Well, it's 2015. Who would have thought we'd be here with so little to show-but here we are. I've been looking around The Miniatures Page (it's all but my home page at this point) and it's the time of year that folks profess to their new goals and mark progress on old ones. While there's the usual professions to focus the hobby on to one approach or another, I saw one that was oddly novel. One of the individuals wants to go all of 2015 without actually buying a model. I was reading this as I was in the process of inventorying the Napoleonics I'm currently contemplating rebasing (Napoleon's Battles to WRG Standard). And that's when I realized that this needs to be my 2015 goal.
You can imagine how put out my wife was at this proposal.
I've already acquired a few figures this year (individual Warhammer figures for Song of Blades and Heroes warbands) but that just puts me at a 1/15/16 cutoff. And I'm ok with that. This means no buying figures, terrain, rules (yes, gasp, rules), or anything else. I will except anything that help basing or preparing figures-so bases, paint, flock, etc, remain in play. Instead the focus is on painting and preparing with what little time I can find. The tragedy (ok, mayhap I protest too much) is that I've done a DBA army in 30 days before. I can paint quickly (ish), though not well.
Q1 will focus on the battles of Napoleon. I have acquired assorted figures, and any button counter or otherwise uniform sharpshooter would be appaled with what I have. But it makes me happy. So I will convert these figures to new basing (132 bases actually) and prepare for a battle for St Patricks between my French and Austrians.
Let's see how it goes.
