"The PLEDGE MAY 2015 (OOPS PART III)" Topic

Hi all

Last months update
TMP link

Well another month in the book and again the lead mountain grows and grows

Bought
6mm – 544 (Mahdist Army off Evil Bay that was a bargain)
28mm – 39 (more Early WWII stuff)

Painted
0

I did manage to tidy up some boxes of figs and gave away 13 to a friend for a project of his.

Monthly progress = -583
Ready locker = 2587 (started at 1917)

I have managed to paint 90% of my WWII tanks so will try and at least finish them and must do some of the mahdists to get the total down.

MH

Just painted today:
46x 15mm Modern African regulars

Rec this month:
64x 15mm African Regulars

On the year:
Painted 159
Received 74
+85 overall.

Another embarrassing month for me

Finished:

16 15mm French Napoleonic. These are samples that I am using to try out different basing schemes so technically they aren't really finished yet :)

Bought: Nothing, Zip, Nada. It was tough but I was strong.

But, a friend gave me about 60 15mm Napoleonics, so the lead mountain grows.

Lots of stuff is more complete than it was this time last month so maybe next month will look better ?

It is encouraging to see how everybody else is doing and posting here has to be cheaper than therapy, right ?

John

Well I didn't paint anything this month but I amanged to get to Huzzah! in Maine, play two games and not buy any figures.

Down 105 figures YTD.

Well, we are off and running. Finally got some painting mojo back and decided to start sending stuff off to get painted. Here is the tally;

Bought
138 – 15mm Maximillian in Mexico
177 – 15mm Mexican American War
63 – 28mm WW2 American Paratroopers

Painted

160 – 15mm SYW Prussians (Hoard painting)
25 – 28mm Dark Age Scots

Total this month;

Bought – 378
Painted – 185
Total – -193

YTD – -1352
This Month – -193
Total YTD – -1545

It seems bleak but things are looking better.

Finished off the partial units and basing for my last Few Zulu British units to essentially finish that project. I too sent out a few units for painting to jump start my ancients army in time for a summer campaign at our gaming group.

Bought YTD: 455
Painted YTD: 49

I did manage to build and paint 5 40K buildings for a big battle we did with our gaming group and our kids so it wasn't too bad of a month all things considered.

The sell-off of February was countered by the KublaCon flea market in May.

May 2015 total:

Bought 116 (15mm, things that could be 15mm, and more of other scales than I've bought in quite a while)
SOLD 0
Painted 0

Year-to-date totals:
Growth +180
Painted 0

A friend is threatening to play again, so painting will soon be called for regardless.

After a four year hiatus, I've started repainting seriously the past couple of months. May I join in for future pledges? How does this work?

For my April/May:
- To be painted: 404
- Purchased/added: 17
- Finished: 55
- End the month to be painted: 366
Difference: +38

Completed:
3 – Two handed spearmen, militia, soldiers (Essex Medievals 25mm)
2- Two handed spearmen, militia, soldiers (x2 Essex Medievals 25mm)

38 – DBA Sumerian Infantry – I/1b (x38 HäT #8132)
1 – DBA Sumerian Chariots I/1b – (x1 HäT #8130)

3 – Battletech 25th Anniversary Introductor Box set 'Mechs
--- COM-2D Commando 1, AWS-8Q Awesome, QKD-4G Quickdraw
5 – Battletech 3rd Edition Box set 'Mechs (aka. Those damn cheap crummy plastic 'Mechs)
--- Warhammer WHM-6R, Thunderbolt TDR-5S, Phoenix Hawk PXH-1, Locust LCT-1V 1, Archer ARC-2R

1 – Thief w/sack and dagger (Grenadier #2008 Thieves set),
1- Cleric communing (Grenadier Specialists AD&D Small Figure set #2006)

Purchased/Added: 17
2 – Norman Archer Advancing (NK8 – Essex Medievals 25mm)
15 – Recount of inventory – found 15mms not accounted for originally

I have a few minis coming to my mail box in June, but I'm also working my way through a 15mm army for HOTT that should counterbalance that. I've got 'Mechs on deck being painted and I'm finishing up two PC mini's for my ongoing D&D 1:1 campaign with my wife.

PS. Am I the only one who keeps their inventory up to date?

"How does this work?"

First off, welcome to the Pledge!

It works however you want and/or need it to. The Pledge was born of the perceived need to reduce unpainted miniatures and unfinished projects piling up. Some of us set a goal of one painted to one bought, while others have different ratios depending on their needs. If you look back to around the beginning of the year (late December or early January) you should find Pledge posts that explain what each of us is doing, or trying to do.

A precise inventory would, for some of us, constitute an impossible task all by itself. I do record what I have bought and sold while on the Pledge, but the baseline prior to that was already huge.

A precise inventory would, for some of us, constitute an impossible task all by itself

I asked people locally about how many Napoleonics they had. The ones with serious collections went quiet for a bit, came up with a rough number (such as enough to do Waterloo and the Peninsular wars), said that they would take a closer look at what they actually had and then went quiet

These were the people with the painted figures – for the rest of us ……

It does help me to see how other people are doing on their pledges, and that I am not the only one with a "variety" of interests and scales

John