Greetings…
Well another year has come and gone…
Looking back it’s been quite a busy one… Maybe not as much with my hobby as I would have liked but time has certainly flown past…
Once again our so called leaders have shown us how to behave like total ‘Richard’ Heads… I am beginning to think that it’s well past the time we should have got the pitchforks and flaming brands out…🙄
And once again it’s family , friends and hobbies that keep me sane.
Due to Work, Building Work and Life/Health I haven’t been as busy as I would have liked… But looking at things I have done a lot more than I thought…
I have really butterflied around with my figure painting throughout the year… Only really coming into sharper focus in December…
A shiny start…
A jump up in size to 40mm..
15mm Dacians for DBA…
15mm Carolingians
Back up to 28mm…
Dads Army…
Oh Yes!… Flutter Flutter Flutter…
Dads Army needs some Villains…
And of course the Normans need some Byzantines…
And Flutter Flutter…
Camels!… Not even I saw that coming 🤣.
Last but by no means least…The Wars of the Roses…
Which I surprised myself by finishing everything I needed in about four weeks… Then had a game.
Oh! And I also built and painted some Snowmen.
But wait… There’s more…
The Great Rebasing Project…
The Purchase from Mr Bickley…
Some of the 24 Rebased, Re-Flagged,Re-Speared and Re-Shielded units…Hurrah!
Of course once I got the rebasing bug…
The start of the Crimean War Rebasing…
Games…
Ive actually played more games than I have taken pictures of…
Alan Perry’s Peninsular War Campaign and I am also involved in David from Miniature Minions Vimeiro Game to name a couple…
Here are a few other pictures…
So why haven’t I had more of my toys out on the table…
Building Works…😱
Most of my toys and a lot of other things have been consigned to boxes while the drains were getting dug up… Concrete getting poured and the Cellar getting ‘Tanked Out’ and plastered.
I had a Bobcat living on the drive… They wouldn’t let me play with it ☹️.
Outside…
A happy New Year to you Aly, considering the initial statement of not getting as much done due to interruptions that report is pretty prolific. I blame the butterflies we get lots of little bits completed which tends to make us think we haven’t done much,
ReplyDeleteIt looks like an exciting year with cellar, gaming room being developed - exciting times.
I like the no real plans approach for next year 😄 I’ve had so many targets and constraints over the years to have time to drift is a luxury, my main aim for next year is just to play more.
Happy New Year Graham…
DeleteButterflying can also give you nice surprises…Like when you realise that you have actually finished something 😁.
I think that aiming to play lots of games is an excellent plan.
All the best. Aly
Happy New Year Aly! Happy New Late Romans! You have been busy despite everything, so here's to even more hobby stuff this year!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year David…
DeleteThe New Late Romans certainly added nicely to my collection…
I am looking forward to having some games with them…
Here’s to lots more in 2024 😁
All the best. Aly
A productive year and am I am now suffering cellar-envy!
ReplyDeleteThank you Matt…
DeleteThe cellar has been a pretty useless space for years so I am rather pleased with the way it is going 😁
All the best. Aly
Aly,
ReplyDeleteDespite fluttering from one thing to another, I think you actually achieved more than I did with relentless focus.....😞
Perhaps butterflies do sting like bees.....🙄
Neil
The butterflies results often sneak up on you Neil…
DeleteI was quite surprised when I actually looked at what I had done over the year… I wonder what things would have looked like without all the distractions.
All the best. Aly
A wonderful variety of beautifully painted figures Aly! You certainly found a gem of a plasterer, excellent work indeed! Good that you're feeling better, it is definitely that time of year when viruses abound! I wish you and yours a very Happy and Healthy New Year!
ReplyDeleteThank you Brad…
DeleteA Happy and Prosperous New Year to you too…
All the best. Aly
Butterfly mode works for me... personally, I would say it seems to have been a very productive year.
ReplyDeleteButterfly is definitely one of my preferred modes as well…
DeleteIt’s seems to work well for me.
All the best. Aly
Share your sentiments on good friends, family, and hobby being central to our well being (the older one gets, the more true this becomes). And I thought I was dealing with alot of renovation/repair!
ReplyDeleteThese are indeed the things that help us through troubled times Ed…
DeleteFor a while it felt like every time someone stuck a shovel in the ground something weird or worrying turned up… but it is starting to look closer to finishing every day.
All the best. Aly
Ah the good old wargaming butterfly, my main problem! You certainly achieved a fair bit in 2023 and a very nice review it is, here's to more in 2024!
ReplyDeleteThank you Donnie…
DeleteEmbrace the butterfly…It certainly seems to be working for me at the moment..
All the best. Aly
Happy New Year! Aly, hope 2024 is good, calm and with lots of wargaming and hobby time to come. Hope you’re feeling better health wise. Quinn
ReplyDeleteA Happy New Year to you too Quinn…
DeleteYes a calm life and with lots of hobby sounds good to me…
All the best. Aly
Happy New Year to you and yours Aly - its been great walking along with you on you butterfly travels in 2023 and I am sure it will be equally rewarding in the coming twelve months!
ReplyDeleteA Happy New Year to you too Keith…
DeleteI’m glad you have enjoyed the journey…
Here’s to more in 2024 😁…
All the best. Aly
Happy New Year Aly. Love the retrospective look at all those lovely minis and now have basement games room envy!
