Painting Coefficient December 2022

So it is that time of year to see if I have managed to reduce the overall “pile of pride” or have I failed and just added to the backlog to my painting table?

Germanic Warband

First up were the Germanic Warband for Infamy and something else to neat the Romans.

This started with the Infantry these are Victrix Miniatures with the shield transfers from Little Big Man Studios.

Warband on the move

Shields make the figures pop

The challenge with these was to make as many individual figures from the parts available and I think I manage to make all 60 unique with the various weapon and head options.

Next up were the infantry skirmishers these are bow armed and come from Warlord Games.

Archers

Then we had some cavalry, for the sharp eyed amongst you there are a couple carry captured roman shields.

Cavalry

Liberated shields

We then have both the foot and mounted command; these are again from Warlord and it would appear that some of the figure designers are taking inspiration from Games Workshop (note the foot on tree trunk pose).

Cavalry Command

Cavalry command

Main man

Infantry Command

Infantry command (a bit on the fantasy side maybe)

The Warlord figures are all cast in “Warlord Resin”, while they painted up nicely enough and did have some good details the jury is out on the flexibility side and how well they will stand handling.

Total: 100

Carthaginians

Now we have the newish project with the Carthaginian force for the Punic Wars. First up are some of the Libyan Spearman accompanied by the Libyan Skirmishers.

Libyan Spearmen

Libyan Spearmen

Officers

Javelins

More Javelins

Total: 39

War of Spanish Succession

To finish off the Guard Brigade for my French first off we have a unit of Guard Francais accompanied by a battalion of the Guard Swiss.

Garde Swiss

Garde Francais

Total 36

Last 3 Months

So, what does all this mean for the coefficient

Total Number of figures added = 146

Total Number of figures painted = 175

Overall Coefficient = -29

But more importantly over the year have I managed to decrease the overall size of the “pile of pride”

Total Figures Painted = 525

Total Figures Added = 309

Overall Coefficient for 2022 = -216

Although the total figures painted is slightly down from last years total of 573 still feel that it was a decent effort. Especially as I also broke my personal best for the number of fishing trips I managed this year 😁.

Therefore, a success and a reduction overall, at this rate in 9 years’ time (one less than last year) I may be able to get around to that 20mm Soviet cavalry I have languishing in a drawer 😊

The question is what is going to be the main focus for 2023, well the initial focus will be on the following three projects:

• Punic Wars
• War of Spanish Succession
• French Napoleonic

But that all depends on nothing new and shiny appearing on the horizon.