Scaling Down

Coming back from the madness that was september and october, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks trying to settle back down with my hobby output.

Just because I need to turn it back from 100% though, doesn’t mean I need to stop doing anything at all. I’ve just really tried to focus on 1: not buying any new stuff and 2: only painting stuff that has been on my to-do list for ages.

First I needed to get two mini’s out of the way though:

This was an ork that I bought at the local GW store for a pretty cool initiative. The idea was that each customer paint up 1 ork and add it to a waagh!  I’m also pretty pleased with how my ork turned out and I tried some new things on him such as the hazard stripes.

Another project that I really wanted to finish was this character:

It’s based off of a mandrake miniature with an empire sword soldered on. I painted him up how I wanted my Elf Warlock character to look in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign I’m participating in. It’s been a long time since I got to be a player in a D&D campaign so I wanted to make sure I had a good looking miniature for my character. I also really like the mandrake miniature and I had one lying around for ages that I knew I liked, but didn’t know what to do with until now.

After that it was on to the real to-do pile:

This guy is something I bought off of a friend ages ago that wanted to get rid of his chaos stuff and has been one of the many things I had lying around the workstation. Now that he’s done I have no more nurgle stuff left on my pile and that is a nice feeling to have.

The next most urgent things on ‘the pile’ as it looks now are Abbadon (who I’ve been meaning to paint for a looong time) and a whole bunch of terrain. Since the terrain should go reasonably fast and Abbadon is only a single miniature I hope to have these finished before christmas. Right now I’m thinking it would be really nice to find a way to clear out all the 40k off of ‘the pile’ before january so that I can go into the new year only focussing on AoS and Heresy.

I’m not going to rush myself though. The whole idea was that I would take it a bit more easy from now on.

Death to the False Emperor!