2024: A Year In Review

So, another year, another annual summary blog post.

What can we say about 2024? Well, looking at the graph below, it's not been my most productive year.

However, it was at least better than 2022s progress, especially when you consider that I've moved house twice this year (and the pre/post work that involves), and lost my permanently set up painting space.

So what have I achieved this year?

Firstly, my Late War Germans got a big boost, with the following completed.

• 3 Panzer II
• 3 Sd Kfz 221/222
• 2 Jagdtigers
• 4 Stug IV
• 21 Sd Kfz 251 halftrack in various configurations
  
• 4 Jagdpanzer IV
• 4 Puma Armoured Cars

My Soviets gained a lend lease Tankovy of 21 Grants and 10 Stuarts.

For 1:72/OO railways I completed the following:

• 4 Gun Crew
• Universal Carrier
• 6 Pounder Anti-tank gun
  
• Cromwell
• Churchill
• 10 Beer Kegs

That's the stuff published anyway. In addition, over Christmas I managed to assemble 8 Soviet Heavy Mortars and 9 medium Mortars. I was hoping to get paint on these, but poor weather delayed priming and then illness delayed painting.

 

I also have another model in the works, which I will hopefully show soon.

In addition, in the Cloughbridge post, I also mention I was working on a small railway, while my OO layout was disassembled. I have made some progress on this over the course of the year, This has become my layout "Cherry Blossom", a Japanese Z Gauge layout. This is still in progress, but can be seen in it's current state below, including my repainted KiHa 40 motor carriage.

The other thing I need to do more is arrange more games, I haven't done a lot this year for various reasons. I'm booked in for Corrivalry at Battlefield Hobbies, so I shall try to build from there.

 

So, onwards to better progress in 2025!