The year and consequently Resolutions are drawing to a close. It has been... interesting. I really had no idea what I was getting into when I made the New Year's Resolution in January.

That is partly the reason I chose these orcs for the final batch. Because I had no good idea what I was going to paint that would qualify for Resolutions and that would be reasonably easy to do -- this is a pretty busy time of the year with all sorts of obligations that tend to override private painting time.

I will do a more in-depth analysis of the Resolutions stuff once it's all finished and yes, there will be another Resolution next year. Just not quite the same thing. I think I've learned something and I want to try another idea next year.

Having finished the Portuguese, I concentrated on terrain for a change. Usually I do terrain when I have no good idea which figures to paint but this year the Resolutions stuff has pretty much taken care of that. That hasn't completely killed off terrain production, but it has been more goal-oriented.

Except these moondomes. I snatched them from a -90% dump sale to see if they could be used for something. And the answer is a resounding yes. They are pretty good scale and very easy to convert to miniatures use. All they really need is a paint job, and thankfully the plastic they used takes paint very well (not always a given with cheap toys).

I also managed to enter the Prince August diorama competition, figuring I have a ton of Warzone and Chronopia figures I can use for that. Now I have about six weeks to come up with an idea and actually execute it...

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