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 Loricatus Aurora wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
1. Rebuild my IG army using various 3rd party bitz.
2. Paint more than 12 ork boyz, 15 guardsmen and a tank (my "record" for last year)
3. Get at least 1,000pts of both orks and IG fully painted/based to table top quality.
4. Get started on my Ork warbiker horde army (6 bikes done already!)
5. Get a 7 tank strong IG Armored Battlegroup painted up and ready for play (1 Executioner down, 1 Commissar tank, 1 Vanquisher Command tank, and 4 regular russes to go)

I've got my work cut out for me, especially since I can barely paint

Looking forward to this

Love your IG conversions, the piper especially is inspired. Will make a beautiful and unique army when painted.

Wow never knew anybody looked at those

You're going to love my new conversions then, I'm about to post them up in my new painting and modeling blog. If you ever wanted those bagpipes for yourself, Victoria Lamb makes the conversion kit for like $3. Best conversion bit I've ever bought.

I have a longish list, here.

1.) Try not to buy so much new stuff when I have so much unpainted!

Finish this stuff:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 Loricatus Aurora wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
1. Rebuild my IG army using various 3rd party bitz.
2. Paint more than 12 ork boyz, 15 guardsmen and a tank (my "record" for last year)
3. Get at least 1,000pts of both orks and IG fully painted/based to table top quality.
4. Get started on my Ork warbiker horde army (6 bikes done already!)
5. Get a 7 tank strong IG Armored Battlegroup painted up and ready for play (1 Executioner down, 1 Commissar tank, 1 Vanquisher Command tank, and 4 regular russes to go)

I've got my work cut out for me, especially since I can barely paint

Looking forward to this

Love your IG conversions, the piper especially is inspired. Will make a beautiful and unique army when painted.

Wow never knew anybody looked at those

You're going to love my new conversions then, I'm about to post them up in my new painting and modeling blog. If you ever wanted those bagpipes for yourself, Victoria Lamb makes the conversion kit for like $3. Best conversion bit I've ever bought.

Gallery is awesome. I get tons of ideas and motivation from it.

As for your piper, i cant imagine a marine piper however for your IG its perfect.

Look forward to your new conversions and your painting.


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@ Ouze I would not believe you but your gallery is awesome. So i believe you will get it all done.

1) bolster my Sisters of Battle army
2) start traiter imperial guard one squad/tank at a time.
3) Main one is travel to miniwargaming and do a battle report with Sisters

Buy fewer undead space robot skeletons

Paint more undead space robot skeletons

Common sentiment for all, buy less and paint more! I concur!

 Loricatus Aurora wrote:
Common sentiment for all, buy less and paint more! I concur!

My sentiment is usually paint even more so that I can buy even more.

I made my resolutions back in August, actually:

1) Buy no miniatures at all until the Warpath Kickstarter.

2) Get rid of as much of my unnecessary hobby stuff (games and minis) as possible.

1) Get better at flipping my commissions in a timely manner (finishing it all two days before deadline is horrible for my nerves).

2) Finish painting my Conquest, and get a Tier IV Vlad3 list assembled and painted.

3) Figure out what I'm not using, paint it, and flip it for at least as much as I paid for it.

 Laughing Man wrote:
1) Get better at flipping my commissions in a timely manner (finishing it all two days before deadline is horrible for my nerves).

2) Finish painting my Conquest, and get a Tier IV Vlad3 list assembled and painted.

3) Figure out what I'm not using, paint it, and flip it for at least as much as I paid for it.

Actually finishing commissions on time is great for the client. Both commissions i have asked for went over time, one by several months. The fact you deliver on time is great even if you need the deadline as a catalyst to up your tempo.

My resolution: To sit down every night and do something progressive. No matter how slight or seemingly insignificant.

My plan: To try and paint one model at a time or smaller batches using easier/smarter techniques and not worrying about having my army be 'Eavy Metal standard.

