I had a few working titles for this and as I even write this intro I'm not sure what I'm going to settle on, some of them were "Painting Through Hardship", "Somehow Making it Through", and "Surviving with Hobby" amongst other depressing titles. The gist is that it's been a hell of a year and the first six-to-seven months of it were easily the worst I've ever lived through in my 31 years so far; I don't plan on beating that any time soon, either. Through just about all of it, however, has been a constant: Painting miniatures. This hobby among some incredibly special friends, my loving wife, and supportive family is just about the only reason I made it through 2025 and can look forward to a brighter 2026. So the title is a bit happier, instead, because things are better and will continue to be.

I won't be going into any amount of detail as to why I've had a hellish year because that's now in the past; I've learned and grown from it certainly, but it's not something that's particularly appropriate here nor something I wish to so publicly share either. The year before I wrote an article about "being good enough" and even focused last year's review around that too. This year has certainly taken that to a whole new level for me personally and something that I've thought back on frequently. In 2025 I made a hell of a lot of personal changes, pulling back from a lot of my social media presence and time spent on it leaving many various group chats, discord servers, and online spaces I was previously part of; my iPhone screen time dropped from an average of 8.5 hours to about 4 hours per day. I also cut back massively on caffeine, set an actual bedtime for myself, set out on two walks each day from my desk job, and started therapy. When you stop doom scrolling you end up having a surprising amount of time so I picked up reading, finishing the entire sixteen book Realm of the Elderlings and getting halfway through the first Mistborn trilogy. All very good things. I've even lost over two stone this year (that's 28 pounds in freedom units and nearly 13kg for the rest of the world) which has been something I've needed to do for years.

We'll be entirely skipping over the first two months of the year because I didn't do any painting in this time, none whatsoever, and was really going through it. Things are better now and this all ends on a pretty happy note. As I've done in the past I've kept a spreadsheet of all of the minis that I've built and finished painting across each month. The best change, by far, that I've made for myself is focusing on hobby that I really want to be doing along with occasional reviews that actually excited me instead of any sort of performative hobbying or agreeing to review any games or minis that I only had passive interest in at best. This has been incredibly freeing and am very thankful for this shift in mentality.

March

January and February? Sorry, not heard of them, no hobby happened.

Once I was able to get back to my paints and brushes, life was incredibly tumultuous, and sitting down, listening to some music (Spotify tells me it's been mostly Poor Man's Poison, Trampled by Turtles, CCR, Hendrix, and a slew of other 60's and 70's Rock) and picking up a brush helped me get through that by being able to ignore it for a few hours.

I started with some Ents! Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game had been my first wargame, before I even know what company was making it and what Warhammer was, because my childhood friend Ian owned some minis and we played some games with likely very few correct rules. I loved Lord of the Rings. It was one of the first "grown up" movies I'd watched with my dad who, despite not being the same kind of nerd I am, also loved the story. His love of it stemmed from the story being based off of Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen cycle being a music teacher, composer, and conductor and founder of a symphony orchestra himself; that's the "kind" of nerd my dad is.

I've wanted an Ent army for a few years actually but only just got around to doing some of them, and really I need to get some of the other Games Workshop models since most of the ones I've done so far are prints from various sources as well as one of Trish Carden's from Footsore Miniature's store. They look fine but the resin ones GW has now are great and need to add them to this force soon, something to start with in the new year maybe.

Treebeard and Ents - Credit Bair

Ents - Credit Bair

These were, maybe obviously, very quick paintjobs that took no more than two sittings in total to get done but I'm real happy with how they came out overall.

After this started my further descent into Historical Wargaming which is going to be a very common theme for this year; turns out it's what I really, actually, wanted to be painting. With Saga's newest supplement out, Age of Chivalry, and the local community being very keen on it so was I. This about the same time I was playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 so even though I went for a very generic paint scheme there's probably a tie here as to why I've gravitated towards Jan Zizka's Hussite way of war.

Using a mix of Wargames Atlantic plastics for peasants and warriors, Perry Miniatures for the metal Warlord and plastic armoured foot knights, and a 1st Corps War Wagon I was well on my way to a fighting force. These have been incredibly fun to play, too, and I've added massively to the force since but you'll see that later.

That brings the count up to 46 models painted this month, and in the year so far! That wagon will see an update later, too.

