That Was The Year That Was (or How I Painted Over 500 Miniatures in 2013...)

So that was 2013! Looking back at my New Year's Resolutions I don't appear to have achieved any of those listed so they may have to become 2014's!

However I have achieved two objectives I set myself at the start of 2013. First off was to try and post once a day on the blog and this I have achieved (this is post 365!). By and large I think the posts were worthwhile though maybe I pushed the boundary a bit on day when I posted about some paint I bought! :-)

You may also recall that I set myself a painting challenge at the start of 2013 to paint 365 miniatures (one miniature being one vehicle, figure or base of smaller figures). Despite being worried that this would be a bit of a stretch I hit the target in July and have managed to paint 509 miniatures (many 28mm) in 2013.

Here are some of the highlights...

British Land Ironclad

1/300th ONESS Panzergrenadiers 

Zombies!

Terminator Bikes

French Foreign Legion in Mexico

1/144th Ilya Muromets

20mm German Late War infantry 

Romno-British infantry

Romno-British cavalry

Knights of Chaos

Troupes Coloniales Umbongodwongolese Hafelins

Fantasy Tribe Gnolls (painted after 34 years!)

1/144th Blackburn Kangaroo

1/285th IDF Magach-3

French Foreign Legion in Dahomey

Empire of the Dead Gentlemen's Club

And of course there were lots of Gromits! :-)