Having A Plan But Not A Goal

I am starting to see that I have a plan but not a goal. Perhaps this is a metaphor for life. My life especially. There are plenty of figures in the queue. For the most part I think of myself as happy in my work. I hear the phrase "here for a good time, not a long time". Which should be a more apt metaphor.

It is fair to say I have a good sized lead mountain. This is now somewhat smaller than the plastic one. There isn't much in the way of resin. By no means the biggest but enough to keep me going. Of the stuff I plan to paint, and assuming I can keep up the pace, I should be at the end of the metal queue before December (subject to whim and random acquisitions).

Whilst there is now a bigger queue of plastic, this doesn't work the same. With Stargrave for instance, I wanted about twenty minis and got eighty. It did give me an excuse to use the Frostrgrave gnolls. I usually end up with twenty to thirty freebies from magazines each year. Then there are a lot of collateral second hand purchases. I want that and it comes with this. I even have a couple of boxes of gifts. 

There are probably a  thousand plastic minis ready for the right project. I paid full price for less than a hundred of them and a lot cost around ten pence a mini. Add in the extra bits kept for kitbashing. I have another three hundred or so coming from various sources this year. These were cheap but not especially so. Additionally I plan to buy another hundred or so for "planned" projects. 

So I have a plan for Atomfall, Quar, and The Last War. Stargrave might be in the pipe. I have plenty and I will see what comes out for the Nickstarter this month. I can even think that I might end up doing The Silver Bayonet. There is a British supplement coming and I have some plastic minis in the collateral pile. So I can see me buying the two Brit sets.

I guess the reason that the Quar and The Last War appeal is that I have a plan for terrain. Not just a plan but I have the materials as well. This would be using my hex terrain at its core. That said, I have enough for a sci-fi and a desert project too.