Over a month since the last blog post! Not that nothing has been happening. NZ went into Level 2 (Level 3 in Auckland) and shit just all got very weird again. Honestly, I can imagine that the see-sawing of alert levels is playing serious games with everyone's mental health, not just mine, but I found I went into survival mode where I've worked my arse off and then crashed. Having been feeling very on top of things I'm now struggling for the energy to concentrate. Surprisingly, in the last week I seem to have regained my painting mojo while my energy levels sagged, and I think it is because painting is my zen release. Now I have prelim exams to mark and that is seriously impinging on my desire to paint. Therefore, in a way to avoid the guilt of painting when I should be marking, I've decided to do neither and write a long overdue blogpost.
So here is the painting I haven't displayed so far, starting with my work for Infamy Infamy.
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| 4 groups of British warriors for Infamy Infamy. Nobles to the fore. |
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| Skirmishers, painted using the magic of contrast paint, and my Barbarian leader and a musician. |
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| The British army so far. I have another couple of infantry groups, another skirmishers, cavalry, chariots and naked crazies to go. |
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The Romans so far. Three groups of legionaries, Centurion, Optio and musician, as well as a scorpio. Numidians, slingers and Caetrati still to come. |
Alongside my Infamy Infamy I have been steadily painting for Craig as well. Here are Taun Tauns and Rebel Veterans:
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| Close up of these guys. |
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| And Craig's Wookies, painted the same way as my own using Sorastro's wet-blending advice |
My birthday came and went, and with it some inevitable toy soldier acquisitions. There has been a small amount of painting on these new additions to the collection.
The first of 5 French squads for Trench Hammer in my 54mm WWI project:
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| A VB rifle grenade team. |
The other present was my long overdue descent into the world of Marvel Crisis Protocol.
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| Iron Man |
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| Spiderman |
The bases will all be painted when I've finished everyone so that they all match perfectly. I also plan to make sure that my city terrain matches as well.
The aim for the near future is to get all of the Infamy Infamy figures painted and to get a few games under my belt. Simultaneously I want to finish Craig's Star Wars which is a single unit of rebel pathfinders before moving o nto painting his Wild West Exodus figures. By next weekend hopefully I'll have a some breathing room to play a game of something.
Nate
Hi Nate - nice bit of progress you have made there - don't stress too much about the alert levels mate. we are all back to 2 again now it seems like! Take care and make sure yo do some painting - you need that Zen release!
ReplyDeleteSome lovely new toys Nate...
ReplyDeleteI have found that painting toy soldiers is some of the best medicine around...
All of the best. Aly
Looks like you've been a busy boy!
ReplyDeleteNathan I agree that the yo-yoing of levels is stressful. I can see it in many of my colleagues.
ReplyDeleteBut if we step back and look at it dispassionately if this is the worst thing that we will encounter in our lives, we aren’t doing to badly...at least we are not losing thousands of our young people on foreign fields. Yes there will be some economic fallout from this, but it will come back, it has never not come back. Maybe some of the more useless things in our society (influencers for one) might fall by the wayside, but people still need food, transport, education, medical, places to live...so it will come back. We are so luck in that we have this wonderful hobby and we can lose ourselves for a few hours, let our imagination run wild and for that brief time shut out the complexities of life.
There is only one thing that concerns me now and that is that we have our annual Tarawera weekend planned for October so we want to be back at Level 1 for certain, so if we need to stay where we are for another week, I can live with it.
I've avoided playing anything but solo for a while now due to Covid, but have been experimenting with your Featherstonian rules and Paperboys soldiers. I'm enjoying the rules.
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