20 Blocks - how is it going? - How does it work

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20 Blocks - how is it going? - How does it work

Part of the challenge with painting is that I have heaps of stuff and from lots of ranges. If i put all my effort into painting one range or one game, one army etc, then i tend to get bored and end up looking wistfully at other models. This may mean my motivation drops off. But if i paint whatever i want, I don’t have anything finished - all my collections stay unfinished.

So this got me thinking, i want to stay motivated, i want to finish collections and I want to paint stuff that i enjoy and a variety.

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Throwback - Frostgrave Warband

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Throwback - Frostgrave Warband

In an effort to have a record of all of what i have done (for viewers and for evidence in case the house burns down), i am working back through my models and uploading them. I figured i would do this in themes.

So for this first post, lets look at my Frostgrave Warband.

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What I Painted 14/09/2019

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What I Painted 14/09/2019

So my plan got a bit derailed since last time, i was busy with work and getting ready for baby number 2. And then Baby number 2 arrived 4 weeks early on the 28th. Keira (is her name), spent the first two weeks in NICU with her mum so i was full time dad with my other daughter Mia, so painting was low. But i actually got a bit done when the nanny had her and when she slept and i was not at the hospital.

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What I painted this 'week' - 18/8/19

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What I painted this 'week' - 18/8/19

Trying to keep track of what i painted each week, so i dont forget and its easier to take small batches of photos than lots at once. Reality is it wont be weekly, and this post is for what i finished last week, but this week is the post. essentially everytime i post i want to post what i have finished since last time.

I am only posting whats finished, so sometimes it looks like heaps as i finished off lots of small things that were 90% done. and we will definitely go through phases as i work on different games.

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Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago - The Monsters

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Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago - The Monsters

And now on to the monsters. I had bought some specifically, i had some older bones models and during our campaign Bones 4 arrived, so i had a lot to paint. i also picked up models as we needed them, and from Northstar - the official models. it also gave me motivation to finish some half done models i had sitting there waiting.

the good news was that during the campaign, Citadel contrast was released, which made a massive difference, and i was able to blitz out a lot of models, probably painting more than 40 models in the 2 months after contrast came out, as compared to about 30 in the 4-5 months previously.

I also painted a lot of terrain, and heaps of the Mantic Terrain Crate stuff which i will post later.

so here we go, a lot of photos to come.

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Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago - the Warband

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Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago - the Warband

Its been a while since I have posted but i have not been idle. We have been playing Killteam a lot this year, and then around Easter (i think) decided to finally get into Frostgrave Ghost Archipelago.

We had played original Frostgrave before, but with Richard rejoining the club, it was a good opportunity to get some new games going. the good thing about FGA is that you dont typically need many models although i ended up painting close to 70 and a bunch of terrain. I will post the full pics over the coming weeks.

Below are the photos of my crew and Heritor, and the next post will be the monsters. as part of my new philosophy on painting, i want to paint the characters very well, but the main focus is to get things finished, so not be as thorough on lesser models, as i have a massive backlog and play many games.

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