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 carlos13th wrote:
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quote=Pete Melvin 630965 7502032 7e93b4c8683f3ab78d4748b676dad5b7.jpeg]Reducing my collection to a managable size.
Reduce the number of systems I play to a managable level.
Having everything i own painted.

I have accepeted however that this will never happen.

While we are on the topic of things that will never happen:

get appointed CEO of Games Workshop

produce a miniature of myself

create codex spaceelf complete with giant dinosaurs

create a life size ocean model and play Man O War in true scale

make a miniature with a real lasergun. pew pew

Assemble, run and complete a campaign depicting The War of the Dwarves and Orcs from Middle-Earth. In 10mm.

Assemble forces and play games for different notable battles and wars in Ireland, from Clontarf or earlier, onwards.

As others have said before, painting my entire collection.

I'm actually tracking this in my blog and I'm doing pretty well so far. Just need to touch up a few of the older models so that they're all highlighter and based, which is my basic standard going forward.

I have a list of stuff I want to get done for 2015 too, should be good!

To build a model holding a gun with two arms that actually *gasp* fits together... Ahhh, that would be GRAND.

1) Finish my custom SM chapter (was going strong but haven't touched it properly n about 2 years).

2) Have it so my CSM force has representatives form all the legions.

3) Build a fantasy army (though looking at the rumors of what GW are going to do with the system this one may never come to fruition).

My gaming Holy Grail has been for many years a fully mechanized 40K Imperial Guard (I don't care what they're called now) Task Force, incorporating all brilliantly painted -

Command Company with Stormlord
3 LR Tank Companies
Baneblade Company
3 Mech Infantry Companies (fully mounted in Chimeras)
3 Artillery Companies
Heavy Artillery Company
Scout Company (lots of Salamanders)

I'm just a single Euro Lottery win away from hiring Golem for several years to accomplish this.

 zedmeister wrote:
- Have a gaming room like this

I'm in love

I'm interested in a few figures that ice never been able to find for a reasonable price. I could probably afford them but £25-80 a figure is rather a lot. I want an Ambull, the four Space Zoats, a Dominator and a Piscean Warrior, among a few other weird oddities.

To have the time, money and motivation to once again participate in the hobby.

I’d like to get some of the big FW things, like the Eldar SH tanks a/o a thunderhawk. But the price is just ridiculous for something that’s just going to warm the shelf. I can’t even justify the small stuff, due to book cost and shipping. What’s really going to test my resolve/sanity is when FW gets around to doing Ultramarines.

To paint the Napoleonics and Flames of War armies I have gotten to play with my father. I feel like they've been plotting my demise since it's been four months or so since I've touched one.

 Haight wrote:
To put my fully painted 13k elven army on the table.

Where you located? I'll have that in Skaven by the middle of the year, end of at the latest, hopefully even fully painted(though probably not based). I'd love to put mine on the table, too.

 monders wrote:
To build a model holding a gun with two arms that actually *gasp* fits together... Ahhh, that would be GRAND.

I did that yesterday, with one of the mini's in the Gremlin Kin box for Malifaux. Horribly fiddly miniatures (3+ part heads on 28mm!), but the quality is immense. The way it's done there are no undercuts, but you do always feel like you're risking your sanity dealing with parts that small.

To finish off some proper historical armies and run a demo of a massive battle of a massive battle from history - something like the destruction of the Roman legion by the Germanic tribes, the battle of Bosworth, Alexander the Great at Gaugamela or something similar. Have it all fully painted on themed terrain, played over a weekend.

And, one more time.. a full on game of Epic, half a dozen players on each side, 20-30,000pts or so, dozens of titans, entire tank legions and regiments. Done it once as a teenager, remains the high point of my wargaming experiences.

Steelmage99 wrote:
To re-ignite my interest in 40K. I really want to get back into the game.

I've tried a couple of times, last time with 6th edition, lulled in by the background and the lovely minis. On both occasions I've found it an experience similar to picking up a video game that you had owned before but then sold, or getting back together with a girlfriend you split up with; despite the good memories and imagination of something good, once you have that thing again you realise straight away "ah, this is why I didn't like it"

Fully painted 30k army

Current goal is to finish my two caster Cryx army and participating in tourneys this year starting in Feb.

Think idea of this thread was for 'most amazing hobby based thing you can ever imagine doing', rather than 'basic plans for 2015'..

Unless that is the most amazing thing you can ever imagine doing in wargaming?

Find a lot of old metal Cadian and Squat models that somebody had stashed away in an attic or something. That'd be the coolest find for me.

That and finish painting all my armies.

Have a fully painted collection.

Ok here are mine:

Finish my 2nd Company of Ultramarines - am over half way there, have 65 marines painted plus support but that has taken 6 years so far.....

Finish my Macragge PDF - almost there, about 80%

Get one of my armies in White Dwarf magazine - have been on GW website but really would like to get in WD.

Stop buying stuff and just paint up what I have, which right now is probably about ten years worth - this one probably is about as likely as finding the real Holy Grail - haven't managed it in 30 years so far.....

Well it was the Skullz Adeptus Mechanicus unit... and I got that.

Then it was getting a full Deathwatch army... and I did that too.

Then it was getting to write 40K stuff professionally... and I did that too.


What should the next goal be?

Improve my actual painting skills. Basics like highlights and washes are still challenging for me sometimes.

Learn how to make really nice looking terrain and buildings.

Master and defeat death.

Get a full 28mm historic Byzantine army complete with cataphracts and an emperor in golden armor.

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wrote:Think idea of this thread was for 'most amazing hobby based thing you can ever imagine doing', rather than 'basic plans for 2015'..

Good point (though my post earlier still stands )

In that case - For Our Most Benevolent Gee Dubs to re-release Epic (apart from a Thunderhawk, I missed out on that system) and for my wife to say "I'll pay all the bills, you just go mad with all that stuff"

Siiiiiiiiiiigh.

 Pacific wrote:
Think idea of this thread was for 'most amazing hobby based thing you can ever imagine doing', rather than 'basic plans for 2015'..

Having read this...

Mastering basic painting is still it. I love painting, but danged if I don't make a complete mess of it 90% of the time.

For something really amazing though... I want to own the lego black knights castle from the like the early 90's. It was huge and amazing and little kid me wanted it sooo much. But there was never any chance that I would have actually been able to have it. Too expensive by far. But now? That's the dream.

 Bookwrack wrote:

 G. Whitenbeard wrote:
To paint every darn model I own.

This!

To look upon my collection and have not a single model left waiting assembly or paint!

you do realize that the day this happens is the day you die, yes?

-Loki- wrote:Have a fully painted collection.

Best one yet, in that for every wargamer and miniature painter it is a shimmering mirage on the horizon, tentatively within reach at times but then fades when you finally get to it..

And certainly less likely than..

toasteroven wrote:Master and defeat death.

Finish my armies to satisfaction.

Buy, build and paint a warhound Titan.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
What should the next goal be?

Run GW.

You're 3 for 3 already, try your luck.