Against the odds

I had a few clear days with almost no PNKD symptoms at the beginning of the week so I cracked the paintbrush out. The result is another finished batch of dwarves and another on the go.

I think I've got the hang of the colour scheme for the little chaps so I should be able to paint them up a little quicker from now on ... whenever I get another chance to do some painting.

I'm still here!

Bit of a gap there. The reason for the lack of posts is quite simply they I haven't been painting. I haven't been painting largely because my health has taken a turn for the worse recently (lots of PNKD attacks) which has meant that I have had very few opportunities to paint when I have had enough muscle control to hold a brush and a figure.

Last night, for the first time in a very long time I got some painting done. I painted up an old Aurak Draconian figure to represent my Dragonborn character in tonight's D&D game. Its a nice miniature, 90's Ral Partha and very different in style from the GW stuff I've been painting recently. I've got it ready for the game which is a success as I thought I was just going to have to use it in its plain grey undercoat.

2 Steps forward

... and one step back.

+ Got those 6 dwarves finished and started on the next batch.

- Bought a command pack of two metal LOTR wood elves to make up some character models for the SoBaH warband.

Number 2 daughter joined me for the painting session and worked on the bretonnian archers I gave her. She tells me that she wants to paint goblins next which will mean a trip to storage to get her some to paint that I won't miss.

Bits and pieces

The LOTR elves got doused in Halford finest black car primer and I dabbed a bit of paint on some of those dwarves. Not the most productive od weekends but at least I moved things on a little.

On Saturday I also played a miniatures game against Daughter number 2. We drew at one game apiece.

Waiting for busses

... and then two come along at once.

The first batch of dwarves for the year are almost finished.

And they're off

There are slow starts and there are slooooooooooooooooooooooow starts.

A combination of illness, apathy and real life(TM) have prevented me for doing any painting for the last six weeks but last night I finally picked up a paintbrush.

Taking a break from painting shouldn't be so bad as long as I've been taking a break from buying miniatures too, only I haven't. At the beginning of the year I bought a box of GW LOTR plastic wood elves to split with my eldest daughter so I'm 12 miniatures down already.

Last night I prepped the Wood Elves and clipped them from the frames. These are destined to become another SoBaH warband when I've finished with them. After that I carried on painting the dwarves I started in December. Its a start anyway.

Its all go round here