Last year was a difficult one, both in terms of how life went and how hobby topics progressed. It started with one of my cats being ill for a very long time, then in the middle of the year due to the finiancial struggles the company I worked in faced I ended up unemployed and since then I'm still looking for a job (I'm officially unemployed since 19 of July), while sometimes taking tasks and coding for my previous employers to help them out (and just code). I have finally made my way to a psychiatrist and now feel much better. Thanks to medication I can finally fight depression and see the positive aspects of life, even during unemployment.
I like to look at summaries via numbers. In terms of played games 2023 was much, much worse than 2024. Necromunda reigned over the tabletop, I didn't manage to play even one game of OPR or KT... even MESBG didn't appear once on the table (which may seem weird when we look at the number of models for that game system that I painted last year).
As for bought miniatures, the year was terrible for the backlog. I got 488 new miniatures (by that I understand models that I physically received over the year, even if they were ordered the previous year), in comarison to 193 last year and I painted only 14 of the newly bought ones (the Ash Waste Nomads Warband and Dustback Helamites). I really hope that there will be less FOMO boxes containing huge numbers of models and that I will paint more.
And this may serve as a segway to painting. Much of the year was awful in that regard. I managed to finish the first model at the end of O(r)ctober and it was a miniature that needed only the last coat of paint and its base done. But when I decided to test out a system where I paint at least one not too detailed model per day and if I still have the time and wanto to paint more just grab something else and at least start working on it the number of finished miniatures skyrocketed. The year ended with 73 finished models, which is not bad for only about a month and a half of actual painting.
I don't like to set new year's goals, I'd much rather express my hopes regarding the miniature hobby for the year. First, I hope to buy less models than in 2024 (which will probably be difficult, but we'll obviously see how that goes). Second, I hope to play more games (this does not depend entirely on me, but the Necromunda campaign is still ongoing and some friends that like AoS moved much closer to where I live). Third, I hope to pay more models than last year (In 2024 I managed to paint more models than in 2023, so there is some hope for an upward trend in that regard).
What about the blog? It's by no means popular, but it was created to chronicle my fight against the grey horde and the slow journey across the sea of grey (hence the name of the blog). I deleted a few sub-page links by accident while playing with the settings of the blog. I do intend to bring them back, but probably after some rework. I will have to look through the achievements that I came up with in 2023 and possibly add some more. It would be nice to write a monthly hobby summary to show progress, both in terms of bought/assembled/painted/printed models and played games or achievements unlocked. I will have to devise a better way to update the backlog page as the table-style version did not work out as expected (especially that updating it was horrible, as I had to do it in a text editor and then copy the table which immediately converted into html). What difference does it make if the model was assembled, to be repainted or is still on sprue? I prefer a binary approach - the model is either in the backlog or already painted. That means I have a lot of work in that regard before me! I will also create a sub-page with links to posts containing the photos of my painted minis, divided into games and factions. I will probably return to some of the posts to edit them. Possibly in the case of the post with Ugluk and the 11 Uruk-hai warriors I will separate them to make it look nicer on the sub-page.
Also, I will create a new category of models - painted. You know, those are the miniatures that have a coat of paint on them, but are still not based, as for example I don't have an idea how I want to base them (as is the case of the current project - some Warriors of Minas-Tirith). It might even mean that there will be more posts on the blog!
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