Well, it’s the end of January 2026, so I guess I may as well post the finale for 2025’s painting.

Basically, as often happens towards the end of the year – a combination of work ramping up, a bit of burnout, a bunch of “life happens” and an extended video game event being more appealing and less effort than hobbytime combine to drastically reduce what I get done in the final months of the year. Usually with a paint resurgence of sorts once work breaks up for Christmas and we get that recovery time.

So what did I get done? Seven Tiny Teal Tanks, Six Large Tiny Tanks, Fifteen bits of scatter terrain/barricades and Forty mixed Zombies. 68 various bits and pieces over three months. Not my best run, but it’s ok.

I was at 396 models at the end of September, so the extra 68 models from October-December gives me a 2026 total of 464 models.

Not too shabby. Not my best but not my worst, either. Also not anything near the number of models I’ve purchased and/or printed in the last year. That’s something to work on a bit more in 2026. I’m not going to lay out specific hobby goals for this year of 2026. They’d just be the same as the ones I’ve kept rolling over. Finish units, try to finish armies, finish complete boardgames worth of models, work on this and that sets of models, try to play more games. You know the drill from your own hobby experience.