http://nosherswargames.blogspot.co.uk/
My to-do list for 2014.
As long as we get to see piccies, as you go along Nosher. ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Brilliant Nosher! Let's see them! :P
Hi Nosher,
I ve done something similar on my blog
http://wargames.blog.co.uk/2014/01/01/plans-for-17531551/
I'll try to remember pics as I make progress,
Cheers and Happy New Year,
Craig
Tiny Terrain Models
My aim for 2014 is to paint something..Anything at all will do
I'm also waiting for Luddites fantasy rules to appear
25th April and progress to date 0.0000000%
Might just bin 2014 and aim for 2015
Hope you get back on track soon Nosher !
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Nosher on 25 April 2014, 07:35:11 AM
25th April and progress to date 0.0000000%
Might just bin 2014 and aim for 2015
You can do it, One brush stroke at a time ;) :)
Quote from: paulr on 25 April 2014, 08:27:04 AM
You can do it, One brush stroke at a time ;) :)
may be more like one bristle at a time :)
It's too much Nosher. Go for 2 or 3 projects and finish them. Mine are 28mm Milanese for Impetus, 6mm ACW for Altar of Freedom, 10mm Austrians and Russians for WWI. If all that's done before the end of the year, then back to 10mm SYW Austrians and Prussians and 10mm Dux Britanniarum.
Mine = finish Carthaginians, then either Aztecs or Egyptians and Assyrians, whichever comes out first.
Mine - 7YW British for Quebec, followed by a few in fills for Normans, ww2 Germans and Zombie stuff, then Mongols (with elephants ;)) with US Vietnam started before end of year. Next year big on ancients.
I feel your pain Nosher :(. A particularly busy and stressful period at work has left me numb come the evenings, where the last thing I want to do is any form of modelling :'(.
If you do a demanding job and also have a life outside of wargaming something has to give. Wargaming is a hobby after all and only there to fill in the chinks of one's life when one would otherwise be bored witless. Just take it as it comes. There are no prizes for getting it done quickly.
Agreed. I'm retired now but I still wouldn't consider that painting workload.
Quote from: Hertsblue on 26 April 2014, 09:30:49 AM
If you do a demanding job and also have a life outside of wargaming something has to give. Wargaming is a hobby after all and only there to fill in the chinks of one's life when one would otherwise be bored witless. Just take it as it comes. There are no prizes for getting it done quickly.
Wise words, but who can remember them when there are figures to be painted?
I find that I very much want to have them all painted very quickly indeed and have to give myself a good slapping to remind myself that I also want them to look as good as my shaky skills will allow. Plus I tend to have several projects on the go at once.....I'm assured by friends (as I only returned to wargaming about three years ago) that this is par for the course....
It's always a toss up between gettin anything done and arguing myself into a corner about gettin started in case I mess something up! Good luck Nosher - that's a fair crack of stuff to do :S
Nine month painting drought ended today.
Finished a 36 figure unit of French Napoleonic Infantry. Think I'll paint another unit in May 2015!!
Sadly the pic is on my phone and I'm such a spanner I cant get it to upload...
Tease !! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Good to hear the drought is abating Nosher! ;)
Quote from: Nosher on 06 August 2014, 05:54:49 PM
Nine month painting drought ended today.
Finished a 36 figure unit of French Napoleonic Infantry. Think I'll paint another unit in May 2015!!
Sadly the pic is on my phone and I'm such a spanner I cant get it to upload...
If it's anything like my wife's phone they probably don't make the miniature USB plug that goes in the socket any more. Don't you just love technology?
I email phone photo's to myself so I can then tweak them for size and upload from my proper machine!
Two more 36 figure battalions started today.
Trying to paint when the mood takes me as opposed to thinking 'Iv'e got to get this lot on the table ASP'
Unfortunately I have a deadline to meet.
As I solo most of the time I usually have a think the previous year about what I fancy doing in the following year; by the middle of the year this gets whittled down to what I would like to do. By the end of the year it's more of a case of 'try finishing the stuff from last year before you do anything else'. Of course I never listen and get some new stuff...to add to the growing pile. My current thing is 'The Mongol Project' which fortunately involves several inter-related armies so I am getting a fair bit of variation in what I paint even if it is all in the same scale -10mm. At the moment I am painting Song Chinese with Khwarizmains, Polish and more Mongols to do if I get fed up.
I fancy WWI in the east, 7YW Prussians v Russians, Saxons or French (undecided yet), both in 10mm or 6mm WWII Invasion of England 1944 (What If?) and 6mm Colonial Zulu's.
Plus I need to get writing done in between all this painting. :D
I've done both 6mm and 10mm Zulus. The bigger ones look far better, to my mind.
Got the main colours on the Prussians yesterday - 21/2 hours over three sessions, so should finish them today. Very fired up at the speed it took for a reasonable result, but very keen to finish them off with magic wash to see how it works.