In January my plan for this year was to try and achieve the following:

• Finish my 28mm Modern asymmetric war games rules;
• Read at least 10 new Books;
• Do at least three projects that require more “green stuff” modelling;
• Sell/give away at least 10 lots of stuff that I am not using and will be unlikely to use;
• Play at least one game every two weeks (26 in total) and write a battle report on them;
• Complete at least 20 projects on the list below, or substitute them for something else.

The rules have not been completed and at the moment Blake and I have not been able to spend much time on this together. We have done bits on our own but haven’t shared these yet, and as this is not likely to happen in the short term I will shelve this until the time is right.

On the positive, excluding reviews on about eight sets of rules, I have read and completed eleven book reviews. This means with half the year gone I have already more than achieved that goal.

I have only completed one “green stuff” modelling project being an Egyptian objective marker so will need to do more work on this.

I have given away some Flintloque figures, some gladiators, and a whole pile of plastic 20mm “stuff”, but lots more needs to go.

With just under a year completed I am on track with playing games having played and completed battle reports on twelve games excluding the three dinosaur games with the grandchildren, which were great fun.

I am well on track with the list of 61 projects listed. I have completed 19 with another 43 remaining. Out of those 5 were Kickstarters that were supposed to arrive by end of June but have not as yet. I intend to take these off the list and re-prioritize if and when they arrive. All in all, only being one short of the years target with more than half way to go has been a bit of an underestimation of my abilities on that front.

Priority	Description	Scale	Cavalry	Infantry	Building	Large
1 HIGH	6:Seige Kickstarter	28MM	–	–	–	–
1 HIGH	Apocalyptic Shanty Town	28MM	–	–	10	–
1 HIGH	Arab village	28MM	–	–	5	–
1 HIGH	Balance of the Free Folk figures	28mm	–	61	–	6
9 COMPLETED	Brunswick Napoleonics	28MM	36	112	–	8
1 HIGH	Canadian Mounties	28MM	2	27	–	1
1 HIGH	Colonial Camel Corps	20MM	45	–	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Curse of Dead man’s Hand Ungodly Creatures	28MM	–	–	–	–
1 HIGH	Denisovians	28MM	–	30	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Eldar Striking Scorping Phoenix Lord and 3 Exarchs	28MM	–	4	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Eldar Striking scorpions	28MM	–	30	–	–
1 HIGH	Eldar wraithguard (2)	28MM	–	4	–	–
1 HIGH	Footsore miniatures Robin Hood Kickstarter	28MM	–	–	–	–
1 HIGH	Footsore miniatures FIW Kickstarter	28MM	–	–	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Free Folk Craster Character	28mm	–	1	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Free Folk Giants	28mm	–	–	–	2
1 HIGH	Free Folk Mammoth	28mm	–	–	–	1
1 HIGH	Free Folk Raider Unit	28mm	–	13	–	–
1 HIGH	Free Folk Raider Unit	28mm	–	13	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Free Folk skin Changer (1)	28mm	–	1	–	1
1 HIGH	Free Folk skin Changer (2)	28mm	–	1	–	1
9 COMPLETED	Free Folk Wilding Princess Val	28mm	–	1	–	–
1 HIGH	French Indian War Cavalry	28MM	15	17	–	1
1 HIGH	French Indian War French canoes	28MM	–	–	–	–
1 HIGH	French Indian War Indian Canoes	28MM	–	–	–	–
1 HIGH	Gangs of Rome	28MM	–	–	–	–
1 HIGH	Ghost Busters Kickstarter	28MM	–	–	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Gotham City Station	28MM	–	–	–	1
1 HIGH	Harry Potter Figures	28MM	2	82	–	4
1 HIGH	Jungle Patrol	28MM	–	13	–	–
1 HIGH	Masters of the universe Kickstarter	28MM	–	–	–	–
9 COMPLETED	MCP Hulk	28MM	–	–	–	1
1 HIGH	Modern Afghan Forces	28MM	1	17	–	9
1 HIGH	Modern ISAF forces	28MM	–	24	–	–
1 HIGH	Modern Scooters	28MM	–	–	–	6
9 COMPLETED	Necromunda Cawdor Gang	28MM	–	19	–	–
1 HIGH	Necromunda Delaque	28MM	–	9	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Necromunda Goliaths	28MM	–	32	–	–
1 HIGH	Necromunda Hired Guns	28MM	–	13	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Necromunda Orlocks	28MM	–	12	–	–
1 HIGH	Necromunda Pit Slaves	28MM	–	5	–	–
1 HIGH	Necromunda Ratskins	28MM	–	30	–	–
1 HIGH	Necromunda Redemptionists	28MM	–	17	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Necromunda Scavvies	28MM	–	24	–	–
1 HIGH	Necromunda Wyrds	28MM	–	1	–	–
1 HIGH	Plains Indians	28MM	2	27	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Powhattan Indians	28MM	–	21	–	–
1 HIGH	Project Z ultimate bundle	28MM	–	–	–	–
1 HIGH	Ragnarok Kickstarter	28MM	–	–	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Roman City	28MM	–	–	–	–
1 HIGH	Japanese Temple Complex	28MM	–	–	6	–
9 COMPLETED	Test of Honour Oda Plastic Foot Samurai	28MM	–	9	–	–
9 COMPLETED	Trains mdf	28MM	–	–	–	6
1 HIGH	US Cavalry	28MM	37	46	–	3
1 HIGH	Viking Longboat	28MM	–	21	–	1
1 HIGH	War In Christmas Village Figures	28MM	1	5	–	–
1 HIGH	Warhammer Chaos Dwarfs	28MM	6	34	–	1
1 HIGH	Warpath Plague Army	28MM	–	–	–	12
9 COMPLETED	Wild West Civilians	28MM	–	73	–	–
1 HIGH	World War Two French	28MM	2	115	–	22
1 HIGH	Zombicide Wild West Kickstarter	28MM	–	–	–	–

