After finishing 2020 on the high of completing the Painting Challenge and being able to make progress on so many of my projects, the start of 2021 was a bit of a crash!
The impact of Covid19 aside, I started the year with a blank and feeling very uninspired and completely unfocused. Lots of half painted figures and project next steps in front of me but nothing caught my eye.
Initially I had a hook with Warlord Miniatures new American Civil War Epic range, it reminded me a lot of teh old GW Warmaster game which I never got into but had alway sat on my maybe list. I picked up some free sprues that had been given away with Wargames Illustrated and made a start with a Union force
First of my Union troops, first time painting on the Sprue as well which certainly helped with these
First Union Canon, although i think I will have to go back and add some red flash
The AWC is also not a period I have looked into before so I had plenty of background reading and viewing available keep me going.
Unfortunately I think I tried to do too much, too soon and after the test unit and cannon the weigh of Batch painting crashed me out again.
Put to one side, I have no doubt I will come back to these, just not yet!
Still in limbo I will look at defaulting to my usual re inspiration and do some terrain until the Muse is upon me!
Until then, my plans for 2021 include...
1. Bloodbath at Orcs Drift Project - Continue buildings and finish off Civilians and Militia Unit.
2. Prehistoric Project - Finish Homo Erectus tribe and Heidelbergensis (Green Stuff furs on the remaining figures and paint!) and start testing rules
3. Relics - Buildings for Vaettir and Nuem, possible ship for Britanan. Complete at least one Faction, probably C'thu first as I have several foot units started on my table of shame along with some Barbs of Thamos!
4. Turnip28 - have a lovely board, now need to add some units!!
5. Erin - Sidhe and Formorans to do
6. Saga - Romano-British ongoing and Dark Age village (this will also be used for Erin)
7. Epic - finish Bad Moon Gargant and finish Alt Reaver and Warhounds so I can finally start my Warlords!!
8. Man O War - Empire to finish and Dwarves to start!
9. Rogue Trader/ WH40K, Original Necrons (Keep or sell, undecided!) Adeptus Mechanicus (Keep or Sell, undecided) warbands for Inquisitor and Dusk Raiders ongoing
10. Doctor Who - Focus on Finishing Robot set with UNIT troops and Bunker to build.
Next set Three Doctors, Pyramids of Mars, Brain of Morbius or Destiny of the Daleks
11. Frostgrave - ongoing city build and finalise Warband
12. Mordheim - paint up undead warband!
13. Alternative Armies - Ion Age 15m and 28mm, paint up playable factions and play!!
14. Pulp/7TV...don't really need to be starting any more projects but keep looking...
More than enough to keep me busy well into 2022!
