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1. Add at least 2000 points spread across both my High Elf and Orc and Goblin armies by the end of the year. No, but I don't mind because I played more games of WFB in 2018 than I ever have before with the painted Orc and Goblins and High Elves that I do have. This included 4 games of WFB5 in 2 days at the excellently enjoyable Middlehammer meet up at BIG in Bristol back in September 2018.
I did get some minis painted towards this goal but nowhere near the 2000 pt total.
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| Eltharion on 'Storm Wing' drew the ire of Chris from Macrocosm by wiping out his Chaos Dwarf artillery :) |
2. Finish the main Rogue Quest Project and any associated side projects currently planned.Yes! This goal was achieved back in XXX although it took me until XXX to write the blog post. I do now have more Rogue Quest side projects, some already completed some pending, but that is all good and a sign of a happily expanding project.
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| More to come from Inquisitor Halleck and his crew of dangerous misfits in the year ahead |
3. Complete an all metal (or primarily metal) conversion.
"This should involve actually cutting into lead! Drilling and pinning, and filling with green stuff. All things which any hobbyist worth their salt should be proficient in, and which I've never had a huge amount of success with, prior to a half a decent fix on a broken Trolls leg earlier this year. I'm reasonably confident, though not very skilled with converting plastic, but working with metal will be pushing my modelling skills."
Although I'm not sure I completed an 'all metal' conversion (plastic will have been involved) I'm very proud to say metal work including cutting, drilling, pinning and filling is now becoming a standard part of my hobby practice, and one I enjoy far more than I ever thought I would. The salvaged War-bot I put together for my Star Bastards project is probably my favourite example of drilling and pinning style conversions. What has become clear however is my green stuff/sculpting skills need A LOT of work.
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| A teaser for a future post about my Star Bastards project, completed last spring so you should see it around 2021 at this rate |
4. Run the Middlehammer Legacy Project for a second year.
Yes! The Warband of the Weird and Wonderful was a great success and as I sit here now writing this in February it reminds me that we should do another one... soon!
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| Two warbands worth of chaotic craziness from the Middlehammer community - let's do it again! |
5. Sell or trade more minis, games, and rule books....Listen, I'm just going to let this pledge quietly die in the corner after four straight years of being unfulfilled. Hush now... It will be better for everyone if it just goes quietly.
So what did I get done?
Well, loads of gaming for one thing, and a fair bit of painting not already shown here, but not much blogging. Here's a list of blog posts either in draft or yet to be started:
Crisis in Caledor parts 3 and 4
Star Bastards
Middlefest
Orktober 2018
Kit-bash Challenge
Rogue Quest - level 7
Hopefully sorting this post out will help me kick start the blogging action again and some of those posts will actually get published!
And what are the plans for 2019?
Well first and foremost, more gaming! Fellow Middlehammerer Ben and I have just launched the St Valentine's World Massacre WH40K campaign and we will be playing our first game next week in Bristol. I'm also signed up for a game of WH40K 2nd ED at BOYL this year so that ambition finally looks like becoming a reality. Then there is the meet up planned in Exeter in September with some of the same crowd from the WFB5 event in Bristol last year, so that should be a good craic too!
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| Phlegm Greyhorn and his raiding party with two 'Beasts of Nurgle' (from the Grenadier 1983 Call of Cthulu line) |
Well, that's the plan anyway. Now let's see how the hobby muses distract me this year :)
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