Resurrection- New year, New painting plan.

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Ok so its been ages since i posted, i had high hopes for posting each week but life got crazy busy last year.

So what happened last year?

  1. Pandemic - no direct negative impact but it started to spike workload and caused more work requirements

  2. Work load - Worked crazy hours for most of the year, and the last quarter decided to combine even busier with a staff member leaving, so i worked most of the time.

  3. Moved house - Our house was finished (well enough to move in) so there was packing and moving and resettling in etc.

  4. Family death - i spent most of a month end of the year in another town looking after a dieing family member, and then when he passed, i am now the executor, so thats still going on.

Where we are at now, we are in the new house, starting to settle in and i am working out how i want my workshop to look.

Ive managed to get into a routine of painting and while i got nothing done in January (till the end), i am getting through quite a few at the moment. I am breaking this down into:

  1. Basic Job - wandering monsters, NPCs, basic characters, simple sculpts or not great materials (like CMON plastics) etc - i am using GW Contrast and Scale75 Instant colours plus highlights so i can knock them out quickly - key here is to get a good paintjob for the table that is not terrible.

  2. Good Job - Models like 1 off characters, great sculpts, or don’t work with contrast - get a good solid paint job , but trying to get faster.

So far this is working. I am also getting faster at painting, as i have bigger brushes and working out techniques.

I will resurrect the tracker and use that for the year. I also have made a plan for gettign through models. Rather than just randomly painting something, or trying to slog through armies, i am working out a plan for this.

I have 20 GW painting handles (1 large)  and i am grabbing out 20 models to paint, and then when they are done the next 20 are done. So that i can get through collections, if there is a group, I will do them together. This way i get variety and each suppliers models get more painted each time.

I generally do basing in a batch, so i have a different desk with my basing stuff, and blitz them all in one go. i like to focus on one area at a time.

Producers: 

  1. GW – 40K, Necromunda, Aeronautica, Blackstone, Cursed City 

  2. CMON – Zombicide, The Others, ASOIAF 

  3. HINT 

  4. Crooked Dice 

  5. Northstar 

  6. Mantic – TWD, Mars Attacks, Warpath 

  7. GF9 

  8. TT Combat 

  9. Klukva 

  10. Artel W 

  11. Brother Vinni 

  12. Infinity 

  13. Crippled God 

  14. Reaper 

  15. Hasslefree 

  16. Heresy 

  17. Blacklist 

  18. FunkySkull 

  19. Turf War Z 

  20. Warlord Games 

  21. Prodos 

  22. Half Finished Models (ie models i got part way through before and gave up).

Aim: 

  • Paint a variety of models – so I stay motivated 

  • Finish collections, armies, projects 

  • Paint with Contrast where possible to speed things up 

Strategy: 

  • Finished 20 models before getting the next out 

  • Pick models from as many producers as possible 

  • But group sets together where sensible (ie all 5 of a model from a sculpt from Blacklist) 

  • Pick a half painted model from previous projects 

 Here is a pic of my most recent set to go through - The models are:

  1. The Napoli Boys Gang from Funky Skull games (8 models)

  2. Giant worm thing from Blacklist minis

  3. Heavy weapons person from The Others (CMON)

  4. One of Negans Crew from Walking dead (Mantic)

  5. Karl Raider - Judge Dredd (Warlord games)

  6. Scifi guy - HINT model

  7. Generation Red Street Artist - Monster Fight Club

  8. Imperial Guard chick - Brother Vinni

  9. Converted Enforcer for Necromunda Venators - GW

  10. Regal lady person from Hasslefree

  11. Vampiress from Reaper

  12. Everyday Hero from Crooked Dice

  13. Haqqislam model from Corvus Belli (and a part painted model).

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