2024 Update and how to lose interest in a project

Hello dear reader(s?)!

Little update here, I'm not dead 2023 has been quite the ride and I'm hoping for a more interesting 2024.

I don't blog as much as I used to for different reasons, first being a dad it's my greatest pride to be able to take care of my kid, second, some sort of boom of tutorials and patreon all over the place where people can learn to paint/build/whatever by people who are much more interested in creating contents with an higher quality than what I can do.

This mostly mean I don't really see the point on doing tutorial when much better content is already available! And I don't mean that in a bad way as it's great to see so many people happy to share their knowledge.

I'm still hoping to have the motivation to do smaller tutorial or run down of paints used when I publish something as that's still the recurring question 

2023 saw my participation in "slow grow" horus heresy campaign, which left me buzzing with motivation to do more custodes with the orion as the latest centrepiece, I also finally painted AND finished a bust, what a time to be alive ! Which also make it the biggest army I own with more than 4000 pts and growing. Fun fact, that's only 32 minis... 

I will do a more focused article on them when I can as I received so many requests for the paints used and try to get a group shot at the same time

I received and painted a blood bowl amazon team, this make it the fastest project from reception to finished.

Since I'm going to leave my little office/painting room to the second baby, I also took the opportunity to get rid of a lot of stuff that hasn't seen the light of day in weeks, months, years for some. Also looking to create a little portable painting station somewhere, tbd!

Some frustration during the year at work transformed to a spree of different project which were quickly abandoned then sold, I'm trying to not go down the rabbit hole again, but on notable note, instead of buying full armies I did order some very nice busts to paint and put in the cabinet and 75mm minis !

I started again AND sold again Titanicus as I can't play too many games, now the focus is completing the custodes and waiting for gw to finally release more sisters of silence as I really love them.
And age of sigmar to play with buddies at home mostly, I'm not too interested in competitive play and HH story driven play is much more in line with my motivation to play.
Though even that is not enough to motivate myself to paint 50 marines to actually paint a legion, go figure 😅

Latest from the chopping block is the seraphon as I come to the realisation, I really don't like painting scales and drybrush (except for bases). Which is a shame as the slann was really fun if a lot of work!

Anyway, I'm still hoping to publish more articles during this year if everything goes according to plan (spoiler, it usually doesn't work like that).

My amazon team which is a kinda speed painted but at the same time not really, a fun exercise in darker skin tones. The game was fun but not exactly what I expected though.

And a wonderful little bust from pedro fernandez, fully painted by hand for a change

Alright, that's enough rambles for today and thank you for reading !

Take care 

David

[Retrospective] 2022 is gone, where are we so far

Hello dear readers and wandering people,

It's been a while since the last post, not that I've been inactive as life in general has been pretty busy, but I haven't found much to write about.

With the explosion of youtuber/patreon/online course and other kinds of tuition, I didn't really see much interest in doing more tutorial, but I have people asking for recipe or tutorial and this blog is still receiving visit every day and mostly on tutorial post, so I'll try to keep uploading some of them whenever I can.

I also came to the realisation, even with all the videos in the world, I much prefer reading explanations and seeing picture than actually watching a video as I tend to get bored and just end up doing something else without really watching it. So maybe there are other people in this case? Let me know!
If a tutorial is not necessary, I might just write the colour on the picture or on the post, so you can have a reference, what do you think?

Beginning of the new year (a bit late I know) also mean time for the tally! Let's see what I've been painting this year:

AoS

• Ghoul king on terrorgheist
  
  
• Alternative scheme for dok with a slaughter queen (discontinued)
• 11 Sisters of slaughter (including the one from the underworld warband)
• 9 Shadowstalkers
• High gladiatrix

• Gotrek with the biggest tutorial I ever made for redgrass (available here and base here)
  
  
• Chaos sorceress Mylenor
• 4 Khagra's ravager

40k

Almost a full custodes army, I didn't realise this was all painted this year

• 5 Custodes guards
• Achillus dread with a nice tutorial for the weapon
• Galatus dread
• Caladius grav tank
• Palas grav tank
• Aleya
• 5 sisters of silence
• Blade champion
• Cool conversion of Trajann Valoris (biggest I’ve done so far)
• Kharon pattern acquisitor
• 3 Venatari
• 3 Sagittarum guard
  
