Happy New Year!...And the Year in Review

Well there it goes...another year! How its flown by, but likely due to my having so much fun! So sure, go ahead & blame me...

 

I've been working on a couple of projects to end the year, though neither will be ready to showcase yet.

First up is trying to wrap up the first commission for the game store that I was doing for buildings. I am going to use the Tabletop Workshop plastic kits as guides to the builds. I started the request of 10 buildings in May (while I was stuck at home with a broken foot)

 

This time around I am going to make 2, 2 story buildings & a chapel like structure that will be kept fairly generic for RPG's. Again the goal is to be able to use the insides whilst playing.

 I am also continuing to bling out my Zombicide game. At the beginning of the year I had painted up the walls set I had found on Thingeverse for the first game. Day 0.

I still have a lot more of them printed, but they still need to get painted up. However for today's post, I was looking at the boards & noticed a large number of garbage cans shown & then something triggered a memory. I had painted a bunch of garbage cans way back in 2021....so I went & grabbed them & sure enough, they were pretty good matches for what was displayed on the board.

I had already used some Battle Systems pieces for the dumpsters, but they are a little small. I had gotten these from a trade I believe & think they were resin pieces. However a quick visit to Thingeverse provided me with some more files to print more to cover all the garbage cans on the scenario board.

Trash & Garbage by TommyGMC on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3029551

I was also able to snag some garbage bag piles from MyMiniFactory & a creator called Tiny Furniture

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-garbage-station-398646

This will provide me with the dumpsters & garbage piles. And yes I know that when the game gets going, these will be in the way as the spaces fill with zombies. Not an issue as we can just remove them as the game progresses. I just feel adding all these things makes the game more immersive & as well can be used for all the other Zombie Apocalypse games that are out there.

I started printing them today after getting my Bambu networked so I could view the progress from my computer...kinda freaky!

For those who really can't not watch their prints, you can have the app on your smart device to watch it too.

Now on to the review. Here is what I posted as my first post in January

What to do in 2024?

Now for what I hope to do for this new year & to keep it inline with what I posted last year, I will make 3 goals.

1.  Continue to divest myself of hobby items I know will never get done.  This was started in 2023 & will continue.

This did occur with my attending a couple of swap meets throughout the year. Though I did move some things, not many of the big items went. This will continue going forward, though now that the postal strike is done (for now) it may be time to spread the word further to garner some sales.

2. Select another game system from one of the many kickstarters I've done & get the core box of figures done for it as well. I think this may be a goal every year going forward. I seem to have this odd quirk where I don't want to play the games without the figures being painted if I believe it will make the game look better. 

This was successful as I fully painted the figures for 'The Thing' I also got about halfway through the figures for 'In Too Deep' Guess those will be on the paint queue to finish for this year as I like this goal.

3. As with the previous year, work at getting more stuff painted up. I did see an improved amount of figures done in 2023 though I don't have one of those tally charts that many use....maybe thats something to look into.

 Still no tally sheet, not really my thing as I am always painting stuff up for the 'next game' it seems. This past year tended to be more focussed on getting terrain built & painted, so I will still count this as a success.

As I like things to be simple, I will continue with those 3 goals into 2025 & see where it lands me.

Well thats a wrap for blogging in 2024! Hope everyone enjoys the New Years Celebrations as they like & we will catch you all on the flip side! As always, thanks for visiting & commenting.