The end of the year is rapidly approaching, and I'm sitting contemplating what I've managed to achieve hobby wise in 2024. I've undoubtedly painted the most minis in a single year that I've ever done, sitting at 350 Painting Points as of time of writing and not that far off getting to 368 before New Years, which would be more than one Painting Point per day! I also managed to get in a lot more wargames, partly as a result of going to the local club for a few weeks - this has lapsed due to life reasons but I do want to reattend more regularly next year - and also because I got to play some Kill Team and Battletech with my good friends C, D, and H. And, of course, I met S in Warhammer World for some games as well.
I've also picked up some new games, like This Quar's War and Lo! Thy Dread Empire and have my eyes on some solo stuff like Five Parsecs From Home and, once my Battletech Kickstarter eventually arrives, Alpha Strike: Aces solo Battletech. And there's the Trench Crusade bug too. But above it all this year has been a very Games Workshop-y one, from the Tomb Kings that I cranked out at a rate of knots in the first few weeks of 2024 to the Adeptus Arbites and metal giant rats sat on my workstation right now.
That's unlikely to change really; the bulk of my pile of opportunity is made up of GW stuff - 40K, Warhammer, and Specialist Games like Mordheim, Necromunda, and Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower. Things of that nature. So what's the general idea for 2025 then?
In large part I suspect it'll be "whatever takes my fancy". I have lots of stuff waiting to be painted, some of it having languished for a long time, and some of it brand new (or even yet to arrive). That said, I would love to finish the High Elf force I've been on-and-off working on for nearly a decade. I want to try and get the Quar Royalists sorted. I'd really like to make a dent in my Dark Eldar, too. But then there's my Space Wolves, and the Imperial Guard, and my Argent Shroud Sisters of Battle, and...
It is, after all, a pile of opportunity. So let's see what 2025 brings - and in the waning days of 2024, I'll see how close to 365 Painting Points I can get!
|
Lest I forget, I also have a bunch of Blood Bowl teams to do...
|