Happy New Year!

So it’s 2021 now, weird right? I will have been painting for 8 years this year and have come so far and don’t intend on stopping now. A couple posts ago I mentioned hobby resolutions. I have…many. I’m try to reign it in but it’s proving difficult.

I have two lists. One for hobby specific goals and one for hobby adjacent goals.

Hobby Goals:

• Finish Ma’al Drakar
  • I came very close to this last year but Stuff (TM) got in the way. This might be the year it’s done!
• Start Grimtalon
  • This is a gorgeous Roc mini by Reaper Miniatures from their Bones IV Kickstarter.
• Baba Yaga’s Hut
  • A house. With chicken feet. Need I say more?
• Eldritch Desert Diorama
  • I’m not sure I mentioned it last year but I started a diorama later in the year. It’s going to be a black and white film noir Lovecraft-esque thing.
• Finish up Shadows of Brimstone that needs to be done.
• Start painting Forbidden Fortress.
• Finish up the minis started during ReaperCon Live 2020.
• Clear some of the Shelf of Shame.
• Participate in the Reaper Challenge League.
  • I’ll come back to this in a minute.

Hobby Adjacent Goals:

• First I want to work on the blog.
  • I love being able to share things with y’all and, I feel, I’m not doing it enough.
• Level up my photography skills.
• Organize minis and paint
  • Lol, this may never happen well enough for me to be content.
• Update the mini inventory spreadsheet.
• Update the paint swatches and make sure they are inventoried.

Okay. That was a lot. But it is for the whole year so maybe I’ll get some things done.

Now, I mentioned the Reaper Challenge League. It’s a new thing that is happening on the Reaper Forums and Discord server. The only downside I have found is that you have to have a Discord account and be part of the server to participate.

I am going to attempt to do this for a while. I probably won’t make it the whole year with everything else I want to get done. But it’s a fun thing to try to challenge myself. It is NOT a contest. It’s purely a challenge to see how much you can get done. I’m using it to help me clear my backlog.

This is the link to the forum post with a ton more information: https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/93204-reaper-challenge-league-2021/

I think that’s all I’ve got for now but looking forward to bringing some exciting things to y’all this year. In the meantime be safe, happy, and healthy.

Happy Painting,
~S