"What dormant projects do you keep going back to?" Topic

"Dormant", meaning "it's been *n* years since I last played them!" Yet, here they are on my painting table again.

Me:
Pirates. The Brigade Games recent newsletter featured AWI American Marines. ("Hey! I still have all those ships!" And I never did finish those 1740 British Marines. Oh, look Lt Maynard with even more Marines!"
"I KNEW I had painted some Foundry LI as AWI British Marines for Lexington… There they are!"

Wild West. Marty Robbins singing El Paso did it. That plus my YouTube algorithm popped up with Comanche vs Spain, ca 1757.
Watched Tombstone the other night. "I'm your huckleberry!" "Let's have a spelling contest!"

FIW and AWI. Not exactly "dormant", but starting to twitch in their sleep.

HINT: If you want to sell off and get rid of a collection, do the whole thing. It's like the crocus in my "lawn". Unless you dig them out, they'll be back again in late March.
"Oh, I can use these Coureurs de Bois as Balkan Pandours! And I can pretend these FIW and SYW Brits are … British!"

Achaemenid Persians! Though since Midgard came along, I don't have to paint as many, so I am tempted…

I have yet to play it, but I keep gathering up more and more 28mm Crimean war… I'll buy figures, put them into units, bag them with identification on the bags, pack them away, British, French, Russians, Turks, Sardinia….I look for rules, watch videos, and then go back to painting and playing other periods.

Finishing book research projects to be print ready.
A series of primer books to encourage the reader to do more in depth research on a topic. Alabama in Flames: the Creek War of 1812-13; Mississippi in Flames: the Chickasaw-French War of the 170s; the Korean Three Kingdoms Era.

Arthurian Dark Age figs for an old shop game which was my entry into metal figs and miniatures gaming. Start and move on. Start and move on.

Zombies. And the F&IW.

Celts. I painted up a bunch in 2012, then we evacuated our neighborhood for the Waldo Canyon forest fire. I came back to the house after a week or so, tried a couple rule sets for Celts vs Celts, but was unenthused, and moved on to something else.

Last fall, while hiking in the mountains, I got to thinking about them again. I got the Saga Crusades book at an auction about the same time, and realized there was a Saga variant for Celts, and I've been busy painting Celts since November! Now, if I could just get a copy of the Saga: Age of Hannibal book, which has the Celts and went out of print, then came back just in time to be messed up by the tariff situation!

I also bought Pathans, who sat around for years! A few years ago, I got enthused and painted up almost all of theme.

Grelber

BattleTech just popped back out thanks to spotting and buying yet another Ral Partha Panther when I was at TotalCon in February. Which led to a binge of purchases filling out more companies for my Alpha Strike Battalions, and now more painting.

Between RP and FASA Panthers, I now have quite a sufficientry for Alpha Strike big battles, 43 for Kurita and 1 for the Gray Death Legion.

20mm zombies have been bubbling under for about a year now for a trip back to the workbench after a long slumber…