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
