A very quick #wipwednesday post, just to log what is currently on the desk at the moment.   Hasslefree miniatures for a mid-sized commission - all modern/futuristic characters - and finishing off a group of Old West women gunslingers from Great Escape Games (these will eventually go on the Etsy shop).   Although not pictured, I'm going to try and get a set of Colonial Marines from CP Models sorted too.    

  A new year and - in a couple of ways - a new way of assessing and doing things for me. In a personal sense its been the end of my first completely full year of being sober. It's not been pleseant or easy, but the want for alcohol in general as well as while painting is slowly waining. Part of its effect was how far behind it put me with painting both stuff to go on my shop and completing commissions. I found it way too easy to accept them, but became overwhelmed by them as I fell further and further behind. But, with a slightly clearer mind, I've been working on speeding up my painting and processing, without (hopefully) dropping the general quality of the work. This brings me nicely onto what I've been doing of late. As usual, I haven't been updating the blog as regularly as I should have - although I have been posting stuff on both my Instagram and Facebook pages, so I've not been fully off-radar.  Regarding stuff done , I painted and scratch-built a selection...

I’m done with making promises about posting here. I never seem to be able to stay on point with writing anything that maybe of interest to anyone who might stumble on it. But, given such oddly shitty times, I’m posting something. A long process (long from delays of my own creation) of completing a couple of commissions has been compounded by the muddy waters that the Covid virus has been causing. Again, not an excuse, but a far ole chunk of the blame. Regardless, I have been reasonably pleased with how most of them have been turning out. The toughest part of painting commissions – for me anyway – tends to be repetition. Sometimes having to paint the same or very similar figures back-to-back can get tedious. And while I’ve tried a few methods for elevating the problem, I found that simply sticking to one figure at a time helps. Not the ideal solution, maybe, but not bad. Luckily though, I’m currently working through a selection of figures with some beautiful variation: A few ...

A real random collection of completed work here. As my usual regime regarding this blog, I haven't posted in ages, despite saying I would. Yup, I know. Sorry. Anyway; as well as making a dent in a current commission, I also painted a few side-line models for my humble Etsy shop . These few models came from Lucid Eye , a manufacturer I've only recently started getting models from. Starting off with a beautiful piece based on the paintings of Jim Fitzpatrick - an Irish Goddess figure - but I ended up purchasing a set of surreal steampunk-style characters called Hypnocrats as well as a set of Skeleton soldiers. All, I have to say, were beautiful sculpts and a real pleasure to paint. But, back to the main bundle I'm working on ... A few weeks back I finished a selection of figures from Zombicide Green Horde and Black Plague. Recently I've completed a couple of sets from Great Escape Games ' Dead Man's Hand game. I've included a few sample pictures h...