Fred's 2015 Painting Diary

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Heavy metal man! Awesome!

[Subedai]

All very nice and this has been a great read over the year.

[fred.]

Time to wrap this thread up.

Looking back at my aims / intentions for the year, they were largely ignored   

The only one I really made any progress on was with my Lizardmen army - which is largely complete, I have a few more infantry to do, and a bit of jungleification of bases but they are certainly playable - now to just get them on the table!

Gaming wise last year was a bunch of un-expected twists. Perhaps the biggest (or should that be smallest) was Epic Armageddon. Which my group decided to resurrect, I had missed EA the first time round, so was starting from scratch. I built a Tyranid army - largely from 3rd party models. It was good fun collecting and painting this army - it also had quite a steep learning curve on the table. But we did learn how to win - and by the middle of the year were winning a lot of games. I have recently added a Space Marine army, which is nearly complete, and have started collecting Squat forces - which are really just at the purchasing stage.

The next was Warband - which I grew to like, after not having taken to a preview copy the year before. I assembled a large number of sabot bases to allow use of my existing fantasy figures, and added some key units to my existing armies to give them more Warband options - I was even able to field a Dwarven army with a few tactical purchases.

28mm ended up taking a big chunk of the middle of the year, Perry WotR, Frostgrave, Saga Crusades and DAK for CoC - ultimately while I really like building the plastic figures, I find painting them hard work - and a lot of these figures have not progressed much past the base coat.

Through the year we have been working on our home-brewed fantasy mass battle rules - we seem to have the command and combat mechanisms fairly solid now. But are still trying to sort out the magic - and the balance of different armies. This has been a very long process - and has been quite a slog at times.

The year ended with a burst of 10mm activity with a bunch of different units painted - which was good - it reminded me what I like about painting, after the slog of 28s.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Quick, lock the thread, it's 2016!