Friday, January 1, 2016

2015 Painting Production:

Being a summary of the output from ye Painting Desk for the Year of Our Lord 2015. 


For many years, I have used index cards for my painting "palettes". I use both sides, and keep using the same cards over and over, so the paint gets pretty thick on them - the one on the left goes back to the 1970's, and is almost an inch thick in some areas!

I can't compete with my friend  Jon's amazing graphs. pie charts, and the like. However, being much narrower in my projects, especially where it comes to scale, I have much less need to do so as well! Anyway. here's the output for the year:

January:
Coldstream Guards  18
95th Rifles                18
5/60th rifles              12
British officers           7 (6 Mounted, 1 Foot)

February:
British Officers        5 Foot,  5 mounted
Lancashire Prussian Grenadiers  30

March:
Pommeranian LW Cavalry         8
Lancashire Games Landwehr     36
Lancashire Games Prussian Grenadiers   30

April:
Prussian Dragoons                    16
Marins de la Garde                     6

May:
Lancashire Prussian Landwehr     42
OG Prussian Line Infantry            54
OG Prussian Line Infantry (new regts)  36

June:
Prussian Foot Artillery  20 crew, 6 guns
Prussian Line Infantry                 18
Lutzow Freikoprps                       12
Prussian Landwehr                       30

July:
Prussian Horse Artillery           6 mounted crew, 2 guns
Prussian Hussars                       16
Prussian Generals                      2
PLUS 2 Windmills  and 6 bridges , all scratch built

August:
Touch up work on 15mm Renaissance Galleys only
(The usual post Historicon hiatus!)

September:
British 35th Line                      18
British 56th Line                      18

October:
British Horse Guards                  8
British Life Guards                    8
British  Cavalry Officers           4
Italian Guardia di Onore            8
Italian Officer                             1
Wuzburg IR, #3 CoR                 18

November:
20 "Leader Check Markers"
60 "First Fire" markers

December:
24 British Light Dragoons


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


Not surprisingly, the somewhat late decision to do Ligny at Historicon meant the Prussians dominated the painting output, and it was an exclusively Napoleonic (and, as almost always, exclusively 28mm scale) year. Accordingly, 2015 brought my total of painted troops for the Napoleonic Wars over 6,500 figures.

All the above totals 3,160. If I add in 0.5 points per marker (same as a 6 mm infantry figure), 10 per bridge, and 30 per Windmill that would take the Grand Total to 3,320 painting points - a very good year!

I used this scoring for "Painting Points":
6mm foot figure = 0.5 point
6mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 1 point
6mm vehicle = 2 points

10mm foot figure = 1 point
10mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 2 points
10mm vehicle = 3 points 

15mm foot figure = 2 points
15mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 4 points
15mm vehicle = 6 points

20mm foot figure = 4 points
20mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 8 points
20mm vehicle = 12 points

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

40mm foot figure = 7 points
40mm mounted figure, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 15 points
40mm vehicle = 20 points 

54mm foot figure = 10 points
54mm mounted figures, artillery piece or crew served weapon = 20 points
54mm vehicle, limber, etc. = 30 points

6 comments:

  1. "A very good year" with respect to painting productivity? Peter, you under-estimate your achievement. Exceeding 3,300 points is an OUTSTANDING achievement. Well done to you, Sir!

    I had not realized until seeing your Painting Summary that only 28mm Napoleonics crossed your painting desk in 2015. Will we see more of the same or will 2016 witness you branching out into other eras and scales? Certainly 28mm Napoleonic Badeners will cross your desk, right? Mine too!

    Bravo, Peter! I hope to see much from your painting desk in 2016.

    P.S. I appreciate your encouragement of my own slice of painting analytics. Always fun to look back to see what we amass over the year.

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    1. It is almost certainly about the most I am capable of - the equivalent of over 600 28mm infantry figures - pretty much my historical maximum out put per year.

      We'll cover 2016 plans in a forthcoming post, but while Napoleonics will remain a major player, there will be some more variety of era in 2016. Scale, aside from maybe some additional 15mm crew for my Galleys, is pretty much set in stone at 25/28mm for all of my collections.

      Looking forward to seeing your own Annual Analytics, Jon!.

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  2. An output to be proud of Peter.

    I like the idea of painting points. At the moment I just keep a record of the raw numbers and was a little disappointed when I totalled up just under 500 figures for 2015 compared to 620 for 2014, until I remembered that the bulk of 2014's output were 15mm which does make quite a difference.

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    1. Sounds like you did very well, too, Lawrence. The points aren't mine by any means. They come from the Analogue Painting Challenge.

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  3. Another great year, and proof positive that there is more to the roll-up than mere points. Your output is exceptional and your paint guides are my starting point for my Napoleonic collection. Thanks for all the positive encouragement this year and have an outstanding 2016!

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    1. Thanks, Jake! Your output seemed excellent this year, especially the rapid deployment of your 10mm ACVW collection!

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