Project inventory

I'd thought it'd be appropriate to make a list of my current projects, to show the extent of my short modelling attention span. Note, these are only recent projects...;-)

1. A 3rd AD century Roman legionary (54mm). I made a good start and was actually quite happy with its progress when I got the flu right in deadline week. It took a few weeks to get my modelling bug back and by then other projects had announced themselves. However, I've set myself a goal (always useful). On March 22nd, the Stichting Romeinenfestival will organise a meeting for all ancients fans to show what they do with their interest. Wargamers, modellers, reenactors and researchers may present themselves. I'm aiming to finish this figure for that meet. Should be doable!
2. For the same meeting, I'm painting up a squad of Foundry Gladiators. Wargaming is not very big in NL and a small gladiator participation game might be a good way to introduce people to historical wargaming. The rules were published in Blogurizine (pdf in French), so I'll have to make a translation as well, which should be easy as the rules are quite short and simple.
   
3. A 15mm Late Roman Republican army for FoG.
4. A 28mm Greek or Macedonian army. Can't decide which yet, so I'm just playing around with some generic skirmishers. For both this and the previous project, I'll have to find a way to paint fairly speedily and to satisfy my idiotically high standards (Up to last year, I'd been a 54mm and up painter for about two decades).
5. That concludes the ancient projects I think. A new project just got started having read the glowing review of Trafalgar in Battlegames, to which I subscribed in December. I have no plans to set up a reconstruction of that particular battle, rather I'm planning to start naval wargaming on a very small scale. I'd like to redo the battle of May 30th of 1781 between the English frigates Crescent and Flora and the Dutch Castor and Brielle. My great-great-great-great-grandfather commanded the Brielle and managed to force the captain of Crescent to strike. As the Fourth Angl0-Dutch war was going very much against the Dutch, that minute victory was elevated to the highest levels. The advantage is that, probably because of that, information is quite easy to find. In fact, I have a copy of the captain's log so perhaps it'll be possible to test the actual tactics with these new rules.
6. Then there is a Space Marines Tactical Squad. Not sure that will ever end up being painted. If it gets a gaming purpose, it probably will be.

Well, there it is, the list of projects gathered in a little over two months (older ones: Perry and Foundry Napoleonics because they're so pretty, a 1:35 Stug III in dilapidated state...). Hopefully I'll be able to strike some off the list in a few weeks. But new ones will probably present themselves too.