Merry Christmas - Hobby Update

 Seasons greetings!

As is the tradition I'm going to do a quick (hopefully) hobby state of the union address, and follow up with my plans for 2021.

OK, so it was was a weird one...

The year started with the finishing up of my Epic scale Chaos army, I managed to get a game in with them, and begun great fun X-Wing 1.0 campaign with some friends. My Hobby Chi was in perfect balance. I was paring down unused games/models and focusing in on the practicalities of actual gaming.

Then you know what happened - we ended up in lockdown and face to face gaming was swept away and replaced with perpetual time at home.

Boredom struck, and whilst I maintained a steady run-off of unused toys in a bid to achieve similar minimalism that I practice in other aspects of my life, I was too weak...

Frostgrave - painting warbands, terrain and monsters too up the 2nd quarter.

Epic Tau - I spontaneously bought and painted a sizable proxy-Tau Epic army, which were almost as quickly consigned to storage. I have no idea if or when I'll get them on the table.

Bolt Action - The remainder of the year was WW2 focused, and it's rapidly taken a fair chunk of my hobby time and storage (mostly the terrain, having to dive back in to 28mm)

By December I was in a good place, hardly anything unpainted, surplus photographed and boxed for eBay... Harmony once again.

Then Santa...

Santa, in a generous, yet cruel twist of fate delivered me an embarrassment of Warhammer 40k, including a number of starter forces and the Blackstone Fortress dungeon crawler game.

I'm a bit overwhelmed by it, and my first instinct (normally the one you should trust) was telling me to graciously accept, and then as they are non-returnable, I would sell them on without dwelling on it.

But then... I remembered One Page Rules: Grimdark Future exists.
I started list building... talking to people about it... and now it's happening...

Another year, yet another game to add to the list.

My reasoning;

• I wish to honour the gift.
• OPR: GF looks like a great game system for my simple brain.
• The models are great, and I'd love to paint them.  

So stay tuned! 2021 looks like we are heading back to the big space toys.
I'll mark this in blood however here are my hobby goals for the year ahead;

Bolt Action - Play if possible, don't need to buy anything else, still have a few sprues to add more troops to my lists if the notion takes.

Epic - Paint a few more formations from my bits box when feeling like it, sell some of the excess/unfinished stuff

40k/OPR:GF - Paint all the things, sell any odd bits.

Terrain - Don't add, reduce if possible

Lets go for it!

Also - for the sake of having a photo, this is my planned scheme for the Space Lads... No Ultra-Smurfs here... i'm going hard Sci-Fi, with a bit of Aliens thrown in, weathering, camo and some attitude rather than piety.