2026 doing Ovelist

2026 will be my third year of using the Ovelist approach to track my hobby progress.  It's working for me so why change it.  As before I've split out the doing from the gaming (here).  The list is mainly determined by what I've got outstanding as we start the year and then modified as I complete these items and acquire more.  Here's the starting point:

The starting balance is:

  • 28mm - 6 figures (all Verrotwood)
  • 20mm - 45 figures, 1 gun, 1 aircraft (all French Indo-China War)
  • 15mm - 7 afvs (all WW2)
  • 6mm - 368 figures (11 Iran-Iraq/1980s, 33 1980s, 9 1980s afvs/aircraft; 240 Seven Years War; 84 19th C. French Colonial)
All of the above are additions to my existing collections and there's a square each to cover these.  My collection covers such a wide range of periods that I have more than enough getting these rounded/finished off to last me the rest of my life, let alone starting anything new.  However, as before I’ve left a number of squares with question marks for what may come.  

I've also got the ever present Terrain square, as there's always more terrain to do.  I was very pleased that in 2025 I managed to produce at least one terrain piece for 11 of the 12 months.  

For the second year running I've allocated a square to work on improving my 16th Century collection.  This was the only project where I didn't achieve very much.  

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