Painting Diary

	2007 January February March April May June July August September October November December
2006 January February March April May June July August September October November December	2005 January February March April May June July August September October November December
2004 January February March April May June July August September October November December	2003 January February March April May June July August September October November December

• 2006 Year-End Report
• 2005 Year-End Report
• 2004 Year-End Report

I started keeping a diary of all my painting work in late 2003, largely because I had no good idea how much work I was actually getting done - you see, most of my finished models simply sit in egg cartons trying not to collect too much dust after their initial photo session.

I didn't really have a plan when I started. Then again, had I stopped for planning, I might not have done this at all. Therefore the classification of work stages is somewhat fuzzy.

The diary entries contain the figures I've worked on during that day and the last work stage I've reached with them. Thus it might appear that some stages are missing - they're not, I just finished more than one stage at a go.

The work stages go roughly like this:

1. cleaning (including attaching a base)
2. priming
3. base colors
4. wash and drybrush
5. detail work
6. varnishing
7. FINISHED (flocking the base)

Initially there was no plan to put this on a computer, but that plan soon emerged. I was already photographing all my finished models and putting them up on Small Cuts. It was relatively simple to adapt the comment software to take the diary entries (hardly an ideal solution from IT perspective, but it works). The beef with the computerized diary is that the entries are linked to the photo archive. Now I can see which models exactly did I finish on that rainy November night...

One final caveat: I am only human. Sometimes I forget to make diary entries. Sometimes they are more detailed, sometimes less. Take it as it is, and hopefully enjoy.

Output

Here's the running total of the output by year:

	2004	2005	2006	TOTAL
Infantry	354	155	198	707
Cavalry	0	0	20	20
Monsters	4	9	0	13
Vehicles	15	6	128	149
Terrain Items	101	164	386	651
TOTAL	474	334	732	1540

	2007 January February March April May June July August September October November December
2006 January February March April May June July August September October November December	2005 January February March April May June July August September October November December
2004 January February March April May June July August September October November December	2003 January February March April May June July August September October November December

Sucks! (6)

(12) Rocks!

Comments

Answer to "How many Minis did I paint"	guest	9.1.2005 21:30:50
I think you have painted more than your fair share, and that would be 2049. Oggie

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