Half Year Results

With six months of the year gone it is time for my half year wrap up.  In the past I have had a rather cavalier approach to my projects, flitting between them like a butterfly, but in recent times I have been a much more disciplined butterfly, and this year even more so.

 

At the beginning of the year I determined to focus on eight specific projects:

• The completion of the French in Egypt (that included an expansion)
• The completion of the French 1812-1813 army
• Adding the Heavy Brigade to the British Crimean War army
• The start and finish of the British in Egypt 
• The start of the Ottoman Turks for 1798-1801
• The expansion of the War of 1812 collection
• The start of a Spanish Napoleonic army
• The start of a Swedish Napoleonic army

On top of these projects would be a number of terrain items that would support the various projects. These would be my butterfly items that I could flit between to provide a bit of variety amongst the masses of figures.

 

So what is the state of the project plan? Well it is pretty good really.

• The main part of the French in Egypt collection was completed in January, with a small expansion in May/June. The figures for a slightly bigger expansion are on order
• Heavy Brigade for the Crimea, well only half of that is done due to figure supply issues. These figure are still unavailable, but I hope to be able to to complete this expansion before year’s end
• The British in Egypt collection is completed except for two gun sets that are on order
• The French 1812-1813 collection is progressing well and will meet the completion deadline of November
• The War of 1812 expansion exceeded its targets by being ahead of time and larger than was intended
• The Ottoman Turks project has started, but is intended to be a “gathering” force, with units being added here and there over the next year or two
• The Spanish and Swedish Napoleonic collections are not yet started, but do have slots in the schedule from October through December.

On top of the figures I have made some terrain pieces – the War of 1812 blockhouse, the Maori Village, some woodland indian houses, the Egyptian village and based all those palm trees!

 

So to the statistics:

Item	Foot	Mounted	Guns	Points	Percentage
French in Egypt	87	18	2	635	10
French 1812-1813	198	124	6	2290	36
British in Egypt	304	33	4	2060	29
Ottoman Turks	34	0	0	170	3
Crimean War	0	12	0	120	2
War of 1812	48	6	0	310	5
Spanish Napoleonic	0	0	0	0	0
Swedish Napoleonic	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	671	193	13	5415	100

In addition to this are 30 terrain items with a points count of 1,020, giving a total points count for the year to date of 6,435.

This year I created a number of reporting tools to not only monitor my progress, but to manage my purchases too, keep me within my budget and out of serious trouble with her indoors.

A half year result of 6,435 painting points is pretty respectable in my books. The second half year won’t yeald as high a total because there will be a couple of significant disruptions to painting time, but Istill anticipate meeting all my targets.

 

Oh dear,  I have just read through what I have written and realised how close to my real life performance review it reads…although if I could count as many successes in real life I would be much happier, but then I don’t have to deal with insanely beaurocratic corporate IT group in my hobby life.