"Your biggest project ever?" Topic

Hey guys. I just returned from my friends house with 285 of his figures. The aforementioned friend is the one who got me into wargaming in the first place, and has been my friend and mentor for about 6 years now.

He was diagnosed with Parkinson's last year, and has an obviously hard time painting. I offered to redo all his LOTR baddies for him and was surprised to see just his evil forces number 285 28mm figures. I nearly fainted. I am actually really excited to do them as a tribute to my mentor and gaming friend, and want to finish them all in a month, doing about 70 a week.

Upon completion, this will be my biggest project to date, my Bolt Action forces only consist of 120 infantry figures in 28mm, so this is DOUBLE!

It got me wondering, how big was your biggest project and how long did it take?

Ongoing I have a project that started off with the goal of painting 1000 points armies for each warhammer race. I gave up on doing everything, but I have done 4 of them, and have another 3 to do. I started it in 2012. I will probably take 2 more years. Frankly I wish I had not started it.

I did every Hyborean nation for HOTT I could plus the strongholds. That's about 17 armies and strongholds. Took me about 2 years but they are now finished.

I still need southern (African) nations and pre-gunpowder pirates and Cossacks without guns and pre-gunpowder Aphgans, but they are minor nations, but the list goes on and on.

Everyone should have a hobby!

In Fantasy, it is probably my Chaos army. In 28mm I have more than 200 daemons of various sorts plus about 100 Chaos Warriors and then about 30 mounted knights, characters etc.

It doesn't really seem like all that much next to my historical projects. I have more than 1000 28mm figures for my Successor stuff and over 700 Carlist War figures in 28mm.

Wouldn't even try to answer this. Bought my first minis in 1960 from Jack Scruby, AWI still in play. 50+ years

I built 3-D versions in plaster of all 3 editions of Space Hulk in both 28 & 15mm (now have to build the extra pieces for 4th edition.) Probably close to 2500 pieces, and took about 8 months from making molds to finishing painting. Oh yeah, also started doing dungeon pieces (but only in 15mm) and still haven't finished that project… ;-)

40k Tyranids project about 12 years ago while a guy was deployed in Iraq. If I recall I painted around:

180 'Gaunts
150 Genestealers
24 Warriors
2 Hive Tyrants
10 Carnifexes
25 Spore Mines
5 Zoanthropes
12 bases of Rippers
2 Forgeworld Hierodules.

Cannot recall how many Biovores, Lictors and Raveners. But the whole thing topped out at over 400 models easy.

Since the deadline was nine months (when he was expected to get back from Iraq), I took my time and took the entire nine months.

Kropotkin,if there is ever time to take pics of your Hyborean armies and to post it ,I would be much obliged.

My largest game was a 8 ft by 8 ft 3-D Game of Lord of the Rings. It had about 1200+ 10mm figures and Handmade Location pieces. It was based on the old SPI Game War of the Rings.

I did the entire Union V corps from the Gettysburg order of battle for Johnny Reb II in a month of non-stop painting. That was over 600 15mm figures.

Still working on my 15mm Napoleonics . Just have @150 French Old Guard remaining. This started in 2005 with Brits and French. Now there are 6 Korps of Austrians, 3+ of Prussians and Russians, the Anglo-Allied for 1815, the Bavarians and Wurttemberg, Spanish and 5 Corps of French.

I've been working on the entire Foundry Darkest Africa range for about 14 years now. Playable forces, so I've had to do multiples of many figures.

I 'thought' I was done with my 3D Space Hulk but the new edition added components…

The Orcish invasion of Canada.

Biggest project has also been my smallest.

A few years back I decided to do Mons Graupius at 1:2 figure ratio using Irregular Miniatures 2mm range.

But one thing lead to another and other battles got covered.It now spans 300BCE to 300CE and numbers over 700 bases with 15 strips on each. Great thing is including the terrain and all troops it fits in 2 of those fold-able storage crates.

About 8 years ago bought about 1000 figures (mostly Vendel) for Alexander vs. Persia. Took about 6 years (off and on) to paint and about a week to sell without ever putting them on the table.

Not sure but I think I have more 28mm Naps than that, but that is a much longer term project acquired piecemeal.

Trying to paint up a corp for each side for ACW in 15mm at about 1 to 25 scale.

Nevals,

Most of my stuff can be seen here.

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I have a liking for conversions, which has become a problem, I can no longer paint a stock figure, I now have to convert every figure I have, so every project, of which there are many, has now become a huge labour, lucky they are mostly all 15mm.

Arguably my 20mm WW2 project has been the longest, given that I started it in the late 1960s….

Specific ones which stand out are a hundred+ 54mm figures (plus horses, artillery, baggage, conversions for signallers, engineers, motor transport etc) for Funny Little Wars. That took a while and consumed gallons of paint as the figures are so HUGE.

Early WW1 15mm was also another big one, several hundred 15mm figures, plus artillery, cavalry transport, aircraft etc. All done in a couple of months and after which I was throroughly sick of painting brown boots.

20mm Ancients, literally hundreds of Romans, Carthagianians, Greeks, 'Barbarians' etc also all done in a few months. If I never have to paint a Gallic cavalryman again, it won't be too soon.

One of the silliest was 2mm WSS, where I did the entire British, Dutch, French, Bavarian and Imperial armies along with stuff like camps, pontoon trains etc. Quite a few figures, but they are so tiny they all fit in single box (with trays). The flags were hard to paint but I didn't have to worry about regimental facings!