2013 Hobby Goals - Progress

Morning folks,

Hobby time at home is going to be a bit limited the next few days so I've not got any painting pledge stuff to show... So I thought I'd go back and re-visit my "2013 Hobby Goals" post and update it with what I've done so far this year.

Here goes!

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Imperial Guard:

- Find a use for, and assemble, 18 plastic Cadians.

- Buy 3 lots of the hostile environment special weapons upgrade sets from Forge World.

- Assemble and paint 3 special weapons teams.

- Wash vehicles to dull them down and match rest of the army.

Necrons:

- Spray and paint the following...

- 1 Cryptek

- Imotekh

- Trazyn

- 1 Catacomb Command Barge

- 1 Overlord

- 10 Immortals

- 5 Lychguard

- 1 Ghost Ark

- Go back and wash older models to match them with new stuff.

Dark Eldar:

- Paint the following...

- 10 Hellions

- 1 Raider

- 1 Razorwing

- Re-purpose my Dark Elf corsairs into Trueborn.

- Decide if I'm ever going to use the old DE models and do something about it.

Squats:

- Paint up and glue on some power axes for the Sergeants.

Eldar:

- Actually bother writing an army list.

- Paint the following...

- 6 War Walkers

- 3 Wave Serpents

- 1 Falcon

- Paint heavy weapons for the Guardian Squad

Chaos Marines:

- Buy the new Codex

- Spray Dark Vengeance Chaos bits

- Paint Dark Vengeance Chaos bits

- Use what I can to get the army to minimum 1,000pts to use as allies for Daemons.

Dark Angels:

- Buy the new Codex.

- Buy and paint Belial (Removed this as sticking to my own)

- Paint Cypher

- Spray Dark Vengance bits

- Paint Dark Vengance bits

- Get bits for 2 Veterans I found in my box to convert to Chaplains or Vet Sergeants

 

Tyranids:

- Assemble and paint Battleforce, Gargoyles and Carnifex

- Get hold of as many Mycetic Spores as I can

- Get the army to at least 2,000pts before the end of the year.

- Ensure that the army is fully assembled and painted.

Orks:

-  Fix the 2 converted WW2 planes I have into the bases and carrying the correct weaponry for Dakkajets and Bommas.

Bretonnians:

- Paint the following...

- 3 Pegasus Knights

- 20 Grail Pilgrims and Grail Reliquae

- 8 Grail Knights

- 15 Men at Arms

- Actually play some Fantasy!

Blood Bowl:

- Assemble and paint 13 Gnoblars for Ogre team

- Buy box of Ogre Bulls for Ogre and Human team

- Make some spare Blood Bowl pitches, templates and counters that can be left at the club.

- Start a Blood Bowl league

Hobby:

- Build / buy enough buildings for gaming table at home.

- Organise hobby storage better.

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Chances are, there'll be a few more bits added to this list in the next few weeks each time a Codex drops but overall I've made a bit of progress and chipped a few sections off the list.

That's all for now!

SB

2013 Hobby Goals - Update

Been a bit without a blog again, due to people going back to work and general "Meh"ness of January.

Couple of things have happened in the mean time such as the release of the Dark Angels codex and models, a resurgence of Blood Bowl at the club and preparations for tournaments this year.

At the start of January I tried to outline my overall hobby plan for 2013 and what I would like to achieve in the following year, dependant on where the hobby goes for me and what GW plan to release. Here was the post in qustion: 2013 Hobby Goals

The original list was pretty optimistic as it was and also wasn't accounting for some other things I've found in the mean time, nor did it account for new releases.

I'm going to paste the original list in here and tack in the newer stuff I've thought of, or found, since writing the list... Freshly added goals will be highlighted.

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Imperial Guard:

- Find a use for, and assemble, 18 plastic Cadians.

- Buy 3 lots of the hostile environment special weapons upgrade sets from Forge World.

- Assemble and paint 3 special weapons teams.

- Wash vehicles to dull them down and match rest of the army.

Necrons:

- Spray and paint the following...

- 1 Cryptek

- Imotekh

- Trazyn

- 1 Catacomb Command Barge

- 1 Overlord

- 10 Immortals

- 5 Lychguard

- 1 Ghost Ark

- Go back and wash older models to match them with new stuff.

Dark Eldar:

- Paint the following...

- 10 Hellions

- 1 Raider

- 1 Razorwing

- Re-purpose my Dark Elf corsairs into Trueborn.

- Decide if I'm ever going to use the old DE models and do something about it.

Squats:

- Paint up and glue on some power axes for the Sergeants.

Eldar:

- Actually bother writing an army list.

- Paint the following...

- 6 War Walkers

- 3 Wave Serpents

- 1 Falcon

- Paint heavy weapons for the Guardian Squad

Chaos Marines:

- Buy the new Codex

- Spray and Paint Dark Vengeance Chaos bits

- Use what I can to get the army to minimum 1,000pts to use as allies for Daemons.

Dark Angels:

- Buy the new Codex.

