As a follow up to my previous blog post, I decided to make a short update on how my zero bits challenge is going so far and I will start by making a comparison between the current status graphs versus the ones from the last update:

Status from May 2nd

Status from September 5th

There are some changes on the green bars (painted models) in several categories as you can probably notice, but the major difference at the moment would be the fact that the top value in the infantry graph moved from 3500 to 4500 and the red bar (models converted beyond box numbers) is getting closer to the size of the blue bar (bought models) and at the moment the distribution of bought versus converted is at 58% versus 42%

I should get closer to 50-50 until the end of the year (although I am not yet sure whether I will reach it in 2023 or not), as I spend more of the spare parts in the boxes.

The last group of boxes that I have dispatched were persians from wargames atlantic although some of the converted models were certainly far closer to sci-fi models than would be expected from the original box. After spending all bits from the 5 boxes of persians I ended up with 480 converted models, 80 more than the amount I had done from the einherjar boxes before.

I still have a large amount of spare bits to use before I can get to a point where only newly purchased boxes have bits to use, but if I keep up the pace I should be able to get most bits spent before the end of 2024. When that happens I will have the ability to focus more on scratch built stuff or simply painting, basing and other tasks that will be pending when the building/converting part is over.

On the painting side I should be able to finish some of the categories this year, with cavalry being the most likely candidate to being fully done before the end of 2023.