  
• 1 Inquisitor
• Argel tal commissioned (it's definitely not for me)

Other

• 1 Titanicus warhound titan

• One reaver started then sold
  
  
• Tried and failled to paint a bust
• Tried and failed to start skaven
• Tried and failed to restart nighthaunt
• Tried and failed to restart sisters of battle

As you can see this was *interesting* loads of failed attempt at things but also 56 minis painted 

I did a few more tutorial, the lightning weapon on my custodes was the one with the most visit, I wrote a huge page with all the tools and paint I recommend here if you missed it  
Going back to slaves to darkness was also a nice trip in nostalgia lane but I enjoy the new range immensely, this was my army in my teenage year 😛

One of the things I realised this year, I don't feel good when I have a huge backlog, this is stressing me out and make my mind split between all the things I "need" to paint to progress. So, I mostly decided to be more aware of my purchase and try to avoid buying stuff in the heat of the moment. For the same reason, I try to sell everything that I will not go back to, painted or not (Marie kondo style) and it's actually a relief. It's still pretty hard to resist Fomo but I'm trying my best
Seriously, I bought and sold so much it's just ridiculous

Now I just need to learn how to be happy with the army I paint for more than 2 month, and I should be good ahem

Second year of being a dad and honestly, this has been the most wonderful time ever, though quite challenging at time, on to many more!

Also, I've been lucky enough to now be sponsored by redgrass games, which is pretty awesome as I really love their product so far, I had my eyes on their new lamp for a long time and I had the visit of Vivien who's the co-founder of the company to present me this beauty, it felt pretty overwhelming to be honest but also really kind of him to come visit me, I can't wait! You can get notified for the kickstarter here !

This year I'm going to focus on doing what I have in stock and try hopefully to paint what I received for my secret santa, a few custodes and a blood bowl team are waiting for me!

Happy painting

Anamnesis out ! (and about)

2019 Restrospective

Happy new year, dear readers!

2019 has been a busy year in all aspect of my life, quite a few things happened but as a result, this blog has received less update than expected.

A few events from last year, in no particular order:

• got married
• had my bachelor party, and someone tried to steal my phone
• fully organise a beautiful honeymoon in Iceland
• turned 30
• had the pleasure to see Marc Masclan epic version of Archaon in Barcelona
• started a new certification for work
• applied for a new job, and learned that I didn’t get it
• painted the biggest model I ever owned
• took part in Everchosen competition and finished in the top 100, I now really hate this miniature because I had to rush the end but everyone seem to really like on social media #awkward
• painted Abaddon as a gift for my best man
• Not a bad list...

Captain Badass

We’ve been preparing this wedding for 2 years, so 2020 we’ll be a slow year after all the thing we had to do in 2018-19. Which also mean, I should have a bit more time to write articles hopefully, as I’m a bit behind what I had expected to write this year.

2019 in number on the blog:

• 15 articles, the most viewed ones are always the tutorial, no surprise there
• 18 comments
• 82’000 lifetime pageviews
• 17 followers
• And between 50 and 80 visits every day, which is a surprise considering the number of articles

Most viewed article 

Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for checking this blog more regularly than I do!

This thing is heavy on every level

If we look at what I painted this year, here is the tally!

• 1 Astraeus super heavy tank
• 5 Primaris reivers
• 3 Interceptor
• 1 Primaris Librarian
• 1 Redemptor dreadnought
• 1 Sylvaneth Branchwych
• 10 Dryads
• 5 Tree revenants
• 1 Arch revenant
• 1 Kit of enduring storm vault
• 1 Abaddon
• And 5 stormcast sequitors

Which is a total of 35 miniatures and scenery, which is not too shabby if I may say so myself 😊

This kit is fantastic

I did learn a lot during this year from many points of view and I hope to bring it to the light next year.
There are a few articles which I know you’re waiting for, I should be able to write them soon-ish if everything goes.

Hello, new project...

Anyway, thank you everyone for your support and I wish you all the best for 2020!

Anamnesis