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Steve…
DeleteIt’s nice to know my basement now illicit’s envy rather than the horror it has for the last few decades 🤣
All the best. Aly
Happy new year Aly , plenty of lovely things on show. I do hope you recover fully soon there are some tenacious viruses out there at the moment. As to the future I would say let your butterfly fly 👍
ReplyDeleteAnd to you to Matt..
DeleteI am improving a bit every day…I hope to be as strong vigorous as my butterfly soon.
All the best. Aly
Happy New Year. I trust you feel fully better soon. I look forward to your posts of 2024.
ReplyDeleteStephen
Happy New Year Stephen…
DeleteI am certainly feeling better than I was…
Yes here’s to more in 2024…
All the best. Aly
That is some mighty fine output given all the upheaval especially. Happy New Year and let those wings flutter again in 2024.
ReplyDeleteThank you Phil…
DeleteA Happy New Year and a fluttering I will go…😁🦋🦋🦋
All the best. Aly
The premise is that we always wanted to do more than we did, but looking at the series of images it seems like it was a great year. Beautiful miniatures, some that we knew, others that we were able to recover through your post.
ReplyDeleteWe hope that in this year that has just begun, your butterfly can roam free and happy in all the fields you want, also thanks to the new 'hobby den' that you are about to build for it...
All the best for 2024!
Yes indeed…
DeleteI suspect my ambition will always outstrip my abilities …
My butterfly always seems to find the prettiest path to follow… So follow it I will…
A Happy New Year to you…
All the best. Aly
Happy New Year, Aly! Your painting table was busy as is your current home project. Seems the season for home reno! Great to see your camels for an encore. I forgot how beautiful that group of camelry was.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Jonathan…
DeleteTo be honest I am prepping for retirement… The only thing I want to worry about is how I fill my time in my shiny new playhouse 😁
I actually have a unit of Sassanid Camel Cataphracts in the painting Alp… So hopefully they will collect some paint this year.
All the best. Aly
Im impressed, but not as impressed as the Fuherur Bunker under construction, class.
ReplyDeleteGlad you are impressed Robbie…
DeleteThe Aly Bunker is definitely a more comfortable and tasteful affair…
All the best. Aly
Happy New Year Aly - you have been busy - when I converted my stables I did get to play with the Bobcat - and jolly good fun it was too! Here's to '24 and may the butterlfy flutter as busily as ever.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Rick…
DeleteThe builders kept locking the Bobcat… Very unfair of them I thought 😁…
I am hoping to do lots more in 2024…
All the best. Aly
Happy New Year Aly and best wishes for a tremendous 2024.
ReplyDeleteThank you Carlo…
DeleteAnd a Happy and Prosperous New Year to you too.
All the best. Aly
Wow!!! SUperb picutres, love the Byzantines and the camels...Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteThank you Phil…
DeleteThe camels are such fun…
A Happy New Year and all the best. Aly
A true butterfly year! The 40mm and camels come in as my faves. Best Wishes for the New Year and hope the lurgy departs soon, this one seems to be a real hanger on, 3 weeks for me!
ReplyDeleteThank you Norm…
DeleteIf nothing else I have a healthy butterfly 🦋 …
A Happy and Prosperous New Year to you….
All the best. Aly
May you have a happy, peaceful, prosperous and shiny 2024, Aly! All the best, WM
ReplyDeleteThank you Matthew…
DeleteAnd the same to you and yours…
All the best. Aly
An excellent display of wonderful wargaming eye candy.
ReplyDeleteI also have cellar envy Aly, used to have 3 in my first house.
Sigh I miss them.
Happy New Year,
Willz.
Thank you Willz…
DeleteWow! Three cellars…. Did you have a different table set up in each one? 😁
A Happy New Year to you too…
All the best. Aly
A very productive, and of course varied year I'd say! We had to get the drains done and the cellar tanked, someone thought smashing up the pipes at some point inthe past was a good thing which lead to flooding, nice finish, used to be a spread but now I try to just supervise!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thank you Iain…
DeleteDid the same people that owned your house owned mine…
The same problem/cause…. A broken drain… Every time I had a shower or a bath the water emptied onto the outside of the cellar instead of going into the drain due to a cracked pipe…
The builder reckoned it could have been cracked when they converted the building into flats … A mere thirty years ago 😳.
All fixed now…
I would strongly advise against you using Butch Cassiday and the Sundance Kid builders…🤣
All the best. Aly
A belated Happy 2024, ( is that really a real date? ), may it be a year of good health and good games.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing that magnificent review for '23!
-Ross Mac
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A happy 2024 to you to…
DeleteAll the best. Aly
Happy New Year Aly - looks quite productive to me! Wishing you the best for 2024 and looking forward to seeing where the butterfly takes you!
ReplyDeleteA Happy New Year to you to…
DeleteThe butterfly seems to be full of energy at the moment 😁
All the best. Aly
Once again happy New Year to you Aly! As I said earlier I wish you lots of finished projects and many new ones! ..... and a gaming trip to Poland ;-)
ReplyDeleteJan
These certainly sound like reasonable wishes to me old chap.😁
DeleteA Happy New Year to you…
All the best. Aly