Paint it or Punt it

I’ve not been posting much because, though it is an overused phrase these days, time has ceased to have meaning. Between stress and quarantine it has been six months since I worked. I haven’t finish many models over the last few weeks largely because I dived back in to World of Warcraft and have two expansions worth of content to catch up on. I did have some photos to show working on the Gondor project for the promised post but seem to have lost them – I plan on starting stage two in the next few weeks so I’ll take more then.

This post is more about the Q2 stats. I have changed the naming convention a little to make it easier to parse. When I post rather than titling it according to the quarter we are moving into, it is a retrospective of the one we are leaving.

An increase in overall Collection Painted from 13.7% to 21%. Collection total decreased from 921 to 814 but we’ll come back to these numbers. It is worth noting that I found a box of mixed random minis which should have been included in the initial counts in January however rather than negating previous posts, I just added them in Q2.

Let’s break it down a little.

I started stage one of the Gondor Project which saw me strip, repair and fully paint 27 Warriors with Bow. Breaking them into batches of  five made the job less soul destroying but I am very aware that there is a long way to go one this project.

I also painted up the B1 droids from the Clone Wars starter box for Legion (see last post).

I managed to get rid of the old Cadians, Catachan and dinky size Space Marines. Also punted all the Dust minis. There are more flagged to go but with lockdown I haven’t even tried to move them on. I’m expecting to have a brutal cull in Q3 to get the Punt It section of the challenge completed. At this point the total of the collection should be down around 745 however there has been an added element to the challenge…

Call it Shiny Syndrome. Call it Covid Comfort spending. Whatever you call it, it adds numbers and reduces % painted.

I added a box of SPQR Romans and Perry French Napoleonics to the collection in Q2. The Romans are two thirds painted at this point but weren’t at the end of June so they get bumped to Q3’s stats. The French are designed to be palate cleansers and so there are more than one quarter painted but they aren’t based so I don’t include them in the painted column.

Q3 is also about to get a bunch of minis added as I am picking up a new army for 40K’s 9th edition. Rather than buying a bunch of boxes all at once I am just buying and working on one box at a time. This is a big change of behaviour for me and is definitely an outcome of this project so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