Paint it or Punt it

Time for a January wrap up. Plenty of progress and some self examination.

After I working through the Imperial Assault goal in December, I decided to try and lay out the rest of the collection to be painted as monthly targets. For January, I wanted to finish off what was in the Star Wars Legion core box, and paint up some odds and sods minis that somehow have taken up residence in my flat. I also wanted to get the last batches of eBay sales up and running.

I’ll do a separate post for the Star Wars Legion update but let’s cover some other things.

January stats:

Sold: 96 (plus 250 pending)

Painted: 37

Collection painted: 43.3%

Quick little section this one. Two cows and goat.

From Dust Tactics.

I shit you not.

I have no idea if these will ever get used but 100% painted is 100% painted! Painting these took so little time that I added in the gangers from Judge Dredd too. After so much white it was a joy to paint garish colours!

Adding these to the 4 Burrows and Badgers minis from the start of the month and the total painted for the month is 37. Painting up the rest of the Burrows and Badgers kickstarter is one of next month’s goals.

The last few lots went up on eBay and I was happy with that. Then I had a chat with a friend about his Legion collection. I was giving him a hard time about owning two of everything for all four factions. “You’ll never paint all that and you’ll never play that many armies” said I.

Of course, I am sitting in my own (albeit much smaller) glasshouse. I have 9 factions for Middle-Earth SBG. Nine!!! Not one of them is a complete army and I’ve only ever played small points games. Stones came crashing down on my head and so I decided that most of it has to go.

I’m keeping the two forces that I have painting everything I own for (the Pelennor Fields box) and for the meantime I’ll keep hold of the Minas Tirith that I painted last year though their place in the cabinet is precarious. I’m also going to keep one of the two Fellowship sets I have and in fact they are earmarked to be my Spring Clean Challenge project this year.

If I want to buy more MESBG then it makes much more sense to pick out specific units for the two armies I have and build them out rather than just buying shit cheaply on eBay. This decision also dramatically changes the outlook for the Paint it or Punt it challenge. Of the 500 odd miniatures that remained to be painted, nearly 300 of them were MESBG. Getting rid of them and planning out the remains to be painted up as monthly goals, I think I should get to 100% painted collection by May. Or at least the collection as it stood up until now but that’s a topic for a future post and possibly future project logs…