For
a brief, beautiful, fleeting moment I had money. My deposit came back
from my old landlord. I wasn't even planning to do anything with it,
just put it into savings in case I had to move again at the end of
this six month contract. Then the rates turned up, which I really
should have expected but there we are.
Anyway,
the current financial situation has led me to make a bit of a
resolution. Since I need to save money I should get on with painting
some of the Warhammer models I've got sitting around half-finished.
Every hobbyist gets to that stage eventually, no one ever buys “just
one kit at a time” and finishes it “before I buy the next one”.
No one.
Let's
pick an arbitrary big number and say that I will finish 100 models
before buying any new ones. This might sound a lot but I play mainly
Fantasy so that's five rank-and-file units. Hell, I've got two
Bretonnian Battalions sitting atop my bookshelf and they constitute
90 models between them.
I
have a mountain of projects half-built or half-painted or just
waiting for a few finishing touches. I started painting some Black
Knights in December, painted the bone effect and just... stopped, got
distracted. I've been fielding them less-than-half-painted since Matt
started his campaign and it's time to get them done. I need more
models for my Zombie raising pool, I bought a box, never got round to
building them. I really need to make a start on my Dark Vengeance set
(Guardians of the Covenant for the Dark Angels, Word Bearers for the
Chaos Marines). I bought some Death Guard kits and a Wight King
Battle Standard Bearer at Games Day then I had to move and they got
shoved in a box, unopened. I picked up Belegar Ironhammer just to
paint and... didn't.
I
did make a list of all the odds and sods hanging around and it was
shaming. I had no idea how far behind I was on these things. 100
isn't exactly a drop in the ocean but it's less than half the list.
Time
to get to work. Progress posted to the blog as I finish models.
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