Paint it or Punt it

Somehow it is 2021. I’m not going to flog the 2020 horse but obvisouly I haven’t updated this project since the summer so it is time for a quick recap. After July I didn’t really paint anything and lost interest in most of the hobby again. I didn’t even log in here. I spent time on RPGs with friends but mostly just played video games and watched movies. Time well wasted as the expression goes though not progress towards my project goals.

At the start of December I decided to fire myself back into the hobby side by doing a reasonably sized mini project that ties into another 2021 goal – playing more of my solo games. My Imperial Assault collection is limited to the core box and a handful for the character expansions so with only 48 miniatures it felt like an achievable goal in a month. I didn’t get to the two AT-STs but everything else got done.

I haven’t updated my spreadsheet since the summer either and though there isn’t much change, I did find some extra miniatures in random boxes so I’ll add them in over the next few days. I started the new year by giving the glass cabinet a good dust so I figured why not take photos of everything painted over the last two years.

In 2019 I completed 104 models and in 2020 I finished 155. Seeing the numbers written down like that, I’m happy but knowing how big the gaps in my hobby time were, clearly it could have been substantially more than that. I’m trying to go easy on myself about I still really want to work towards 100% painted in the next couple of years. I’m going to start the year by finishing off a couple of models to close out a couple of smaller projects and then I’ll pick what takes my fancy.