At the end of last year I entered an online painting competition run by Juan Hidalgo on his YouTube channel. We had to take an unpainted or barely started mini, paint it over the course of a couple of months, then send pictures to be judged. I was entering just for fun since I’ve seen …
Category archives: Painting
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 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 …
Painting Update #3
I gave myself a break for being ill, but it totally knocked my habit. As a result the deficit built up pretty high and I’m going to have to do double time to get back in front of it. The Hellboy miniatures are getting to the final details so I’ve been focussing on those to …
Painting Update #2
My average started to drop again, and I’ve got another deficit to work down. Not much planned this weekend so I should be able to get on top again. Carried on with pieces for the Hellboy board game, and weighing up whether I need to get a new pot of black (mine has fossilised…) or …