That is only part of the picture because most of the work I have completed was not even on the list! A few things have occurred to cause this change of direction. Firstly we have started playing a lot of Lasalle 2 and my Napoleonic Figures needed a huge amount of work re-basing and touching them up after having very little use for decades.

There was also Maree’s interest in a Targaryen army which put a lot of things on hold and then there was the birthday horde which has started a revival of my Warpath, and Deadzone collection

The discovery of Zona Alpha, Five Parsecs From Home, Silver Bayonet, and 7TV Pulp have also caused a change of priority on what I have painted and built.

These include the following Napoleonic units that have been re-based, repaired, and touched up:

• British Congreve Rockets;
• Nassau Battalion of 24 figures:
• British 1st and 2nd Life Guard of 12 figures;
• Kings German Hussars of 8 figures;
• 2nd British Union Brigade of 48 figures;
• 7 British Regiments of 168 figures;
• French Allied Brigade 1 of 96 figures;
• French Allied Brigade 2 of 96 figures;
• Portuguese Dragoons of 8 figures;
• Dutch (Red) Lancers 0f 18 figures);
• French Veteran Infantry Brigade 1 of 96 figures;
• French Veteran Infantry Brigade 2 of 96 figures;
• 3 British Artillery Batteries including crew, limbers and caissons.

I need to point out that whilst the re-basing and repairs was no small task it was nowhere the same as actually painting the figures in the first place. So whilst it looks impressive, in the scheme of things it was not that time consuming. I still have a lot more of these to go.

The other things which were not on the list that were completed include:

• The mouse house fun fantasy house village and toadstool forest;
• British modern Afghan Squad;
• Afghan National Army Squad and APC;
• Marshmallow man for Ghostbusters;
• Giant plastic squid;
• 40k Praetorian Guard Missile Launcher;
• President for Life Hasim Koboto and Family;
• 3 Zombie survivors;
• 40k Lord Solar Macharius;
• two 20mm Rolls Royce armoured cars;
• 28mm Resin tug;
• several Gorka Morka post apocalyptic vehicles;
• Damaged 1/43 scale diecast cars;
• Gangs of Rome civilians (30);
• WW2 Finnish Stug;
• WW2 Finnish BA-10;
• 8 Halo Spartans;
• Songs of Ice and Fire Targaryen army;
• Rad Ghouls for Zona Alpha;
• Lasalle 2 ruined buildings;
• Crisis Team Alpha and Spaceship for 5 Parsec from Home;
• German U-boat;
• Batman figures;
• 40 Deadzone Plague zombies;
• 10 Deadzone Plague 3A mutants;
• 2 Deadzone Plague Dogs;
• 1 Deadzone Plague Mule vehicle and wreck;
• Ainsty resin Dock;
• Ainsty resin River Launch;
• French in Egypt Unit for Silver Bayonet; and
• Seebattallion figures.

The list makes me tired looking at.

What am working on at the moment? Well you can forget the table above because I have different priorities than at the start of the year.

I am gradually wading through a Napoleonic Turkish army and have half painted eight units of infantry. This is just a part of what is quite a large project with Janissaries, Militia’ artillery, and cavalry to come. The majority of these figures are from Eureka Miniatures Russo-Turkish War and their 16th century ranges as not much had changed during that period.

The Deadzone, Ruined city, and Arab buildings are all about half completed as is a container ship for Pulp games. I have put together some plastic Partizans for Bolt Action but these are not a priority for painting at the moment.

Two of my Kickstarters have arrived and I have started painting the Robin Hood one and have sorted out the French Indian Wars one for preparation and painting.

The painting desk has moved inside from the garage during winter and now has this in various stages of completion.

Deadzone Plague Zombies completed today and in a post soon!

WW1 Turkish Infantry and Vignettes for Pulp games just undercoated.

Nasty Nazis for Pulp games.

Pulp Heroes including Mr Jones with whip that will be the next priority.

Pulp Sailors part completed to take on the Seebattalion!

Loads of Aliens from CP Models including the two for 5 Parsecs that I need done ASAP.

Two unopened boxes of 3rd Gen Plague Mutants for Deadzone, as you can never have enough mutants!

Deadzone GCPS Major Loren Chard character.

Two boxes of Silver Bayonet armies (Spanish and Austrian) received for my birthday that I also want to have finished soon!

I have decided to give up on lists as this “Brain of a Gnat” Guru keeps changing his priorities.