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Hello all, happy weekend(ish). Not just going to lurk this week, my hermit impression is getting all too convincing at the moment.

Pledge, minimum to varnish some 15mm tanks. Hopefully, get some more FoW British painting done.

Questions of the week:

Is there any aspect of the hobby you really want to try but haven’t done yet because you’re somehow afraid of it?

Not really. I try to keep the mindset if I broke it I can fix it as well. I still can’t get decals right 100% of the time.

What was the most daunting/scaring/intimidating thing (of our hobby) that you’ve done that then turned out to be easy as pie?

Proper layer painting. Yes being able to either blend wet paint on the mini itself or know the perfect watered downness for a semi-transparent glaze is very impressive and useful when you nail it. If you have two paints to blend then just have them next to each other to mix on a pallette, you need a mid-tone then just mix it. Most of my painting now is chosing one colour I like then adding either ivory or charcoal paint to make shades/saturations of it.

What aspect/technique in out hobby caught you off guard? (Thinking it would be easy just to have it bite you in the rear end)

Weathering, chipping especially. It’s so disheartening when a painting step near the end of the process takes a mini from great to mistake.

Maybe a little close to the bone, but for some music