Review of 2025 - part 1 - progress against plan

Rather a mixed year painting progress was slow with 1,444 items completed, previous years have been a lot higher, but there have been various distractions, our village pub is now open and I have redecoated two bedrooms. With the exception of using the FDM printer I have done reasonably well against plan. Other non-plan sucesses have been climbing Ben More, a Munro on Mull, visiting the Normandy beaches and the Portsmouth shipyards.

Progress on my broad themes:

1. Enhance existing armies - Reasonable progress
2. 3D printing terrain (FDM) - Complete fail, I need to concentrate on this next year.
3. 3D printing vehicles and figures (resin) - Completed everything I had planned to do this summer
4. Continue to clear out all unwanted items, including painted figures - Fail, quite a bit sorted out, but nothing sold yet
5. Enjoy Games & Shows - Another good year of games and visits.

Amplifying the above:

1. Enhance existing armies - already planned are

• Continue rebasing the French Napoleonics - Completed except for a few units where I have not found suitable files yet.
• then I will start on the Austrians - Completed
• 28mm Female Gunfighters - Completed
• 5 units of Napoleonic Spanish round hat infantry (1 of which will be skirmishers) - Completed
• 4 units of Napoleonic Italian line infantry - Completed
• 3 units of Napoleonic Young Guard skirmishers - Completed
• WSS Danish Cuirassiers - Completed
• Hanoverian limbers for the SYW - Almost completed
• Some Spanish medievals for the El Cid period - Completed, except I decided to add more infantry figures, which I have still to do.
• plus the figures listed below to be 3D printed - Completed

2. 3D Printing Terrain (FDM)

• Test printing a Horsa using FDM - Nothing done yet
• Vietnamese hooches - I decided the hooches I bought were not well designed and I need to find something better
• Western European buildings - bought files from a kickstarter
• Spanish/Mediterrainean buildings - Nothing done yet
• New bridges (all eras) - Nothing done yet

3. 3D Printing Vehicles & Figures (Resin)

• Napoleonic Saxon and Westphalian Infantry - Nothing done yet as I have not found any files I like
• Napoleonic Russian Artillery & Gunners - Completed
• Napoleonic Polish Lancers, French Guard Horse Grenadiers and Chasseurs a Cheval - Completed
• WW2 Russian paratroops - Completed
• Gradually replace existing diecast and other poor quality AFVs in my collection - Some done, but plenty more still to do
• Working on more figures with the Resin printer using the more robust resin I have found - Completed, now switched over to ABS water washable resin. I just need to use up my remaining old resin on less critical models

4. Continue to clear out all unwanted items, including painted figures

• Re-assess each existing period, army, and units to consider if I am really going to use them - Put a batch on ebay in January and have now sorted out another batch to go.
• Maintain stash (figure and plastic bits box) at 3 crates and hopefully reduce the numbers - Still managing within 3 crates - but nothing substantial purchased But the stash has fallen slightly from 4,132 to 3,767
• Consider the future for my 1st version Springwood figures as I have the capability to replace them with more compatible figures to the 2nd edition - I am going to sell them as I complete their replacements. My French are included in my batch ready to sell.

5. Gaming

• Continue supporting the Beacon Club and attending as many weekend events as possible - Completed with additional periodic games at Si's "Officer's Mess" during the week.
• Try to attend the same number of shows as last year - Completed - only two weekends missed due to other commitments
• Attend at least as many shows as last year - The list of shows completed are Vapnartak, Hammerhead, Phalanx, Attack, Other Partisan, Wirral Warboot, South West Model Show and Recon.