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Hi all, happy new year!

This year no different to previous for mehobby wise, will be staying w marines and finishing a few projects, so pretty vanilla hobby plans for me.

How about you guys, what hobby projects are you commiting to get finished this year?

Trying to finish about 3000pts of daemons, 500pts of Dkok infantry 1500pt GK Termie army and I still have like 100 zombies to paint for my Vampires.

I have 4 weeks holidays coming up so that should give me a good start.

Did this a couple weeks ago in the DCM forums... so cut and paste.

Aims for 2013 wargaming.
1: WHFB O&G- Finish my savage orc and orc hordes and 4 snotling pump wagons by end Feb for a tourney and then O&G will be the aracnarok spiders x1 or 2 and maybe some fast cav for the rest of the year just to add options for army selection.

2: WHFB New army - Haven't decided if it will be VC or Tomb Kings of HEs but I have a heap of models sitting ready to be used for all of them. The first two will be insanely quick to paint, The HEs glacial in its slowness.

3: Hordes: Trolls - Add 2 more units and 3 more beasts for variety for army selection

4: WM: Retribution - More of a painting than gaming project. I MUST finish a unit/solo/jack before buying another and then repeat

5: 40K Orks- I really must get cracking on them. Plenty of plastic infantry ready to be assembled

6: As per 2012 Keep a tally- Games played (aim 2 per week again), and to paint more models than bought . I failed this year BUT sold a hell of alot of models and after adepticon basically painted nothing for 3 months.

As usual, my resolution is to paint more than I buy.
Kept sucessfully for the last 10 years.
I try to paint at least 100 figures per year. I usually exceed 100 but this year I only made it to 40, so I resolve to do better.

Man this year is gonna be rough. I have 5x rhino/RB/preds/vindi's to paint, a land raider with redeemer/crusader sponsons, 10 terminators, 10 jump packers, 20 tacticals, 10 heavy weapons, 10 special weapons, 2 Attk bikes, 2 land speeders, a thunderfire, and more to paint in various paint schemes.

On top of wanting to start a 2k necron army, that ill probably buy with my tax returns. I'm gonna have my hands full. Since I won't have as much hobby time, ill probably be playing more than painting. But I'll get there slowly and I'd rather stuff look at least decent then rush it all and have it look like crap.

1) KoW Goblins - speedpainting all 200+ models to get towards some 1800pts. -- to be done by the end of march at the latest.
2) KoW Undead - loads of skeletons to paint to finally have a solid base for the army -- to be done side by side with other projects
3) Relics IGG stuff - get at least the Nuem and Orcnar stuff all painted - by end of March
4) Sedition Wars -- get at least a base game set painted to TT standard - by summer
5) Get a decent crew/army painted up for both Malifaux and Infinity - whenever I feel like it (and manage to decide on what to pick!)
6) get some assorted smaller stuff painted up - during the whole year
7) Finally get back to work on PH 1KSons army, rebase, paint to decent standard, play lots of games
8) Finish Necron army --- just a couple of immortals, a few wraiths, a flyer or two and some crypteks/lords to go. should be done by summer

...And whatever else I come up with doing during the year
(I *know* I have a decent bunch of KoW elves lying around I just don't see myself getting to before 2014, but the Celestian army incoming from KS should be done by end of summer! - at least enough for 1800 or so points, not all of it )

1. Finish my Orks.

2. Compete in my first 40k tournament. Never gotten to do one...

3. Second Army/Project?

I wish to get my Vostroyans finished to at least 3000 points this year. Currently painting about 1000 points worth of infantry and was hoping to have that done by the end of the holidays.

I go back to work in 2 days and havent even got them fully based yet!! Then its onto the mound of WoC stuff

Heres some shots

(The Unpainted Leman Russ has now become 2 due to Christmas)

My goal is to finish my DE and start a new project. I keep going back and forth between Infinity, WHFB, and Dust.

Going to rebuild my ork army. Maybe work on some skorne.

Buy less (preferably nothing for a while), and paint my gak.

I've still got about 1000pts of Tyranids to finish. I've got a 3500pt Vampire Count army looking for some paint now. I've got a bunch of Haqqislam figs to paint. I've got the Chaos from Dark Vengeance to paint. I've got a Salamander army I want to strip and redo completely. I've got terrain to make for my board.

I really don't need to buy anything for a long, long time. I just need to get on my ass and paint my gak.

