Until I discovered grills I was a consummate converter and scratch builder, from then, completed projects:
HO/OO Wellingtonics - some 1000 figures
HO/OO ACW - over 1000 figs
HO/OO WWII - In Bns Brits/Germans/8th Army/Afrika Korps/Americans/Russians and loads of tanks and guns and things
HO/OO WWI - about 500 Brits and Germans
HO/OO Pranco Frussian war Huns and Frogs
HO/OO Boors and Brits
HO/OO Zulus and the same brits
WWII 1:1200 scratch built and Hun ships - the german fleet and abvout twice as many brits
WWI 1:1200 scratch built brits and huns
WWI, II and III planes, mobs of them.
Some attempts at mediaeval wsith Airfix Shrrif of Nottingham, Robin Hood and Arabs
25mm Minifigs fantasy 400 odd figs
Then I did H&R 1:300 Cold war gone hot in 1980
Then I discovered grills
Then I discovered Papua New guinea
Then I discovered South America
Then I set up a business and a place of permanent abode
I planned 1:300 WWII, Wellingtonics, Pranco Frussian, modern, Marlburian
and 1:3000 WWII Brit, German, Italian, Jap, French, and some Americans and Nelsonics and WWI Brit, Hun, Italian, Ostrichan
So, I built 1:3000 Brit and Hun WWII, 1:300 Chilean war of Independence (1000 figs)
And I bought 1:300 WWII NWE Brits and huns Inf and armoured divs and a dozen aircraft for each side; 1:3000 WWII Ities and Brits; 1:3000 Nelsonics;
And I continue to plan:
1:300 Guerra del Pacifico; 1:3000 GDP naval
Finish off the WWII Eyetie fleet, match it with more brits and then Froggies and japs, then some token yanks
1:300 Boneyonics, Pranco Frussian, Afro Praustrian and rice orgies;
Do my 1:300 WWII NWE and simiar US;
Western desert forces
Falklands
More CW gone hot
Lots of air wargames
Something in 1:300 18th C
Chilean colonial.
There's an outfit that does Melanesians. I could give you rules with a chance card involving "White geologist shows up, stop fighting to make five bucks a day"or "Jungle juice matures, everyone fights without morale rolls but less effectively", be great!
Done (or as near as dammit)
With 3 large 5mm Napoleoni armies, over 40 large 6mm armies (without any proxies), 6 10mm armies, same number in 15mm including 3 Prussian Napoleonic brigades organised 30 figs ber battalion and 2 25/28 mm armies all completed, you'd have thought that there's not much else but...read on
To do
I have a freestanding plastic four draw rack with one draw per scale. 25/28 nearly empty, 15 and 10mm half full but the 6mm is overflowing!
I don't really abandon projects, they just get put aside for an indeterminate time until I get interested enough to start on tyhem again.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.) Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
A Project is a temporary organization that is created for the purpose of delivering one or more business products according to an agreed Business Case. It will have a defined project plan for delivery, formal change and configuration management processes, a sensible* risk register and a clear statement of which 2 of the 3 major outcomes (cost, quality, timescale) are critical to the result.
Unless the word ‘project’ is preceded by the word ‘wargame’ in which case the definition is ‘oh, shiny’.
*do you hear that Keith? sensible that’s the key word.