I already made my hobby resolution before the new year: Start all brewing-related activities in the afternoon, at the latest, so I stop ending up capping bottles at 3am (that's twice, now, damn it!). As far as this hobby is concerned, though...

I don't have any external deadlines for my projects and I've found that self-imposed ones don't do much to motivate me. Since my real hobby shortcoming is lethargy (not to say that I'm great, of course, just that I'm really lazy ) I'm torn - I usually clean and assemble models more readily than I paint them, so breaking ground on my fantasy armies would likely give me a solid bump in productivity. However, that would also leave me with an even bigger sea of bare plastic to glare at me from the display cabinet, jeering "You'll never paint all of us, you useless lump!"

As tempted as I am to start something completely new (FoW is looking mighty alluring, at the moment, and the new Bones minis from Reaper would give me a cheap pool of decent models for one-offs, when the mood strikes), both my wallet and my withering sense of hobby-dignity are telling me I need to work on what I already have. That means finishing the current in-progress lot:
-Teddy (Malifaux) display model (clock is actually ticking on this one, as it's a birthday gift - currently about 85% done)
-Dwarf King's Hold dwarves (50% painted)
-Malcador scratchbuild (40% built - not too worried about paint, for now)

Before starting:
-Dwarf King's Hold skeletons (4x the number of dwarves...)
-mounting DKH tiles to MDF (lovely printing, but a bit thin and light - shifting during play is more of an issue than warping)
-Infinity starter boxes (one model down, 11 to go - if I don't repaint the first, which I'm less happy with each time I look at it)
-Blitzhund (Incursion), perhaps on a larger display base
-Cordelia (Anima Tactics), likely in a mini-diorama

On top of all of that, I've got tons of Orks still awaiting paint, along with an almost completely unpainted SM army - both of which have a few models still on the sprue. Also started a Warhound titan scratchbuild a while back (30% done, actually, but this one is a loooong term project that sits idle for months at a time, so lumping it in with the rest seems more than a little unrealistic). Then there's all the terrain... Ignoring those, for now, if I somehow manage to finish the whole list, I'll be downright ecstatic. Honestly, though, I'll be reasonably satisfied if I can at least make it through a solid chunk. More than likely, some of the smaller, more self-contained projects will be pushed back in order to finish off half-painted Ork units and make room for the non-hobby hobby projects that crop up from time to time, as inspiration or necessity demand, and I'm fine with that.

TLDR: DO MOAR MODELZ.

New Years Resolution: Paint my Enforcers and Corporation Rangers. All of them. I only have 136 Rangers and 72 Enforcers....
10 Enforcers are done: that brings me down to 198 models left...

Stop trying to make every model the absolute very best I can and actually get some units painted up and quickly but neatly finished! It's at the stage where I can no longer justify buying anything else and it hurts.

finish the four Infinity factions I have (Ariadna/FRRM, Imperial Service, ALEPH and MO) before Kingdom Death: Monster lands in November to take all my painting time.

I agree with the 'paint a little each day' method, you'll do small amounts but they quickly add up and before you know it, you'll set aside one big painting session to finish them off and blam! new unit completed!

My resolution is to finish up my Tau Army that I have been leaving on the back-burner last year.

Zwan1One wrote:
Paint something. Anything!

Yeah, this

Here's mine!

40 troops -- Sons of Horus
5 Heavy Support -- Sons of Horus
3 Scimitar Jetbikes -- Sons of Horus
10 Assault Troops -- Sons of Horus

Mars Pattern Reaver -- Hand of Ruin of The Legio Mortis.

Oh and a complete Deathwing with the new models.

Hmm ...

Learn when models are FINISHED and put them aside.

Fill in the gaps in my Relictors army - thinking Vindicator, a squad of assault termis, something that works as a 'counts as' assault bike, to go with my horsey bikers.

Become a better writer.

Play more games.

Build a gaming board.

That should see me through the year, although I've toyed with the idea of adding a Space Wolf allied contingent to my Marines. Might look into that a bit.

 Loricatus Aurora wrote:
The fact you deliver on time is great even if you need the deadline as a catalyst to up your tempo.

