2023 Review and 2024 Thoughts and Plans

 Herein lies the annual plan for the year, which I promptly forget and then get on with other things before retuning 12 months later with a LOL WOT? when reading.

So, first thing. Blog. What happened? Not been posting a whole lot and just about maintaining it as a record for scenarios.

In a word. The dread word WORK. Got v busy with a move of studio locations, which soaked up 80% of my time between Jan and July, leaving me with little time to do much else. So, even though painting, gaming and doing all the usual stuff, the blog was the one that was suffered. I'm honest enough to not make a grand BUT NOT THIS YEAR statement, so lets see. This is combined with my playing and gaming more (the blog saw its highest activity when the babies were younger and I wasn't doing much accordingly), not being on the computer a whole lot to find but, but lets see......

Right last years pledges. I literally will be looking at these for the first time since the post before!

https://themosquitoonthetenthfloor.blogspot.com/2023/01/2022-review-and-2023-thoughts-and-plans.html

1. Painting

The fuck am I waffling about there? No idea. Still, painting continued (continues) apace, albeit sllightly slower than previously. I'm fighting predations of buying yet more armies, but really this constant pursuing of new projects isn't really sustainable in terms of actually using them, space, time and money, so I've been progressing through what I have.

To be fair to myself, I did get a lot of stuff done and finished last year, it just wasn't recorded.

2. No New Major Projects

Hmmm, I think I stuck to this one. I can't think of anything that I really started. What I did get over the year has mainly been for existing things or supplementary to campaigns (terrain, for example). Yeah, think I managed this.

3. FINISH THE FOLLOWING (related to #1)

1870 Prussians

1879 British

Epic Iron Warriors

Uruk Hai

Mordor

Medieval stuff (yep, all of it!)

SO......

Prussians - nope. Built them and undercoated, but mainly to get rid of the boxes and save space.

British - nope. Think I might have undercoated some. Zulu def my least loved of projects

Epic Iron Warriors - YES! All done, then I dropped the fuckin' box and shattered them as 3d prints. We even had a big multiplayer epic campaign over the summer which was good.

Uruk Hai - Underway right now. Literally, I'll be basing some this lunchtime today. Loads of progress

Mordor - Yes! I've painted what I have and thats all done

Medieval Stuff - nope, still some left to do,. Not a whole lot, but enough to be work.

NEW PLEDGES

Without being brutal, there isn't any really. I've lots of ideas and projects ticking around, but I'm also trying to not engage them as live projects for reasons mentioned above. With that in mind.

1. Fantasy Stuff.

Been really enjoying Oathmark, what I've played of it, so thats likely to be a focus for a bit. So, I'll catalogue my fantasy armies as part of the grand cataloguing work thats underway and fill the gaps in units etc, then get those all painted to completion.

2. Dark Ages

The holdout from periods. There will be some dark ages gaming in Spring, once the Peninsular runs out of steam, so we're all doing a "buy a box of Victrix, build, paint, thats the whole force. So, get that all built and painted, then played. Plus scenery, naturally.

3. Napoleonics. 

So close to finishing. Oh so close to being completely finished. I will be very happy if this is done this year, as I really don't need anything else, so anything painted and finished is all from the backlog and a plus.

Lets leave it at those. Now, off to try and not buy a bloody castle.