Bodhi Posted January 5, 2009 Share Posted January 5, 2009 Got 62 sculptures started. NONE finished The usual ratio... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurityThruFire Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 Hmmm...I think I got around 30 minis finished, pretty much all tabletop stuff. However since August I've pretty much been on a gaming and painting hiatus. Hopefully in 2009 I will be able to reboot my painting, the metal is really starting to stack up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mengu Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 I think I painted like 3 minis in 2008. 2 were at ReaperCon. There is hoping I'll do better in 2009. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruunwald Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I haven't posted a pic since February, I think. Truth is, I get way more terrain work done than I do minis painted. So I'll post group photos of minis on some of my favorite terrains from this year and show off all the minis I actually managed to complete (but only about half the terrains). I wind up with little time to devote to actual painting, so there is rarely anything of mine that is better than table-top, but I am happy enough with these, and am really happy with my terrains. Below are Jack Hammer, P.I., and a Daphne look-alike on a cruddy street that served in one RPG as a take-down area for a bounty, and in our Silent Hill game as... well, Silent Hill. Below these two Sean (Hammer's assistant) checks out a high-powered business woman. At the bottom are a Sandman-like creature, well-armed (basically the clay golem with some GW guns), and a couple chainsaw thugs from Spinespur, who chased Hammer and his compatriots all over New Jersey while they searched for the Jersey Devil. Next is a better shot of the thug from the left, a closeup of the sandman, and a group shot showing off the whole terrain. As you can see, I like my terrains gritty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruunwald Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Here we have Private Davies and Lieutenant Randy Guy (don't ask), standing in the courtyard of the Midwich Elementary School in Silent Hill. I started this terrain a couple years before, but completed the last two-thirds of it in 2008, the same week I quickly painted these two guys up. The mannequins and the sprayer were my first attempts to use Reaper's dollies, from about two-and-a-half years ago (just inserted here for atmosphere). I'm a much better sculptor now. In the pics below we see them battling the BBEG from that game, another conversion I did the actual work on a year or so before, but only finished painting in a hurry just before we completed the game. They're fighting in the last terrain I finished that same week, and that blue ball back there can light up when it has batteries. This creature was meant to make the players feel uncomfortable. I think most of us can see how it accomplished that. We had a great time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruunwald Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Here is an ogre that sat two-thirds painted before I finished him in a fit around March or April. He is surrounded by a group of barbarians that I actually showed off in one of Ironworker's roll calls back in February. There are seven barbarians in all, and all can be seen in the three pics. I was proud of myself because I had actually painted all of those barbarians, plus the four minis in the next set in a single month (January 2008). Quite a feat for me. The umber hulk had sat around badly glued and unpainted for years, so one day this summer I got fed up, stripped the old glue off, and got him done from gluing to basing, to sealed, in less than twenty-four hours. I love this terrain. I think it's among my most realistic and is just a little slice of terrain perfection. Here are the other four guys I got done with the barbarians, menacing a pumpkin patch. The patch was whipped up really quickly to be part of my entry in the Halloween contest, but I didn't manage to finish Rotpatch in time (though he did appear as our BBEG in our most recent D&D sessions). The nasty bit at the bottom is the mulch he left around, which, when a character became enchanted by its scent, caused them to leap into it, get stuck, and slowly be digested. I threw it together mostly from GW bits, in a couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruunwald Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Finally tonight, a set of unforgiven and a set of mummies in a fieldstone dungeon. I got all of these minis done in the spring. The grit of the iron and the dirt on the mummies were achieved in the same fashion as the sand on the sandman. This involves a lot of quick bursts of various colors of spray paint, aimed from distance, followed by drybrushing. It's dirty, it's fast, but I like the effect it creates. Very good for making rust, too. The modular Hirst Arts dungeon was done up in early fall, just before the weather turned moist, causing the annual slow-down of plaster-based terraining here. I also have an entire pack of saprolings that I did up quick and dirty in the fall, but I think I've hijacked enough of the thread, and it's pretty late now. So I will spare you all. Funny, I always feel like I never get a lot accomplished, but I guess I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yani Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 I bought waaaaay more minis than I painted. Unfortunately, I'm looking at buying more because I'm on a skin-painting kick, and i want to buy lots and lots of barely-clothed people..