"Sound the charge! Though there have been some setbacks the plan is going forward!"
Here is the plan I developed for 2021; let's see how it's going. Actually the 1st Quarter was almost a complete bust - some good and some bad. January was a major setback fighting infectious diseases as I came down with strep throat and Covid. Throughout the quarter we did some serious travelling visiting my Honorable Sons and Beautiful Daughters-in-law. So how did it go?
1. Continue to make my hobby self-sustaining as much as possible with eBay sales, commissions and the blog. By the way, if you are interested in having figures painted, feel free to contact me at nreinwald@yahoo.com.
Several extremely successful auctions and blog revenue is helping! Here were two of the auctions:
The Royal Fusiliers
14th Sikhs
2. Scottish Units for the English Civil War. Nothing like already having unpainted figures to encourage you to save money - especially when you really want to paint them! My goal is to:
a. Paint one to two Regiments of Foot. The actual number of regiments will depend on some conversions I need to due for musketeers as I have plenty of pike.
b. Two units of Horse/Mounted Dragoons. No dismounted dragoons yet!
c. One big honking cannon - pretty sure it's a Saker from Warlord Games but I'm too lazy to go up to the War Room and look right now.
The Scots will be painted later in the year.
Where is my cavalry?
3. Imperial Russian Army circa somewhere in my imaginary universe from 1880 to 1910. I've been having fun with my Fictional conflict of the Anglo-Russian War. Be a Daniel Mersey fan of many years, I use The Men Who Would be Kings (Paid Link) as my rules; though, I am thinking about giving The East is Ablaze a try. (Ministry of Finance) Yep, a sucker for Hollywood style and fun rules.
a. One unit of Regular Infantry. (Ministry of Finance)
b. One unit of Dragoons. (Ministry of Finance)
c. One unit of Cossacks. (Ministry of Finance)
This one is still iffy. Now I don't want to talk politics because this is a fun blog on Toy Soldies, but I wrote down my predictions in December about fuel prices, etc. Time will tell whether the Russians will get their reinforcements.
"Where are my fellow Sowars?"
4. The British Indian Army.
a. One unit of Sikh Cavalry (The 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry). Complete!
The 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry mounted with the alternative basing method for The Men Who Would be Kings (Paid Link).
b. One unit of Bengal Lancers. (Ministry of Finance) Purchased!
b. One unit of Highlanders. Purchased! c. One unit of Gurkhas. (Ministry of Finance) Not Yet!
d. A British Political Officer in Native Dress. How can you have the Great Game without a Political Officer? I'm planning on using a figure from the Perry Miniatures Hard Plastic Afghan Tribesman (Paid Link) box.
Not only did I do a Political Officer in Native Dress, but I did the fictional character Mahbub Ali "The Red Beard" from the classic novel Kim, by Rudyard Kipling.
Colonel Sir Robert Warburton, KCIE, CSI
Mahbub Ali, "The Red Beard"
a. Two units of 16 figures each of Perry Miniatures hard plastic Tribal Infantry. (Paid Link)
b. Anything else will depend on tribute . . . err . . . subsidies from the British Raj or Imperial Russia.
Making progress on my tribesman . . . but there is a change of plans. After doing more research I'm going to do two units of 12 "shooters" and 2 units of 16 figures for the more melee focused troops.
Making progress!
Three down, three to go.
a. Finish one more unit of Native Skirmishers. Complete!
b. One unit of French Regulars. (Ministry of Finance) I don't know.
c. One unit of British Regulars or Colonial Regulars/Militia. (Ministry of Finance) As above.
Old GW Warhammer figures to use with Dragon Rampant.
7. Elite Heavy Elf Infantry for Dragon Rampant (Paid Link): This is a carryover from last year and won't take too long to finish. Complete!
a. Update my Adventuring Company's to the 2nd Edition.
Slowly but surely.
b. Finish drafting and then play our campaign for 2022. Locally we had a multi-year campaign called "The War of the Witches" which involved, whenever available, friends, kids of friends, my Honorable Sons, and me (usually getting my butt kicked or being the gamemaster/umpire). With the victory of the Forces of Good (they had Teddy Roosevelt!) over the Forces of Evil (BWAH HAH HAH!) it's time to start another campaign. Two of the main, evil Adventuring Companies somehow managed to escape the defeat . . . and of course Professor Moriarty figured out which way the wind was blowing and helped (kinda). The first game will have the premier of my new Adventuring Company in the Highlands of Scotland.
The campaign has been delayed but will happen!
The fools THINK they won. BWAH HAH HAH!!!
a. Paint the roof of the mill and some other parts! I spent some time in New England visiting Honorable Son #1 (The Librarian) and his Beautiful Bride (The Doctor) plus Honorable Son #3 (The Engineer) and his Beautiful Bride (The Social Warrior) and was able to take a look at some real mills in the area. And some other areas of interest - but that is for another post.
I finished painting the mill but need to take some pictures!
b. Put together an MDF Tavern that was given to me by Honorable Son #2 (The Captain) and his Beautiful Bride (The Lawyer). Looking forward to putting this together and using it on the tabletop.
I still need to put it together.
c. Scratch build a frontier fort. It's coming.
a. English Civil War.
b. The Anglo-Russian War.
c. The French and Indian War.
d. The IHMN2 campaign (need to come up with a name of impending doom for the world).
11. Secret projects.
a. Getting back to my gaming roots. This will be the subject of a future post whether it is financed or not. (Ministry of Finance) Done! Back to mass battle Napoleonic's with WoFun Miniatures.
b. A board game/miniature project. (Ministry of Finance) Maybe.
On with the hobby year!
