Progress against plan 3Q23

Continuing good progress against plan with 1,753 items completed. So onward to Christmas

Compared against specific targets I set

1. Rationalise my Terrain, upgrading or replacing any unsuitable items - with the warm weather I have made a good effort on this.
2. Retouch/Rebase as many figures as possible. - Zulu War completed
3. Attempt to complete all the figures in the stash that have a clear fit with my current plans - underway
4. Clear out all unwanted items - have sorted out another batch to go on ebay

Amplifying the above:

1. Rationalise my Terrain, upgrading or replacing any unsuitable items

• Wooden Fencing needs either upgraded or replaced - all done except some additional gates, which I am currently 3D printing
• Hills, I have too many of the wrong sizes - have chopped them down to sensible sizes & shapes
• Rivers need expanded - not done, although I did manage to find the left over painted acylic sheets from my existing rivers
• Wadi/Depression edges need created - completed

2. Rework/Rebase as many figures as possible.

• Zulu Wars - delayed from last year - All completed
• Dark Ages - About to start
• Russian Civil War - not started
• possibly Napoleonic British - not started

3. Attempt to complete all the figures in the stash that have a clear fit with my current plans

• Finish the WSS - completed
• Scottish schiltron - completed
• More "Cossack" infantry & cavalry - completed
• Baggage camels for the Crusades, Sudan, etc. - completed
• Replace my old Napoleonic French Dragoons - completed
• Napoleonic Spanish infantry for skirmish games - completed
• 28mm ECW cavalry - not started, I am also printing some dragoons

4. Clear out all unwanted items, including painted figures

• Assess each existing period, army, and units to consider if I am really going to use them - underway - have sorted out another batch to go on ebay
• Reduce the figure stash from 4 crates to 3 - down to three crates, partly by giving away half my plastic bits box (crate) and using some of that space, so I now have slack in all my crates

5. 3D Printing - the bulk of my immediate needs have been printed so I am looking at

• ways to produce matching 20mm figures & smaller equipment to complete my Napoleonic and other armies - have found a number of useful items becoming available for sale. Some of these I have purchased and am printing
• components for houses and other terrain - I have have produced some bunker doors earlier in the year and recently somw wooden gates.
• work on how to make/modify files to meet my specific needs - quite proficient at 3D builder and am using for head swaps, etc. I also modified an Austrian Limber into a close match to a Prussian one.

6. Gaming

• Play at least one WW2 Sicily game as is is the 80th anniversary this year - unlikely to be done now
• I would like to try Dresden 1813 as it is the 210th anniversary - unlikely to be done now
• Attend as many shows as possible - attended Attack in Devizes this quarter, the Other Partizan this weekend.