Still a bit of time to go for 2018, so I’ll be able to cross of another 2-3 things from my 2018 list. But the main lesson for me from past year does come down to ‘slow your enthusiasm partner’. Nowhere near what I had hoped to get done for the year, though the stuff that got painted up has been a lot of fun. Just randomly building and painting stuff for Kill Team in particular has been a blast, really scratches my creativity itch.
Granted it has been a mess of a year with all manner of ‘real world’ drama, ill family members, work shenanigans and what not. Free time and hobby energy have been at an all-time low, though in all honesty I suspect that just ‘forcefully’ planning in more hobby time would have been a good thing on many different levels. There is something near therapeutic about the building and painting side of our little hobby, borderline mindfulness training. 😉
Probably the best thing for 2019 is for me to actually get stuck in and finish projects. Been indexing my to do pile (perhaps a bit too much of my research job bleeding over into the rest of my life) and there are like a dozen plus projects half to fully built and even undercoated that got shelved for all manner of reasons. Most of them don’t even go past 15-20 models, there’s a lot of relatively fast progress to be made there I think. Planning to try and build up some momentum over the holidays, get several of those older projects ready for actual painting and sorting out stuff I won’t get around to to trade, sell, pass on or put towards charity.
I’ll update the specific projects details somewhere over the coming week or two, still sorting out what there’s actually left to do. Plus the current year is short and still full of hobby projects. Have at least one Kill Team yet to finish for example. 😉
@lawnor – Quick, general thanks for setting this one up again. Though I personally didn’t make it far through my 2018 list, it has been a lot of fun to see other folks get stuck in! Good idea by the way to set a ‘if fully painted now, it should end the year fully painted’-rule for yourself. Effective way to keep the new pile from overflowing.
@derekkinsman – Know the feeling man. It’s so tempting to hold on to models and games because they’re cool or ‘we’ll get around to them later’. Still have some goodies from the Rogue Trader era because of that, reality still hasn’t fully sunk in for those. Cool selection of games you’ll continue to support though, lots of quite diverse and unique rules / settings in there. Plus how can I not look forward to seeing more World of Twilight stuff, have my own Dhogu on the docket for 2019.
@angelicdespot – Big, daunting, but fun projects. Haven’t gotten a chance to play Deep Madness myself, but I do believe the majority of the game is scenario based right? If so perhaps combining gaming sessions with painting goals could help break up that pile of lovely models into more manageable segments. Thinking about doing the same with Star Saga, painting the heroes, terrain pieces and basic enemy types needed for the first 2-3 missions, play the scenarios a couple of times and then move on to the more elite enemies and bosses.
