Blog 11th anniversary

Eleven years today! Eleven!

No. Not this one

I don't want to repeat the same stuff every year, but it's been a long way so far and I still keep enjoying it like the first day. Of course that's because of your constant encouragement. Thank you very much to all of you for being out there. Your comments are always appreciated (no, sorry, spambots, I'm not talking about you) and your insights on what I try to carry on here is constant food for thought and ease for stress. I do appreciate, pals. Please keep coming, you are always welcome.

Those days of two posts per week (sometimes even three!) are now long gone, and unlikely to come back, but I don't really miss it per se. I mean, of course I'd like to have more free time and devote it to the hobby, but I'm good with things as they are. If I'm able to update the blog every couple of weeks I'm happy. If it's three weeks, so be it. If it's just a week or 10 days, super. I'm making no big deal out of the numbers, just enjoying every step of the journey.

What have I been up to in the last 12 months?

Well, I started with a normal skeleton, that should resemble no one you may know...

I came back to my realscale marines, recycling primaris stuff into 2nd ed like looking marines:

2023 has seen quite some colourful lizards from World of Twilight. In no specific order here you have some:

It's been the year in which I've been back to gaming too! I mean, just in 2023 I've played more than in the last four previous years on a whole!

I had this awesome game of Cursed City early in January:

And just afterwards I had this game of Aristeia! (Even with unpainted minis -shame! shame!)

I made an almost first, as I painted Squats. Me, painting Squats!

I'm also seriously commiting to this beautiful monster:

(Spoiler alert, I'm planning to bring more of this before the year ends, shhh...)

Speaking of large stuff, I incorporated this sizeable mining dump truck to my Genestealer Cult:

Oh, I got some other colourful lizards, but not from Twilight!

Went back to my Oldhammer roots with these glorious RT robots:

And from there to something purely new, as I got into Infinity!

I'm rebuilding my Underworlds boards, just got to the half of the project milestone:

I loved to go back again to Rogue Trader with this Imperial Guard platoon:

Which I painted just in time for my first WH40K2 game in 6 years (Wow):

It was glorious. I do need to play more to this.

After that I was in a fantasy-like mood and I painted these:

 Quite unexpectedly I played Aeronautica Imperialis:

And I'm closing my review with my latest progress on my current ongoing board:

I don't think I'm missing anything!

So this has been a year's work, what can you expect for next season? For now I can speak about a game in the close future (even just some days if I can write the AAR soon!), and I'm going back to the trireme, which I currently have on the bench. Apart from that, I have so many projects, as usual! Let's see which of them can be turned out into real stuff! I would be very pleased if you'd like to discover it with me!

Thank you all! Next episode of this adventure starts today!