New Year (Gaming) Resolutions

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**squall018**

Paint more BA
Paint more Chaos Marines
Build and paint all my Deadzone stuff
Play as many games as possible.

**Crazyterran**

Finish painting my Space Marine force - just 2 lascannon marines to go for my 1500pt army! Also, paint my Stormraven, my Stormtalons, and a few of my dreadnoughts. Maybe my Assault Marines, 10 Terminators, old metal VVs, my Sternguard models I have left over from making Sergeants, my 7 Ultramarine Honor Guards... and any other left over models I have from various projects I flaked out on. (My counts as Pedro for my 1st UM army...)
Paint my Daemons - Get 1500pts of Chaos Daemons painted. It shouldn't be to hard, it's only 25 models.
Paint my brother's Dark Angels - 1000pts of Terminators/Bikes. Hopefully this shouldn't be to hard, either.
Paint the few Empire Models I have - need to figure out a paint scheme. Thinking Nuln. Now I just need to figure out what Nuln's colors look like.

**-Loki-**

Paint more than I buy.

**Chancetragedy**

-Loki- wrote:
Paint more than I buy.

I almost put this as one of mine, then I realized I could in no way shape or form actually complete this resolution ;p. so best of luck to you.

**Haight**

Chancetragedy wrote:
-Loki- wrote:
Paint more than I buy.

I almost put this as one of mine, then I realized I could in no way shape or form actually complete this resolution ;p. so best of luck to you.

Same here ! It's totally admirable though, i wish i had a prayer in hell of actually achieving this.

I just paint so slow, and i'm so OCD with my painting. At least i'm always happy with the outcome, even if it does mean 15 hours on one infantry trooper sometimes.

**Chancetragedy**

Yah it's not that I paint slow per say it's just painting is so boring haha. Although having an airbrush has alleviated some of the more tedious steps and allowed me to really focus on the details which is what I like doing more anyways.

The thing I love most about war gaming besides playing the games is collecting and converting. For some reason I have no problem spending an hour getting one little conversion detail right. But try and get me to basecoat a couple models for 20-30 minutes and I lose it haha. Although I will say I do have 3-2500 point 40k armies fully painted so I've been able to at least not lag too far behind my painting. So I always wish those of us who are willing to try and paint more than buy the best of luck!

**-Loki-**

To be fair, it's easy for me. I'm changing from renting to paying a mortgage, so my spending power will be significantly diminished. I think my biggest purchases will be this month - Morats for Inifinity and Tyranids. After that... not much I'd really buy.

**Chancetragedy**

So you think ;p. that's what I always say but there is always more haha.

**Ascalam**

Paint my Orks. Won't finish in a year, so paint at least one unit a month.

Dark Eldar- finish painting my Coven, before buying anything more for my Kabal.

Daemons - finish painting them entirely, and then Stop BUYING MORE.

I'm addicted :( I also live in a smallish place, and my shelves are groaning as it is.

Also - resolve not to start another army. Three is enough.

**The Grumpy Eldar**

Create and paint a killteam for each different faction.

**Alfndrate**

I didn't do one last year, and I doubt I'll stick to this one, but here goes.

Paint my Deadzone box
Paint my EFT models
Paint my Minotaurs army

Buy less than you spent in 2013 (easily 3k)

**Iron_Captain**

Collect and paint a FoW Soviet army
Expand my KV-tank collection
Paint a German Kampfgruppe
Finish my SW great company.

If I finish all that before the end of the year, I would also like to expand and paint my High Elves.

**fishy bob**

Copy-pasting from the other (perfectly good?) thread.

High priority goals:
1. Stick to my current plan to not waste my hobby money on gak I don't have any use for.
2. Spend less time planning/thinking/chatting about my hobby and spend more time actually practising it.
3. Do extensive research and contemplating before buying into a new game.

Low priority goals:
1. Maybe (but only maybe) get myself an airbrush.
2. Scratchbuild more.
3. Maybe get back into 40K (but again, only maybe, and if I do it'll probably be something like Killteam or In the Emperors Name, if I can get more people to start it with me)
4. Try out an RPG (possibly combine this with point 3)

**Farseer Faenyin**

1.) Complete painting my Eldar
2.) Take the leap and buy that Phantom Titan I always wanted.
3.) Flesh out my X-wing Miniatures fleet, although this seems to be as much in FFGs hands as mine....
4.) Try to be less frustrated with the hyper-competitive people that feel the need to blast casual players off the board for ego boosts.

