Posts

Showing posts with the label Miniature Painting

Toy Soldiers 2020 musings

Image
So I'm reviving this thing once again, nearly a year to the day after I revived it for one post after another year... I'm not particularly on top of things I'm largely using this as a vehicle to motivate/have a public record for my goals for the end of this year with regards to toy soldiers This year has been a bit of a mess with regard to both free time and free money. Getting married/ applying for mortgages really takes it out of you. Its meant that I had to roll back a few of the things I wanted to get done last year and kick them upfield a bit. Painting: As far as painting goes, I had an ok year. Got a 3rd place painting trophy for a model I was reasonably happy with when it was finished but I'd never intended to enter into a competition or anything. I'd pretty much decided I wasnt entering anything as I just wasn't happy with the things I was finishing, but I asked my (then) 2 year old if I should try and win a trophy and she said yes, so I let her ...

Hey, I remember this thing

Image
Deciding to revitalize this once again as I may have forgotten about it... for a year. But I'm busy and lay off with your pressure So anyways, looking over my last post, I believe I haven't painted a single thing I said I would, so that's good. Distracted by all sorts of things in the model painting world. I've largely refocused my efforts onto Age of Sigmar as fantasy was always my first miniatures love. As much as I like the death guard for 40k, I'm just not as enthused about painting them. Although on that score things are going ok - ish. And by that I mean I have 10 plaguebearers to go before I get to 30, and I'll likely not go further than that. They're a bit monotonous to paint. My daemon component is looking pretty cool if I say so myself. Need to get one of the bigger guys to really feel like its progressing though I actually think I've progressed a lot in the last while so 10 of these are a lot better than the other 10, and am hopin...