Reply To: Hobby Pledges 2022

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I will also admit to going through a hobby funk, particularly with assembling and painting figures.  At one point my wife politely pointed out that if they weren’t assembled I couldn’t play with them – queeue my assembling several hundred figures over a couple of days.  It didn’t help with the painting though!  I really struggled with sitting down to paint, but lockdown sorted it out for me.  As part of the Friday Night Fire Fight Club we use to game on (yes you guessed it) a Friday Night, when I couldn’t go, work started to get in the way, I would sit at home and watch tv.  When lockdown kicked in I decided that Friday Night would be hobby night and to help I set up a Zoom meeting for the club, several of us would be online with figures and paintbrushes in hand and having that group feeling really motivated me in 2020 I managed 221 figures and in 2021 282 so far.  As others have said I started off with something simple, in my case Space Marines using the local stores challenge at one point to paint 50 Power of figure (I smashed that).  I then moved on to finish things off with an aim to completely paint something not too big, in this case my Star Wars Legion Rebel army, then bit off the big project of painting Batman Gotham City Chronicles – I’ve got 12 figures still to go from 221.  I dropped other bits and pieces in on occassion when I need some variety.

The main thing for me though has been quick and simple painting, does it look good enough from 3 foot away?  Contrast paints have made my life so much easier and with Zenithal priming adds so much for so little time, why didn’t I use it earlier?