Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Spring Clean Challenge

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Are you cleaning your pile of shame opportunity?

Slowly, yes. I’m now at a stage where I’m painting more minis than I’m printing. But – to be perfectly honest – that’s more to do with printing far less often, rather than getting better/faster at painting!

Did you make a project for that?

I did. A long time ago. Then I took a look at the number of “open” projects I have, and thought “I’d better not create any more projects – they’re piling up like unpainted minis here!” But just like a broken promise not to buy any more minis until you’ve cleared the backlog of current ones, I relented and couldn’t resist starting something new and shiny.

Will you stay on target or get distracted by things you find along the way?

Almost certainly I’ll be distracted – I already have been. But I’m also determined to get this particular one finished, as it’s a bit of a collaboration with another community member; so it’s for them, as much as for me (or, as it turns out, the rest of the gang as it’s for a gift post to send in to OTT Towers). It’s a bit like that scene in Gremlins when it suddenly dawns on Billy that they’re now working together – or like You’ve Been Framed where a cat and a dog gang up to get into the kitchen cupboards – the end result might not be exactly how we planned it at the start, but sometimes the reward is to see people working together, not the end result!

In fact, I just made the project public – go take a look:  https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1618858/?order=asc

Here’s this week’s music; I started playing guitar lead this week. After 30 years of banging out chords with my meat hooks, I thought it was time to learn how to play even a basic melody. So I’ve dusted off my old pentatonic scales and learned a couple of “licks” to try out out at a local jam night, once lockdown is lifted. It also means I’ve been listening to Eric Clapton with a newly-found respect.

 

And a pledge? Well, it’s to get my Spring Clean project finally finished (it’s been on the go since about last June) and actually sent in the post. Fingers crossed….