Anyway, managed to complete three dismounted men at arms recently. Although minor progress, I'm happy with the result!
They are all 15mm Chariot Miniatures (obtained from Magister Militum [YLT3]).
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Figure painting: Three dismounted men at arms
Slow painting progress. Really slow. Blaming overtime at work. Been quite a lot. But it is about to decrease really soon though, so life should retain back to normal (whatever that is!).
Anyway, managed to complete three dismounted men at arms recently. Although minor progress, I'm happy with the result!
They are all 15mm Chariot Miniatures (obtained from Magister Militum [YLT3]).
Anyway, managed to complete three dismounted men at arms recently. Although minor progress, I'm happy with the result!
They are all 15mm Chariot Miniatures (obtained from Magister Militum [YLT3]).
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Built a painting station!
Wow, more than two weeks since last blog post. Not good. Not entirely sure why, but there has been quite a lot of overtime lately. However, things will get better (i.e. less work) in a few weeks.
Despite overall bad gaming related progress, I have actually managed to do something : I have built my own painting station!
And here it is:
I woke up Sunday morning last week and said to myself -- "I'm going to build a painting station today" -- and so I did! During breakfast I did some quick drawings and came up with some rough measurement estimates. After finishing the breakfast, I went out in the yard and started to build. A few hours later, it was completed (except for the black paint, that I applied a day later). And today I added an old lamp I found in a since-long-forgotten moving box.
Even though the station is not a beauty (never was the intention), I'm very pleased with the result. The reasons for building one in the first place, are these:
Despite overall bad gaming related progress, I have actually managed to do something : I have built my own painting station!
And here it is:
I woke up Sunday morning last week and said to myself -- "I'm going to build a painting station today" -- and so I did! During breakfast I did some quick drawings and came up with some rough measurement estimates. After finishing the breakfast, I went out in the yard and started to build. A few hours later, it was completed (except for the black paint, that I applied a day later). And today I added an old lamp I found in a since-long-forgotten moving box.
Even though the station is not a beauty (never was the intention), I'm very pleased with the result. The reasons for building one in the first place, are these:
- I usually paint minitaures and build terrain in our attic. During winter, especially when there are outdoor temperatures down at minus 15-20C, it gets quite cold up there. In other words, a not so nice environment to sit for a few hours and paint. Even hesitate to go up there sometimes.
- I feel very anti-social being up at the attic, alone, for a few hours painting. Now, with the painting station, I can bring down the work to e.g. the living room. Paint while watching TV with my spouse! Very convenient! =)
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| Work in progress. Just started. Built the painting station out of an old IKEA cabinet. |
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| Work in progress. Before black paint. |
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