Trucking Right Along

Two weeks into 2017 and I'm still on schedule for projects I want to finish this year. What schedule? This schedule:

This requires a short backstory. Halfway through 2016 I discovered that I'm much more productive on the weekends if I make a list of goals I want to achieve. In the past, I'd get so caught up in all of the things I wanted to do that I'd get overwhelmed, shut down and just play video games or watch TV all day. Some of the goals were kind of "no brainers" like laundry or pay credit card. Other goals were much more important such as change the oil in my Jeep or schedule vet appointments for the cats. When Sunday night rolls around I could look at my list and feel a sense of accomplishment because of all the items I checked off the list.

Enter the 2017 Hobby List. I figured that if I had success every weekend in getting stuff done, I could make a weekly or monthly list of projects I want to complete to keep myself focused and on task. I printed out a calendar for 2017 and looked over all of the projects I wanted to work on and made a schedule for every week. I'm operating at a 100% success rate so far and I'm very pleased about that.

This week I assembled some terminators and scouts I still had on sprues and finished the terrain piece for the FLGS. I have yet to deliver the piece, the shop owner was out of the shop today, but I'll deliver it tomorrow and take pictures at the shop. Here are the scouts and termies:

That isn't a legal terminator squad. I just wanted options since I have about 15 of the older metal terminators. Blood Angels have an interesting terminator formation so I will end up with at least 5 more assault terminators with lightning claws.

Unfortunately, my schedule this week has hit a little snag. I need more bases for some projects. I called up the FLGS and while he can usually get stuff within a week, I guess the bases are direct orders and haven't arrived yet. I'll have to move some projects around and see where that takes me.

One Week and Goals Achieved

First week of 2017 is in the books and I'm still reaching my goals and getting some hobby stuff done. It's a good feeling to look at the "to do" list and check off projects getting done.

This week I wanted to build two drop pods and the Furioso Dreadnought I got for Christmas.

Mission accomplished. This time I wisely refrained from gluing the arms to the body so it's easier to paint and I can swap out weapons as necessary.

The other big goal this week was to continue painting the large terrain piece for my FLGS. This week I got the blue walls completed and the bronze windows and eagles completed. I still need to do some touch ups to the blue.

I'm pretty happy with it. This week I'll wrap up the base and work on some scouts and terminators.

Early Progress on Hobby Goals

I set some goals to reach this week even though it's not 2017. Better to get an early jump on hobby goals than to sit around and think about them.

This week I got a large terrain piece from the FLGS to paint and I wanted to start building all of the kits I have laying around for my Blood Angel army.

First up, this:

The shop owner saw something similar to this in a White Dwarf and bought all of the kits needed to assemble it. He hands it off to me to base it and paint it. The goal this week was to apply sand and other debris to the base and undercoat it black. As you can see, goal reached.

The other goal this week, since I had to wait for glue to dry, was to assemble all of my Death Company kits. I had four kits total and I wanted to assemble 10 of them with bolt pistols and power swords. The other five I assemble with special weapons and chainswords or bolt pistols.

Mission accomplished again. As you can see, I've got 15 ready to go, Raphen's Death Company from the boxed set and another 8 or so from my original army I built about 15 years ago. Needless to say, I'm good to go on Death Company models.

If you're wondering about the last box, it was an old kit and still had 25mm round bases in it. I'm going to save it for another project, possibly turn them into Vanguard Veterans.

The last week of 2016 was a success! More hobby goals again next week!

Seasons Greetings!

First post just to test things out.

I'm using a blog to hold myself accountable for some wargames projects I want to complete in the year 2017.

First up, I want to complete my 28mm Blood Angels army for Warhammer 40k by Games Workshop.

Second, I want to complete two armies in 6mm for some solo wargaming using a modified version of 3rd Edition Warhammer 40k by Games Workshop.

Third, paint terrain for the FLGS because he pays in store credit which will offset the completion of my Blood Angels army.

Fourth and Fifth, and these are stretch goals here, start a "bad guy" army for Warhammer 40k and develop my own rules system for sci-fi wargames.

So, with all that written out, I've got about a week to really analyze my collection, make some goals, put the goals into list form and get cracking on a productive 2017.