General de Brigade

Suvoroff · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: How big is your army?

I was reading the thread on batch-painting, and I was comparing the way some people go about this in a sort of industrial way, with my pitifully slow methods. Then I wondered, how many units have most of us got?

Including cavalry regiments, infantry battalions, and batteries, I've got 8 units. Yeah, not very impressive.

Please only include units you have painted yourself.

Yours,
James D. Gray

Arteis · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:47 am Post subject:

Do you mean per side?
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Suvoroff · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:10 am Post subject:

No, total for all your different armies in the Napoleonic period, based for GdB.

Yours,
James D. Gray

DCRBrown · Brigadier Joined: 05 Oct 2001 Posts: 1026 Location: UK

S,

I mis-read this at first reading and almost deleted it as unsavoury spam!

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Milhaud · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject:

James,

the unwanted fallout of such a survey is the realisation that I have so many incomplete units... at least half of my army is understrength.

Maybe I should change my painting style to the "industrial" assembly line approach.

I will not count the masses of schoolboy 25mm minifigs in the cellar.
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Lannes · Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 82 Location: Dorset England

About 18mm tall generally Rolling Eyes

Sorry tempation was too much Embarassed

Milhaud · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

Rudorff · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject:

James,

I have painted very little of my current collection of units, I have bought them painted. However I raised the money to buy them by selling off my collection of 25mm stuff, all of which I did paint myself, so do I get a technical bye or is it a foot in touch Confused

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Cheers, Gary

MPHILLIPS · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:55 pm Post subject:

74 at a quick count without looking.....and lots of easy to paint militia units coming on........ 8)

valleyboy · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 149 Location: NZ

Its not just having an industrial painting factory that helps in the figure count, the more significant factor is time or age!

Like all factories, the more modern, the more streamlined the production should be. My factory was established in 1982 and is now a bit antiquitated Sad

Despite the fact it's produced about 8,000 Napoleonics there's still quite a few to paint yet and still avery long wanted list Embarassed

baxterj · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:22 am Post subject:

valleyboy, I just cant contemplate 8,000 Naps - what is the rough breakdown?

john

valleyboy · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 149 Location: NZ

hi John
It seems ludicrous but it just grew
It started with Brits and French
British would be close to 20 unts infantry 30 or 40 strong with 8 units of cavalry, French is a bit larger particularly with the young guard of 8 battalions just having been completed.
French Allies generally number around 6-8 battalions/nation with additional cavalry - Wurttembourgers, saxons, confederation french, Poles, westphalians and Italians
Then I have a decent Russian and Austrian Force and a few Prussians.
At the moment I'm concentrating on command sets
The quality of the painting has varied to the extent that I'm now stripping and repainting some of the eariler figures.
I've had some unpainted spaniards and portugese for about a year.
I did decide to stick them all on a table to see what they look like. I'll post some pics here at some stage but a few pics can be found at
http://wdlovesme.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=481

Suvoroff · Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:21 am Post subject:

Rudorff;
In the end it's up to you. The spirit of the poll is to measure people's painting prowess (PPP).

My PPP is feeling smaller by the minute.

Yours,
James D. Gray

Giles · Captain Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 794 Location: London

Assuming that I can sneak my "British Grenadier" forces into the survey, I reckon I just about scrape into the top bracket with 63 units. That breaks down into 25 American units, 22 battalions of Brits, 5 battalions of Hessians, 2 of loyalists, 3 units of cavalry, 3 batteries of artillery (5 guns per battery) and 3 "tribes" of Indians. However, some of these "units" consist of only 6 figures and most are between 16 and 24 figures. That's well over 1,000 25mm figs in total though.