Reply To: [unofficial weekender] It's getting dark. Too dark to see….

[blinky465 17028xp 4]

Temperatures are going down. Do start priming all your stuff now to have something to paint when winter comes?

Nah – I’ve just given away about 90% of my unpainted minis and got my “to do” list down to a manageable two-dozen or so minis. There’s no way I’m going to create a backlog already.  I prime about 40 minutes before I’m ready to paint.

Trees are shedding skin and other stuff. Do you start picking up “basing material”?

I *just bought* a load of basing rubble and glue-on ballast. I’ve got about 8-10 minis that I painted over the summer that are standing on plain black discs and they really deserve better. Even a bit of scenic basing material with a quick coat and a drybrush is better than plain black discs. I think I’m going to start basing my minis before I paint them in future (now I’ve got the gear to do it).

Are you aware that 2021 is 75% done? It’s 85 days until Christmas.

An email this morning informed me that Dragonmeet is on again in December. I thought it was ridiculously early to be sending out such promotions, until my wife gave me a pinch and a punch and I realised it’s now October. Shit!

I don’t think I’ll be going (to Dragonmeet) this year, but I’m hoping to get out and about it bit more next year, once we’ve got the snow and ice out of the way and it’s started to warm up again. It feels like we waited 18 months for summer to start, then it was over in a week, and I’m already wishing the winter away!

I don’t know if we’ve had this one before. But it’s a brilliant song. So here it is (again).

And a little something that made me smile: