In 11 Days, We Ambush

For many years, I have struggled with depression. This isn’t the first time I’ve mentioned it here and it won’t be the last. Every time it spills over into my hobby, the effects are slightly different. This time round I’ve been struggling to get anything finished  for months. We all know every model goes through a “jeez that looks bloody awful” stage before it gets good. Since I was ill back at the start of the year, I haven’t been able to push through this stage, not once. Even my second choice, scaled way back SCC ended up being a wasted effort. I just couldn’t make my brain work on the models. So much for small, easy wins. 

I depend on hobby to ease the brain goblins so I need to try and break this cycle. Perhaps a totally different approach to normal would help. I’m a traditional layers and washes type of painter but I do have a selection of Contrast paints picked up here and there over the last few years. 

Time to give slapch… value painting a shot properly. What to paint with it though? There are plenty of candidates in the pile of shame that could get rolled out for this. So I picked something from there, right?

Don’t be daft.

I needed to look up a single piece of information on the Mantic website one day for a work proposal and within ten minutes I’d bought a new army. Or an old army. Or a Classic army. With the new plastic Nightstalker range out, the Mantic webstore have some of the old models on 50% off. It would be rude not to help them with their warehouse space problem that all that old stock with be taking up. I grabbed two of the smaller army sets, two boxes of reapers and an extra box of shadowhounds for £109 with free shipping. 

Now I like KoW a lot but to be honest the dwarves just haven’t been thrilling me to paint them. I have a game set up for Ambush on the 1st of July where I am meant to be taking just around 900 points of dwarves but now that this wee army is on its way, I want to see if a stupid challenge and Contrast paints can be the thing to “fix” my hobby problem. Ten days to build, paint and base an army. Let’s go.