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Froggy the Great Posted January 8, 2009 Moderator Share Posted January 8, 2009 On the Lead Adventure forum, a couple people had a rating scale for painted versus acquired. I've decided to implement it for 2009. ((Minis completed - minis created) x 0.75) - Minis acquired = the score. So you have to paint 1.25 minis for every one you buy in order to stay positive. If I'm positive at the end of the year, well, that'll be something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwocky Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 2008 was a banner year for me. I think I got into the double digits this year thanks to a unit of plague marines I painted for a friend. This year looks to have a good start--I have 3 relatively close to completion already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilvish the Deliverer Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 On the Lead Adventure forum, a couple people had a rating scale for painted versus acquired. I've decided to implement it for 2009.((Minis completed - minis created) x 0.75) - Minis acquired = the score. So you have to paint 1.25 minis for every one you buy in order to stay positive. If I'm positive at the end of the year, well, that'll be something. I understand minis completed, and minis acquired, but what are mini's created? Ones you've sculpted or kitbashed? An with all of the (wicked cool) conversions that you do, how do you factor in the extra parts? Over on TMP, they do a similar thing, called the PLEDGE. They make some sort of pledge reguarding how many painted vs bought and report their numbers monthly. It varies from member to member but one of the most common ones is "to paint more than I buy". I've been thinking about doing a similar thing as my shelf/box/filing cabinate/available horizontal space of shame is getting a bit out of hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Froggy the Great Posted January 8, 2009 Moderator Share Posted January 8, 2009 I understand minis completed, and minis acquired, but what are mini's created? Ones you've sculpted or kitbashed? An with all of the (wicked cool) conversions that you do, how do you factor in the extra parts? Minis created are stuff I do to increase the number of figures in my possession, probably from parts, though sculpts work too. Conversions that remain the same figure are just conversions and aren't factored in. If I end up creating a new figure from the conversion where previuously there wasn't a figure, that goes under Created. Mad Science stuff counts, as do the weird pewterlego-bashes I do sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithian Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Great idea for a thread Sergeant Crunch, and lots of great work from everyone too! Alas, I didn’t get any Reaper minis done this year (those skeletons never made it past the prime stage), but I did use some Reaper paints! (The fair skin triad and the olive triad!) I’ve been working on some Infinity minis (I knocked out a whopping seven!) but I did get a lot of terrain built this year. Four WorldWorks Mars Station buildings and a bunch of hand built nubbins using electrical boxes, water bottles, Advil bottles, and some food containters. Recycled terrain. Some of the WorldWorks buildings I made. Later! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 On the Lead Adventure forum, a couple people had a rating scale for painted versus acquired. I've decided to implement it for 2009.((Minis completed - minis created) x 0.75) - Minis acquired = the score. So you have to paint 1.25 minis for every one you buy in order to stay positive. If I'm positive at the end of the year, well, that'll be something. I'd just be impressed with anyone who can keep track of how many miniatures that they aquire throughout the year. Some of us are like squirrels with amnesia, constantly losing and accidentially uncovering their acorn stashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nial ap Morai Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 On the Lead Adventure forum, a couple people had a rating scale for painted versus acquired. I've decided to implement it for 2009.((Minis completed - minis created) x 0.75) - Minis acquired = the score. So you have to paint 1.25 minis for every one you buy in order to stay positive. If I'm positive at the end of the year, well, that'll be something. Using that scale I am way way in the hole in 2008.... Probably too deep to climb out of if all I did was paint for the next 2 years and not buy another mini...... way too deep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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