January was a very busy month with holidays family and a number of health issues that needed sorting out. At the start of the month I put out a project plan, which is more of a hobby wish list than a plan, that I would like to get finished this year. As normal I have been side-tracked but hey isn’t that what a hobby is all about – doing stuff you want to do?

Despite this I have ticked off a number of projects that were on the list including:

1. Finish the about 200 Zombies remaining – these will be painted alongside other projects.
2. Dead Man’s Hand civilians.
3. Complete 2 Japanese 28mm Warlord plastic clans – 50% completed.
4. The Batman Searchlight – completed
5. Infinity Nomad faction
6. Complete Japanese village – again this will be completed alongside other projects – 90% completed.
7. About 80 more Test of Honour Japanese figures.
8. Set of 54mm Roman Generals – 50% completed.
9. Egyptian 28 mm skirmish figures.
10. Eureka Miniatures 28mm Anubis and Bast figures.
11. Eureka Miniatures 28mm cricket team.
12. Various objective markers.
13. 28mm Australian Light horse (12).
14. Complete Gotham City railway yard, freeway, port and two ships – about 40% completed.
15. Various small Gotham city terrain pieces (bill boards, containers, small buildings) – completed.
16. Crooked dice post apocalyptic scatter terrain – 60% completed.
17. Gangs of Rome figures and buildings (this is about half completed)
18. Set of Army tents and camp fires.
19. French figures for Sharpe Practice.
20. British figures for Sharpe Practice.
21. Finish Portuguese for Sharpe Practice – just needs basing.
22. Complete Crooked Dice Shanty Town buildings.
23. Paint assorted farm animals for use as scenery/objectives for several projects.
24. Complete French Indian Wars trapper and Indian canoes and various cavalry.
25. WW2 French Army for Bolt Action.
26. 28mm Skirmish Plains Indians.
27. 28mm US Cavalry.
28. Modern armed civilians and rioters and 2 rock bands – 50% completed.
29. Harry Potter Figures
30. Finish Modern ISAF and insurgent figures and vehicles.

As per normal there were lots of things completed that were not on the list and there were also a large number of figures that were almost finished that I didn’t include. The fact that a large number of figures were being worked on together meant that they were all finished with a rush at the same time. I tend to paint/build/model a number of projects together as this saves time – a sort of bulk batch processing methodology. It can be frustrating as individual projects take a lot longer but over January you saw the fruits of the approach, with new figures being finished on a daily basis. Here is what was completed:

• 12 Dr Who Sontarans;
• Two teams of 12 English Cricketers;
• Cricket pavilion and accessories;
• 13 school girls;
• 7 Pilots;
• 10 assorted pulp figures;
• 16 Shipping Containers, Railway station and 2 platforms, and assorted crates;
• 2 Subway entrances;
• 2 Billboards;
• 7 assorted Pulp figures;
• 9 Dr Who Sea Devils;
• 9 Dr Who Vervoids;
• 10 Assorted Dr Who Figures;
• 9 Dr WhoTetrap Figures;
• 4 “The A-Team” figures;
• 12 Warrior women;
• 20 Askari women; and
• Re-based 7 Heroclics Superman figures;

In addition there have been twenty-six blogs posted (nearly one a day!), including 3 game reports, a book review, and one off-topic rant. This leaves me well on track to achieve the 100 posts for the year that I had planned.

Things will slow down as I am now going back into my batch processing again so wait for the next avalanche of completed projects!