Your 2019 hobby plans (thank you Conquistador)

[bluewillow]

My Priority is concentrating on completing armies that relate to battles around our house (within 1 hour drive) so we could visit the battlefield in the morning and return and fight it in the afternoon.

1. Actually need to complete my terrain tiles, I have completed the teddy bear fur mats, I just need to attach to the tiles and complete the river sections and roads, my main Project for the year, 20ft of table!
2. More terrain bits for 20mm ww2, power poles, war memorials, road side crosses, civilians and livestock.
3. Complete more 20mm ww2 buildings, mostly Normandy stuff that I have already purchased needs to be painted.
4. Complete my American 20mm battle group, three more battalions to build and paint plus more vehicles and a few support elements including aircraft.
5. Complete my British 20mm 1944 battle group, finish painting the three tank batns that I have started, plus paint the funnies, update my Paras with more support, add armoured infantry and complete the gliders and aircraft for Arnhem.
6. Start my Polish ww2 1944 battle group, armour and infantry.
7. Complete my French 1944 battle group, need to paint the armour and infantry.
8. Add more elements to my 1944 Canadian battle group.
9. Add some more 20mm 1944 Germans particularly Fallschirmjager, and add some SS elements.
10. Add more figures to my Celtic army, I need to add about 60 figures ideally.
11. Add more figures to my late medieval army, buildings more Bretons for the Mad War, plus German mercenaries for the same period.
12. Start my 100 years war French, for the late period Perry miniatures.
13 Start my 100 years war English, for the late period Perry miniatures.
14 Add more figs to my early 100 years war French
15 Add more figures to my early 100 years war Scots (almost complete!)
16 Start my early 100 years war British army.
17 Add more figs to my dark age Franks.
18 Add more figures to my Vikings
19 Add more figs to my Dark age Normans, Bretons and Anjou-Maine army.
20 Update my medieval buildings, touch ups mostly.
21 Build a dark age castle representing St Suzanne
22 Complete my northern Vendee/Chouan army, lots to do waiting for some more figures
23 Complete my Baden 1809-12 Napoleonic army, currently on the bench!
24 Add to my French Napoleonic Army, particulary units useful for my Vendee project, some units on the bench at the moment.
25 Add to my Austrian 1805-09 Napoleonic Army.
26 Add to my Russian 1809-12 Napoleonic Army.
27 Complete my Saxon 1809-12 Napoleonic army
28 Add to my French 1/1200th naval
29 Add to my British 1/1200th naval
30 Gaslands, latest fad at the club, need to add at least five matchbox cars!

So quite a bit of work to do, having clean out of some old projects and non starters too in the coming weeks, all the best with your projects this year.

plus posted my plans on my blog

http://stormandconquest.blogspot.com/2019/01/bonne-annee-plans-for-2019.html

cheers
Matt

[MustContainMinis]

My goal is to...

• paint and build an American Airborne Bolt Action Army
• finish painting my French Blood and Plunder minis and get them to the tabletop
• Build a Fantasy Cultists army of 45 figures for various game systems
• Set up my craft room and gaming room for better lighting for photography

[SteveBurt]

Having completed all the bits and pieces from the bottom of the painting drawer, first project is Saracens for Saga Crusade games. I already have plenty of Normans to act as Crusaders.
Second project will be replacing my old 20mm Zulu War collection with 28mm figures. The old 20mm plastics are disintegrating!
That's it for major things. Most of my collections are complete now.
I might add a couple of units to the Napoleonics or Seven Years War collections, but we'll see how it goes.

[Codsticker]

My 2019 goal is:

...to do a bit of hobby stuff everyday.

[Dr. Zombie]

My 2019 goal is:

...to do a bit of hobby stuff everyday.

That is a good goal. I have been doing that for years. 30 minutes every day is very achievable. One can easily cut that from tv or internet time. And the funny thing is that once you get into the habit of just doing at least 30 minutes a day. Stuff really gets done!

My plan for 2019 is that I am going to overcome my aversion to painting horses. And I am doing it by confrontational therapy. I am going to do as much cavalry as I can. For some strange reason I have always hated to paint cavalry figures because of the horses. I think it is because you have to paint to miniatures to get one done. I don't know. But I will conquer it this year. - Or fail miserably...

