"Unexpected new Project! What’s your excuse?" Topic

This one started strangely.
A friend made his usual killing at the flea market at Historicon. He did his usual Obi-Wan "you don't want to take this box home with you…" finger wave.
"I don't want to take this box home with me…"
SOLD!

So, at our next game he handed me about 100 things that I GUESSED were SYW Austrian Grenzers, Pandours (I still don't know the difference…) and horseless Hussars.
Google search ensued. So I grabbed a few Osprey-ish books.
Searching Noble Knight got me more, that looked like they were painted by the same guy.
Suddenly, I'm searching for "28mm SYW Austrian flags", and artillery.
"I had better get some Austrian Regulars!" Old Glory.

Then an ad here on TMP turned up a box of 100 SYW Austrian Germans, 100 Hungarians and 100 Hussars. Plus odds and ends.

We're still a few months short of a year anniversary, and suddenly I have almost 500 SYW Austrians to paint and base.

What the heck happened???
I now have more lead to shield my basement wall from hostile foreign nukes.

Oh, and I have 2"x1" laser cut bases coming in Saturday.

For the sake of cosmic balance, I finished a project today – I got started on it all the way back in 2013.

My new project is WWI naval. It is something that I had put off for a number of years.

I have a new resin printer on the way. I am planning on 3d printing the ships. Bought a copy of Jutland, 3 ospreys and 3 sets of stl's to test print. Still trying to figure out a scale that I want to use.

Not as bad as John's jump into SYW. I did something similar last year. Celts and Romans.

Some decade I hope to finish a project.

Sometimes it is as simple as someone releasing figures. Eureka has 28mm Tlingit on the near horizon. I have already read several books on the subject, and I have a book on Clothing in colonial Russian America. Perry has plenty of Napoleonic Russians that will fit right in. So…

Mine is a new old project

Got a bunch of the old RAFM Riel Rebellion miniatures probably about 25 years ago – then last year I came into a whole bunch more of them so I am now painting up about 100 Canadian militia from the 1880s – nice figs and colourful uniforms at least – not to mention some interesting units like the 90th Winnipeg Rifles (now the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) aka The Little Black Devils