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So last year's log turned out to be a good way to keep my motivation up, and I got a bunch painted last year as a result, so here's me doing it again for this year.

The big decision I've made is not to buy anything besides an army for Bolt Action / Chain of Command until I get a ways through my backlog. That leaves me with basically 6 projects on my plate:

Project 1: Finish up my 10mm Lord of the Rings project
By: The end of January
What I have to paint up:
5 bases of Dwarves, plus Dain
6 bases of Goblins
4 bases of Spearmen
1 base of Trolls

Project 2: Get my two Dropzone Commander armies painted up to 1000 points
By: Let's say March? Just to get it finished.
What I have to paint up:
3 Hunter grav-tanks, plus their dropship
1 Intruder dropshop
2 Ares walkers, plus their dropship
2 Phobos walkers, plus their dropship
1 Odin and 1 Zeus walker, plus their dropship

Project 3: Paint up the ancients stuff I have, to unlock the ability to buy more
By: I dunno! This is just for me, so there's no deadline or anything
What I have to paint up (I'm listing it up in Warmaster Ancients units of 3 bases, since that's how I bought everything) :
4 units of Hoplites
2 units of Javelins
3 Greek commanders
2 units of Immortals
3 units of Persian subject infantry
2 units of Skythian horse archers
1 Persian general

Project 4: Paint up enough of my 6mm British Napoleonics to try out a game of Black Powder, assuming Mike also does so, heh.
By: Summer-ish? Seems I've been saying that for a couple years now.
What I have to paint up (I've sort of arbitrarily decided 1 unit is 3 60x30mm bases, since that makes for an impressive footprint and model count) :
4 units of line infantry (one of which I will probably base up as light infantry)
1 unit each of Hussars and Heavy Dragoons
3 cannons
1 general and as many as 4 captains
Together with the 2 units of infantry, 1 unit each of light and heavy dragoons, and 4 cannons I already have painted up, that should give me more than enough for a good-sized game.

Project 5: Bolt Action
By: Depends on when I get the scratch to order myself an army, but it would be cool to have something playable as soon as possible. The timeline on this one will have to wait a bit, I reckon.
What I'm going to get: The 1000-point starter German army from Warlord, which will give me more than enough for a solid core to get started.

Project 6: Epic Black Templars
By: The next time I have an Epicstravaganza - like the Iron Warriors last time, I'd like to make this a door prize for some interested party, even though interest was lukewarm last time. What the hey!
What I have to paint up:
5 stands of bikers
4 stands of devastators
12 stands of tactical marines
8 stands of assault marines
2 stands of neophytes
10 land raiders
2 rhinos and 2 razorbacks
1 thunderhawk
If I'm feeling saucy, I'll scratch build and paint up a couple drop pod markers too.

So there's a lot on my plate this year! But a lot of it is very very small, and I think I painted at least that much last year, so it's eminently doable.

As usual, I'll keep the thread updated as I paint! Pictures, too.

So there's one part of one goal down, 1000 points of Scourge for Dropzone.



And all I'll need to add to get to the "standard" 1500 points is 3 more AA tanks (which I own) and a couple flame tanks (which I do not). I'll work on the remaining PHR forces while I chip away at Napoleonics - with luck, I'll be able to get them done by February's Joshin as well, but you never know.

Speaking of which, I have a soft deadline to get some Napoleonic stuff painted up - Mike and I are shooting for June for a game, so I hope to get, oh, at least two or three units of line infantry done by then, plus some command stands.

And here, with 1000 points of PHR, is one of my resolutions down.



And I think I'm going to modify (I'm going to say "modify" instead of "toss" because it's my thread and I can do what I want) a couple of my resolutions, since I've been thinking about DzC a bunch and it seems like Auxryn and job at least are willing to get into the game: I'm going to go ahead and paint up both of these forces to the "standard" 1500 points, which also means I'll have to buy a few more models - but not a lot!

For the Scourge, I'll add:
Another unit of infantry in a fast dropship (owned, painted)
Another unit of AA tanks and their dropship (owned, not painted)
A unit of flame tanks and their dropship (dropship is owned and painted, flame tanks I'll have to buy)

And for the PHR:
Another unit of infantry in a fast dropship (owned, not painted)
Another unit of AA walkers and their dropship (owned, not painted)
A unit of rocket artillery (which I'll have to buy)

So it's really only 4 models (admittedly, at a resin-steep 4000 yen or so) that I'll have to actually spend money on, and it'll give me the ability to open up my games a bit.