As the year 2017 nears end it´s time to look back and see
what has happened during it. I will reflect my doings to the Oldhammer: How todo it! -list written By Orlygg back in 2013 and see how I did. But lets begin
this posting By showing you something that I´ve never painted before: a plastic
imperial guardsman.
I´ve never really been a 40k guy. The younger me didn´t have
the resources to buy both fantasy and 40k models plus I was strugling to paint
even the WFB stuff I had. But I´ve always been fascinated by the old style
imperial guard as presented in the WD109. That issue might just be my single
favorite WD ever.
A couple of months back I had chance to buy a 30+ pile of
old guarsmen both metal and plastic. All with plastic hand and weapons plus a
few weapon/hand sprues. They´ve been resting in a box waiting for me to decide
whether to keep them or to sell them forward. Then just the other day I wanted
a break from painting gobbos, dug out one of the troopers and quickly did what
can be seen above. Not fancy but will do for me. I might do some more in the
future but I haven´t set myself any goals with these.
With that said it´s time to move on to the list and see how
I did.
1) Get your hands on the original publications
I´ve owned 3rd edition rule book all these years but my
WFB:Armies book was lost at some stage. This year I managed to aquire a new
copy for which I am very happy.
2) Bookmark online resources
This sort of comes with the blogging. One of the top 3 web
sites I use is propably the Oldhammer Forum. The other one is the finnish
speaking Sotavasara (=Warhammer) that has a slowly growing oldhammer community
in it.
3) Start Small
I have to admit, I like building an army. I want to have a
goal and then I do my best to reach that. I´m not good at painting a dozen
models to do scirmish with and then expand that warband to an army.
I really haven´t kept a list or anything on how many models
I have painted this year. But as I look back on my blog postings I can pretty
safely say it´s roughly 140 pieces. By far most are green skins: about 50 orcs,
50 goblins and 5 trolls. The rest are mainly elves: 11 2nd edition Blood Bowl
elves and 20 Black tree design elven guards.
My plan was to expand my high elf army a lot more than I
actually did but I got carried away painting those orcs & goblins.
4) Focus your collecting
I can say that I´ve been pretty focused on elves and goblinoids.
I fact the only thing painted this year that is not elf, orc, goblin or troll
is this imperial beastman (and the imperial guardman above). He is my applicant
for Oldhammer forum´s Legacy 2017 painting challenge.
5) Start blogging
Vanhaa Vasarointia celebrated it´s 2nd birthday on 2nd dec
2017. During 2017 I´ve published 41 texts this included. My personal favorite
is the animal handler series of articles that took a couple of months to
complete.
On 16th dec 2016 my blog had had 10000 views and if I
remember it right I had ten readers/followers at that time. Now the view
counter is 34000+ and 31 readers. A BIG thank you to everyone who has been
here.
6) Ignore 'Buy it Now' prices
I wish I could say that I´ve followed this rule. But no, I
have to admit that I´ve fallen to several BIN purchases in 2017. It´s usually
something that I at that moment think is needed immediately but then ends up
waiting to be painted for several months.
7) Create real scenarios
and
8) Become a GM
I put that and between 7 and 8 as these two go strongly hand
in hand. Three different scenarios were created and I GM´d those scenarios four
times. Here´s the largest and best documented of those scenarios: Trouble att he Fur Hunters´ Hut.
Having gotten into GM´ing WFB with narrative scenarios it really feels like my thing. There is always room for a pitched battle but as a
gaming experience I think that one gets a lot more fun out of a written scenario.
9) Network on social media
Oldhammer community, Scandinavisk Oldhammer and Oldhammer
Finland are just some of the groups I´ve joined.
Happy New Year everyone!
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