Painting update – 7th July 2020
Following on from my last update I have managed to make steady, if not exactly speedy, progress on my second Saga: Age of Magic army – a Demonic warband. As I said in [...]
Painting & Modelling
Painting Update – w/e 19th June 2020
My have managed to maintain my painting output in the last two or three weeks – nothing spectacular, but I have now finished my Undead army for Saga: Age of Magic by [...]
Lockdown painting update – May 2020
It’s been a while since I shared anything hobby related. Many of us have taken advantage of some of the extra time we have found on our hands during this period of [...]
Easter painting challenge 2020
Several of us decided to set each other a painting challenge for the Easter weekend. We each chose 4 figures, and then votes were cast to decide which figures each of us [...]
Group hobby activity in a time of social distancing
The current Coronavirus epidemic has obviously impacted our ability to meet up and play games, but on the flip side, we now have lots of time to make an impact on painting [...]
Infamy, Infamy! – starting a new project?
If you are a fan of Too Fat Lardies rules and follow them on social media, it will have been difficult to miss the fact that they are currently working on a set of large [...]
Painting update – February 2020
Thought I would share a very quick update on my painting progress in February. Nada. Nothing. Zero. Zip. Not a sausage. Really can’t put a finger on the reason why, but [...]
Painting Tally – January 2020
Despite not picking up a paint brush in the final week, January turned out to be a good month for painting models. The painting output was entirely devoted to fantasy, as I [...]
Miniature Painting – w/e 26th January 2020
Only managed a few days painting last week, mainly due to spending a long weekend in Wales with the Welsh Wizzard. Playing games and meeting with my fellow gamers, rather [...]
Miniature Painting – w/e 19th January 2020
A second week has been spent painting Runewars skeleton warriors Monday 13th January Painted GW Wraithbone over all bone and clothing areas. Tuesday 14th & Wednesday 15th [...]
Miniature Painting, w/e 12th January 2020
This week I started to get ‘back in the saddle’ of painting a little each day. The aim is to paint for around 15-30 minutes – basically to try and make some [...]
Miniatures Painting, w/e 5th January 2020
The last couple of days has finally seen me lay paint onto miniatures for the first time in 2020. It may be cheating, but I started by working on some miniatures that were [...]
2019 – Model painting review
2019 was both a good and a bad year for painting… I’ve probably painted more miniatures this year than I have in a very long time. That said, the last three or [...]
Painting Tally – August/September 2019
My sorry painting summer has continued for the last two months, which has seen me fall even further behind on my plastic and lead mountain for the year. Painted: 3 I [...]
Painting Tally – July 2019
It is typical that in the month that I published my grand painting plan for the rest of 2019, I haven’t managed to finish painting a single miniature. Painted: 0 [...]
Planning for the future of 2019
As we move into the second half of 2019, it is apparent that once again my purchasing power has outstripped my painting power by several thousand percent. In an effort to [...]
Painting Tally – June 2019
Thanks to a bout of illness and some concentrated podcast editing effort, my painting time was somewhat restricted during June – although I must admit that this was [...]
Painting Tally – May 2019
Better late than never, but I’ve finally managed to get around to updating what I painted during May. Painted: 40 If you followed my painting challenge at [...]
Journeys in Middle Earth – The Heroes
After the painting challenge of last weekend, I was left with the Heroes of Journeys in Middle Earth to finish. Aragorn Based of the artwork from The Lord of the Rings Card [...]
Journeys in Middle Earth – Forces of Darkness
Following last weekend’s painting challenge, this week has been spent applying the finishing touches to all the models. With the application of some varnish this [...]
