GENERAL : State of the Spawning Address - New hopes for 2009

The start of the new year is always a time of reflection for ones past achievements (or lack thereof) and were one gets a chance to recharge the batteries and to start anew. Looking at back I would like to see what I was able to do based on what I had planned myself here
Looking at it I failed to have done the majority of them (which was mostly modelling and painting resolutions)

Frequency of posts.
- The year 2008 I had a total of 30 posts. A far cry from the expected weekly posting but higher than 2007 with only 14. This reflects more of a lack of actual modeling time more than anything, particularly painting. I do resolve to give bi-weekly updates to the site. I eventually would like to have each army of mine have there own blog starting with the Orks.

WHFB + BFG + HORDES
- absolutely no gaming time was done for any of the armies.
- dwarves were actually sold off so there goes any second army for fantasy this 2009.


I shall implement the same point scheme as what Lone pilgrim had done over at his site:
I also need to get more games in to motivate myself to model and paint more.


Number of games in
I had only 6 games in for the whole year with 2 of them being at the GT all of them wh40k. Not a good year of gaming. However with the weekday gaming starting to go full swing at the bunker I should be able to ramp up my gaming considerably and the more games I play the more incentive I have of painting my existing models.

However with the prospect of me working abroad by the second half of the year my chances look slim for gaming then. So I need to get some good gaming while I can.


What are my resolutions for this year 2009? Here they are:
- NO NEW MODELS for the YEAR unless it comes from proceeds selling of old models.
-- I have too much stuff that I have accumulated over the years. I wont buy stuff unless I am able to get rid of
some of my other inventory of figures and use the proceeds from that. The Model Fund will be for MODELS only and not for anything else.

- Focus on one painting project at a time
-- I will stop my ningas cogon habit of painting (starting great but never finishing) I will concentrate on finishing one thing before going to the other. As my blog does indicate
I will finish painting the Inquisitor Retinue before going to the next thing which is painting the various ork units that I have. I shall paint one non-ork unit everytime I finish one so that I dont die of monotony. Still I want to be able to field a fully painted 1500 point Ork Army by 2009 then I can start to revive and finish my Crimson Fists (those that have been in storage for so long)
-- I will not kick myself in the ass for poor painting skills. As Kenton said in his blog, painting is a chore and I will paint my to "Good Enough Standards"
- Paint 50 points worth of models this 2009
- Focus on one assembly project at a time
-- I had a habit of starting something and then stopping it and trying to assemble the next thing.
- get to game at the Bunker at least once a month.

Thats all for now. Now let me assemble this Ork Trukk I have :D