OK. Best get this up before the year starts to slip away!
2014
In terms of gaming and painting it was both a good and bad year. I only managed a few games: Ayton in May, Framlingham in October and the club Christmas game. Not a lot in quantity but the quality was outstanding. The Ayton gathering in May was the usual excellent gaming weekend and excellent socialising. You could not wish for a finer bunch of chaps to spend a weekend with. I managed a small solo naval game just after that and would like to return to that. Next session was the Framlingham game in October. Hosted by Tim Hall with an excellent 20mm WSS game with Iain, Gary and Dave on Day 1 and then with Tim’s lovely 28mm ACW collection on the Sunday, it was a great weekend. And that was it until I rolled out my C18th troops for a game of Beneath The Lilly Banners for the Tyneside Club Christmas game. I had great plans for some solo games but time and space never coincided…
You can read more on these games here:
Ayton 2014 and the little naval game
Painting wasn’t too bad. I entered the Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge which kept me motivated over the turn of the year. Things got a little distracted in the run up to Ayton but I got everything I wanted painted. I only had one 20mm unit to paint for the Fram game and nothing more for the rest of the year. I’ve done a few other odds and ends but nothing major.
2015
You can see the new Master Plan to the right. It’s quite conservative. I want the unit painted for Ayton and maybe a few ‘characters’. The units needed for the Partizan game are only a few and are a good driver for getting more added to my ImagiNation forces. This bodes well for a hopeful return to the C18th for Ayton 2016! I’ve got plans for a new 10mm Sudan project and have done some sample figures. I hope this will keep going this year as 10mm and Sudan is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. I’d like to finish the other couple of units of my 20mm WSS but until there is another game planned it’s not a priority. And I have NO INTENTION OF STARTING ANY NEW PROJECTS!!!!
Any other painting I do will be just to add to existing projects. That leaves plenty of scope! I want to try and finish some projects off, paint the last odd unit, dispose of surplus lead. Punic Wars, AWI, Modern Micro armour will all fall into this area. And I’m knocking a couple of projects on the head: 6mm Arab Israeli and 6mm WW2 North Africa. Both will be up for sale soon!
Games – nothing major planned other than the usual excellent Ayton and the big game at Partizan, both of which I am really looking forward to. March will also hopefully see a mini gathering in Newark and Lincoln which should be most enjoyable. I’m also going to try and get a few games in at my club. Honest…
And finally, I want to re-vamp the blog a little. I want to start moving the static content over to a normal website so I can play round with the format a bit more. And hopefully spend some time sorting my collection and photographing more.
So, there we are. We shall see what transpires!
Great stuff. I think you’ll need more Mahdists though.