Number of projects?

[Einion]

I was wondering if there was a pattern in the number of pieces we work on at a time and the amount we get completed.

Einion

 

[LVM]

Good threat

Personnally , I do one figure to completion before beginning another. I prefer focus me only on one project and next do another.

I paint few figures a year (about 3) and it's possible that this can reduce the amount I get completed. But it's mys habit and I think I couldn't change it !

I'm a bit too painstaking.

Laurent

 

[KeithP]

I have had two figures going at once for a couple years now. I added a third on this last grouping mainly to make sure I have a primed figure ready.

Like Laurent, I had done only one at a time but just found I had a bit extra band width and went from there.

I had a few days off during this last Holiday, and I was sorely tempted to start another one but I resisted

Keith

 

[megroot]

Good Threat.

I'm curious to. Most i paint one figure at the time untill it is finished whit the base and nameplate.
Recently i've started two figure's to reduce an groing grey army.
My girlfriend said: you are almost out of your figures :lol: :lol:
Yes, i must soon buying some more, or give me some for my birthday. :lol:
And as i painting with oils, you can always paint when you are doing two.

Marc

 

[Guy]

Right now I have only 6 figures in the works. I sometimes have more but the comfort range is around 6 ongoing figures. Of those 6, 1 is usually a mounted figure.

 

[Kisifer]

I also work one figure at a time. I wait even for the groundwork to finish and then I start another. One main reason is the very little space that I have on my bench.. so I can't really lay everything there.

Xenofon

 

[DaveCox]

I generally have only one on the go at a time.Very rare to work on more than one as I finish them too quickly and it gets expensive!!

I will probably be researching one or more other figures whilst actually working on the one on the bench.

 

[stev1eran]

I, like other pf members generally stick to one figure at a time. This allows me to think about how I am going to research uniform, accuracy etc, also how it will fit in with the type of groundwork I wish to achieve.
Then the best bits - assembly and painting, I like to take my time that way I find it quite theraputic and enjoyable (it also keeps me out the way of the wife :lol: )

Steve

 

[Jim Patrick]

I get bored too easily or get burnt out too easily. One or the other. Besides, I like working on different things at once.

Jim Patrick

 

[Sambaman]

The survey says.......that there are more people who work on multiple projects - but, way more who only work one at a time will comment here! I am with Guy and Jim, I like to have between 3 and 10 going at a time. I have 8 going right now if I am remembering correctly. I like to jump around!

Jay H.
OKC

 

[Roc]

Einion, excellent question, I try to work on one figure at a time, but when the commissions come rolling in, than I have to work on multiple figures.



Cheers
Roc.

 

[thegoodsgt]

Only two for me, generally a full figure and a bust. When I have had any more than that going, nothing ever seems to get finished.

 

[mcsneed17]

no with me it is about 10 - 28mm figures on the kitchen with another 20 figures in the living table waiting to be primed and i use acrylics this days no more oils .

 

[frank h]

Hi Einion
This year I intend to paint no putty pushing
other than gap filling

Have lined up projects for painting this year
It does include Vercingetorix
as well as a mounted figure and a bust

In total five of which ...three are in various
stages of construction one I am currently
painting and one has yet to be started

like having a fall back project ... for those moments of
painters block at least it gives me something to be doing ..
with the time i get to spend on my bench

A great topic thanks for raising it

Frank

 

[periklis_sale]

Hi Einion

I do more thatn one at a time, not because i am rich ha, ha, ha!!!!

I think its because while i am doing a figure a new one comes out and I WANT IT!!!!!!!

Like a child a thing!!!

 

[Figure Mad]

Hi Guys

Good thread, I usually work on 2 or 3 at a time, as my research is usually done way before I start and kept with the figure in the draw till I start it, that way I can start the figure when ever I wish and dont have to look around for the research twice. Although I do have to say that I have 5 figures, cleaned and primed with the flesh base coat, ready to at the moment, so you could say i am working on 5 .... :lol:

I’m just happy painting

Dave

 

[Buddha]

I paint one at a time as from bitter experience I learned that by having several on the go I was painting the areas I liked to paint (faces, armour) and moving on. It took a lot of discipline to focus on one at a time but now I am a happier painter and the collection is growing steadily.

 

[Pete_H]

4.

 

[mahross]

In total I have got eleven projects on the go.

- one 90mm
- three 54mm
- one bust
- one flat
- one mounted 54mm
- one 120mm
- two AFV's
- one Aircraft

I like to work on a lot of different things at one time. Keeps the variety going.

Ross

 

[YellaMoon]

My vote was that I work on more than 1 figure at a time. That's true, but I usually concentrate on 1 figure. I always have a few figures "in the background" that I'm cleaning, prepping, priming, basing etc. and I usually have a few Rackham fantasy figures going when I dont have a lot of time to devote to my "main" figure or I just want to keep in practice.

RWD