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1) Learn to use the airbrush that I just got.

2) Don't start any new armies. I don't need anymore models right now. I've learned that GW will always have a sweet bundle or new model out. Buying something to stash it now doesn't make sense because it just stops you from getting that next sweet thing to come out.

3) Finish my Knights. This is close to being done. Models are magnetized and I have the leadbelcher primer ready.

4) Finish my necrons off. Again doable. I have 10 pretorians, two cloakteks, an ark and a TVault left. Everything except for the vault is mostly ready to paint.

5) Finish off my marines. Again doable. I have 10 termies, 10 bikes, a dread, 3 HQs and Sammy left.

I feel like these 5 things need to happen asap. After that, my next goal is to get my fantasy stuff done.

6) Tomb Kings. I went on a binge and now I got a bunch of new stuff that needs to be built and painted. I'm waffling on whether to put them on these resin bases or just stick with plain ones. It's a lot of cash to spend on basing an army.

7) Orcs and Goblins. My army is old and mostly unpainted. I'm determined to get it done before starting anything else.

Possible detours include:
If I decide to get some made to order stuff for my fantasy armies if that gets released. If the tomb kings troops ever get re-released that's going to be a lot of my money gone.

I have no 40k projects mostly b.c i got into AOS heavily atm. Painting my Beastmen in a ice theme. Hoping to get 2k done by March.

1. Bring my R&H up to 4K

2. Build, paint and base a 2K Craftworlds or Drukhari force

3. Bring my Daemons up to 3.5K.

4. Build a 6'x4' modular city board

My goals as far as what I'm going to work on hobbywise are to paint my Blackstone Fortress models (the whole set if possible), tidy up my WIP collection by finishing a bunch of partially painted models that have been left languishing, and finish off a couple of box sets' models (namely Dark Imperium and Execution Force, both of which have just a handful of models left for me to paint). I've got more goals in my most recent post in my P&M blog.

Paint more. My backlog has gotten bad last year and with all the new Black Stone models my group just got, I want to get at it again.

Same as 2018, figure out how to make 8th edition worthwhile to play or figure out how to revive some more local interest in 7th edition. 8th is dreadfully unfun to play win or lose and my passion for the game has really flatlined. Love the setting, the hobby, and all my models to death but my god did GW do a good job of killing the fun for me.

Got loads of models to paint but without the game to work towards it doesn't feel very compelling to batch paint 20 Fire Warriors or go beyond the base coat on some drop pods.

Necrons

Purchase Deceiver and T-C'tan Figures
Build Figures
Paint Figures

Buy Forgeworld Pylon and Seraptekh Heavy Construct
Painstakingly build each kit
Painstakingly paint each model as a painting showcase for army centerpieces.


Space Marines

Nothing. Wait for rumors of SM codex 2.0, and see what I need to buy, assuming my whole army isn't squatted.

I think most 40K players say this every year, but I'm gonna try and have all my minis painted by 2020. I sold minis I don't plan on doing anything with and I finally bought a airbrush to help with the workflow. So far off to a good start if I can keep from buying more miniatures.

Well, I was a GW sucker (sorry guys I know i'm the problem) and bought a massive Vostroyan army. So i'll be finishing that hopefully by summer!

My plans:

Keep painting at the current pace I am, over 200 models done in 2018.

Build some lists with the minis I have, and work out if there's any gaps. Try to keep purchases to what I need to fill out the lists rather than what I think looks cool. (I've got enough models I think look cool now).

Start painting with more purpose. I need to start finishing army's off. My painting works well when I just pick up a random mini and paint it, but it's meant I've got lots forces I can't game with due to list construction. I intend to start painting with some coherency now.

Start to actually get some games in. My local GW is a 10 minute drive, and I've only ever played at home. Once I have some viable lists, I plan to test them out in battle. Gaming is something that has suffered quite badly for me in 2018.

Building/painting/playing/focusing on my Slaanesh army. Over Christmas break I almost finished one unit of Daemonettes, finished 4 heralds and 1 Chariot. So...not a bad start.

1, Photograph all 367 models I finished in 2018 (by the end of January, if at all possible).

2, Paint 1,000 points for my Imperium army, with the aim of making my current 8th ed Imperium stuff closer to a playable force. Must include 2 converted Inquisitorial Storm Trooper Officers.

3, Paint 1,000 points of Chaos (Death Guard & Nurgle Daemons), including a Nurgle Daemons Start Collecting box.

4, Paint 1,000 points of Eldar. Aspect Warriors from 2nd edition, Rogue Trader Avatar, modern plastics.

5, Learn to magnetise - Leman Russ, Wave Serpent as test beds.

