Hobby Progress - 2013 Day 4

I sat down tonight and went through my bin of unpainted Lord of the Rings miniatures.

This is always a hard thing to do.  I barely ever play the game, and although I do enjoy it when I play, I'll be the first to admit that it is a tactically limited system that I don't find particularly challenging.

Still, I find the game entertaining, I like the miniatures, and I believe in a world where all miniatures have the right to be painted (okay - not so strongly on that last one).

At any rate, having tallied up my Rohan models, I see that I have somewhere in the ballpark of 600 or so points (almost exclusively Riders and Warriors of Rohan).  As such, I figure there's no harm in committing to painting all my Rohan models by the end of March.

Today, after getting some work related writing knocked out, I dedicated my evening to hobby progress.  And I got quite a bit done.

Tonight, I did the following:
 - put the first armor wash on 1 Swamp Troll, 10 Fennblades, and 1 Chronicler
 - did the final skin highlight, the carapace basecoat, and stretched skin wash on a Stinger
 - cleaned and primed 11 Warriors of Rohan with hand weapons and shields
 - painted the base and put down the first base of color on the plants of a terrain piece I've been working on

More to come.

2013 Hobby Commitments

I've been dreadfully remiss in updating this blog in, well, ever... but that doesn't mean I've given up on hobby progress!

However, over the last several months, all my progress has been unfocused.  I got into a unit of 40 Black Orcs pretty hardcore... then dropped off after 18 of them to switch to Savage Orcs.  I fell off the Savage Orcs to work on some Heroes.  I left the Heroes behind to work on the 40k Dark Vengeance box.  I jumped from them to Legion of Everblight when I started to get more HordesMachine games in.

It's not as bad as it sounds, really.  I was making progress on everything... but nothing really felt "complete."

This year, I want to try something new.  I still want to work on several projects, but I don't want to commit to a single one.  I don't want 2013 to be the "Year of X Army." I want it to be the year of progress.

So I've decided to create a 2013 Hobby Resolution.  Over the next 12 months, I plan to paint up 2000 points - but not of the same thing.  Here's my plan:

January 1st - March 31st: 500 points of Lord of the Rings Rohan

April 1st - June 30th: 500 points of Orcs and Goblins

July 1st - September 30th: 500 points of Chaos Space Marines

October 1st - December 31st: 500 points of High Elves

Additionally, I have 10 Trollblood Fennblades, 1 Chronicler, 1 Swamp Troll, 1 Legion Scythean, 2 Stingers, and 1 Naga Nightlurker.  I have a further commitment to paint those up by May 16th.  Why the 16th?  It's my birthday and my wife tends to expand my Hordes forces for my birthday and Christmas.  So I'd like ot get these done before then.

Finally, I have a box of unpainted terrain.  Some of it is complex.  Some is as simple as a 6" section of stone wall.  So I plan to paint a single piece of terrain each month, meaning I'll have 12 more painted chunks of terrain by the year's end.

Pictures as progress is made.  Still working on the exact 500 point lists, so updates when I decide what I'm painting, as well.

To hobby!