2024 in Review

 

2024 wasn't a banner year, by any means, but after the preceeding couple of years it wasn't too bad. I got some gaming in and I honestly did get a few miniatures painted. I didn't write about it until 2026, but who's counting?

The gaming was kind of the usual suspects: I played some games in my basement with Jay Bobson. I went to Jay's July Jamboree. But I don't know that I took a single picture of any of it. But you know what I did do? I built some models. I painted some miniatures. Some. Not tons, but some.

1. A rad little shack where you can buy electronic components. Don't ask too much about where they came from, but the prices can't be beat.

2. Another restaurant, though this one still needs a name and some signage.

And I made some progress on a good few other structures, that will in combination make a pretty decent urban market area, I think. The rest are pretty far from finished, so I'll save them for a future count, but it's a start. And hey, there's some set dressing to go with them. Some furniture. Some props. Neat stuff!

One reason I've been working so hard on market stalls is that I've got a neat set of market denizens from Colony '87 I've been working on.

3. The Tech Merchant

4. The Courier (An angsty kid in a band jacket. Note the MK for Mushrööm Klöwd.)

5. Animal Merchant

6. Pilot

7. Batrachian Official

8. and 9. Nanny Bot and Baby

10. A Walking Stump

11. A Bowser's Tortoise

12. Tribbowlets

13. A Bark Dragon

The final alien critter isn't from Colony 87, but from Paul Whitehorn's Krakon Games. It might have been a Kickstarter exclusive, as I'm not immediately finidng it on the site. (I'm guessing it's a Vent Dragon hatchling, but I'm really not sure. Pretty sure it's from Krakon, though.)

And last but not least . . .

14. An elf with a jackhammer

This last fellow was for the Oldhammer Forums miniature exchange, which is a sort of raffle where the price of entry is one miniature you paint and possibly convert.

It wasn't a great year, but honestly, that's not too bad for me lately. It's more than one a month, which I'll count as a win.

And may we all have good years going forward, filled with fun and friendship and the sorts of games we enjoy.