Bonne année and plans for 2019

A Merry Christmas and a Happy new years to all!

I hope you all had a great Christmas and a happy new year to all my followers. We had
our first Christmas and New years celebration at L'hotel de Hercé in France after moving to Mayenne last March. It was fantastic to spend it with family and friends staying with us for two weeks from Australia. A lot good wine, champagne and food for the holidays was consumed. I received a number of great gifts from the kids and from Nessa, mostly books and a few miniatures.

Plans for 2019

Big plans and lots of work for 2019, our first customers arrive in March for walking guided battlefield tours and then return to wargame the battle on the table at L'Hotel de Hercé. 

My Priority is concentrating on completing armies that relate to battles around our house (within 1 hour drive) so we could visit the battlefield in the morning and return and fight it in the afternoon.

1. Actually need to complete my terrain tiles, I have completed the teddy bear fur mats, I just need to attach to the tiles and complete the river sections and roads, my main Project for the year, 20ft of table!
2. More hedges and trees,; you can never have enough hedges, need to add some decent bocage and I really want to make larger trees that are closer to real heights for 28mm.
3. More terrain bits for 20mm ww2, power poles, war memorials, road side crosses, civilians and livestock.
4. Complete more 20mm ww2 buildings, mostly Normandy stuff that I have already purchased needs to be painted.
5. Complete my American 20mm battle group, three more battalions to build and paint plus more vehicles and a few support elements including aircraft.
6. Complete my British 20mm 1944 battle group, finish painting the three tank batns that I have started, plus paint the funnies, update my Paras with more support, add armoured infantry and complete the gliders and aircraft for Arnhem.
7. Start my Polish ww2 1944 battle group, armour and infantry.
8. Complete my French 1944 battle group, need to paint the armour and infantry.
9. Add more elements to my 1944 Canadian battle group.
10. Add some more 20mm 1944 Germans particularly Fallschirmjager, and add some SS elements.
11. Add more figures to my Celtic army, I need to add about 60 figures ideally.
12. Add more figures to my late medieval army, buildings more Bretons for the Mad War, plus German mercenaries for the same period.
13. Start my 100 years war French, for the late period Perry miniatures.
14. Start my 100 years war English, for the late period Perry miniatures.
15. Add more figs to my early 100 years war French
16. Add more figures to my early 100 years war Scots (almost complete!)
17. Start my early 100 years war British army.
18. Add more figs to my dark age Franks.
19. Add more figures to my Vikings
20. Add more figs to my Dark age Normans, Bretons and Anjou-Maine army.
21. Update my medieval buildings, touch ups mostly.
22. Build a dark age castle representing St Suzanne
23. Complete my northern Vendee/Chouan army, lots to do waiting for some more figures
24. Complete my Baden 1809-12 Napoleonic army, currently on the bench!
25. Add to my French Napoleonic Army, particulary units useful for my Vendee project, some units on the bench at the moment.
26. Add to my Austrian 1805-09 Napoleonic Army.
27. Add to my Russian 1809-12 Napoleonic Army.
28. complete my Saxon 1809-12 Napoleonic army
29. Add to my French 1/1200th naval 
30. Add to my British 1/1200th naval
31. Gaslands, latest fad at the club, need to add at least five matchbox cars!

So quite a bit of work to do, having clean out of some old projects and non starters too in the coming weeks, all the best with your projects this year.

2018 painted totals

Sort of happy with my totals, a lot of interruption due to the move to France and the 

28mm Miniatures

136 ancient Greeks
30 Celts
15 Imperial Romans
24 Vikings
85 Byzantine infantry
60 Byzantine Cavalry
12 Feudal English
2 siege engines
28mm scatter terrain
3 wagons
16 Renaissance French infantry
24 FIW Indians
18 FIW French
24 French Napoleonic Cuirassiers
4 French Napoleonic cannon
Napoleonic Saxon Ducal Hussars
Napoleonic Frankfurt Hussars
3 Napoleonic French Generals
Baden artillery Battery
24 Modern Russian Infantry

20mm Miniatures

24 British Para
6 dutch vehicles
3 Belgian vehicles
1 civilian bus
1 wagon
1 aircraft
45 Bundeswehr Infantry
2 Bundeswehr APCs
1 soviet arty battery
1 soviet missile battery
8 Gaslands cars
3 bunkers
1 modern building
1 ww2 building
Gaslands terrain

cheers

Matt