"What’s In Your Painting Queue?" Topic

Here on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay the fair days of Fall have finally replaced the hot and humid days of Summer. A not so young man's fancy turns to…PRIMING! Time to lay in a supply of cleaned and primed lead/pewter to see me through Winter. What's in your queue to be cleaned, primed and painted over this coming winter? I've got about 40 Old Glory 25mm Boxers to be painted up as Black Flag troops for Tonkin. I also have 9 Knights and men-at-arms, 17 Deadites, and a siege mantlet from Leading Edge Games to reinforce my Army of Darkness game. I may open another box of Deadites to add to the queue but I haven't decided. I don't paint as fast as I once did so these should last me a while. I suppose if I get desperate I might begin work on the last figures in my unpainted lead pile: Elite Miniatures Napoleonic Prussians.
What are you hoping to clean and prime before the onset of winter?

15mm

500 Vikings (Westwind)
324 Napoleonic Spanish (AB and Xan)

the last figures in my unpainted lead pile

Ragbones, then you better order some more before you start on them. Remember as long as you have unpainted figures, you can't die.

As for me, my immediate queue is:

currently painting a battalion (16 x 25mm MiniFigs) of leger from the Kingdom of Northern Italy (Napoleonic)

two battalions (32 x 25mm MiniFig) of Napoleonic Russian infantry

a whole bunch of 28mm French and Hessians for the Franco-German War (aka the Franco-Prussian War)

a brigade (48 figures) of 15mm Confederate infantry

And I think that will last me for a while.

Jim

I am going to order and set to work on 8 regiments of French SYW cavalry, what fun!!!

And for those of you out there who eschew painting horses:
Thththrrrrrap!! (smile)

15 28mm winter WW2 Americans, been sitting a month since I had surgery on my shoulder.

Then, 8 Late Roman cataphracts and infantry (16), and 48 Saxons!

3 Sarissa Precision buildings.

Whee!

The Red Lancers of the Guard in 15mm – AB Figures.

Protectorate of Menoth Avatar

Scratchbuilt 1/700 Leahy Missle cruiser

Blood and Plunder British

Fallout Scavvies

2/2 Chasseurs of the Guard Napoleonic

A tire factory for my train layout

Finishing off some Bolt Action Germans and Russians for a friend

Doing Retribution of Sycrah units for No 2 son – just finished the Warjacks and mages, starting in on the Sentinals and Mage Hunters

Also have a few SYW civilians to finish off, first of all a string quartet

Then I need to complete my 6mm Austrian Napoleonic grenzers

GNW Swedish Cavalry and Infantry 28mm
USMC Vietnam 28mm
Warring States Chinese 28mm
US Infantry SAW 40mm

I bought about 30 Dark Fable Egyptians that I'm painting just now. I plan to use them for tomb robbing and horror-ish games (I bought a couple mummies, some undead, and the Egyptian vampires).
Next month, there are about 30 Pulp figures to work on, though I doubt that I'll finish all of them.
In December, it will probably be back to Dark Ages figures--mainly odd things, a couple Vikings, some civilians, a warlord for my Scots, and maybe the dreaded Skraeling catapult will finally get modeled.
And, after all that, well, maybe more colonials. Or the Byzantines that I started, then kind of forgot.
Grelber

Where I live, primering season is coming to a close, so I have boxes of stuff all ready to go.

My desk is covered in AIM 1/200 scale WWII fighters. In the last two months I completed 16x Dauntlesses, 6x Avengers, 4x Hellcats and 4x Corsairs, but I have another 6x Avengers, 4x Hellcats, 4x Corsairs, 12x A6M5 Zeroes, and a batch of 12x P-40Fs, all wearing initial paint colors.

What I should do is finish all the WWII early-war carrier bombers (12x Kates, 12x Vals and 12x Devastators) and extraneous bits (6x P-400s, 6x Rufes, some F1M Petes) sitting in boxes, so I can have the Solomons air campaign ready for play at a moment's notice, then move on to Pacific War ground forces and terrain so I can finally get around to playtesting Rommel (the Sam Mustafa game). I have everything I need to fight in the sky, on the sea and through the jungles of the Solomon Islands, I just need to do some painting.

(Unless I don't like Rommel… then I'll have to do more playtesting to find a different set of rules for division-level jungle combat. I'm sure that wouldn't take long…. <ahem> <cough> Heh.)

I shouldn't even have started the P-40Fs (they're getting desert cammo, which isn't even for the right hemisphere), but I had a really fun scenario idea and I suffered a severe lapse of logic ("Ooh! Shiny! This shouldn't take long!"), so there are a dozen little distractions sitting in the midst of the Pacific War mess.

