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2021 is coming quickly to a close, and it is time for us all to reflect on what we have achieved and accomplished for our hobby over the year.

I have a blog post up on the topic for those so inclined: http://bloodandspectacles.blogspot.com/2021/12/random-close-of-another-year.html

The highlights are below:

1. No more pile of shame!
2. I painted 300+ miniatures this year, mostly ancients.
3. Published the 2nd of 3 Blue Books for Osprey- Wars of the Republic
4, Got three publications to my Wargame Vault page this year
5. Played about 2 games a month
6. Have a regular RPG group going
7. Improved my website and started a Patreon



Overall, not a bad year!

How about you? What did you finish up in 2021? Time to show off! Pictures are encouraged!

I completely lost my interest in the hobby once covid hit without games to motivate me. Now that my club has resumed I'm getting back into things.

I have almost finished painting the Pontic army I had on my painting desk 2 years ago, just 16 infantry and 2 chariots left.

I got in 3 games of ADLG this year.

*Painted:
50 pirates - for D&D
about a dozen random/misc minis - I didn't really keep count of these.
a huge amount of pirate related scatter terrain - stuff you'd find on a ship - I'm not really counting these
9 Talos, 9 Cronos, 1 Succubus, 1 Archon (further detailing on the Talos/Cronos will continue into Jan. But for all practical purposes they're painted)
4 Spindel Drones
2 Bore wurms
95 AoS Chaos Marauders/STD (60 foot, 30 horse, 5 chariots)
3 Transcendent CTan
15 Necron Deathmarks
Total: around 200 actual minis - I guess this made a dent in the pile??

Played (average):
2 minis games/week, (one of them always being either 40k Crusade or AoS league/PTG)
1 RPG/week (often as the DM)
Board Games once a week

Built: 2 new armies (Drukhari Talos/Cronos detachment, AoS Stormcast Dragons)

Ran a short lived AoS campaign
Continued to run a weekly D&D/PF campaign.

Taught 40k/Sigmar to 4 new players.

Spent alot of $.....

I try to keep notes of what I've done during the year (been trying to keep track since 2019). Was a bit forgetful at time this year, but I think I got most of it down.

Tyranids (Painted):
3 Warriors
61 Termagants (some built/repaired)
1 Tyrannofex (Armorcast)
6 Mucolid/Meiotic Spore (the FW models)
1 Neurothrope (3D printed)
1 Tervigon
1 Carnifex (Screamer Killer 3D printed)

8 big terrain piece that I 3D printed and painted

(Built)
1 Hive Guard built (conversion, to bring me to 6 models)
1 Tyranid Prime build (conversion)


Eldar (Painted):
10 Dark Reaper (Artel W)
3 small forest/jungle to match my jungle Eldar (made with old GW palm tree)
1 Eldar small spire scenery (3D printed)


Thousand Sons (Painted):
2 Rhino
5 Rubric (previous gen)
1 Sorcerer (old gen)
1 Dreadnought (old FW boxy one)
1 Infernal Master
3 Spawn
1 small portal terrain piece

(Built)
1 Vindicator
1 Daemon Prince (3D printed)

Others (Painted):
10 old school fantasy ghost (those individual on 20mm base)
1 Blood tower scenery (GW Dreadstone Blight tower converted to match the Fantasy 8th edition special scenery)
13 models from Cursed City
25 models for a Khorne army as a commission to a friend (christmas themed with conversion work and all that)

(Built)
The rest of Cursed City
1 Custodes Blade Master (converted)

And to finish, currently doing Belakor as a commission. Base and body completed, need the wings to finish him off. Should be done but the end of the year hopefully!

Only got back into the hobby at the end of November when real life decided to take a step back and give me a bit of a breather... So in that time...

Painted
30 marines
10 Grey Knight Terminators

Built
4 Rhinos (one hovers)
1Razorback
1 Predator

Not done, but I'm still working on
4 more Rhino varients and a Thunderhawk

Painted record number of models getting damn close to 1000. Alas I bought even more...

AOS I was busy playing 81 games with winrate improving from last years 33% to 39.5%. Yey. Also doubled draws from 1 to 2 Albeit due to increase of games draw % went down...AOS3 makes draws super hard.

Organized 2 AOS tournaments as well plus attended 2 which were first for me as a player for over a year. Second one with funny nearly all mounted bonesplitter army and despite handicap of faction(and suboptimal version of bonesplitters) went 2-1 only losing to the tournament winner(who has funny habit of winning AOS tournaments here when he attends them). Albeit opposing lists weren't toughest lists out there on my wins either ;-)

Other than painting and playing I finally got 2 full WHFB armies, and tons of Necromunda stuff as well. Always loved that stuff but never found people willing to play those games before 1-2 years ago.

