06/01/2014

Plans for 2014

2014 is going to be an awkward year to plan for as we’re intending to relocate home to the South West. Nothing definite decided yet but I suspect it’s going to take up a fair chunk of my time. There will be a big game this year themed around post D-Day, which will tend to prioritise work on WW2 stuff to the early part of the year.

Major Projects (at least 100 figures, month or more in effort)

  • Paint at least 3 Rapid Fire US battalions to replace my aging existing forces. Figures will be Plastic Soldier, but won’t get started until the Heavy Weapons set appears
  • Finish the Jacobites, by adding French and Lowland units
  • Axis winter forces – German/Italian/Hungarian

Minor Projects

  • Reorganise/Rebase my WW2 British, this will include painting a box of Plastic Soldier British to replace a unit I have already sold
  • Complete the late French armée d’orient.
  • War of Spanish Succession – add Austrian Grenadiers and possibly some Saxons.
  • Egyptian troops for the Sudan

Other activities

  • Try and play at least one big battle from the 1814 campaign in France
  • The stash is still far too big; I want to get it down from seven storage boxes to five by the time we move. In line with this, I plan to complete as many plastic kits as possible, there are over 40 there at present so completing these should free up one box at least.
  • No new armies until after we move – will be quite difficult to achieve if plastic figure manufacturers bring out something tempting.

4 comments:

Thomas said...

Good luck! :)

rct75001 said...

Sounds like a great variety. Love the idea of getting the kits done - but then you've go to store them somewhere else :)

Stefan (aka. Monty) said...

Some very interesting and ambitious projects.
Good luck !

Stryker said...

Ah - hard to resist the lure of the south west! I hope all goes well...