Thanks Reaver, I do this for my fans 
The Roundup for 2025
Final count for the year is:
- 300 models added
- 163 models painted
BATG Score: +137
I’ve got a net +41 Shame Golf Adjustments (preorders and unit completions). I only actually completed seven units of 5 models or more! That puts my final Adjusted Shame Golf Score at 178 over par.
To get more granular, I’ve got 100 more unassembled models than I did at the start of the year, about 50 more assembled and about 50 more primed. So, I’ve slowed down not just on painting, but on building and priming as well. I didn’t even sell many models!
If I were to be hard on myself, I’d call that a poor performance. This is the first time since I started BATG that I’ve painted less than 200 models in a year.
I will, however, go easy on myself. I had a domleth of a year in 2026, starting out with major surgery, a serious infection and a multi-day hospital stay before the year was a week old. From there I’ve had some challenges at work, trouble with my family, a bumpy ride with my other hobbies and never really recovered from the first round of surgery - ultimately going back under the knife in early December. It’s been hard.
Ultimately I spent a lot of the year tired, sick, or busy with “real life”, not really in the zone to get as much hobbying done as in previous years.
All that has meant quite a bit of buying new stuff “for morale”, too. My little diversions into Space Sharks and Word Bearers both meant buying stuff I wasn’t really going to paint. I got very excited about Sentinels, too, and now I have quite a few more than I’ll really need. With Horus Heresy releasing in the middle of the year (and the Militia rules being delayed a few months on top of that) I got a boost of extrinsic motivation to buy big when all I really wanted was the new rules and MkII armoured dudes. All up, I think I added at least 60 Heresy-era space marines to the pile that haven’t been painted, and this is all on top of my big boost of “I’m bored in hospital and the painkillers tell me to buy Militia” shopping right out of the gate.
Well, it’s the 2nd of January and don’t have anything in the mail yet, so I’m on a stronger start than I was in 2025. Reset the clock!
I’ll have thoughts about what I’m doing next, in my BATG thread for 2026: