2016 Resolutions: Diet? Sobriety? Nah, let's paint more!

It seems most of my friends are either deciding to diet, or not drink alcohol at all (or as much) for their 2016 New Year resolutions. I'm adopting a less extreme approach and trying to just scale back my vices instead of cutting out all joy and then failing miserably as early as February then hating myself.

My real resolutions include other ways to improve my life that I wish I had done more of in 2015. I want to travel more, find a new more fulfilling career, read more fiction for pleasure, and of course paint more models!

I have a large backlog (don't we all) of miniatures in various states of completion, my first task this year will be to finish all the half-started projects I have lying around my craft-cave, off the top of my head these include:

• FW Horus
• FW Dread Maw
• 10 Dark Angels Tactical Marines
• Dark Angels Razorback
• Dark Angels Predator
• 2 Mechanicum Kastelan Robots
• Betrayal at Calth - Big one this, still being built so maybe I can leave it until later in the year)

My aim is to finish these half-jobs and get them in the cabinet before starting anything else, and there is no shortage of things to start either.

I'd also love to be able to enter a Golden Demon competition this year, depending on what format GW decides to run them in. We'll see!

What hobby resolutions have you guys got for this year, and how do you plan on sticking with them?

Cheers

RB

Horus Heresy Boxed Game - Internet Meltdown

So unless you live under a rock, or have been away from the hobby for a while, you'll have noticed that GW are very soon going to release their long anticipated plastic entry into the Horus Heresy series, "Betrayal at Calth", which has been exclusively FW based up until now. The internet is currently collectively shitting itself over images and rumors of contents.

Some pics have now leaked and they look pretty sweet to me.
All credit to millests.blogspot.fr for the leaks

Current rumors suggest the set will be a standalone "game" containing what seems to be one complete army. How this is supposed to be split between two players to play the game remains to be seen.

The images also suggest potentially a similar game to the Execution Force standalone released earlier in the year, lots of cardboard pieces and even more rumors of hex-based movement.


This is clearly a product that people care about a lot. There will be people who are overwhelmed with joy at the box, hopefully saving themselves some cash on buying FW-only pieces. Others will hate everything it represents and will likely be the more vocal side, if past releases have taught us anything.. *cough* Age of Sigmar.

Time will tell, pre-orders up on the 7th November.