Now I have models to paint for the next 5-10 years, also considering that I'm planning to get lots of MDF terrain and scratch build other terrain as well, which is a relief considering that I don't like how new sculpts look in 40k, let alone their prices. The goal for the next 1-2 years is to have very good looking boards for home gaming, which I currently lack.

Next step will be joining groups of people who still play 6th edition of fantasy (it's still pretty popular here, more than AOS) and convince more people to give Necromunda a try.

Painted about 160 models including 2 Macharius, 2 Malcadors, a Land Raider, and a Redemptor, got my Black Legion and Deathwatch both to 100 Power forces, and went to a HH event which was awesome.

Continued my steady backlog clearing. Bit all over the place as I bounced around but it kept me engaged so just gonna keep moving ahead the same way.

Jan:
Feb:
Mar:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
Sept:
Oct:
Nov:
Dec:

Well, I stayed alive and I joined this forum.

Hobbywise, I played some good games of Kings of War, painted and based a small elf army, painted some armada ships, and got into the Lord of the Rings game.

I'm happy with that.

 Blackie wrote:

Now I have models to paint for the next 5-10 years,

Planning for the short term, eh?


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 krijthebold wrote:
Well, I stayed alive and I joined this forum.

I got loads done this year, though not a lot of it was what I planned. Early in the year I was in my usual doldroms.
I got some D&D stuff finished and painted some more terrain pieces. Then in the autumn I stopped browsing the internet and started doing some hobby work every day.
I got a bunch of old space marine models out, stripped them and repaired them, and painted up a large space marine army for Grimdark Future. 30 tactical marines, 15 terminators, 10 assault marines, 10 scouts, 6 bikers, an attack bike and a land speeder storm, as well as a half dozen characters and a land raider. The models were a mix of stuff I'd accumlated from a variety of starter sets and some old metals and one off purchases. Some of it had been sitting untouched for over a decade. I sprayed it all army painter blue, washed it with old blue ink and just smashed out 80 minis in a month.

Then finally got some regular games in with a colleague from work while working on my brother's old imperial guard, and I've painted up over 50 of them and converted some civil war minis into a unit of rough riders. Really pleased with how the scheme is coming out. Then I assembled a bunch of tyranids I bought a few years ago and have been trying out an almost all contrast paint scheme on them. Along with a set of necromunda barricades and objectives I'm nearly at 365 minis for the year, which is amazing considering I barely picked up a brush for the first six months. Hoping to keep up the momentum into next year.

One thing I haven't done is keep posting progress on my blog here on dakka. I find photography a bit of a pain in the arse and I'm crap at it, and I've just been focusing on getting stuff done for games!

I got some models painted, did some dev on my game, and various other things. However, I think the biggest thing I did was dive into oil paints.

I had been using oil washes for a while now, but semi-randomly caught James Wappel on Twitch and started watching regularly. He's been doing miniatures for a long time and is a well recognized artist, and he's been doing models with 100% oil paints. I was like, "huh?" So after watching a few vids, I got a small set of other colors and gave it a try. I am now hopelessly addicted to this method/style, to the point where I'm actually putting all my acrylic paint racks up on the higher shelves rather than on my desk, so I have room for all my new oil paints.

Games played: 44

'O' Group - 4
Battletech: Alpha Strike - 1
Beyond the Gates of Antares - 1
Black Ops - 1
Black Powder - 1
Bolt Action - 5
British Grenadier - 2
Chain of Command - 1
Field of Battle 3 - 1
Frostgrave - 1
General d'Armee - 1
Glory: 1861 - 1
Hail Caesar - 1
Live Free or Die - 1
Middle Earth SBG - 3
Mythic Americas - 4
Rebels & Patriots - 1
Saga - 2
Strength & Honor - 1
To the Strongest! - 1
Warlords of Erehwon - 3
Warmaster: Revolution - 4
Wings of War - 3

Minis painted: A lot
10mm Cavalry - 60
10mm Infantry - 146
10mm Monsters - 32
15mm Infantry - 118
2mm Infantry - 1
28mm Cavalry - 1
28mm Infantry - 100
28mm Monsters - 9
28mm Vehicle - 5
6mm Vehicle - 15

-Finished painting my Custodes army and got to play them in 9th as well as KT21
-Painted a box of Guardians I rediscovered which I bought in the early 2000s
-Painted all the original Blackstone Fortress Models and the Dragon's Rest Terrain and finished the campaign with my wife
-Released a free rules set for tabletop Gundam and other mecha series
-Welcomed a newborn into our family four months ago who continues to make every day an adventure

All in all a very exciting year!

