A 2019 Retrospective - Medge's 2019 progress, and plans for 2020

2019 is drawing to a close, and so it seems fitting to go through a period of hobby reflection, re-evaluation, and planning for the future.

2019 was an exceptional hobby year for me.

Just a couple of metrics; 

30 blog posts (including this one)
2400 total blog hits for #Medge-tagged items; not bad for a bit of a personal pet project! 

5 Army Projects (Death, Blood Angels, Grey Knights, Adeptus Mechanicus and Imperial Knights)

4 Game systems (Age of Sigmar, Warhammer 40k, Necromunda and Warhammer: Underworlds)

128 models cleared from the back-log

and a heck of a load more added!!

So let's take a look at those in some detail.

Bash the Back-log #6; Medge's October - December

This year I've pledged to #BashtheBacklog - taking steps to correct that most grievous (but widespread) of hobby sins; the backlog of unpainted plastic!

In my last update I covered the end of August through to mid October, and a number of Grey Knights and a few extra Blood Angels moved from back-log to completed projects.

2019 is nearly over, and this will likely be the last #BashtheBacklog post of the year... so what have I been working on in the final few weeks of the year?

Bash the Back-log #5; Medge's August - October

This year I've pledged to #BashtheBacklog - taking steps to correct that most grievous (but widespread) of hobby sins; the backlog of unpainted plastic!

Last update covered the end of June and July, in which time I had a nice little Blood Angels binge.
It's been nearly three months since my last instalment ... so how have I done?

Fun and Fluff Part 4; The Knights of Titan march to war!

Welcome back to the Fun and Fluff series; a short blog series dedicated to my preparation for the London Wargaming Guilds Fun and Fluff Tournament in October. 

Last post I pretty much finished my list, smashing through my targets and leaving me with only one model left to paint.

With the event only a week away did I manage to complete the list?!

Fun and Fluff: Part 3. The Knights of Titan Assemble

Welcome back to the Fun and Fluff series; a short blog series dedicated to my preparation for the London Wargaming Guilds Fun and Fluff Tournament in October. 

Last post I talked about the changes to my army, updated on the progress I had made and set out some painting targets I needed to achieve to have a complete force by the event. It's been a very quiet 5 weeks since that post... how have I gotten on?

Fun and Fluff: Part 2. The Knights of Titan rise

Welcome back to the Fun and Fluff series; a short blog series dedicated to my preparation for the London Wargaming Guilds Fun and Fluff Tournament in October. 

Last post I talked about my army choices and put together a potential army list (along with a brief description of how I intended the army to play). It's been a month since that post... how have I gotten on?

Fun and Fluff: Part 1. Project introduction, by Medge

With our Tale of Four Warlords project coming to a close my hobby desk was looking a little empty; well... apart from a slowly decreasing mound of Backlog projects I'm diligently working on in the background!

After some deliberation among the team we've decided that we're going to use the next few months to focus on solo projects or backlog bits we're not had time to do over the last year; we've actaully run two Tales back-to-back, which was pretty exhausting!

As a group we've been using our Tale of Four Warlords projects to prepare for tournaments or other gaming events, and so it seemed only right that my next solo project focused on the same thing.

Last year, before we really got in to 40k, James spotted a exciting 'little' event (100 participants... so not that little) down in London called the Fun & Fluff (presented by the London Wargaming Guild and run out of Dark Sphere in Shepherds Bush).

Follow the link for full details, but it's exactly like it sounds; a house-rule heavy, model-restricting tournament that aims to pitch beautifully painted and narrative-themed armies against one another in a tournament where being a nice guy and running a cool, thematic list bags your more points than cheesing a must-win list...

Sounds like bliss!!

Myself, James and Tim have all signed up and are looking to build suitably narrative armies to take to the event.

Since winning games doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of the event I've decided to go with something far from optimised.