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The 2021 roundup!

Christmas Kirby

It’s that time of year again. Time to show some graphs and tables to entertain myself and bore everyone else. But let’s first send out some festive greetings with this Christmas Kirby that I sculpted while on a short holiday to the island of Texel. In between taking nice but freezing cold walks with the wife I did a lot of reading and also sculpted this chubby Nintendo character. He is made of Fimo polymer clay and I painted him up with my regular acrylic paints once we returned home. 

Now, back to the boring stuff. This is my second end-of-year roundup and the first roundup after a full year of blogging, as I started back in May 2020. Last year, I completed 99 minis and terrain pieces. I easily surpassed that this year with a total of 287! Admittedly, 82 of those are in the diminutive 72nd scale, which is relatively quick to build and paint. But that’s still a pretty massive increase. In the following graphs I’ve broken down the numbers by scale, category (mini, vehicle, terrain) and period.

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Even though I painted quite a few more minis than last year, my pile of shame hasn’t decreased accordingly. In fact, it grew quite a bit. There are still 220 unpainted minis looking at me accusingly from the hobby cabinet...

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I’m very pleased to see that my blog keeps getting a steady number of page views each month. On average somewhere between 400 and 500, with this month being particularly high at 850 so far (update: exactly 990 at the end of the month!). I think that’s quite a nice score for a silly little site about the ramblings of a mediocre hobbyist like myself. The number of comments is lagging behind a bit, though. Perhaps that’s because the settings originally required you to log in to a gmail account to be able to post a comment. I think I have managed to change that now, making it a lot easier for people to leave a comment. 

So, that’s probably it for this year. Happy holidays and see you in January!

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  1. The Yarnival of the Animals28 December 2021 at 14:21

    Great round-up as usual! Still think those graphs would look better in R, though...

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  2. littletanksandtinypeople28 December 2021 at 14:58

    Thanks! You know how I like to adjust my graphs in Illustrator ;-) I didn't bother with that this time, though.

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