Reply To: October 30 minute a day hobby challenge

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I’m in. In fact, it was only last night, I was thinking of trying something similar myself. But now it’s an official “thing” then sure, why not?

During lockdown, I would often give myself just one hour at the end of the day to do some hobby. Whether it was painting, basing, terrain…. whatever. And after an hour, off to bed. No ifs, no buts. No telly. No watching Youtube and telling myself it was “learning” or “preparation”.

The one-hour deadline was really got at getting me to focus, and not spend too long trying to make just one area of one particular mini exactly perfect. It forced me to leave things half-done, not clean up every single mistake and so on. But, very often, by the next night, I couldn’t remember (nor often see all that immediately) where the mistakes were.

I’ve got a load of Blood Bowl minis (and, tbh, about a hundred other) I’ve printed and on a few I’ve tried the old-but-new-but-is-it-old-or-new “slapchop” method. I don’t like it. But I want to persevere because the results some people get in such a short time look great (I’m a terribly slow painter).

So I’m in.

Half an hour a day.

Every day. For a month.

Let’s see what we can get done…. (photos of my first batch of slap-chop BB elves on to follow).