Paint/Finish the rest of the space marines that i have unpainted, consisting of:

2 Stormtalons
1 Razorback
10 Tactical Terminators (Might or might not paint the extra 3 or 4 guys laying around)
2 Thunderhammer, 3 Lightning Claw Terminators
10 Assault Marines
1 Jump Chaplain
7 Tactical Marines
Librarian
2 Drop Pods (need to be finished/painted better)
Marneus Calgar (his legs / base are done so far) and my Finecast Honorguard.
2 AoBR Dreads, and maybe 2 old metal dreads (One is Bjorn from like, 8 years ago, and 1 is the old eagle venerable)

MAYBE my 25th Anniversary marine, and maybe the 1 scout i have that isn't part of my 10man squad. (got ousted for Telion. poor guy)

Maybe my Vanguard Veterans, depends if Assault Marines become any good if there's a 6th Ed book.

Now that I wrote all that down, it seems like a lot of work. I might finish one of those. Maybe. All Resolutions get broken though, so, meh.

Wow some huge projects on the cards for some!!

Think those saying they plan to paint thousands of points should think of breaking down a timeline, it a tank or squad per week.

Worth it to get your guys painted.

1. Get two gaming tables finished (Jungle and Desert canyon).

2. Play in a fantasy Tourney with my High Elves.

3. Downsize my SM army. I don't NEED a company of marines. 4-5 squads total should be enough.

For my Necrons:

1: Finish the 3 Nightscythes I have.
2: Get 20 Gauss Immortals.
3: Get 10 Deathmarks.
4: Convert 2 WHFB Cairn Wraiths to Crypteks for the Deathmarks.
5: Strip and repaint 60 2nd ed Warriors and 10 2nd ed Immortals to match my new models.
6: Use my tax refund to buy a Battlefoam bag for my Necron army.

6 will probably happen before 5 does.

 Loricatus Aurora wrote:
Think those saying they plan to paint thousands of points should think of breaking down a timeline, it a tank or squad per week.

Tried and failed. I don't like giving my hobby time deadlines. I basically try the method of 'paint something every day', whether it's just a few layers of paint on a big model at night before bed or managing to bash out a full model on a lazy Saturday.

Actually get around to painting my Warmachine models. So far I've gotten all of the basic colors on a single 'jack and bits and pieces of color on others. I haven't even touched my smaller-based models yet. Considering that I finish my degree this year and I've decided to switch careers into a field that doesn't eat literally every free hour of my time, I expect that I should actually be able to manage my resolution. Fingers crossed anyway.

1. Finish my resin models by Feb 2nd. As in painted etc. Spartan assault vehicle, cataphili terminators and an archilles, plus fix my thunderbolt fighter.

2. Paint my superheavies properly.

3. Paint the rest of my dark angels.

4. assemble and paint my Imperial guard.

5. Rest.

 -Loki- wrote:

 Loricatus Aurora wrote:
Think those saying they plan to paint thousands of points should think of breaking down a timeline, it a tank or squad per week.

Tried and failed. I don't like giving my hobby time deadlines. I basically try the method of 'paint something every day', whether it's just a few layers of paint on a big model at night before bed or managing to bash out a full model on a lazy Saturday.

I'm with you on this one. I hate deadlines, so I just paint even the smallest bit when I feel like it. Which is probably why I have close to 3k left to paint of my army haha.

1.) Finish building and painting the rest of the DV boxed set.
2.) Base all my models, seriously have like 40 fully painted models that have not been based.
3.) Actually play the game...I own like 1500 points of Chaos but i have yet to actually play a game after like 2 years.

Paint at least half of my Mordor army.
Paint at least half of my Ranger army.
Paint a squad of Khorne Berzerkers.
Paint a unit of Eternal and Glade Guard.
Paint my Warpwolf Stalker.

Not too bad, is it?

My resolution... is too simply play. I averaged maybe one gaming night every two months in 2012.

Make/Finish a Chaos Daemon/Chaos Space Marine army (including paint) starting with Slaanesh, and most likely ending in Nurgle, attempting a part for each God (besides Malal/Malice)

To start a Sisters of Battle army for my wife and a new home brew Space Marine Chapter for myself maybe using either the new DA codex or the new Vanilla SM codex when it hits shelves.

This year, everything is dependent on the work situation, if I can get that resolved my priority will be to build up to a 2k point DW army with an equal sized RW army being a second priority and GW third. Now I just wait until the job situation clears up and just plan when I see how much the new dex will change my current list.

Don't play anything I don't actually enjoy.

Hmm, may also try to optimise my orks for 6th, too, now that I think of it...

Well, I have several projects this year:

1. Finishing Necrons by March.

2. Finishing DE by September.

3. Building a CSM detachment and selling the rest at ebay. Similar for Chaos Daemons and Dark Angels.

4. Waiting for the new Eldar codex (possibly at the end of 2013).

Same ones I've had for a while now:

I will get my fething Orks painted. - slow progress made- 6 yrs to go at current pace.

I will get four new wargaming tables made to fit my army, my wife's army, my daughter's army and my next-door-neighbour (who i converted) 's army.

I will quit buying new stuff while i try to get the old stuff painted up (yeah right...)

Paint something. Anything!