April

The first real social thing I did this year was go to Salute, a tradition, and not one I really wanted to miss. I went with a friend and saw plenty of other there, it meant a lot at the time especially and was just really nice to do. This trip began what would become a bit of an obsession with Warp Miniatures and their game Arcworlde for a at least a few weeks (it's not really over, either) seeing their stall at the convention. I picked up the Wizard starter warband on the day with the animated armour pack and my pal Rob chose the Beastmen with an extra model too; we started playing pretty soon after and it's just such a fun game.

So I started with the wizards and reading the rules learned that there were different colleges in-setting for different kinds of magic deciding it'd be fun to paint them to a theme and to "push myself" a little bit on the quality of the painting here given the low model count, which was a lot of fun.

Arcworlde Wizard Warband - Credit Bair

Some closer-up photos of the models because these just have so much character it'd be an actual crime to not show them off a bit better:

The main draw to these was having read a bunch of Discworld not long before and immediately seeing these as perfect Unseen University students and staff. Just perfect. I went for the Emerald College focusing on nature magic hence all of the green. The off white robes here are the beginning of what would become a deep love for Pro Acryl's Dark Ivory colour.

Anyone that knows me knows that I wouldn't be able to keep away from the Halflings on offer from Warp Minis for very long! The wizards painted up so quickly that I went ahead and just ordered these soon after and also got them done in April. I don't ever paint eyes but these minis are just a bit bigger than "normal" scales I'm used to painting and are done in such a distinct style that it felt necessary to do, and think that they've come out well for it!

Arcworlde Halfling Warband with Chef and Trollhound - Credit Bair

Yes, I did paint the Trollhound as Scooby; I mean just look at him, how could he be painted any other way? These are the older Halflings from Warp Minis along with the chef which is just such a perfect model. Painting had never been more fun for me than with this range of models! Aside from perhaps painting Burrows and Badgers models.

Speaking of Burrows and Badgers, the new edition came out which I reviewed and I did paint one this year as part of a speed painting competition (which I won) painting this guy in just under 1 hour, the base rim isn't even completely dry trying to take the photo fast enough. Used some of the techniques I'd figured out earlier in the month about painting a colour, shading it, and then using it in specific brush strokes on fabric to create the effect of the fabric instead of it just being flat or weirdly highlighted just on the raised bits and think it works really well for how quick and simple it is.

Burrows and Badgers Rabbit Guard Sergeant - Credit Bair

All in all that's 33 models across the month of April.

May

This was a hell of a month. Despite that, I painted a lot. The Arcworlde addiction continues strong by painting even more Halflings before moving on the Imperials and Ourks. It took me a bit too long to work out that they're called Ourks because they're Bayou themed Orks; genuinely for a little bit I thought it might be a lore-thing and that they were socialists thereby everything is "ours". Would still be great if that was the case to be honest.

The very best mini here though is easily the Halfling Thing Flinger which...flings things. Pretty self explanatory. Posting this at the time kicked off a conversation, again, about the physics between animal-toting artillery which is not something I ever need to see talked about again. Just look at this thing! It rules!

Arcworlde Halfling Thing Flinger Credit: Bair

Carried on by the remaining of the Halflings with a second, less crime-solving-based, Trollhound.

Arcworlde Halflings Credit: Bair

Orks are always a lot of fun to paint, that's just a simple fact of life. Anyone who thinks that Orks aren't fun or cool have something genuinely wrong with them, I've said this recently in our Discord work chat and I stand by it fully and truly. These were not an exception by any means and being swamp-based I didn't want them to be too brightly coloured either making the goblins a bit lighter and the swamp critters even lighter yet, but all with a shade of sickly green to them. The very best mini amongst these is, naturally, the big guy holding a pet dragon using it as a living flamethrower while smoking a cigar undoubtedly lit by said pet dragon. I painted these while reading through Discworld's Guard books and the swamp dragon just matched up so perfectly with all of that.

Arcworlde Ourks Credit: Bair

Then came the Imperials. I'm not usually one to match or paint closely to the box art, however, there's something great about this bright red (ProAcryl pyrrole red) that just looks right. Plus with how I've painted the other warbands so far I was starting to run out of distinctive colours. I added in their resin Imperial Halfling set at the same time for more models because they just work so well; I love that in the rules the models aren't really specified between human or halfling and that both are fine! Standout models here is an even tie between the ammo-toting monkey with handgun and the ogre in the back wielding a four barreled shotgun, which is hard to take a nice photo of to show off, there's a whole two extra barrels under the two you can see here! Amazing!

