Short Attention Span (SAS) Plans

I am fabulous at imagining and starting new projects. If I have a super power, that's probably it: imagination. Unfortunately I do not have a limitless amount of time to sink into my various and sundry hobby pursuits. I also have the attention span of a flea.

This isn't the best combination.

What it typically results in is what I have going on in the basement at the moment. A 6 by 8 foot gaming table cluttered with odds and ends of projects in various stages of completion. A large painting desk with a similar pile of this and that. Most horizontal spaces in the unfinished part of the basement with something placed or piled on them. And for all the activity over the past few months, very little actually completed to show for all my scattered effort.

Since the spring, or say the last 6-8 months, it is probably fair to say that the projects I have actually started and completed would be:

• The "ruins" set described in a June 2018 post. I started and completed a decent sized set of this. Subsequently, I started some more pieces, and of course they aren't done. But the first batch is.
• 8 Tyranid genestealers for use in Kill Team games.
• Assembly and basic painting of all purchased Kill Team terrain pieces. Enough to have them looking nice and able to use in a game with no shame.
• The handful of D&D miniatures posted recently.
• And, well, that's probably it...

The list of started but not completed projects is just a tad longer. In no particular order of importance, and with notes on what my shorter term goal would be:

• Kill Team space marines. 10 tactical squad and 5 scouts assembled and partly/mostly painted.
• Kill Team Eldar. 10 guardians and a weapon platform assembled and partly painted.
• Kill Team Tyranids. 1 Warrior, 4 hormagaunts and 4 termagants assembled and primed.
• Kill Team terrain. All assembled and in some state of painting. Lots of detail work left to be done to call them finished.
• Jungle terrain. Shoeboxes of fake floral bits to be made into little stands of jungle terrain. I've made about 20 of these, but have the stuff to make maybe a hundred more. These are little cardboard oval bases generally around 2-3 inches in size with a variety of plant material hot-glued onto them. I would settle for ~30 more to make a total of 50. The rest of the raw materials can go into stock.
• Many units of various historical minis in various stages of completion, dating back years. This only includes the ones I've started. Not the untouched lead pile... I would like to complete a unit or two or three just to say that I painted some historicals.
• Games Workshop lizard men. I bought a bunch of Saurians to use as D&D lizard men because the figures are cool. They are still cool, but only half done. Finish 12-15 figures as a start.
• Inventory my homemade dungeon tiles, caverns, tunnels, etc. I have posted lots of pictures with these various bits over the past few years. I need to admit that I am happy with some, not so much so with others, and settle on what I want to keep and what needs to go live on a farm. Perhaps an eBay farm where someone throws money at me.
• Related to the above, I have started a better modular D&D tunnel set for which I would like to complete the first batch. The Proxxon hot wire table makes this sort of thing easier than I could have imagined when I was doing my first versions of these with an old knife. The flexibility the Proxxon gives in terms of possible shapes is wonderful.
• "Tan dungeon" tiles. To be made for a particular expected use in our campaign, which will hopefully be starting up again soon. I just want a small batch of passages and rooms in a lighter brown/tan/cream paint scheme in contrast to my usual dark gray/medium gray/light gray color scheme.
• As an administrative task...finish inventorying, organizing and filing away all of the various D&D and Pathfinder minis I have bought over the past 3 years. There are too many little shipping boxes and bags with odds and ends of figures that never made it beyond "well at least they made it to the basement".

So the plan for the last 6 or 7 weeks of the year, which will include a good bit of holiday time off, is to knock off some of the partly done projects listed above. I wouldn't say sticking to this list and not starting something new is an absolute must...but let's call it an aspirational goal.

Most likely to get done would probably be the dungeon tiles and modular tunnels, which I am most interested in at the moment. Completing a unit of historical minis (medieval Ottomans or eastern Europeans, or maybe 15mm WW2) is a good candidate. As are the Space Marines. Josh and Ryan have been traveling, but we should probably be looking to get an evening of Kill Team together again soon. So maybe some additional painting work on sci-fi terrain.

I'm cautiously hopeful. Wish me luck.