Plans and Goals for 2025

2025 goals and plans 

I have a few big goals and lots of plans in sand. I main focus is in two main directions this year Napoleonics and WW2. I really want to complete my French guard cavalry (all front rank), add more Prussians and then in 20mm, American Armour, infantry and Airborne units. Germans units this year will be more units for Normandy and then bits for the Berlin project. Another big goal is to complete my 28mm HYW collection, I need to concentrate on completing the Scots and a few more English foot and mounted. Then my Cold War kit additions the Russian naval infantry division is close to complete, then I would like to add a Russian motorised brigade too, then for opposition BAOR units, the six day war will also get further additions. The other stuff is all ready to be worked on as the mood grabs me. 

Purchases on the horizon French guard foot, Front Rank, 10 Mamelukes guard Gringo 40s, Prussian Landwehr cavalry, Austrian 1805 Dragoons and Cuirassiers Perry for my Napoleonic collection, then some more 20mm Waffen SS AB and PlanaMayor for a autumn camo unit. 

My plan is for the next three months concentrate on my French Guard cavalry, 20mm Americans and the British Army Waterloo project 1/72 Cuirassiers during the analogue painting challenge. 

28mm Napoleonic 

Complete my French Guard Cavalry (96 cav)(front rank)

Complete 4 battalions to French Line in greatcoat (warlord) 1812-14 (156 foot)

Complete  2 regiments of (warlord) Lancers 1812-14 (36)

Complete Baden foot infantry regiments x 6 (200 foot) (Skytrex-Warlord)

Complete two regiments of Prussian Hussars (36 figs) 

Complete two line battalions Prussian foot (72 figs)

28mm Other

Additions 13th century collection 40 cavalry, 60 foot (Mirliton, wargames Atlantic, Fireforge, Gripping beast)

Additions my French 1488 Mad War Ordonance army 60 foot, 20 horse, 2 guns. (perry)

HYW Scot’s 60 foot and 12 mounted (Perry)

HYW English 20 cavalry, 30 foot (Perry)

5th century Greek 80 foot (immortal-Warlord)

80 Thracian foot, 12 cavalry  (Foundry)

20mm Napoleonic 

120 French Cuirassiers for the British Army Waterloo Project 

20mm ww2

82nd airborne division 

210 foot, 6 artillery and 18 vehicles, 4 x 1/72 gliders (AB, Alder and Simons soldiers, heller, italeri, airfix SHQ)

US 5th Armoured 

30 tanks, 90 foot, 4 guns and 12 halftracks, 12 trucks and other vehicles (heller, italeri, AB, Simons Soldiers, Alder)

90th infantry division 

70 foot, 21 vehicles (AB, Alder and Simons Soldiers)

US landing craft x 12 various sizes marked up for Omaha. (Airfix and italeri) 

17th SS 

4 x StuGs, 4 x JGD IVL,  60 infantry, 12 vehicles (PSC, italeri, Plana mayor, Battlefeild, FAA)

101 panzer ersatz training battalion 1 pz iii, 2 x H39, 2 x R35, 10 infantry, (heller, first to fight, Battlefeild) 

Panzer Lehr 

15 tanks, 26 vehicles, 60 infantry, 4 guns, 4 x Flak guns.(elhiem, Simons soldiers, PSC, Airfix, Italeri, hasegawa) 

British airborne 

5 gliders with correct markings for operation Tonga. 1 Hamilcar glider (airfix, italeri, planet models) 

20mm Cold War 

67 War Israeli 

7 tanks, 5 half tracks, 60 infantry, 3 jets, 1 helicopter (heller, italeri, dragon, hasegawa, airfix, cpl overby)

67 war Egyptian 9 tanks, 5 APCs, 2 jets

Cold War Russian 

Naval infantry 12 APCs, 3 t55 6 other vehicles, 60 figures, landing craft x 3, 1 helicopter (Britannia, Ammo, elhiem, italeri, S&S models)

Motorised Russian infantry x 60, 12 APCs, two Sam launchers  (elhiem, sSmodels, Armo)

British Cold War 

6 tanks, 8 APCs 60 infantry, helicopter, 2 jets. (Dragon, 3d prints, elhiem, Airfix, platoon 20)

That should keep me busy

Cheers

Matt