Arcworlde Imperials Credit: Bair

You might now be thinking "wow that's a lot of models for one month" and you might be right but that's not the end!

Trench Crusade has, obviously, been a massive thing that so many people have talked about this year. We have some really great articles (not written by me) about the game and also have this one that I wrote about converting and painting my Trench Ghosts. I got my hands on some Trench Pilgrims because I thought of all of the official factions these had the aesthetic that I liked by far the most and wanted to try a slightly brighter scheme on them instead of just slapping a load of brown oil paint all over them. When I got the models I almost threw out the one Nun model but instead decided to fix it by creating some chainmail and cloth with greenstuff, as much as anything just to try doing that since I neve really sculpt. It came out good enough.

Trench Pilgrims Warband - Credit Bair

I would like to say here that I really have next to zero interest in the game itself, the rules do not grab me at all, but the premise of Trench Ghosts? Incredibly cool and something that upon learning about I had an immediate mental image that I really wanted to make a reality. This project cost me like £20 in total and was completely worth it. I wrote all about how I built and painted these previously so won't repeat myself, just go read that when you're done this, that's what tabs are for. These came together better than I had imagined, though, and might even add a couple more to them later still, just a really fun project!

Trench Crusade, Trench Ghost Warband - Credit: Bair

Lastly I finally got around to working on the last of the Vikings that I started last year. At the end of this month I only managed the twelve Levy which I decided to distinguish with the rectangle shields and the javelins (that they do have to have in Saga, which this force is for). I did stray from my "normal" underpainting and contrast method which I've pretty much moved away from at this point, not for any particular reason, just how I approach painting has changed a bit. I still do underpainting nearly all of the time with a dark brown basecoast and off-white drybrush but have leaned much more on pro acryl paints now than contrast/speed paints.

Victrix Rus - Credit Bair

That comes to a total of 77 models painted across May with what I assumed would be my most prolific month because that is a little silly.

June

So I beat that figure of 77 models immediately. This is also an entirely-historical month so if you don't like historical wargames then I really question why you've read this far but also you are wrong. First carrying on with the remainder of these Pagan Rus with twenty-one warriors which I never got around to taking a "nice" photo of so simply deal with this desk photo. That brings me to a grand total of 140 Vikings across three separate and distinct warbands including a Shieldmaiden one for Jomsvikings; all the shields are transfers and I'm dead happy that there are no duplicates among the lot!

Victrix Pagan Rus Warriors - Credit Bair

With Age of Vikings checked off for me now I wanted to put together an Age of Crusades warband. I really want to get one warband together for each Age Of in Saga and Crusades is very popular locally so it made sense to tackle next. Fortunately I had many crossbowmen "leftover" from not painting them for Chivalry earlier in the year to give me a nice start. I really wanted to lean heavily on cavalry since I hadn't done so yet and thought that the Knights Hospitaller looked like a lot of fun being extremely top heavy with lots of Hearthguard and not even the option to take any levy. Very cool.

Obviously I went straight to Victrix picking up a bag of knights for hearthguard, mounted Normans for warriors, and a bunch of metal Footsore foot knights for unmounted warriors to have the option, as well as the bannerman model with a sword as my warlord. Scroll through to see them all! Same as the Vikings above, all shields are transfers. These were an incredibly easy scheme to bash out being mostly-black of course but this was my first real foray into painting cavalry; I really can't understand what all the complaining is about and am planning a Hun warband in the nearish future too made up entirely of mounted warriors.

The hill shown so far a number of times got painted this month, too, and it is so much nicer to have paired with these Jon Hodgson backdrops than just 2D terrain mats! This is how I typically take my photos:

Warhammer Hill and Jon Hodgson backdrop - Credit Bair

After these it was time to turn back to Age of Chivarly to fill out that warband, something that will happen in a later month as well. I felt like an idiot at this point picking yellow as one of the two main colours of my warband and started to lean a bit more on the green which will become even more obvious later on. I also picked up some green paper banners and much later on learned that this is basically the same scheme and banner as a faction from Mount and Blade; I've never played it but that's a happy little coincidence isn't it?

The additions here are a point of mercenary handgunners from 1st Corps, the mercenary Knight model from Medbury Miniatures, six mounted Hearthguard from Perry, and a point of Genoese Crossbowmen mercenaries also from Medbury. Just really nice models all around and surprisingly fun to paint, despite the yellow! I did also remember that masking tape exists after painting all of those pavises. Oops? Not like they'd make perfect lines in the 14c either anyways.

