2016
4 BTD Egyptian Chariots (140 points)
19 Hussite Infantry  (95 points)
[Plus 2 large Towers for Assyrian Army]

July 2016
39 Hussite Infantry   195 points
12 Perry HYW Foot   60 points
7 Perry HYW Mounted 70 points
12 OG HYW Knights   120 points

August 2016
24 British Dragoons (Old Glory)  240 points

September
None completed 

October 2016
24 Macedonian Phalangites   120 points
20 British Artillery Crew with 10 guns  200 points
8 Numidian Light Cavalry  120 points

November 2016
47 French Line in Bicorne   235 points
[plus Sokolnitz Castle]

December 2016
30 Austrian Jagers   150 points
Austrian Cavalry Battery  8 crew, 2 guns   60 points
42 Russian Line  210 points
3 Russian Guard Horse Artillery crew (Minifigs, not shown) 25 points

4th QUARTER TOTAL  = 1,120 points

3rd QUARTER = 685  points
2nd QUARTER = 645 points
1st QUARTER =   545  points

 GRAND TOTAL 2016: 2,995 points



2016 Painting Summary

Nationality
Foot
Mounted
Guns
Vehicles
French
47


4
Russian
43
2


Austrian
38

2

Polish

18


British
20
24
10

Badener
36



Hussite
82



Catholic
12
19


Macedonian
24



Carthaginian

8


Egyptian
79


4
Total
381
71
12
8
Painting Point
1905
710
120
200*


For comparison, my total for 2015 was 3,160 (not counting terrain, markers, etc). Notably, that was 100% 28mm Napoleonics, chiefly driven by the huge Ligny game at Historicon that year. Almost half of the figures painted that year being Napoleonic Prussians; that category is conspicuous by its absence in 2016! Napoleonics still accounted for over 50% of all the figures painted in 2016, but the Hussite Wars project came in second. That is an essentially complete project now... or so I claim!


2015 Painting Summary
Nationality
Foot
Mounted
Guns
Prussian
288
48
8
British
90
50
-
French
6
-
-
Italian
-
9
-
Rhinebund
18
-
-
Total
402
107
8
Painting Points
2010
1070
80

The Scoring
28mm foot figure = 5 points
28mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 10 points
28mm vehicle = 15 points


Great Lead Pile Census (GLPC):
No additional surveys taken... I plead personal weakness there. 
We'll see if we can't survey at least one more sub-location of unpainted lead in 2017!
Some moved out of Part 1 Census stocks this year (Perry and Old Glory HYW figures). 
The Russian figures all came from the depths of another sub-location of long term unpainted, lead, however. 
The majority of lead purchased in 2016 was painted in 2016 as well. 

Games Played 2016

March: Battle of Ainsworth Gorge*, 1799 with Field of Battle, 2nd edition
May: The Winter 1807 Campaign with Snappy Nappy.
July: The Affair at Kisii (Tims WW1 East Arika game at Historicon) with FoB2
September: Montgomery 1644 with For King and Parliament! (ECW rules based upon To the Strongest!, playtest version, solo)
October:  Lavergne and Shurleigh Fields* with FoB2
November: Oritango Downs* with FoB2

* Battles from the LANNES campaign with Barry

Convention Games Run 2016

July: Assyrians vs. Egyptians with To the Strongest!
July: Hussites vs Catholics with TtS!
July: The Great Cavalry Battle of Liebertwolkwitz, 1813, with FoB2
July: The Engagement at Klagenfuirt 1809, with Piquet, Les Grognards 2nd edition. 
December:  Austerlitz for Jared's game club, with FoB2

7 games played, 5 games run, averages out to one a month, which is my goal. 

Blogging 2016

88 posts, a bit less than 2015 and 2014.
204,552 Page views for the year (but hard to asses due to large numbers from amount by Russian/Ukrainian bots, it seems - probably about 80,000! And The Donald doesn't believe our own intelligence agencies that the Russian Government is involved in hacking on a grand scale? Ha!). 
The Blog exceeded 600,000 page views all time as of late December, 2015. Amazing, but see the above! I need to update the links in the Napoleonic Painting guides section again with the posts from the past 4 months.

Publications 2016
None. We might take up a Snappy Nappy campaign booklet(s)... or not!

6 comments:

  1. Interesting, I might add up how many figures I painted in the last year too! :)

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    1. Your production stats would be impressive for sure!

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  2. The really nice thing to see is the variety in painting projects. I think I might take a leaf out of your book for 2017 Peter.

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    1. I would say that 2016 was remarkable (for me) in the breadth of armies and eras painted. By contrast, not only was 2015 exclusively Napoleonic, 90% of that was made up of just Prussian and British. What will 2017 look like? The subject-to-change plan will be up soon!

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  3. Impressive output, Peter! Very impressive. You really turned the painting output up a notch in 4th quarter.

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    1. Motivation with me is key - if I have a game I need the troops for, I can push a lot harder to get then done in time!

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