Painting Tally June 2025

This was a very productive month. I finally managed to gather my hobby strength and work through a bunch of projects!

As probably mentioned before, I try to focus my hobby time and set forward no more than five wargaming-related projects each month to complete. My goals for June were:

- paint 6mm figures

- continue the Trashy Fleets ships

- prepare for my 'Siege of Fortress Diken' campaign

- play at least one game

- start the 'Last Knight' space battle campaign

Of this only the Fortress Diken one hadn't got fulfilled (I counted the last two for the same game, the one of which the AAR I posted here a few weeks back).

On to the numbers:

28mm

Completed:

15x Warlord plastic TYW/ECW pikemen

8x Warlord plastic TYW/ECW shotte

10x Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago crewmen

16x Warlord plastic Landsknecht pikemen (they are varnished and glued on a unit base, so I cheated here a little bit)

Painted (not varnished or based):

1x Wargamer Octavia Piccolomini (more on that later)

Primed:

12x GBP plastic Arab light horse posing as Cossack/generic Eastern European cavalry

1x Wargamer Eloise the Musketeer

6mm

Completed:

96x Ancients infantry

42x Ancients cavalry

192x SYW infantry

72x SYW cavalry

40x SYW artillery (counting both crew and guns)

7x SYW command

Primed:

48x Ancients infantry

224x SYW infantry

56x SYW cavalry

(I came to really like the method where I just sit down with 6mm figures and prime as many in one go as I can)

Other

Completed:

1/2000 HMS Hood

1/1000 RHN Lemnos

Assembled:

A Lego Invisible Hand starship I got as a birthday gift

All this brings my Painting Unit value to 2285 for the month, which is about double of the best output of the year so far.

I don't think I'll go further than this as actually my unpainted stock is greatly reduced. Perhaps one day the unimaginable will happen and I'll have all of my figures painted?

Purchases

I made an order with Wargamer.pl for two female figures of their own design, along with a box of the aforementioned GBP Arab horsemen, mostly because they have a flat postage rate and it was thus more economical to purchase more things. Wargamer has a nice line of female figures in appropriate clothes for the 17th century period. The conversion of the GBP horsemen to Cossacks is not my idea, I "liberated" it from a Hungarian fellow wargamer. As far as I can tell only TAG and Foundry make Cossack cavalry (if you don't count the Warlord Games metal Croats which pass from a distance) and twelve plastic horsemen in a box is more bang for your buck.