Review of 2018 - part 1

So despite some impressive output I still did not achieve my targets for this year. However like last year there was a lot of rebasing going on.

The major project is Tricorne rebasing, covering all my Seven Years War and American War of Independence armies, this is ambitious - around 2,000 figures, but hopefully it should just be "cosmetic" as I won't be physically changing the units or bases.- The Prussians, Austrians and French Forces are completed. The British, Brunswick and Hessian cavalry are all done. What remains are all the AWI figure so these will be carried over to 2019

Painting/Modelling - moderate sized projects

• Napoleonics - carried over from 2017. I've got quite a pile of figures (mainly cavalry) available to replace/upgrade some of my oldest units. Plus Spanish infantry, Polish infantry, French artillery and Russian Guard artillery - Painted a lot of the heavy cavalry, Russian Guard Artillery and Polish Infantry. I'll work on the remaining Napoleonics in 2019
• Egypt 1800 - adding more French, British and Ottoman troops to my existing armies, probably by doubling up the existing units. - Only just started but nothing finished so these will be worked on next year

Smaller projects

• WW2 Ardennes - finishing off various bits- completed what I had planned
• WW2 North Africa - expanding my US forces to cover North Africa by adding Stuarts, Lees and any other new units that the new Battlegroup book might require.- Stuarts, Lees, T19 HMCs and a White Scout car added so fully complete for now.
• WW2 eastern front - extending my winter Russians for late war winter warfare, mainly by adding tanks.- all done
• Some desert sand-dunes/wadi sides - carried over from 2017- not started
• Various houses to add to my Eighteenth Century town, including a model of my daughter's house - carried over from 2017- not started
• Need to create those Renaissance galleys - carried over from 2017 - any useful ideas welcomed- not started but I have an idea
• Adding some Highland regiments to my SYW British, also for use against the Jacobites!- all three completed
• Plus a number of bits to fill in odd gaps in existing armies- various oddments worked on.

Gaming

• Continue to support the Lance & Longbow Society games at various shows- We passed on Vapnartak this year, but attended both Phalanx, Britcon and Recon.
• Nothing decided yet for the SOTCW game at Gauntlet- for various reasons including my medical issues this was a miss for this year
• We plan to hold a big Battlegroup event in May, so I may be a major contributor to the terrain and troops needed - Completed successfully
• I need to organise one or two large games, one SYW and another to be decided, hopefully my rebasing will be an incentive.- complete fail
• Again try to get to Crisis in Antwerp- a very successful weekend and must go again in a couple of years and not leave it so long.

Stash reduction
Just as well it's not a formal target as the stash rose from 6,946 items to 7,747 due to a number of causes

• The generosity of friends donating useful figures
• a failure to sell off surplus figures I will not use
• Strelets producing lots of nice tempting sets of figures
• My own inability to ignore tempting figures or a bargain! (which is the main reason)