9 months in, and looking back through my orders for the year.. I wasn't as good as I thought. The tally was as follows:
Rules & Other stuff
Maurice + Cards
Airbrush & Compressor
1/48 scale F111 kit (does this even count?)
Shipwreck rules
Litko Markers
1/300 decals (British & German tanks)
Miniatures
Medieval German army (eBay) – but at least it was all painted, so didn’t add
to the lead pile
Lancashire Games Goths for DBMM (sale price ;-)
Navwar - 3 Fleets for Shipwreck (and gave one away)
TSS & Magister Militum - planes & helicopters for Shipwreck
5 packs of GHQ (but 4 of those were on special) - 24 AFV
13 packs of Essex Chinese (so my Sui can do duty as Early Tang)
Ok, so my 'no new lead' pledge has kind of faltered, but I really do think I am going pretty well.
I have painted up 44 x 1/3000 scale naval vessels, plus aircraft, in 6mm, GHQ, 62 x Late War German vehicles, 47 x Late War British vehicles, accompanying infantry for both, a DBA Rajput army, finished up the DBMM Sui in January, (did some more in June).
The plan is to do a DBA Ottoman Turkish army using the Venexia figures I have lurking around undercoated for Landwaster in November, and try to get started on the Goths. Interspersed with this, I will also try to paint up a 1940 French battlegroup for BKCII.
Overall, nine months in, not as disciplined as I wanted, but not too bad, by my standards.
Brigade Models sale is not on yet - Christmas mate, you'll have to wait for Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI am sure you can discount the decals (they were to finish the painting on existing lead), the rules (they are, after all, sort of books), definitely would not count the 1/48 scale F-111 (why? Damned curious on that and in any case, I would not could my 1/600th scale Fletcher class DD or the Japanese DD that I can't remember the name of), and as for the airbrush, well again, that is just to help you lower the lead pile!
Not a bad effort then.
Are we still talking swapsies at Christmas time?
Still on for swapsies.. and the 1/48 F111 was because I haven't actually made a model in 30 years, and this was cheap and apparently about the best F111 model going. It's still in the box, scaring me. But I rather like the idea of having that monster on a stand in my office. I am also rather scared of the airbrush, as I haven't used one in about 30 years either... experiments may happen soon. I have been checking youtube for advice.
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