New Year Post ! We need a plan...

OK , so as most of you know by now, a new year has come and that means it has to be filled with even greater projects and accomplishments than the previous one.

In order to set a standard, let's take a brief look at what was 2014 (I'm following the same plan as Last Year) :

 

What I have painted this year :

Models painted : 70

That's actually 17 more than last year so I consider it's a good improvment. I am not after numbers and only seek to get some stuff done so this is just great as is.

I have had a slightly more focused approach this year though I've participated in unexpected challenges that must represent 34 models out of the 70 painted (that's nearly half of them... damn). Though these models have usually taken the place of others in the paintqueue, I think I won't change a thing about doing this as it strengthens the link between modellists and is always refreshing.

You can get a good look at my Rogue trader gallery to see a good part of what I painted this year.

What I have played this year :

• a couple of games of Munchkin which I also happened to like
• A lot of games of coups d'un soir (yes AGAIN)
• Very little if any video games (I started GTA 5 and played a few hours late in December) 

What I'm the most happy about is that I have finally managed to get real tabletop games and some Roleplay too !

• 5 games At BOY including some necromunda, confronttaion , Rogue Trader, Gorkamorka and Use me (See HERE)
• I've ben taking part in 2 online Roleplay campaigns, one of DnD on the oldhammer forum and another of The legend of the 5 rings on Facebook. I'm a player in both and am enjoying them a lot as it really gives me the opportunity to "play" without any bother about game mechanics and all. Kudos to the GMs who enable us to have that much fun !

 

I finally played a game of confrontation with proper gangs, a proper table and great guys...

 

 

Personnal side :

• I haven't moved home during the year which had not happened in 4 years now.
• I've had another child (a boy this time, just how do you make them grow faster to get games and do Kendo with these?)
• I've been robbed by people thinking it would be cool to break into my house and take all valuables... they hopefully didn't touch any member of my family nor any model  so as far as I'm concerned the real Valuables have been left safe ;)

Blogging and life on the net :

After a year, I've finally found a sort of pace and balance with blogging. I've written 70 articles this year against 72 the previous one so that must ba my blogging pace I guess. I've realised that figures and numbers actually don't mean anything as most views come from bots from different browsers., some still wish to see some meaning in them though. The only thing I really care about is the comments I get and considering the fact I always get some, I'd like to thanks you all for the feedback, it's always appreciated and as often as possible taken into account !

Getting new followers is always a nice thing too because it also helps to discover new bloggers and great stuff, ideas and techniques which is the essence of blogging the way I see it.

The more noticeable thing this year is that' I've tried to participate in community projects whenever I could just because they were initiated by great people and helped bond everyone.

Amongst these group projects there were :

• The Realm of Chaos Challenge
• The How to Oldhammer challenge (to be finished)
• Orctober
• The Oldhammer Warband challenge
• The Oldhammer Salvation army
• The bestiary of the exalted and unfortunate (to be finished)
• A couple of Chico's challenges

And a bunch of others implying no modelling but creating gaming material like

• the 80s Realm of Chaos mutation chart
• the rogue trader scenario generator

My completed warband for the Realm Of Chaos Challenge

Collecting :

Though I've never been a collector but always more a painter/modelist than anything else, I've managed to complete collections of models I've been craving from a looooong time.

Amongst the collections I can consider finished, 

• The complete chaos renegade range : This one was a childhood dream which I had abandonned until I had only a few model left to get !

That's what a complete renegade collectin looks like...

• The complete Marauder Venator range. That one has been haunting me for quite a while (since 95 IIRC) and the mark of confrontation and the John Blanche Illustrations has never faded from my mind, for some reason this particular faction was one of the most evocative for me.

• The 4 space zoats, Nick Bibby at work, nothing to add here, few models say Rogue traders as loudly and clearly as those.

All these were models I've been wanting since I saw them a long time ago, be sure they will all get love and paint as I don't intend for them to gather dust in a drawer.

I would also like to point the fact that I've been able to gather those gold nuggets because of the tremendous generosity of certain fellow bloggers/forum partners and dare I say friends. From links to certain sales to help, to totally unbalanced deals in my favour, to banking ebay snipes and even to plain and simple gifts, I have received so much help and proofs of kindness that I want to express here my most sincere THANKS to you all !

I have tried to do my part but it seems nigh impossible to be as nice as some, slow claps to you people, you know who you are.

Projects :

I thought about doing some plan but to be honest, there are so much things I wan to do right now that I'll just throw names at you to give you an appetizer :

- Space Skaven

- Rogue trader robots

- Chaos Grav attack

- Helmawr gang for confrontation

- Chaos Dwarf Allied contingent for my 3rd army (no infantry, just war engines and fire weapons)

- Loads of venators (lead and plastics)

- Some Space fleet

- As many chaos renegades as I can

- More NPCs and civilians for Rogue trader/40k/confrontation/necromunda

plus so much other things I won't bore you with right now.

So what is 2015 going to be made of ? Well I guess a very similar look with added tastes ad flavours ! I'm really happy hobby wise so I won't try to fix what's not broken, I'll try to integrate new techniques and projects just to avoid hobbying in circle but with the amount of fresh and cool stuff around I know I'll want to explore new shores !

With all my best wishes to you and yours, let's make 2015 one hell of a good year for everyone !