After many years of flitting from one project/scale etc to another I have actually made a plan for the first 6 months of this year to get various battlegroups finished. Deadlines have been set around the various shows I attend and additional units will only be purchased if I am on target. First show is Cavalier at the end of February and the aim is to complete a British and German Battalion for BKC plus a few scenic items, reward for completing is a Sherman Squadron. These and some other bits and pieces will need to be done by To the Redoubt in July (if it's on this year) in order to get more which may well be something completely new. By then I will have a new plan for the second half of the year with SELWG in October as a target. Alls sounds a bit regimented but needs to be done as I've been getting no-where fast for far too long now.

2011 will see me finishing every Pendraken Miniature I have amassed to date - plus more I`m bound to collect this year.

Starting with the Pendraken Scenery (roads, hedges, houses, etc), moving on through all my unpainted ECW, Jabobite, and Fantasy minis... I`m going to box up all my other scale things and store them away (thousands upon thousands of 28m figures and terrain); and I`ll concentrate on 10mm pretty much exclusively (not counting my boardgames or my Pax Limpopo Steampunk and Pulp).

Six

This year is going to be different from every other year,  , I am NOT going to be sidetracked, I WILL paint to completion the 2 Punic War armies that are winging their way to my doormat. I WILL paint to completion the WotR army coming my way, I WILL finish my 2 AWI armies, and I WILL paint all the bits and bobs that are lounging about in my Pendraken odds drawer. The only purchases I'm allowing myself until that lots done is a single squad (and APC) for my TW platoon, but even then 1 squad will have to be completed before I order another.

and if you believe that then I suspect that you still believe in the tooth fairy.

you can follow my lack of progress here http://gordonsgaming.wordpress.com/

Gordon

I WILL paint to completion the 2 Punic War armies

Ooooh the Punic Wars, the strings of purse and all that... I`m almost jealous. Happy painting and gaming :-)

Complete my 10mm WSS forces (5 cavalry/draggon units on the painting table to go, then buy and paint 1 cuirassier unit and 4 units of dismounted dragoons).

Avoid getting sidetracked into expanding my WSS to do the GNW or other nearby conflicts.

Dither over whether or not to add Spanish to WSS (I don't need them....but look, infantry in purple jackets!!!)

Finish 10mm Early War Germans, when Pendraken bring out the rest of the figures.
Ditto 10mm BEF, 8th Army and Afrika Korps.
Consider expanding 10mm Italians as Pithead are looking at bringing out some nice stuff this year that Pendraken do not do.
Complete 10mm Germans and Brits for Italy 43/44

Finish 20mm Germans for  TW&T

Avoid all distractions...Ohh they've got pretty uniforms...........................

Quote from: sunjester on 13 January 2011, 03:49:39 PM
Avoid all distractions...Ohh they've got pretty uniforms...........................

Mine - subject to change at the drop-of-a-hat of course 

Pendraken:
Jacobite Rebellion: paint both forces
Sudan: complete, assemble & paint both forces
Indo-China: complete, assemble & paint both VM & French Paras
Dungeon: fantasy & 'Mummy' pulp & Cthulhu: complete, assemble & paint more
WW2: Stalingrad: buy, assemble & paint both forces
Crusades: buy, assemble & paint both forces a la "Kingdom of Heaven"
Napoleonics: avoid doing 1812 Moscow campaign...
Develop annual 'secret' project
Paint whatever Leon & Dave want painting for displays / website etc
Continue to identify Top Totty on a regular basis 

Other:
28mm Napoleonic skirmish: paint British Line Infantry & French Voltigeurs [Rifles, Spanish Guerillas & Clergy already done]

Consolidation:
Sell everything that I've not touched in 12 months and won't touch in next 3 - and be ruthless with this!

Start painting SWY figures and learn how to play with it.
A one man job, I have no one to play with, in my country... yet

"Mine - subject to change at the drop-of-a-hat of course"

You and me both!!! Having perused the Pendraken catalogue picked up at Nikfest, the British Colonial 1899-1905 range has really piqued my interest!

Phase 1 of plan suceeded ... escaped hospital, leg still attached.....
Ordered figures
Paint said figures
sell lots of stuff
buy more 10mm

Ah buggrit - just watching The Last Samurai...it's not helping me avoid new projects 

Quote from: nikharwood on 14 January 2011, 09:44:47 PM
Ah buggrit - just watching The Last Samurai...it's not helping me avoid new projects 

It was a thing I was thinking about too  I was toying with the idea of doing it I was looking at RJ3,4,5 and then a whole hod of samurai

Now that's a good idea...hmm...

It'd be cool to do this as a skirmish...or as big battles...decisions, decisions!

Any pictures of the Samurai anywhere oh and  Rj 3, 4 and 5? mmmmmmmm 

I've just realised I've missed one off:

Pendraken
WW2 Pacific theatre; USMC & Japanese

Quote from: nikharwood on 16 January 2011, 08:07:52 PM
I've just realised I've missed one off:

Pendraken
WW2 Pacific theatre; USMC & Japanese

Picked up the Pacific DVD box have we, Nik?    I shoulda never have watched that before my Western D-Day stuff was finished