2024 Hobby Resolution

    This year has been pretty crazy for the old pile of opportunities. You can check out my wild and out of control purchasing habits here. There were a few times that I was giving myself some "retail therapy" after some longer days of parenting alone. Last year this happened quite frequently as my partner went home to support a family member.

    With the variety of painting and crafting I did, I made a system of points to see exactly how much I accomplished. Troops would be +1, Mounted +2, Monsters +3, Small terrain +1 and Large terrain +3. I calculated that my yearly hobby debt was -180. Half those points came from the Zombicide Black Plague and Wolfburg expansion I bought preowned, a total of 97 points in Troops. This has got me looking through all my miniatures, thinking about exciting kitbashing, and sparking the joy of some of the miniatures I had when I picked up the model. 

Here are my 2024 Hobby Resolutions:

Paint what I got! I am privileged to have so many miniatures in my collection. It's time paint up what I have. My lizard brain was working when I saw that Thunder Games and Gifts was closing down, so being the sneaky hobbyist I did make an order and I DID order it LAST year.... but they arrived in 2024. I will be starting off with a small amount of miniatures (only about -32 points) in the 2024 purchase pile. Sometimes you just need that cheesecake when you are on a diet, don't judge me.

Schedule board game/ wargame nights: Between my partner and I working shift work, getting in board games at night is a bit challenging. Usually it needs to be at our house or one of us can go out. I'll try to get better at getting out with both of us.

Learn and play easy convention wargames: I have bought many indie wargames, Planet 28, Song of blades and heroes, Space/sword weirdos, Brawl Arcane 28, etc. These are mostly super simple systems that are designed to get miniatures on the table fast. It would be great to teach it at Prairie Expo, a local convention put on by Comic readers or put on something myself.

Play Solo: There is a lot of solo RPGs and wargames, it would be great to get them on the table instead of video games. I have had a bad habit of staying up too late and the extra screens don't help this. This would help with the previous resolution too, letting me learn at my own pace.

That's all for now, maybe there will be more as we go through this year.

Next on the Hobby Desk

    I have started to paint up the Fellowship from Lord of the Rings. Two are done, with a third on it's way. They are dogged of course by the Ringwraith that share my paint desk as well.