Congrats on potential new opponent in future

Flock all tbh. The rumours of the upcoming NuBeakies killed my BA project and sent it to a suspended state.

Hoping to get back to some hobby once the NuBeakies are released

ccs wrote:


Planning for the short term, eh?

Typically I'm only interested in complete armies and I wanted 2 . After more than two decades in the hobby getting 500-1000 points of a new faction doesn't suit me, I want to kitbash and be able to play the army in the short period, even if it will be run as a grey plastic horde for a long time. I buy models every 5-6 years now, and only large lots, last purchase I did was during 7th edition.

Not to mention that those models were all WHFB related, Empire and Dark Elves, which still have lower old prices and might not be around forever. Some, the OOP models that I needed, were very good deals from 2nd hand markets, which I couldn't ignore.

I also wanted an hundred of Necromunda models .

tneva82 wrote:
Congrats on potential new opponent in future

Thank you! We'll see if we wants to take over his Mom or his Dad's armies when he gets older!

Another triumph of KPI 0 for personal hobby painting

Sent about a dozen or so Guildball mini's to get commission painted, full Shepherds team and rounding out Alks, Navs and Union, so in theory the pile of same got smaller as besides a few Xwing ships I didn't buy anything

Played mostly Guildball and X-Wing

And as my school reports foresaw, could do better...

Not as much as I would've liked, many a lofty goal had been set throughout the year, but I wound up with maybe twenty odd minis actually done. A combination of a massive workload and depression hitting like a wrecking ball really put a damper on all things hobby related.

Personal highlight though was painting fourteen minis in three weeks time:



With my personal favourite being corporal Flakk:



And ending the hobby streak by finally painting up the two cloth dolls from Statuesque Miniatures Left at the Bottom of the Garden range:

I bought, then painted 2 Questoris Knights, a Clan star for Btech, some figures for Stargrave, a second Vindicare to annoy rival players... so that's good, but in general I added more to the grey pile of shame (KT I'm looking at you), and didn't manage to play as much as I wanted.

My 2022 goal is to avoid adding to the pile unless I either paint, or sell something, but probably will fail 2 weeks into January.

M.

This year was very productive for me.

New Armies Started:

- Chaos Knights
-- 3 Despoilers, magnetized
-- 6 War Dogs, magnetized

- Deathwatch
-- 5 Primaris KTs
-- 5 Proteus KTs
-- 6 Dreads of various designs
-- Various tanks and vehicles
-- Various characters

Existing Army Progress:

- Death Guard
-- Various characters
-- Added 2 PBCs
-- Added 5 Myphitic Blight Haulers
-- Added ~50 Poxbringers

- Grey Knights
-- Converted ~25 Strike Squad members to upgrade weapons
-- Converted ~15 Terminator models to upgrade weapons

- Black Legion
-- 2 more magnetized Fiends
-- 2 more Heldrakes
-- 2 more Venomcrawlers
-- Replaced 30 CSM with new sculpts
-- Added 15 Possessed
-- Added 20 Havocs

- Chaos Daemons
-- Added Greater Daemons - 2 Keepers of Secrets, 1 Lord of Change, 2 Bloodthirsters
-- Added various Khorne and Slannesh units

Painted roughly 3,000pts of Undead for Kings of War, as well as about 2,000pts of Ogre Palace Guard/Elohi for Kings of War.

Started far more projects than I can possibly achieve.

Only managed to play a handful of games, of which I have come to the conclusion that I no longer enjoy Kings of War. Luckily there is a wide selection of mass combat fantasy games to play... that is once we get back to some sort of normality.

I forgot one thing that I accomplished that I'm quite happy with which is: played a bunch of games with my family.

I don't get to see my nephews as often as I would like, and with Covid things have been even tougher, but we managed to get together more than we did in 2020, and played a bunch of fun games, some board games with minis, and some just making up our own little things with my figures.

That's the sort of thing that makes hobby stuff worth it, for me.

Absolutely agree, glad you were able to spend time with your family!

110 models for 2021.

A good deal painted and less than 60 models remain in my unpainted pile.

Cheers,

CB

I painted 411 models this year mainly fantay models. I've now got 2 periods for my fantasy human army and a large contingent of Undead painted. I've also got a decent chunk of terrain made this year. Gaming my club restarted and I've got a Frostgrave campaign on the go we've been dabbling in Stargrave and I've also played Oathmark.

I hit the finish line with 343 models painted. That's the best I've ever managed! Good luck to everyone next year!

Painted 118 model this year, which is 15 more then last year. I really hope to get way more done next year too.