Painting During January

I have surprised myself during January with the number of figures I have managed to finish.

The list is as follows:

28mm
40 x Perry plastic WotR Dismounted Men at Arms
3   x Perry WotR Command Figures
12 x Perry plastic WotR Billmen
8  x Perry plastic Mounted Men at Arms

18 x Foundry Indian Mutiny Loyal Madras foot.
5   x Mutineer Miniatures Indian Mutiny Medium Guns
20 x Mutineer Miniatures Indian Mutiny Mutineer Gun Crew

This totals 93 foot, 8 cavalry and 5 guns, probably more than I managed in the whole of 2014!!

15mm
24 x Essex ECW Scots Covenanter foot
9   x Essex ECW Gun Crew
4   x Essex Light Guns
Plus touching up and basing 64 foot and 28 cavalry

The really good news is that I can now say that my War of the Roses project is complete and that the surplus bits and pieces have been set aside for sale at the next Bring and Buy I get to.

The sudden desire to paint 15mm has been prompted by my 2 recent visits to the Weymouth Levellers who are currently in the early stages of playtesting Peter Pig's rewrite of the Regiment of Foote rules and the fact that I knew I had a 15mm Essex Miniatures Scots Covenanters Army part painted and unbased somewhere in the metal mountain.

All in all a bloody good month; all I need to do is keep this momentum going!!

Painting

Another of my New Years Resolutions was to paint more; something I have failed to do every year for the last 5 years!

This year I intend to be more organised and focussed.

My intention is to finish at least 2 major projects this year. Having spent some time pondering over which they should be I have decided on the War of the Roses and the Indian Mutiny. The reasoning behind this is that my WotR collection is about 95% complete and the Indian Mutiny probably 50%.

Over Christmas I have finished the following:
16  Perry plastic WotR mercenary pikemen,
24 Perry plastic WotR archers
1 Foundry Indian Mutiny Elephant and 3 crew.
3 Plastic Indian Mutiny Elephants with Mahouts.

So far this month I have finished:
40 Perry plastic WotR Dismounted Men at Arms
A Command Base consisting of 1 mounted and 2 foot Perry plastic WotR figures.

Perry plastic WotR dismounted Men at Arms

Perry WotR Command Group

I am currently painting 12 Perry Plastic WotR Billmen and 8 Perry plastic WotR Mounted Men at Arms which will complete the core of the Project. All that leaves is a further 24 Perry Mounted Men at Arms that I will either paint this month of dispose of. Either way by the end of January I will be able to say that I have finished a Project!