Okay, so why have I barely posted, barely written, hardly used this blog?
In a word, perfectionism.
From Elves, to Orks, to Uruk-hai, to lions and lionesses, all the way to Horrors of Tzeentch, Dark Angels Terminators, and now, currently, Khornate Bloodletters.
Am I busy? Yes. That too. But the main reason it's REALLY hard to post up pics or write up articles, is that I'm a total perfectionist. It's the same reason I couldn't give a kickstarter miniature maker a good pic of my painted, inked model. It was ready......sort of. But not my best work, I still had shading to do to make it right for me. Now for someone else, you could EASILY go into 2 oppositional camps. Either, that's totally unnecessary, dude, why bother, looks fine. Or, really......that's it....? And that's life, but I don't paint or do sculpting conversion for anyone else's enjoyment.
So what's the future? I'm literally looking right now at a padded tv dinner tray, packed full of miniature awesomeness lol. I have a slightly-too-small model needing a giant flowing jacket for some bulk, there are Vikings/ Rohirrim needing a pair of green stuff hands (one holding a decapitated, bloody head), and there's a few drill bits, green stuff, super glue, oh some African tribesmen too! The chieftain and a tribesman with a green stuff turtle shell, and a couple chosen warriors. They need some feathers and extra pieces before they can go get undercoated. And finally, 13 Bloodletters of Khorne, 7 that need their legs and arms green-stuff'ed, 2 that need flying bases and need a fair bit more green stuff, 4 that just need some balancing and even'ing out with green stuff, and 2 that are just needing cracks in their arms filled.
So green stuff. Green stuff is SLOW. I can't work the stuff fast, and I HATE getting it wrong, so I have to do this sort of puff-cheek, energy build thing, while muting my phone, pausing tv, podcast or music, and just focusing 100% concentration for 10-30 minutes. It depends how many models I do, but of course, to prevent waste, you have to build up and have a reasonable number of models to do at the same time. I reckon it's about 3 minutes per model, I timed myself just for Vikings with scratch-built chainmail. And after, it's hard to go again, it's so time dependent because it hardens quickly, and I always tend towards super-fiddly stuff. Again, perfectionist. The Khorne Bloodletters I have? Well they're plastic, so I just went crazy with them. They're pretty different to the ones you can buy, plastic is great for that.
Anyway, that's an insight, for any quiet eyes out there. I fully intend to display my stuff here, for myself to be able to look back on some day I guess, or to keep me motivated. For pics, ideally I want to clear my table, set up some terrain, and throw up some awesome pics that really show off the models in the right settings. So that might take a while, but I do have fun stuff to take pics of. I haven't had a battle in aaaaggggessss, so that'd definitely be the right time to do it. And I might even do a battle report or two at some point. I'm going to post another project list, and my intention is to hit my goals by the new year. I did complete most of my previous project list, but I didn't prioritize the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings miniatures. This time I'll actually prioritize my stuff.
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