Lastly was just two more additions for Saga: Pack animals for objectives and a set of twelve priests/monks that I forgot I wouldn't really be able to use with my Knights Hospitaller unless I play them on the Crusader board instead. Well they look cool so that's what counts really right?

Wargames Foundry Pack Animals - Credit Bair

Footsore and Perry Miniatures Monks - Credit Bair

And that's the month of June! My most prolific painting month this year with a total of 122 models painted. That's absurd and it's all downhill from here. Though this month and next is when my real-life started to look up again, finally, but June me didn't know that yet.

July

This was a very short month in the painting-scene for me but it was bound to happen after the last two. As far as gaming across this year I've been playing the odd indie game here and there, some Saga, and a fair bit of Star Wars Legion with the new edition effectively out, so I jumped back in to painting some of the newer units for my Separatist army that I had gotten but not painted before. It was at this point that I remembered all Separatist models take twice as long to build than they do to paint; that's commentary on the fiddliness of the kits as much as it is the dead simple paint schemes of models. If you don't recognise these units then you likely didn't watch the cartoon series Clone Wars and that's something you should do, it's some of the best Star Wars there is to consume.

Star Wars Legion Separatist Aqua Droids - Credit Bair

Star Wars Legion Separatist Crab Droids - Credit Bair

This was also when the Kharadron Overlords battletome came out. Age of Sigmar is has long been one of my favourite games and I've been slowly coming to terms this whole year that it's just...not any more. The state of the game, how battletomes have been released, how updates are handled, and just the entire lack of any sort of interesting internal balance in most battletomes has left me wanting. I'm hoping this is something that is "fixed" in the near-enough future. Generally I believe this to be somewhat down to the three-year churn of new editions, I guess I only have to wait another year and a half until there's a new edition at least? Yay? All that said, I am a big dwarf lover in just about any game and have long loved the Kharadron aesthetic while being unfortunately bored/uninterested in their gaming playstyle. Shocking to some, I'm sure, that the shooting-focused faction in the fantasy setting might be hard to balance and not all that interactive. I was super excited though when the new battletome came out with a couple of new units that just look awesome. Despite nerf after nerf I think there's still something fun within the tome to be salvaged, I'll be painting up a 1,000 point army around the most recent Path to Glory rules to play with a couple friends.

This is the second iteration of Kharadron Overlords for me and I wanted to go a little brighter but also go with an existing sky port too so landed on Barak Zon the flightiest of the sky ports. I mean they are literally the only ones that keep a standing army, so, they're quite fighty. Really fun colour scheme and I'm sure you're starting to see a trend here: I really like blue. Like, I really like blue. The biggest reason that my Chivalry stuff isn't is only because I made myself do something different and then have largely regretted it during the painting process only to enjoy it sitting in my cabinet.

Kharadron Overlords Null Khemist - Credit Bair

The best part of this kit of Harpooners, really, is the option for some female heads. I really really love that the bodies aren't any different either since they're wearing the same suits as the dudes and are equally as jacked. Hell yeah.

Lastly, Lenoon sent me a couple sprues of the new Victrix foot knights so I painted one sprue of them as Knights Hospitaller. It's a really lovely kit and now I need to find a game that's larger scale than Saga to use all my dudes at once! Midgard, probably.

Victrix foot knights, Knights Hospitaller - Credit Bair

Well, that's the entire month of July with a piddly 20 models.

August

I carry straight on with the entirely-too-fiddly Star Wars Legion Separatist kits with what was probably the least fun kit I had built so far this year. It's going to get topped soon after when I decide to build some Horus Heresy Saturnine terminators but those haven't gotten painted so that army isn't being talked about in this year in review, it basically doesn't count.

The not-fun kit in question? Geonosians. I was about to pick up another box or two of these before building this one and then immediately decided against it after getting these on bases. I might add more to the army later on, because they are cool and a fun unit in the game, but oh man not any time soon. Like all Separatists they are only a couple of colours so at least they painted quickly to make up for it! This was two of the older-style boxes along with the leaders Sun Fac and Poggle the Lesser.

Poggle the Lesser and Sun Fac, Star Wars Legion - Credit Bair

Star Wars Legion Geonosians - Credit Bair

After finishing these up I got to dip my toe back into my Arcworlde obsession with the brand new Gremlins and felt very fortunate to be able to review these ahead of release! You can go have a look at my review of them here for a full breakdown but the short version is that the models are incredibly nice. The sculpting and casting these guys do is of such a high quality it's impossible to fault them at all.