- Ix

Finno-Ugrian warriors, Russian Opolchenie, Baltic Pagan horse, Volga Bulgar horse (all 1300 century) and British Intervention Force Guards and Hussars for what-if Fenian Raids scenarios.

Empress Oxen and limber
plastic ECW musketeers
ECW foot command
ECW cuirassier

All 28mm… little narrow in scope.

6mm Confederate skirmishers--the very last of the 6mm ACW project. After that, 6mm DAK, 6mm Italians for North Africa and 28mm French Napoleonic guides.

Plastic Empire gunners & spearmen
Goblin wolf riders from Warmaster set
Mantic Orcs mounted on boars

200 timbered houses in 1:600 (3mm). The roofs worked quite well with red contrast (though the look to uniform now – need to bring in some differences with shades and highlights), but the timbering and windows drive me nuts. It takes some 15min per house, and gets kind of repetetive, even when they are all different…

12 Claymore 100 years war figures (the last of 40).
12 Empress NVA, waiting on Gringo USMC.

Italian Wars and Minor States for 1809 Napoleonics

Looking to do a big Age of Magic game at Cangames next year so a variety of Reaper figures and some GW Skaven and Nighthaunts picked up cheap (thanks Jeff) are the main focus.

After that I want to get my Age of Crusades Moors and Spanish ready to do and add some Persian archers to my ADLG Persian army

Koreans, Koreans, Koreans. 1592 Koreans. Hundreds of Koreans. Mounted Koreans, foot Koreans. Bow, Spear, 2 hand weapon Koreans.

Koreans, Koreans, every where Koreans but, none yet have paint!

15 mm RJW: Russian infantry, cossack cavalry, Japanese infantry.

Armies and armies…… Welsh, Viking, Indian, maybe 100 Gauls ….. Not to mention 20mm plastic …..

A bunch of 54mm ACW plastics.

Also I still have a pile of 54mm plastic WW2…

Eric

Doing around 4 Victrix Vikings a week.Individually based. Love these figs and I am in no hurry. Also now painting 28mm dark age animals. Footsore and V&V vikings waiting in the wings.

Germans and other Conf. Of the Rhile from Ab plus bits from Campaign.
Rusdian militia 1812
Medievals for Los Navas de Tolosa
30ywar … All 15-18mm natürlich.

Priming season is over here, too cold and damp. I didn't get as much done and laid down in stock for winter as I would have liked to have done. Winter work:

Minifigs 25mm ECW
Make some trees for ECW project

AB Napoleonics

I have some Zombicide zombies that have been standing around for 2-3+ years (because I haven't decided what colors to paint their shoes… ;-)

Ragbones, then you better order some more before you start on them. Remember as long as you have unpainted figures, you can't die. grin

Good catch ColCampbell, I'd forgotten about that! I better tell my wife I need to buy some more minis to save my life! Hmm…better not tell her. She'd probably be willing to take the risk…

28mm WWII French – Crusader and Warlord figures.

Just finishing up some (ancient) Airfix "Robin Hood" and "Sheriff of Nottingham" figures in preparation for a trial run of Lion Rampant; a battalion of OG 15mm Russians for DSLB; a couple of battalions of 6mm Chileans for the Wars of Liberation; and a few 28mm Egyptian swordsmen for skirmishing.

25mm OG Black Flags (for MM)
25mm Boxer Western civilians (for you!)
28mm Warlord Russians
28mm Copplestone RCW figs of various ilks

Also remember, if your painted figs outnumber your unpainted figs, you get real sick!

A couple of dozen figures for some youngsters who have just discovered D&D.

For friend 1 – 15mm Peter Pig samurai (cavalry and generals/followers)
For friend 2 – 5x 40k marine character figues
For me – 15mm Parthians (lots of them….)

Sadly not a bunch of stuff for me.

I have some WW2 Chinese to finish up.
I have some pirates to finish up……..all 28mm

For a friend:
28mm pirates
28mm Teutonic Knights

a lot of terrain:
stuff for a Star Wars Legion tournament at Historicon '20
walls for a friend's 54mm FIW game for Hotlead '20
dungeon walls for my son's D+D game.

Then I'll get back to my own stuff. No idea what.

For the first time in a long time…15mm. Medievals in particular. Rebasing all of my 15mm medieval armies and adding a few command figures as I go. It had been 6-7 years since I painted a 15mm figure before last month. I'm enjoying it.

Viking Age figures from Baccus 6mm
48 Gothic Foot to proxy for Strathclyde Welsh Pedytes
96 Anglo Saxon Fyrd
48 Moorish foot to proxy for Welsh LMI
32 Viking Axemen

For my Sassanids (also Baccus 6mm)

30 horse archers.

That's the primed stuff. There is more unprimed waiting the right conditions for spraying. If things get desperate I will have to brush prime.