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It is that time of year for the Annual Wrap-up posts. So, what happened to you this Holiday Season?

I tend to break mine into a few categories: Purchases, Painting, Gaming, Writing, and Other Stuff

So, here is a high-level overview:

Purchases:
- Stayed caught up with the Osprey Wargaming Series
- Bought most of the new Heroquest expansions
- Got a couple of new RPG Books

Painting:
- Painted 166 models over the course of the year
- Painting backlog does have some carry-over thanks to all the Heroquest Expansions
- Completed my Anglo-Saxon army
- New Castles in the Sky fleet

Gaming:
- Almost got in two wargames a month
- Solo-wargaming was bigger than previous years
- Hosted my Battle of Kadesh participation game this year
- My Skumgrod moved away
- Weekly in-person RPG group
- 2 Play-by-Post RPG games going
- 1 boardgame night

Writing:
- 1 Game supplement
- 1 new wargame
- 2 new RPGs
- 2 modules

Other Stuff:
- Got all my stuff sorted and organized into bins
- Got on Bluesky
- Started using my Patreon better
- Got one blog post up a week

No pictures, but if you want to see all the gory details, photos, links, etc it is up on the blog.
https://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2025/12/random-cyberpunk-year-twenty-twenty.html

Not a bad year for me. Enough about me, I am interested in how YOU did in 2025. What did you get finished, what is still lagging behind, what was unexpected?

I barely held it together.

In terms of miniatures, I think I built four or five spaceships and started another half dozen. I finished one mini I had started well over a year ago.

These days I sometimes find contentment in things that used to bring me joy. That’s a positive step.

It's my first year after hiatus and it's a mess. I wanted new army that's not IG and ended year with 2,5k IG army a lot of time spent on remember how to paint. Played few games of kill team and that's all. Not very productive but I'm absolutely happy to return into hobby. And moreover I at least know what exactly army I want to collect.

Let's see how 2025 worked out.

Painting
27 actual minis of my own +1 Legion Imperialis Reaver for a friend.
87 bits of scenery/dungeon dressing/small terrain, etc (barrels, tables, torches, banners, shields, weapons,small wall sections etc.)
I did beat my 2024 output minis wise - unless you count all the Legion Imperialis infantry I painted in 2024 (I don't)
I blew it away if you count the dungeon dressing bitz (I don't)....
Base Coating/Priming - a couple hundred minis

Gaming
RPGs - average of 2/week - D&D of some edition, Pathfinder, Star Finder
Minis -average of 2/week - 40k, Sigmar, Bolt Action, Konflict 47, BTech
Board games - 3-4 games most Fridays up until Nov.
So pretty much the same as before

Purchases
Built out 1/2 a Krieg force (2nd 1/2 coming in 2026)
Built an Ad Mech army
expanded my Bolt Action Germans by a few tanks
expanded my Bolt Action Americans by a few tanks
Built a Cathay army for Old World.
Added about 7 boardgames to the collection
Added 3 Marauder Bombers to the 40k collection
Bought a few Space Marine Captains of various sorts

For 2026? I need to focus on storage/transport options.

Purchases:
My least spendy year since I got disposable income. By virtue of already owning everything I want.

Painting:
1500 pts of Heresy
3000 pts of Epic Warpath
Tables and assets for 18 narrative scenarios (with help)

Gaming:
Practically none.

Writing:
A custom ruleset for boat racing at my event.

Other Stuff:
Ran the best Turnip28 event in the world so I got that going for me which is nice.

Enjoyed a busy year of wargaming and associated hobbying.

Painting:

40K Dark Angels - 410 points
AOS Cities of Sigmar - 1,010 points
AOS Kruleboyz - 1,850 points
Old World Empire - 4,022 points
Old World Dark Elves - 985 points
Old World Bretonians - 165 points
Total - 8,442 points

Playing

40K - Six tournaments including a GT
Participated in two leagues, and also ran a season for the league

AOS - Four tournaments including a GT

Old World - One tournament and a league.

Have been playing Old World weekly since May, and it’s kinda taken over my hobby and gaming time. Enjoying the trip.

One of the first years where I pretty much stuck to the plan I made in january. Though my November/december project will be stretched into the next year.
But my plan was:
Fast attack for my 40K orks, and baseline Ashigaru for my Oathmark human army.
Painting:
I finished 80 ashigaru (40bows, 40 spears)
3 of these Ironjawz riders (goregruntas?)
4 of the 40K riders
About 8 Savage orkz on boars(to be used as bikers).
Additionally I painted some ships and fighters for Star Wars Armada.
Also 6 breen cruisers for Attack Wing.

Gaming:
The year started strong with about two gaming sessions per month, more than half of these Armada, the others OPR. Got less in summer and the last game this year in october I think.
Also continued my solo Star Trek Alliance campaign, but didn't finish it (stupid Computer games!)

Buying:
Ah, pretty bad this year. Escalated completely on Staw sets because of wizkids' availability issues in Europe.
Also bought into all HH-Mechanicum bundles which will probably have to wait at least two years before they get built.
The last couple of days I also got some eldar for yet another project that will have to wait.

Honestly? I failed all my hobby goals this year.

But between grief and the cause of said grief leading to house purchase? And an awful, awful lot of work related dickheads, that’s hopefully understandable.

Certainly I’ve bought far more than I painted, which is the exact opposite of my goal.

But for 2026? I now have an actual proper hobby room.

So here’s to 2026, doing a Sam Beckett and putting right what once went wrong.