Really fun models and looking forward to picking up the rest when they're all out on general release. I was happy to just spend a bit more time on each one here to really bring out some personality of the sculpt, the masks were really fun to paint faces on!

With those all done that brings the count for August up to 25 miniatures painted, more than July at least!

September

Do you remember? I barely do, and am really glad that I keep a spreadsheet telling me what I painted. Which, looking back on, this was a very boring month for hobby. I think this is when I built a very large Death Guard Heresy army that is sitting in magnetised RUBs (really useful boxes) on top of my wardrobe awaiting primer. Probably. That's the excuse I'll be going with.

This really did become the year of Indie games for me and I'm not complaining one bit. Targeted ads really started to get me on these, too, because I learned about Of Oil and Iron through that before it went up on Kickstarter and said to myself "yes, this is a game I really want to play". It's basically just dieselpunk Titanicus and that rules. We reviewed the game at the time so go have a read of that, too, and again this is what tabs are for. I painted up the small and medium mechs for Nox which are right up my alley as the squat-and-wide faction of mechs. Man are they fun or what? I haven't managed to get this game to the table just yet but hope to in the new year.

Small and Medium Triton Rigs - credit Bair

After these I got around to the other sprue of Victrix foot knights painting up for my Age of Chivalry warband because I had plenty of Knights Hospitaller at this point. These would also very, very, soon become perfect for a little (micro, some would say) game called Greathelm that you might have caught wind of. We reviewed that, too, and it's just excellent. I've been roping two friends into helping me play games for review locally and this was especially fun.

Victrix Foot Knights - credit Bair

That's all of August, the smallest model count other than the zeroes of January and February at just twelve models.

October

We are so back this month. Starting off something very different with a Roknaut! Cronch asked a few of us to paint up one each and the scheme I went for will be extremely familiar if you've read anything before this and haven't just skipped randomly to October, that would be weird. This was a fun little guy. Did I intentionally paint his eyes to look like he's really seen some shit? Absolutely not. It sure does work though doesn't it?

Rökthane Toothcutter Schiltron. Credit: Bair

Victrix's sergeant kit came out and in my opinion just absolutely blows the Wargames Atlantic kit out of the water with the single exception of not coming with any ranged weapons. Thankfully, I didn't need any. I didn't really need any of these but they look so great and by painting thirty eight billmen out of one bag I'm now nearly ready to play Never Mind the Billhooks too! So that's worth it, right?

After getting those finished with it was time to get to the rest of my Chivalry warband now with the intention of getting it ready for Never Mind the Billhooks by making up a few stands of commanders, including Jan Zizka himself of course, as well as two more war wagons, a second cannon, and rebasing my one original war wagon to look a bit more uniform and work better with the warband.

This was a really fun project and here is where you can seem that I really started to favour the green over the yellow, too. Part of rebasing the original war wagon was also ripping out the stupid archers and replacing them with two handgunners and a billman which just look much better and is more period appropriate.

I then took the single stupidest hobby idea that I've yet considered and put into practice. I recreated our wonderful Goonhammer Historicals banner image with models and then wrote a modified rules set of Greathelm so that's playable. Go read about how to play that here, it was not playtested and I have since been given feedback on it which has been promptly ignored because something this stupid doesn't deserve to be actually good. You might see this and think "wow those Normans look stupid in those colours" and you might be right, I don't care, it's accurate to the banner art and that's the only thing that actually matters here.

Historical Banner - credit Bair

This brings October's model count to 56 in total.

November

Remember that burnout we were feeling a couple months ago? Well, it's back. Fortunately real-life was getting to a pretty level point here which is fantastic. Really I cannot thank the people that helped me get through this year nearly enough, you're all amazing and I love each of you dearly.

Back to hobby stuff: I painted two starter warbands for the game Shroudfall which I have yet to write the review of because I wanted to make sure to play it a few times and then got really, really, ill with my brain not wanting to focus on writing something good. This whole thing might not even be that good, but it's not complex, and Shroudfall is complex. Look out for a review in the new year. Spoiler alert: I like the game.

