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Well, it'll be 2015 in just a couple days which has got me thinking about what I've accomplished with my hobby/job this year, and what I'd like to do next year. This is my resolution list:

- Get a camera, learn about proper lighting.
- Start a blog, to keep myself motivated and to learn how I can improve from project to project.
- Make a portfolio to help either expand my business or join a studio team.
- No new personal projects until I finish my backlog and commissions. My backlog is...daunting, but the commissions always take priority.
- Focus on techniques/tools that I'm not as comfortable with, like osl, weathering, GS sculpting

2014 has been a great year overall, and I'm hoping with my resolutions that 2015 will be even better. How about you lovely people, do you have any hobby goals for next year? Please post pics of what you created this year if you like, I'll be borrowing a camera in a day or two and I'll post some of my work as well.

*If someone else normally does this, then mods please move this to the appropriate thread*

NO MORE PURCHASES UNTIL I FINISH THE 8 UNOPENED BOXES I HAVE

I have declared 2015 the Year of Terrain! I have so much terrain to paint/build as well as a Tablescapes board to complete. My local club needs its terrain overhauled as well.

Just picked up 2 tables from Bunnings yesterday so now I have the base for it all. Now to airbrush everything and hope my little compressor holds out!

Weathering everything will be lots of work, but fun work!

Build everything I have. Unassembled stuff just takes up so much space.

I've got stacks of GW cases filled with models that need TLC, stripping, re-assembly, and other boxes of all shapes and sizes filled to capacity with models that need all of the above as well. Then I've got one big storage box filled with efficiently packed sealed boxes of product that need work, and they're high-volume too, there are two Necron battleforces, two Tau battleforces, and two Beastmen battalions among a bunch of other units/beasts/machines/baggies full of crap.

I'm probably gonna recruit non-hobbyists to do all the monkey work like assembling infantry. They'll have fun and I'll just provide junk food and special beverages.

edits - Typos ugh.

 Kr00gZ wrote:
I have declared 2015 the Year of Terrain! I have so much terrain to paint/build as well as a Tablescapes board to complete. My local club needs its terrain overhauled as well.

Just picked up 2 tables from Bunnings yesterday so now I have the base for it all. Now to airbrush everything and hope my little compressor holds out!

Weathering everything will be lots of work, but fun work!

Terrain will basically be the entirety of my commission work once I finish this Space Hulk set and a Voltron themed Wraithknight. My local club hired me to build up and paint 4 tables worth of terrain, so I feel ya there. Thankfully I just picked up an airbrush and compressor a couple months ago.

Are you going to be scratch-making terrain, or building kits?

Play more.

I am doing pretty well getting stuff painted, I need to get more games in.

I have a spreadsheet where I list all my minis, I have weighted them according to points value and divided into assembly, painting and basing. At present the completion rate is 25%, it need to get to atleast 50% before I get to buy anything more.

Beside that, just generally, take time to paint... it makes me happy... I like being happy.

I'd like to turn the unfinished space beneath my deck into a game room/workshop so I can host games at my place instead of various apartments that have limited space.

I also need to pack away the models that are just taking up space so they don't gather dust. I just bought a Battlefoam bag for the task.

2015 resolution: "Do more than in 2014." Using numbers like that makes it different than last year's "do more than in 2013" or the previous year's "do more than in 2012." Brilliant, no? Gotta keep things fresh.

Re paint my Blood Angels army as Flesh Tearers. It currently stands at 3500 pts

Start my 30k Alpha Legion force (already ordered 10 MKIV for my Headhunters)

Oh and get more games under my belt, I had some great success with the old Blood Angels Codex and can't wait to try the new one.

Games wise, I'm sorted. I regularly get around 2 games in a week. No need to worry about that.

I'm in the process of starting a new project for the new year. My aim is to only contribute to this army through out the year. I've got a bunch of other models around, so I'll probably dip into those when I need a break, but at the end of the year, I would like a single, large army. Apocalypse, here I come!