6, Continue streaming on Twitch. Set up a M&P blog to post pictures after a stream to show WIPs.

Finish my Harlies (Probably by the end of the month)

Continue painting my Mymeara Eldar on the side.

New project will be a Fallen army with lots of bits from 30K to give them an old-school look.

Might take an occasional break and work on some terrain as well.

Finish up painting the rest of my honor company and begin painting my eldar with their black and yellow scheme.

1) Start the year by painting another 200 points worth of miniatures.

2) Buy the January edition of the new WD.

3) Attend my local gaming club's WH40K night regularly.

I plan to SLOW DOWN dramatically. Especially since I got married, I've completely burned myself out (at no fault of my wife) on spending literally *all* of my free time assembling and painting models. I literally spent all of the free time I had on assembling and painting to the point where I had zero time to even play much less spend a little time on even on other hobby.

Do I enjoy assembling models? Absolutely! Do I enjoy reading fluff and painting up models to match the fluff I read? Absolutely! Do I enjoy the thought of those models more-or-less coming to life on the table when I play? Absolutely!

BUT...

I honestly have no want to spend any real amount of time painting at all anymore because of how much time I spent this past year on trying to get armies of models painted.

Will I work on painting Warhammer models this year? I'm sure I will. Right now, though, I'm sticking to mostly pre-painted Bandai models (Gundam, Star Wars, Star Blazers, etc.) and some unpainted WWII models that I will take my time painting as they are only a single model rather than an army's worth of models.

SG

1) Pray for more plastic Eldar - plastic Aspect Warriors plzkthx GW!
2) Paint my Kill Team
3) Cry over the fact that I still can't paint!
4) Finish purchasing and assembling the models for my 1,500pt. Altansar army
5) Play with magnets with the Wraithknight I got in my Christmas present Battleforce!

My only goal is to not start anything new. I am already worried about Test of Honour though.

Lots of painting

1) paint AT Warhounds
2) finish assembling Admech infantry (from Forgebane), Cataphrons and Rust Stalkers and paint
3) finish painting Kroot squad
4) finish painting Reiver squad
5) finish painting War of Souls Stormcast
6) finish painting Necrons (from Forgebane)
7) assemble Eldar SC box, finish painting the rest of the army (Sam-hain)
8) finish painting Imperial Guard
9) finish painting Hausperex, finish magnetizing Carnifexes, base Tyrannocyte
10) (non 40K/AoS) finish painting Forge Father army

NOT buy any more GW models until I finish what I have

Play some actual Kill Team, maybe some 40K - or at least my Grim Darkness remake of 40K

Get some paint on lots of Orks!

Rebase my metal sisters in preparation for the new plastics.

Really should finish building my Harlequins and Drukhari.

Try and keep up with Conquest.

Continue slow build up of Adeptus Titanicus units

Get more games in.

Aside from getting my "all 9 first founding Chapters" Primaris Deathwatch unit finished, my only big project for 2019 is helping my sons build up their 40K armies
They've got UMs and Salamanders for now, but my oldest recently expressed interest in getting a Guard Battalion with some tanks.
My youngest may or may not want to build up some of his Necrons, but I'm not sure. He doesn't yet have a lot of painting endurance, so it's slow going.

I might add some Eldar units here and there, but overall my 40k collection is pretty full.

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DKoK: purely for modelling/diorama purposes
AT: Ditto

Paint a metric [bleep] ton of sisters.

Balfuset790 wrote:
1) Pray for more plastic Eldar - plastic Aspect Warriors plzkthx GW!

Yeah I'll join you in prayer for that.

All I've got planned for 2019 is adding on a smaller detachment of Harlequins to my Eldar force so having some plastic Banshees and Scorpions to go along with that would be nice.

The same thing it is every year Pinky.

Well with the announcement of start collecting boxes going up 20%(?) I gotta snag some boxes, a scions box and probably a guard box

1) Paint the Goliath Rockgrinder that I've dubed the fhtagn wagon and amuse myself senseless with Cthulhu jokes.

2) Hope for a rules leak so I can actually target which 500 points I want to get painted from my pile of assembled and primed genestealer cult before February.

1.) Man up and Paint that very expensive seraptek heavy construct already

2.) Assemble and paint that Army of tzeentch daemons i Just bought. Very scared of all that blending which i've never done before.

Right now I'm slowly working my way into the madness that is the Horus Heresy, and I'm slowly but surely making my 40k Ultramarines 30k compatible. Other than that, I have plans to start another AOS army and quite possibly start Iron Hands or another Marine army

Going back to the game. I have something like fifty dark angels primaris to paint, plus a repulsor and a knight to finish, and I will be ready to play again. I'm going a bit slowly tho.