Too Many Good Warhammer Releases, Not Enough Time
The eternal hobby problem
Lately, Warhammer has been dropping a lot of very tempting news, and honestly, we know exactly how this story goes. One cool release appears, then another, then suddenly we are mentally planning the next few years of hobby time.
For end3r, the list is already pretty clear: Kharadron Overlords, Votann, and Salamanders. The optimistic version is that once all of that is finally out, there will be peace and quiet for at least 2–3 years.
Or, more realistically: maybe that will be enough time to paint everything.
This is such a familiar phase of army-building. Not even the stage where the army is finished, or even fully planned — just that moment where the incoming releases start forming a queue in our heads. A very long queue.
Kitbashing for fun
Meanwhile, Michał went in a different direction and did what many of us do when waiting for official releases: he started building something cool out of what he already had access to.
He downloaded a bunch of models and started working on Deathshroud Terminators in Saturnine-style armour. It is still an early version, but even at this stage it already has that wonderful “this should not exist, but absolutely should exist” energy that makes hobby projects so much fun.
And really, that was the whole summary from the workshop bench: great fun.
Army-building is not always a straight line
We like conversations like this because they capture a very real part of the hobby. Army-building is not always about writing the perfect list and buying exactly what is needed in one clean wave. Sometimes it is:
- watching release news and making mental notes,
- accepting that the painting backlog is becoming a lifestyle,
- kitbashing weird and wonderful variants just because the idea is too good to ignore.
That is also part of building an army — or three.
For now, we are somewhere between “this next release will complete the project” and “maybe in a few years we will actually have it all painted”. Which, if we are honest, is a very Warhammer place to be.