**Dr. What**

Complete my 1500 point Ork tournament army for January 18th (All assembled, I just have to finish painting 2 vehicles, 1 HQ, and about 40 Orks of various weapons.)

Sell my Imperial Guard, Eldar, and X-Wing stuff.

Start Dark Eldar.

**Herzlos**

Not to buy stuff just because it's a good discount.

**TheFireDrake**

Simply to paint what i have before buying more. Wont last a week, but its the thought that counts

**TheAuldGrump**

Paint more for myself and fewer commissions. (I made the same resolution last year... didn't happen.)

The Auld Grump

**TheCustomLime**

I shall learn to paint better. And I shall also learn how to completely get rid of mold lines. I always manage to miss one or two.

**warboss**

Get more terrain to use with my existing models and not more models themselves. Also, I should really get around to painting my likely last ever GW figure that I've had sitting on my painting desk primed for over six months.

Last year's resolution to simply get more playing time in and actual games met with moderate success. I went from a game every two months (almost always 40k) to one game roughly every month (usually X-wing, occasionally Heavy Gear and 40k).

**sparkywtf**

So for last year I had

1) Play more often. I have 11 different table top games now. Only have played 2. I want to play the rest.
2) No buying new models until I paint what I have or get rid of it. (per game system)
3) Finish Black Templar painting (its only 36 models right now!)
4) Finish more Cadians
5) Paint all the Dreadball stuff I have. That should be easy!
6) Paint remaining Cygnar
7) Work on KoW, Project Pandora, and Dreadfleet
8) Either strip or sell Catachans.
9) Improve modeling skill (assembling and what not)
10) Improve painting skills (which will happen if I complete any of the above)

For this year, I will keep the same goals! Just add in Deadzone, Black Water Gulch, and Mars Attacks!

In all seriousness though:
1) Paint Black Templars
2) Paint Dreadball
3) Paint Deadzone
4) Paint Black Water Gulch

**Laban**

All I'm aiming for this year (other than keep expanding my DE army) is to actually find people to play with. I basically live in the middle of nowhere now so there's no nearby FLGS where I live, the closest being about 1h+ away, and with a busy work schedule I don't see myself being able to frequent any gaming events there. Wargaming communities, in my experience, are also quite cliquey, so it's hard to really get into them if you're not very regular there. Kinda wish I still lived in my old city where there was a great FLGS where I used to hang out a lot around ~10 years ago when I was really into the hobby.

**Mathieu Raymond**

1- Offload my painted DA 5th Company for a decent price.
2- Finish all my Malifaux crews (10 Thunders and Kirai crew)
3- Finish all of my IG vehicles (4 chimeras, 1 manticore and 1 Vendetta) as well as buy the upcoming book.
4- Finish ALL of my terrain. That one is iffy at best.

**gianlucafiorentini123**

Paint 100 models.
Properly get into all the games that I half started last year.

**master of ordinance**

No....
More....
Models....

Just finish off the ones i have.
Ofcourse, the Battletech starter set (Classic Battletech) is an exception....

**kronk**

I will be traveling about 2 weeks out of every month this year. I will not make any resolutions that I know I will be unable to keep.

Therefore, my hobby resolutions are relatively simple:

1. Don't get an account suspension on Dakka.
2. Paint a Forgefiend
3. Assemble and Paint a Heldrake.
4. Assemble and Paint two units of Chaos Chosen.
5. Play 40k.
6. Paint Angron.

**Eilif**

I have alot of projects to do, but I can commit to the following.

1) Finish my Bad Guy (Human and werewolf) KoW Army.
2) Finish at least 4 more 28mm Mechs and 2 buildings before running my Mech Attack game at Little Wars in April.

Beyond those two pitiful goals, I really have no idea what I'll be able to achieve now that my second child is here.

My secondary goals -which are also not terribly difficult- would be:
1) Paint up my Rebs Army for Deadzone and finish a 3x3 section of custom multi-tier terrain.
2) Do the "Abandoned El Station" terrain that's been sitting on my workbench for a month now.
3) Paint up the Sorylian Fleet Starter box so that next time the club plays Full Thrust I'll actually have my own ships.

**conker249**

I've got a few I hope to keep for 2014
Get more proficient with my airbrush
Finish painting my 40k models before buying a new kit.
Work on my Wood Elves, lowest priority

**Samurai_Eduh**

Finish painting an 1850 Tau army. Start a new army faction undecided.