List time. Not that I especially stick to them - one thing I've learned in my job, is that a project doesn't always get delivered when its supposed to, you can handle multiple projects and that having the panoptic overview of the projects is the best way to manage things - but here we go.
1. KEEP GOING, BUT BEHAVE
My painting rate is fairly high. On a slow month, I can bosh out 50 models no problem and I enjoy doing so. However, theres no point doing this if I'm buying more shit than I can feasibly paint (cycling past Orcs Nest on the ride home each night doesn't help, mind).
So, keep going but behave. Handily, Chateau Mosquito isn't full of infinite hiding places for models, so theres a certain limit to what I can own anyhow. And I'm close to that point :)
2. EMPTY THE BOX OF SHAME
I've got bench indoors that you can lift the lid on and use for storage. This is chock full of boxes - a couple of hundred quids worth, some of which has been there for at least five years now. I'll be attacking that mutha with some vigor, which'll mean a varied painting schedule, but once done, done.
Just don't fill the thing up again......
3. A BIT OF NICE PAINTING
Might actually just paint something to a decent quality for once, and not the hammer it out attack I usually approach my stuff with. Small bits in between the mains. Amuse Bouche?
4. GETTING MEDIEVAL
Been steadily working away on medieval stuff, so it seems like thats going to have to see some table time at some point. Just need to do a count and do the pregame work, really.
5. LANDSKNECHTS
Yeah, I gave in and bought that Warlord Games Landsknecht army box. There was a couple reasons behind this - mainly that it was going cheap, I had that itch, I can repurpose my 15th Century stuff into the force when needed and I like blocks of pikes.
How to paint them? Different question altogether, and I'll come back to that at the time.
6. DARK AGES?
Seeing as we seem to be voluntarily entering a new dark age in 2020/its the one long standing interest of mine/I'm doing some archaelogical road tripping' next summer/I've yet to actually complete a project for this era, maybe might possibly perhaps do a very small dark ages project. Thing here is to not go mad and go HASTINGS or somesuch, but to keep it reasonable and viable. This is a low likelihood project, but you never know.
7. TERRAIN
Might take opportunity to filth my terrain up a bit and get it looking a bit more lived in and characterful. I don’t need any more 28mm terrain really (well, except some green hills, maybe), so if I can, I’d like to get some more character into what I do have
8. MASSIVE ROBOT DEATH
As something different from the usual fayre, I think a bit of sci-fi huge robot jox battling/painting is in order. Needs terrain too
Lets see how that lot fares against my ever shortening attention span.
Well good luck with your plans, glad to hear the landsknechts have made it onto the long list I've got a similar chest and it also didn't help I spent a few weeks working within spitting distance of the orcs nest! Strangely I've also got the dark age bug as my new project for this year, maybe your right about it feeling like we are entering a new one we may as well paint the old one!
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Orcs Nest is dangerous - its literally on the ride home, I can lock up outside, go in, get something, come back out and stash the stuff away. My old route used to be past Dark Sphere as well, but I stopped going that way (for unrelated reasons)
DeleteAs ever with these plans, I tend to get them down just to compare how different the year end result is. I'm already diverting! :)