Well it\’s been quite the year for all of us. For myself we\’ve been trying to get ourselves set up in our future home, trying to get a job and trying to stay healthy. But through all that, I have painted more minis than ever before, even painting up some other models for Charity and Friends.

Going into the year I knew there would be a lot of change, variables and uncertainty having just moved to a new country and still having a lot of things to do before settling into our home. I had vaguely hoped to continue my recent tradition of painting at least 365 models/year with the stretch goal of 500/year. I blew all those targets out of the water as I took on some commissions and had no regular job to distract me. 

Of course that\’s somewhat offset by the massive number of minis that I purchased! The result is that I haven\’t really made much headway in my backlog. The Necromunda boxed sets were a particularly big acquisition but mean I now have a good lot of terrain for playing games in the future. Also a huge lot of Mordian Iron Guard that I got off of a friend as he looks to thin his collection down a little.

Models painted: 770

Models purchased: 529

Models sold: 115

Models painted for others: 359

Net Models painted this year: -3

1 Secret Santa Model

12 Mansions of Madness Models

1 Incredible Hulk

1 Badger Mini

1 Taurox

1 Commissar

10 Tempestus Scions

1 Vampire Lord

16 Descent Models

68 Harry Potter Models

122 Indomitus

1 Chronomatic Cogs

1 Zoat

50 Dark Uprising Terrain

24 Mortalis Tiles

15 Reaper Minis

100 Mordian Iron Guard

2 Adepticon Minis

2 Ripper Jackson models

3 Warhammer Chibi models

1 IG Sergeant

8 Underworlds minis

40 Recruit starter minis

6 Necron Minis

30 Blood Bowl minis

6 Death Guard minis

6 miniature Monday reaper minis

Sold: (115)

1 Secret Santa

1 Sister of Battle

3 Model box models

47 Indomitus

50 Empire Soldiers

2 Reaper Minis

1 Adepticon Mini +1 missing…

10 Assault Intercessors

So what of next year? 

I sincerely hope to get a regular job in the coming year and so am expecting my output to be back down to ~300-500 minis in the year. I will probably take the opportunity to try and focus on the quality of my painting rather than the focus on speed that I\’ve had over the last few years. I will also hopefully cut back on my commissions. I have enjoyed them, learnt a lot and improved my speed through doing them however with a regular job, I\’d rather focus on my own excessive backlog (not to mention the various new shinies I will no doubt find in the coming year!)