Here is the plan I developed for 2021; let's see how it's going. If you remember 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 the virus that rhymes with moped.
Throughout the quarter we did some serious travelling visiting my Honorable Sons and Beautiful Daughters-in-law. So what happened in 2nd Quarter? How did it go?
In June I got the virus again that rhymes with moped - and we did some serious travelling visiting my Honorable Sons and Beautiful Daughters-in-law. Oh well.
I really overestimated how long it would take me to paint my Afghan Tribal infantry - but I think they look good! It is easy to happen; I based it on the last two years when I had gazillion hours to paint so I am now modifying the plan with a mid-year correction:
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. No auctions this quarter but I did find some good deals using the money from the previous quarter's auctions.
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 (I hope!)
Where is my cavalry?
This one is 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. Plus I have been putting more effort, and some changes, into the Army of the Raj and Afghan tribal infantry.
"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. Complete!
c. One unit of Gurkhas. (Ministry of Finance) Not yet purchased!
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. Done!
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"
e. Remember that deal from eBay? The Guides Infantry and the 20th Punjabs will be joing the British Indian Army.
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. The first 16 figure unit is done, one of the units of "shooters" and 1/2 of a unit of shooters. I also coverted a Brigade Games figure that I had for one of the numerous Mad Mullahs and did a Victorian Sci-Fi Pashtun leader using some additional bits.
First Irregular unit of Infantry - my shooters.
The Mad Mullah: Sartor Faqir!
a. Finish one more unit of Native Skirmishers. Complete!
b. One unit of French Regulars. I'm estimating there will not be enough time.
c. One unit of British Regulars or Colonial Regulars/Militia. As above.
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 these old GW Warhammer Elf Infantry. Complete!
a. Update my Adventuring Company's to the 2nd Edition. In Progress!
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.
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The campaign has been delayed but will happen and will bring us from Scotland to India and who knows where? Plus the return of everyone's favorite villain (BWAH HAH HAH!).
The fools THINK they won. BWAH HAH HAH!!!
9. Terrain.
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 and the NW Frontier.
c. The French and Indian War.
d. The IHMN2 campaign (need to come up with a name of impending doom for the world). Mmmm . . . is this going to happen?
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.
Converted Dutch Infantry into Frankfurt Infantry.
Time to hit the last part of the year running!
You may not have achieved as much as you had planned Neil, but what you have accomplished is still a pretty creditable effort....good luck with the back end of the year!
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