I’m not going to try and keep spoilers out of this, so be warned. I haven’t seen the Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion film but I have seen the Muppets Haunted Mansion. Overall I wasn’t a fan of this film. It had a lot of ideas that didn’t feel fully developed or connected. For example, the …
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
I’ve never been a massive Star Wars fan – it’s worth getting that out of the way up front. I’ve been recommended a lot of the recent non-core Star Wars content though, like The Mandalorian, Ahsoka and Rogue One, and I’m always happy to try out a friend’s suggestions. I’m going to try not to …
October Painting
More Fyreslayers – I based a couple that fell off the temporary bases, and getting them slowly moved towards done… finishing up final details, tidying messy bits, and generally getting excited about moving onto the next project. I’ve been playing more Age of Sigmar with the eldest child, so will be good to get onto …
Painting September 2022
More progress on the Fyreslayers, I’ve finished the skin on all 21 (minus needing a couple of cover-ups). Next up, all the teal bits (charms, scales, etc). I’m still doing my appalling uber-batch painting on these but when I get to the Idoneth I think I’ll tackle them in smaller chunks. And I remembered a …
Painting August 2022
After a very slow spring/summer, I started to push myself to get back to painting regularly. For one thing, I’d like to get our Age of Sigmar models completed to take to the local club! So I’ve been plugging away at the gold bits of Fyreslayers. I’m in my old pattern of batch painting All …
Painting Q3 Retrospective
The end of the last quarter trailed off a bit – I got behind and couldn’t make it back up. It was only a near miss though so I think the target is just about in the right place. No updates for a while because I gave myself October off of painting. Since the beginning …
Painting Update #6
I finally got the large deficit off the edge of the graph! Still bouncing up and down a little, but got it under control. I’ve nearly finished the slopper now, just some eyes and small highlights to do. The pot has been darkened and the slop painted, but the tentacle needs more highlight and probably …
Painting Update #5
In good news, the big deficit is falling off of the chart and shortening the Y axis On the other hand, the weather is rotten for painting; I’ve only been able to get short sessions in (not just complaining about the heat!). This is good for testing colour schemes though; I’ve been experimenting with skin …
2021 Q2 Painting Retrospective
It’s been tough hitting the target for this quarter. Part of that was down to illness where I couldn’t get anything done, and following that I found it hard to get back into the routine of painting every day. My deficit climbed very high, and I only just got it down to zero again in …
Painting Update #4
I’m starting to bring the deficit down, but I need to average 41 minutes a day over the next two weeks to hit my target. It might come down to the wire this quarter… In better news, I finished the minis and busts for the heroes in the game: The minis stand about as high …