Plans for 2014

2014 is going to be an awkward year to plan for as we’re intending to relocate home to the South West. Nothing definite decided yet but I suspect it’s going to take up a fair chunk of my time. There will be a big game this year themed around post D-Day, which will tend to prioritise work on WW2 stuff to the early part of the year.

Major Projects (at least 100 figures, month or more in effort)

• Paint at least 3 Rapid Fire US battalions to replace my aging existing forces. Figures will be Plastic Soldier, but won’t get started until the Heavy Weapons set appears
• Finish the Jacobites, by adding French and Lowland units
• Axis winter forces – German/Italian/Hungarian

Minor Projects

• Reorganise/Rebase my WW2 British, this will include painting a box of Plastic Soldier British to replace a unit I have already sold
• Complete the late French armée d’orient.
• War of Spanish Succession – add Austrian Grenadiers and possibly some Saxons.
• Egyptian troops for the Sudan

Other activities

• Try and play at least one big battle from the 1814 campaign in France
• The stash is still far too big; I want to get it down from seven storage boxes to five by the time we move. In line with this, I plan to complete as many plastic kits as possible, there are over 40 there at present so completing these should free up one box at least.
• No new armies until after we move – will be quite difficult to achieve if plastic figure manufacturers bring out something tempting.