I am, at the moment painting a unit of models from an army I don’t collect, which are part of a game I don’t play, which I don’t have the rules for. This is a direct result of the scattergun approach I have, until very recently taken to painting my own stuff (a problem I wrote about a while back in a wee missive called ‘Pile of Shame’).
In this earlier blog entry, I mentioned that I was attempting to clear my backlog of models and I thought there was a bit of a question mark over how successful I’d be. As it turns out, I’m not doing too bad. I’ve still got a long way to go as far as my total unpainted model count is concerned, but I’ve made some serious progress in clearing out my painting area. This year I’ve cleared all the single models that were judging me from the periphery of my painting area and am now close to finishing the first of three small, to medium sized units.
It feels good to finish a model that’s been sat gathering dust for ages. Finishing a model is always nice, but there’s something about finishing a model that’s been lurking in the dark corners of your painting area for so long it needed dusting before a lick of paint could go near it that makes it that bit more special.
What I want to paint is my Tau army, but I’ve committed to, at least clear my painting area before I engage on any new painting projects. Obviously it would be very easy to just say ‘sod it’ and paint my Tau anyway, but it’s that level of wobbly focus that’s put me in this pickle in the first place. So with that being said, I’m going to attempt to be a grown up about it and finish what I’ve started.
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