You'd think that, but having to pull an all-nighter or two to finish a commission on time is not particularly entertaining for me.

Paint more. Im so bad at painting for a few weeks, burning out, then not picking up a paintbrush for months..

 Necroagogo wrote:
Hmm ...

Learn when models are FINISHED and put them aside.

Fill in the gaps in my Relictors army - thinking Vindicator, a squad of assault termis, something that works as a 'counts as' assault bike, to go with my horsey bikers.

Become a better writer.

First bit, IMO the sign of an improving painter. Keep lavishing love.

Better writer? Dude, everyone reading this should read your first dakka fiction thread about your relictor librarian. One of the best short stories i ever read.


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Painting improvement, same to redbristles a few posts above.


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Especially to redbristles. Dude you paint beautifully.

WH 40K
- Rework 20x CSM Raptors to meet current rules
- Paint 5x CSM Terminators
- Paint 20x CSM to fill in the gaps caused by new codex
- Paint 30x Bloodletters
- Don't buy anymore models

WHFB
- Sell Warriors of Chaos army
- Sell Beastmen army

Warmachine / Hordes
- Don't buy anything

I have to finish at least 1500 points of Crimson Fists in the next 3 months, it's half self-imposed and half there's-a-baby-due.

I'm starting with the elites, 20 Terminators, 2 Landraiders (have to paint strip one, an ebay special), 5 Dreads and one Contemptor Dread. Plenty to finish and then put in storage for the baby-times.

1) NO new GW
-So far, so good

2) Commission someone to paint my stuff.
-In the process

3) Sell/ trade all the 40K stuff I will never use.
-Sold $350 so far.... alot more to go.

Im seeing multiple comments around sellingmodels never used

If this thread sample represented all gamers, we either need to play more games and mix up our lists more so as to utilise all the shiny kit we have, or exercise far better buy discipline in the future

 whalemusic360 wrote:

P&M
1) Paint at least 60 space marines -12 done 48 in progress
2) paint at least 6 tanks or flyers - 4 in progress
3) paint at least 30 nids - several in progress
4) paint at least 3 monstrous nids - 2 in progress
5) complete at least 6 GMS trade - 2 in progress

Gaming
1) Participate in Adepticon TT
2) Participate in 2 local leagues - 1 in progress.
3) Participate in at least 12 board game night
4) learn rules for infinity, relic knights, sedition wars, brushfire, and dreadfleet. All of which I have or will have, and none of which I know.

Updated progress! On a good pace, wonder if I can keep it up. Did just buy a scad of new DA stuff, so that doesn't help.

Good topic.

1. This year I plan to finish my Deathwing Army and get it up to about 50 bodies of the TDA.
2. My Dark Angels green army has is almost totally painted. I want to finish up the vehicles that go with it. Maybe even get it up to company size.
3. Redo my Eldar army up to playable sizes. I'm mainly using the vehicles as airbrush practice, but I want to start on the troops and just get everything looking good.

Those are the GW related goals. I plan to play a lot of games this year. I got into several kickstarters in the fall. I want to paint some of the fun stuff I'm getting out of those. I also have a bunch of Confrontation metals that I want to work on. Honestly I could finish a miniature a day and be busy all year!!!

Build what I have before buying anything else!

That includes Flying Hive Tyrant, Tervigon, Hormagants, Genestealers, Necron HQs, Helldrake, 20 Chaos Cultists, box of Kroot, probably about a Battleforce worth or Orks, Ork Nobz, Ork Battlewagon, Forgeworld Ork Warboss on Warbike, Rhino to loot into an Ork Junka, Citadel wood and an Imperial Sector.

Yes, I really don't need to buy any more at the moment, especially with other games coming out such as the Star Wars RPG, Heroclix Star Trek Tactics, Star Trek Fleet Captains Romulan Expansion, other Heroclix and no doubt other RPGs and Board Games that I'll end up buying.

So what I should do is... STOP BUYING!