These minis were very graciously picked up by the Moustache Man himself Snafu at Spiel in Essen, he let me choose which two factions to have and he picked up the other two for himself. I chose the panda faction because of course I did. My name is Bair. I'm taking the panda bear faction. They rule so hard. The other faction then took a little thinking but when I realised that I'd most likely be playing this with my pal Joe then flesh horror alchemists was an incredibly easy pick, he likes that kinda thing. Just like with the Arcworlde stuff I wanted to spend a bit more time on each mini and I think that shows here pretty well with the detailing. These are 3D printed models and are done really nicely, too.

I really love those pandas.

Shroudfall Umbral Veil starter warband - Credit Bair

Shroudfall Chosen of the Spirit Tree starter warband - Credit Bair

That's just 14 models total this month.

December

We made it folks, we're here, end of the year. I'm alive and kicking and feeling genuinely so much better than I ever have in my life for a lot of reasons at this point.

There was only a single project worked on the entirety of this month as I write these words on the 18th of December and I doubt I'll be doing any more painting through the end of the year. Maybe I'll do some base coating or a bit of building but nothing else is going to be getting finished for sure. I'm going to rest, relax, and enjoy a holiday season bereft of larger family gatherings for once.

Historicals have obviously been a very large part of my year and so it ends by painting a rifle platoon and-then-some of late war World War 2 Americans. I've been thinking about a WW2 project for a short period of time and at Warfare decided to pick up a cheap box of Perry plastics and a series of Empress metal heavy weapons and commanders. My grandfather and great uncle, brothers, both fought in the war in the Pacific Theatre and Western front respectively. My Opa (as we called him, I'm not too sure why, maybe the PA Dutch heritage) was an engineer on the USS England and wrote an autobiography of his time in the war handwritten before he passed away when I was just 13 years old. His brother, my great uncle, never made it home from the war; he was a ball turret gunner on a B24 Liberator stationed outside of Oxford.

Anyway, historical wargaming has a funny effect on how "late" a conflict people are comfortable with. I've basically drawn my line at WW2 for reasons that I'm not really able to put into words. For some reason anything after this period just feels inherently wrong to me to want to wargame; that's not a judgement on those that do, just that it's not for me at all. So I got some specific paints for these, the Vallejo set for American armour and infantry, and got to work. The paint process was incredibly simple but still took me a full eleven days to get through all of the minis:

Spray Colourforge Hyrax Brown
Paint uniform USA Vallejo Dark Green
Drybrush uniform Vallejo Green Grey
Paint skin Pro Acryl Tan Flesh
Paint lighter green metals that like heavy weapons and flasks Vallejo Green Grey
Paint brown boots and guns Pro Acryl Warm Brown
Paint khaki straps/bags/pouches/ankle things Vallejo Khaki
Paint silver bits on guns/knives/radios Citadel Iron Hands Silver
Shade all over Citadel Targor Rageshade
Cover in Ammo by MIG Ultra Matt Lucky Varnish

That's not too bad as far as number of colours goes which really sums up WW2 uniforms. They're really just very green. The khaki detail was a bit of a chore to get through due to the Perry plastics being relatively shallow in detail in places but overall they were pretty fun to paint! Now just a bunch of tanks, technicals, and a self propelled gun before moving on to the Germans to have an opposing force.

That solitary project brought December's number to a whole 59 minis in the end, painted across about 11 days start to finish. Yes they're mostly green, shut up.

New Year, New Hobby

That's a wrap! Total painted model count comes to 462 in the end. At the start of December I was getting really optimistic about being able to tie or top my all-time-total of 500 in a year but even with another 13 days left in the month I'm all out of gas so that's just not gonna happen. Maybe if I'd gotten any painting done across Jan or Feb this would've happened, who knows?

Life sucked this year, a lot.

Next year will be better and that's a simple fact.

Stuff that I'm very much looking forward to painting next year includes but is absolutely not limited to:

40k Krieg army
AoS Kharadron army
10mm Punic Wars Carthaginians
More Of Oil and Iron mechs
WW2 US vehicles
WW2 Germans
Expanding Chivalry warband up to a "full" Never Mind the Billhooks army
More Star Wars Legion
Finishing my Conquest Nord army (it will never really be finished)
A Saga warband for each Age

Let's see how far we get, though, there's only so much room to store it all. I've really loved being able to lean a bit more into the smaller scale games and literally smaller scale armies; the amount of 10mm armies you can fit into a single Really Useful Box, especially with some MDF tray inserts, is absurd in the best way.

Here's to a relaxing Christmas period and a Happy New Year! One last heartfelt thanks to all of those that have been around this year, you know who you all are, and you're all amazing.

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