As it turned out, this year has been pretty good, all in all. I painted a 15mm Romano-British warband, sort of started a Saxon warband to fight against them. Got plenty of Splintered Lands painted, and bought - Dwarfs and Beastlands. Also invested in a fair amount of scenery.
Gaming-wise played Brytenwalda a few times, but then got diverted back to my favourite of Song of Splintered Lands. Played a bit of Song of Arthur & Merlin, and a couple of other randoms such as Sturmovik Commander.
Next year I'm planning on the following;
Saga; already got a load of Musketeer early Saxons unpainted. Think I'll get some bigger shields for them to make them later, then painting them up for Saga and Song of Arthur & Merlin
Splintered Lands: lots of painting to do here, and hopefully lots of games.
Bag The Hun; Already have enough 1/600 to replay the Battle of Britain in 1:1, so just need a hex mat/map. Discovered a website with aerial reconnaissance photos of Blighty taken by the RAF in 1946. So, stitched together a load of them from Woodmancote - a village about 5 miles North of here. Slowly colouring them in, and will get that to a Graphic/Printers to be printed on a 4 x 6 vinyl mat with hexes over the top
The actual image I'm working on is currently 13mb and enormous - haven't worked out what scale it'll be in when printed at that size, so may need to add bits later on. Strangely therapeutic process, and enjoying mucking about with Gimp trying to recreate fields to the human eye.
So what's in the pipeline for you next year?
I've got a more indepth answer on my own blog, but the gist of it goes -
ReplyDeleteStop Smoking.
Stop Spending so much on Toy Soldiers.
Pay off the Credit Card/Overdraft
Paint lots.
Learn to take better pics.
Get my 15mm Fantasy rules to a stage where they can be put into pdf form.
Love the map, it is a great idea, very original. Really looking forwards to progress on this project, even if WWII planes isn't my thing.
Good luck!