2025 was another fun year at the painting desk. Most of my painting was commission work, rather than for myself.
I have included the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge points in brackets with my total below.
28mm Foot: 114 (570)
1/72 Foot: 656 (2,624)
1/72 mounted:37 (296)
1/72 guns: 5 (75)
15mm Foot: 182 (364)
15mm Mounted: 99 (396)
15mm Foot: 182 (364)
15mm Mounted: 99 (396)
That gives me a total of 4,325 points on the year, against an eighteen year average of 5,634, so this year was 23% below normal. It is under half of what I painted last year.
2025: 4,325
2024: 8,808
2023: 7,275
2022: 7,128
2021: 4,965
2020: 7,953
2019: 6,285
2018: 5,072
2017: 7,187
2016: 5,086
2015: 4,506
2014: 4,327
2013: 5,456
2012: 5,787
2011: 4,081
2010: 7,167
2009: 4,348
2008: 8,816
Since I started tracking my painting totals, only 2011 has been lower. That year I broke my ankle, remodeled a house, moved in, listed and sold my old house, and celebrated the birth of my second child.
Nothing in 2025 compares with the challenges of 2011, so why do the totals look so much lower this year?
Primarily it's because because a large commission took up over two months' painting before the customer changed his mind and pulled the plug. That was frustrating, and it seems to have ended a friendship. The figures were about 95% done. It was hard for me to find much motivation after that, and I have only regained my painting stride over the past couple months.
2026 should see a return to form. I am working my way through a large 15mm ACW commission now, which feels like coming home. I am also looking forward to playing more games in 2026!
Excluding the two months’ work lost, your totals are still in the ballpark of your long term averages. I think you had great year at the painting table! Yeah, we can try to get in more games.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot to throw in your side “gig” that eats into your time as well.