Models, model related:
1) Master bare metal finishes
2) Paint a figure that looks as good as one by Bill Horan, etc. - yeah, maybe if I close both eyes, turn out the lights and step back twenty paces.
3) Get consistent results with my airbrush. Dreamer... nothing but a dreamer...
4) Old kits - let 'em go. Old Tamiya armor & other brands that are no longer up to snuff (if they ever were) and that I'd otherwise waste precious amounts of time on when simply upgrading to Dragon and newer molds will solve the problem (in most repects).
5) And to that end - I've been dying to super-modify a WWII great like the B-17 or P-38 into a post war lesser known variant. Fire-bombers, turboprop testbeds - you get the idea. That'll scratch two itches at once - esp. the itch to thin out the herd a little.
6) Put some of this wood shop hardware and scrap lumber around here to good use and make some display bases - maybe even a couple of small display cabinets.
7) Finally pull that big 4x8 diorama project together (See above).
8) Photography - learn how to light and shoot these muthas.
OK, why pussy foot around here. 2006 is the year that I -
9) Lay ultimate tribute upon the altar of the AMS gods - I will complete that perfect scale model kit that is exact in every detail down to every last rivet fastener and paint detail - or I'll amass a storage room busting stash of model kits while trying!
And where it really matters, shooting caution into the gravitational pull of the moon, on the subject of model finances, 2006 is the year that in regards to -
10) Women:
A) I figure them out. B) I tell no one.
WmB