Esoteric spring cleaning

I did some inventory review and made a plan for this challenge. This is my roster for next couple of months:

1. Use Egyptian rolling pin (on something bigger than 25mm base),
2. Create flowing water scene,
3. Create woodland scene,
4. Paint a tank.

Bonus:

5. Use Greek rolling pin,
6. Create steam punk scene,
7. Create a piece of dungeon,
8. Paint a mini with oil paints.

Ultra bonus:

9. Use lighting effects on a mini or scene – this one is really uncertain as I have no supplies or tools and considering current world situation I don’t expect to have any in the near future.

This is it. What I mean by ‘scene’ is a small diorama or big base and such, as stated before I’m not in a position to build tables worth of terrain. I have rough idea how I would approach each of above bullet points but nothing material yet.

My cleaning this year will be even more weird than last year. I searched my hobby storage for a simple, self-contained project to post for the challenge, but the more I searched, the less ideas I had. Just take a look:

To be honest, I fight my backlog of unpainted minis on daily basis, and my results are not so bad, about 60% of my collection is painted with steady growth.

Where I guess I actually stay behind is diversity. As you may find out in my other projects blogs I mostly paint Infinity and Hasslefree minis, and build terrain which is either cyberpunk or frozen ruins (for Frostgrave). At the same time I’m a sucker for new technics and hobby products. I checked my hard drive and found over 2GB (over 1 000) of pictures with some inspiration for modelling (mostly terrain building). On top of that over 5GB of various magazines, guides and handbooks on hobby related stuff. My drawers are full of never used hobby products and such. I’m subscribed to over 100 hobby related channels on YouTube… and get excited every time I watch them apply new technic or use new product…

The realization I had during that search was that I don’t have enough life ahead of me to use all those products and technics myself if I want to build gaming tables with them. Heck, I don’t think I’ll ever have enough space home to accommodate more than one gaming table (which I already have)… So my project (and I guess it will last longer than one spring) will be use as many different technics and products I own but never used as possible.

*I also found out that I have never painted any tank in my modelling/gaming career, so I’ll it this a go in different project.