[HerbyF]

Just plan to keep plugging away at that old lead mountain. Painted almost 900 figures last year. going to go for 1,000 this year. Still have a bunch of 15mm DBA armies to paint. And boxes & boxes of both historical & fantasy 25/28mm stuff to work on.

[Antonio J Carrasco]

2019 Goals

1) Paint the Jacobite army for the '45 (it's going at good pace!)
2) Finish 2 additional taxeis and 1 Mercenary phalanx for my Successors armies
3) Start with the Elephants for Successors armies
4) Finish the late Anglo-Saxon force for Saga (just 16 minis left!)
5) Finish the Late Roman force for Saga (12 figures left)
6) Finish the first two brigades for my WSS in Spain project (1 battalion finished, another 5 to go!)
7) Start with Russians and Swedes for the GNW
Game Tamames in its 110th anniversary with my son (October 18th, 2019... just the day before my birthday)

[AKULA]

Current projects:

-Game of Thrones 28mm
-Modern Naval 1/1250
-Ancient Rome 28mm
-Battlestar Galactica 28mm
-Planet of the Apes 28mm

Bulk of my time will be on GoT - the others are all ongoing.

[Oldben1]

It's 2019, so it's time for a 15mm Blade Runner project!

[Codsticker]

And the funny thing is that once you get into the habit of just doing at least 30 minutes a day. Stuff really gets done!

That is so true!

My plan for 2019 is that I am going to overcome my aversion to painting horses. And I am doing it by confrontational therapy. I am going to do as much cavalry as I can. For some strange reason I have always hated to paint cavalry figures because of the horses. I think it is because you have to paint to miniatures to get one done. I don't know. But I will conquer it this year. - Or fail miserably...

I actually quite like painting horses; I make good use of Army Painter Leather and Fur Brown sprays.

[vodkafan]

2018 was not bad painting wise but not especially good either.  However it got me into being "project based" and using my time better.
My priorities for projects this year:
Finish my Back of Beyond 1920's British/Sikh force
My 1927 Experimental Mechanised Force
1/60 Crossfire project
1645 Jacobite Rebellion
Some 12 man Napoleonic units for skirmish games.

I have found the way forward is not to have projects that are open ended; but instead to decide exactly what figures/vehicles/cannon/horses I need and buy only that ...
Then break the project up into smaller goals, and those smaller goals into a sequence of actual steps that I list and do...I write the steps in a notebook and cross them off every day.
I also make a big effort to do something every day, even if I only have half an hour..to keep up the momentum...by the end of a week I find I have done maybe 10 little steps or tasks and a project has moved on considerably.

[has.been]

Vodkafan! I have spotted your deliberate mistake. I know you put it in to see if I pay attention.
Jacobite rebellion SIXTEEN  45 !!!!!
Come on!
Everyone knows that James II & III were true kings & therefore not a 'rebellion'.

[vodkafan]

Vodkafan! I have spotted your deliberate mistake. I know you put it in to see if I pay attention.
Jacobite rebellion SIXTEEN  45 !!!!!
Come on!
Everyone knows that James II & III were true kings & therefore not a 'rebellion'.

Er..yes. 'Course it was deliberate ....I wouldn't forget an important date like that...er   

[fitterpete]

Finish my oldhammer metal Empire army. I painted 950 infantry since June, Still have about 250 cavalry to go.

Paint 50 or so War Gods of Aegyptus figures I bought  while painting the Empire infantry.That project was done the first half of last year but...ebay +cheap minis= not done again
 
Paint and repaint my orc and goblins. Old figs I've had for 25 years and all the Kev Adams figures I've been accumulating from different companies.

Then I'm not sure where I go from there.Maybe Napoleonics? I have Front Rank Russian,Bavarians and Wurtemburgers need done, about 700 figures in all.

[Charlie_]

Well I have only one project going, late 15th century Europe. Plans for this year....

- second pike block (under way now)
- mounted crossbowmen
- baggage train / wagons
- a few more heavy cavalry
- third pike block!
- a new batch of terrain boards, with ditches and streams
- smarten up / re-do 60 longbowmen.