- Buy and paint Belial

- Get bits for 2 Veterans I found in my box to convert to Chaplains or Vet Sergeants

- Paint Cypher

- Spray and Paint Dark Vengance bits

Tyranids:

- Assemble and paint Battleforce, Gargoyles and Carnifex

- Get hold of as many Mycetic Spores as I can

- Get the army to at least 2,000pts before the end of the year.

- Ensure that the army is fully assembled and painted.

Orks:

-  Fix the 2 converted WW2 planes I have into the bases and carrying the correct weaponry for Dakkajets and Bommas.

Bretonnians:

- Paint the following...

- 3 Pegasus Knights

- 20 Grail Pilgrims and Grail Reliquae

- 8 Grail Knights

- 15 Men at Arms

- Actually play some Fantasy!

Blood Bowl:

- Assemble and 13 Gnoblars for Ogre team

- Buy box of Ogre Bulls for Ogre and Human team

- Make some spare Blood Bowl pitches, templates and counters that can be left at the club.

- Start a Blood Bowl league

Hobby:

- Build / buy enough buildings for gaming table at home.

- Organise hobby storage better.

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So yeah, more added onto the pile without including anything that gets released or updated this year or any crazy whimsical purchases from Hobbycraft or whilst bored on a Sunday evening.

Will update my January painting pledge on Monday when I've hopefully made some progress!

January Painting Pledge - Dark Eldar and Spraying

Morning folks.

Hot on the heels of yesterday's "2013 Hobby Goals" blog, I thought I'd follow up with my plan for this month's hobby pledge.

Last month I got a bit carried away, as I thought with being off from work that I would be able to get more done and I did to a degree, but then got really burnt out from painting and spent the second half of the month playing on the Xbox or PC instead.

To Spray:
- Dark Vengeance

To Paint:
- 10 Hellions
- 1 Raider
- 1 Razorwing

I'll leave it there. That clears off part of my Chaos and Dark Angels list, and wipes out my Dark Eldar backlog on the 2013 Hobby Goals.

Let's see how I fare this month!
SB

2013 Hobby Goals

Morning folks.


Over the latter months of 2012 I accrued a lot of odd bits and boxes, combined with a load of un-touched Necron and Eldar stuff from the previous end of year, that's made me re-consider things somewhat.

What I imagine my hobby stuff looks like to the un-initiated...

Aside from purchases for my newly hatched Tyranid army, I'm going to refrain from purchasing new models for my armies (apart from anything needed for an event) with the exception of new codexes. For every army project I can finish off, I'll then allow myself to be able to buy new units for that force from then on. Until the army is entirely painted, then there's no buying stuff to expand.

So... what do I actually have on my to-do list?

First up is 40K, i.e. what I'm actually likely to do.

Imperial Guard:
- Find a use for, and assemble, 18 plastic Cadians.
- Buy whatever I need to get use out of those 18 Cadians.
- Wash vehicles to dull them down and match rest of the army.

Necrons:
- Spray and paint the following...
- 1 Cryptek
- Imotekh
- Trazyn
- 1 Catacomb Command Barge
- 1 Overlord
- 10 Immortals
- 5 Lychguard
- 1 Ghost Ark
- Go back and wash older models to match them with new stuff.

Dark Eldar:
- Paint the following...
- 10 Hellions
- 1 Raider
- 1 Razorwing
- Decide if I'm ever going to use the old DE models and do something about it.

Squats:
- Paint up and glue on some power axes for the Sergeants.

Eldar:
- Actually bother writing an army list.
- Paint the following...
- 6 War Walkers
- 3 Wave Serpents
- 1 Falcon

Chaos Marines:
- Buy the new Codex
- Spray and Paint Dark Vengeance Chaos bits
- Use what I can to get the army to minimum 1,000pts to use as allies for Daemons.

Dark Angels:
- Buy the new Codex.
- Spray and Paint Dark Vengance bits

Tyranids:
- Get the army to at least 2,000pts before the end of the year.
- Ensure that the army is fully assembled and painted.

Now onto Fantasy which is where things start to get flakier unless I start playing it again anytime soon...

Bretonnians:
- Paint the following...
- 3 Pegasus Knights
- 20 Grail Pilgrims and Grail Reliquae
- 8 Grail Knights
- 15 Men at Arms
- Actually play some Fantasy!

There's lots of other bits to do as well, like trying to organise my shelves and storage better, along with a wedge of LOTR minis that need a look at and my increasing interest in WarmaHordes but these are the main contenders of things to get done in 2013.

I'm hoping that these 9 armies can each be given a time slot of about a month to get finished and signed off. Spread over 12 months it seems doable to me, obviously real life and work dependent. There's some bigger chunks on there that might need longer than a month (I'm looking at you Necrons!) so this might be spread out to help things.

So there we are. That's my hobby goal for the next year. If I can get even half of it done, that'll be a massive boost, especially if I can avoid buying much more stuff on top of that (Tyranids aside). Expect January's painting pledge tomorrow when I've decided what of this list can get set for this month.

Anyone else got hobby goals planned for this year? Or is no one else as daft as me?