It's taken me a while to get into gear in terms of blogging this year, and I'm definitely still in something of a slump hobby-wise. Despite that, I'm trying to push on and motivate myself to get stuff painted, play with it, and write a bit about it.
With that in mind, I thought I should probably do a now long overdue post about a very special Christmas present that I received from my good buddy Alex (from Lead Balloony). He's been working on a secret project recently, and sharpening his sculpting skills. This worked out well for me, as over Christmas he gifted me with a wonderful scratch built Spoilpox Scrivener (a type of Herald of Nurgle). This was more than I could ever have hoped for, especially given that it was his first entirely scratch built miniature. Some pre-painting pics stolen straight from Alex's blog (go there too!):
Needless to say, this lad jumped right to the top of the painting queue immediately. I went for a pretty simple scheme, partly to tie him in with all my other Nurgle troops, and partly because I was so scared of messing it up!
Alex has done a great job of tying him in with his Realm of Chaos mates, whilst also making him imposing enough to stand out. As you can imagine, I was over the moon!
That's it from me. In my efforts to drag my way out of my slump, I've signed up to a (fairly) local Blood Bowl league. Hopefully this will give me a bit of motivation to play and paint a few figs. I've also based all my remaining Familiars, so I can do a bit of work on them now and then. Should be a nice low-pressure project. Finally, Alex has managed to convince me to do a slow grow AoS skirmish campaign with him, in which we each take a force we're unfamiliar with and build it up over the year. It's very low pressure too, so that suits me fine. He's chosen Sylvaneth for me, and I picked Daughters of Khaine for him. Both very cool, and very different, so we'll see where that takes us.
Till next time.
Oh hey he looks super, great work guys!
ReplyDeleteCheers dude!
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