TheChirurgeon Maps 2026 Warhammer 40k Hobby Progress and Event Goals

Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones capped a strong early stretch of 2026 competition by placing fourth at the Palm Springs GW Open with his Death Guard, then stepped back to prioritize hobby work and calendar planning. The placement supplied momentum but also prompted a pause: "Last time around I wrote about my trip to Palm Springs for the GW Open event there – I ended up placing fourth with my Death Guard, which was a hell of a finish and my best yet at a major."

The result sits alongside a busy start to the year. Jones has attended two events so far in 2026, the Las Vegas Open Teams Tournament and the Palm Springs GW Open, and reminds readers of the broader target he set in Part 1 of his series: "Back in Part 1 of my 2026 series,I listed attending ten events this year as a goal." He wrote plainly about the early season mix of travel and prep: "I was doing my final prep for the Las Vegas Open Teams Tournament, re-gluing and pinning spikes on vehicles and painting one final unit of Poxwalkers for the event. I had that all ironed out Friday morning, and with that out of the way it was time to hop on a flight to Vegas."

After Palm Springs Jones chose to step off the road for a short recovery, explaining the need to catch up on painting and repairs: "As much as I’d have liked to keep up that momentum for another week, I needed a break. I’ve got a ton of hobby work to do and I needed a weekend not spent standing and bent over a table filled with toy soldiers." Those conversations at the two events, he says, also had a planning effect. "After having a number of conversations at both events, I added a few events to my schedule, and now it’s shaping up into something proper, which looks like this: [...]" The published extract shows Clutch City GT explicitly among the added events, while the remainder of his calendar list is truncated in the available material.

Alongside Jones’s column, the site presents a slate of feature titles that sit in the same content ecosystem. Titles visible in the page text include Detachment Focus: Annihilation Legion; Trench Crusade Faction Focus: The Court of the Seven-Headed Serpent; Competitive Innovations in 10th: Unsettling C’tan pt.3 and Competitive Innovations in 10th: Unsettling C’tan pt.2; BattleTechnical: A Game of Better Numbers; How to Paint Everything: Marvel Crisis Protocol – Silk; Marvel Crisis Protocol Tactics: Ms Marvel Tactics; How to Paint Everything: We Don’t Need Their Scum Unit Pack for Star Wars Shatterpoint; Goonhammer Reads: The Dark Coil: Ascension; Goonhammer Hot Take: Warhammer The Old World FAQ January 2026 v1.5.2; The Decks of Warhammer Underworlds: Part 1; The 2025 Goonhammer Book Awards: And the Winners Are…; Century of the Vampire: Dracula Untold (2014); Conquest: Weaver Courts Coill Draic Model Review; and Setting Up a Table for Narrative Play, Part 6: Getting Vertical. The Competitive Innovations in 10th: Unsettling C’tan pt.3 entry appears more than once in the page text.

Platform metadata and UI snippets accompany Jones’s posts, including "Read in NewsBreak", "Read full article", a "16 days ago" timestamp tied to Part 3 in the capture, and the string "User since undefined NaN" visible in the page dump.

What this means for you: expect updates as Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones fills in the rest of his ten-event plan and posts more hobby-focused progress reports. If you follow competitive play or are juggling a painting backlog, Jones’s mix of tournament prep, travel notes, and blunt hobby reality - from pinning spikes to painting Poxwalkers - provides practical, relatable planning cues for the rest of the 2026 season.