Personal Hobby Challenge

It would seem that the number “100” keeps popping up in my online hobby searches and so forth.

Brad on the Cast Dice podcast (A mostly Bolt Action theme’d wargaming podcast that I like to listen to, but they do cover lots of other game topics.) has challenged himself to paint at least 100 minis before year’s end.

Stew at the Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth blog needing to paint up 100 more Dark Ages warriors in order to meet his self-imposed goals.

The 100 infantry minis alone that I’d need to purchase (And most definitely will not – at least not now) were I to start buying for the Defence of Greece WW2 Bolt Action project that I was all-of-a-sudden inspired to list up.

The $100 (And probably more than that) I’ll need to scramble together somehow in order to be able to pledge toward the upcoming (No date announced yet mind) next Burrows and Badgers Kickstarter.

Okay, writing those out, “100” doesn’t seem too prolific in my online “searches and so forth” afterall, but I guess they are enough to get me thinking on it at the very least. So the main thing though was Brad’s small self-imposed challenge to paint at least 100 miniatures in 2022. This wasn’t too far-fetched and heck knows my unpainted mountain is overflowing with untouched miniatures, some almost as old as I am, screaming out to finally get some hobby love and have a half-decent paint job applied to them.

100 isn’t all that tough really in the scheme of things and as the podcast mentioned, there’s 52 weeks in a year, so that’s a very doable average of a little less than 2 mini’s a week. Now I know there are plenty of prolific batch-painters out there that might read this and scoff at such a small number, but for me, this seems like a sweet-spot to achieve within my limited hobby time.

Now we are in March (Already!?), 10 weeks into the year and I’ve already painted 20 since the start of the year (I’m counting finished terrain as single pieces too). That's me totally on track and I think I can make the 100 by year’s end without too much trouble.

I'm going to start keeping a tally of where I'm at on the bottom of each new post from here on that I put up here and also I'll label each post with "Paint 100 2022" to help keep track too. And... if anyone feels a need to hop on, they can call this a "challenge" and join in the fun, etc.

Congrats if you got down this far. Apologies to those annoyed that I didn't post up any actual hobby progress, I promise my next post will be far more thrilling and fulfilling in that respect!

- Dai

03/11/2022, week# 10 - 20/100 mini's done.