Stop having so many partially assembled models for painting lying around.

Since I'm not the only one doing the buying, it's harder for me to keep up with my boxes/assemble/paint ratio, but I'd like to keep it so I have fewer assembled/partially assembled models lying around waiting for paint.

More games I think. I have a considerable amount of stuff that is primed without any paint... gonna fix that. Oh! And build some paper Venoms.

Get a game of 7th Edition 40K in....

And paint the other 3500pts of Dark Angels I suppose!!

-Assemble all my models that are taking up space on sprues
-Unsprue and organize all my bits
-Finish painting my Baneblade
-Finish painting my Imperial Guard 1250 point list
-Build a light box and learn how my new camera works
-Build a multi-part 6'x6' game board

Clear my backlog of unpainted/unbuilt models (around 500 minis), learn to play dropzone commander and build my phr army up to a decent level. Finish building my mancave and gaming table. That should do for a start.

.Finish my WOC army and play them more.
.Build the 3k worth of new sealed dark elves and get "started" on painting them.
.Decide if I want to completely leave 40k or not.

-Paint a 1000p core army for my Blood Angels.
-Enter my FLGS's painting competitions to sharpen my skills.
-Play at least 2 games a month.
-Finish my Space Wolf army (shouldn't be too hard,only 25 models)
-Finally finish the Flyrant i've been "working on" since it was released.
-Actually do some of the above things instead of making pointless lists and then whining when i don't manage to complete them

I'm going to vow to get my tyranid army a little more bulked out as I want to have a large collection of models to vary games.

And to start my chow case army of blood angels, I'll be buying my first squad of tacticals on Saturday, and I'm waiting to hear from fantascape about some painted gothic ruin bases to pop them on

I am going to paint my Slaanesh army. I have been obsessed with painting an army quickly and realized that doing it that way isn't enjoyable. Thus, I'm going to spend time on this army and paint it to a standard that I will be proud of. I have a lot of models to paint, though... I just have to dedicate myself. I BELIEVE!!

Also I'm going to break it up by building a board so my friends can come to my place to play games as well. That way we can drink

I WILL not buy anything until EVERYTHING is painted!!

Paint my Sons of Orar, a board of Terrain, then do a giant land cruiser for them to be displayed on. Then next chapter.

Before all of that, finish my GMS swaps!

Reduce my collections to 1 army per system! Then I won't feel so guilty about needing at least one of every option for each army!

Oh and to paint more than I purchase (so prezzie's don't count)!

- Make a diorama (the idea is noted, the mini are bought)
- Post it on dakka
- Post what i have already painted to be counseled

Daston wrote:
I WILL not buy anything until EVERYTHING is painted!!

Somehow I don't belive you

I'm going to start/finish painting all the Alpha Legion guys I have done assembling so far. Too long have they sat there in bare resin/plastic/metal.

improve my painting skills...
same as every year, really...

this year i would like to perfect my TMM (more contrast), and try my hand at NMM...
maybe actually paint some more of my own minis, especially those rare LE's...

best of luck to you all...

cheers
jah

This year I'm going to try and paint more Malifaux, I love my Marines, but I do feel a need to branch out.

I made a resolution last year (or was that two years ago) that I'm not going to buy any more miniatures until I've painted what I've got... but I found that to be unrealistic. I mean, I have several boxes of Perry Bros War of the Roses http://www.thewarstore.com/PerryBros28mmWarRosesPlastic.html, but I don't really play 28mm all that much. So, sure my purchase of 28mm Perry Plastics was probably ill advised, but why paint them up?

So, instead, this year, I'm vowing to not buy any new miniatures that don't directly fit the project I'm currently working on.

My current project is to finish the Japanese, which will be done by the end of this month, and then I'm onto some Renaissance Danes.

Finish the Hellbrute conversion I've been working on here and there for several years.

Paint my scratchbuilt Chaos Warrior on a jetbike.

Build some vehicles for my army.