Neil Gow
Demi-God
Some of you might be aware that a couple of years ago I cast off the pretensions of my youth and started drawing and painting again. When I was a kid, despite being 'quite good' at the art thing, I convinced myself that (a) pencilling was for losers and (b) reference was for losers and therefore if I couldn't draw like George Perez from memory with inks, I was crap. Hence a very short hobby lasting one day.
Well, like many I have been tempted back to the miniature painting hobby during lockdown. (As an aside, I hate how this particular subset of the general gaming hobby has turned the word hobby from noun into a verb. So you settle down at night to 'hobby' - what a crock of shit)
It has been an interesting process. Painting has changed. No longer did you just have three methods to master - undercoat, wash, drybrush - but now you have base coats, shades, layers, glazes, highlighting, inks, technical paints and more. Fucking air brushes for minis! Anyway, what I lacked in acute eyesight from 18 yo me, I make up for now in disposable income, so I have been steadily noodling away at the figures I somehow have acquired around the house.
And in so doing, I have unleashed the Demon of 1989! That horrible self-doubt that sits on your shoulder and taunts you for not being as good as other people, especially those internet people, and those Youtube people and .... oh f**k off Demon of 1989. I'm not some wet-behind-the-ears 18 yo anymore.
So I asked the Guvnor if he had any figures he wanted painting, so I could practice on something other than Stormcast Eternals and Orks. And he did. I knew he did. Bwahahaha. Notice the word there though - practice. Free painting as I tried some stuff out.
He delivered in one of those doorstep COVID handovers that wouldn't have looked out of place in East Germany in the 70s, a couple of sets of Universal Spacecraft by eM-4 miniatures and some Hobgoblins by local good eggs, Midlam Miniatures. And I painted, and he was pleased.
And then he let me loose on them. And then he suggested I post the pictures here. I was initially reluctant (see above Demon of 1989) but you know what? f**k it.
Well, like many I have been tempted back to the miniature painting hobby during lockdown. (As an aside, I hate how this particular subset of the general gaming hobby has turned the word hobby from noun into a verb. So you settle down at night to 'hobby' - what a crock of shit)
It has been an interesting process. Painting has changed. No longer did you just have three methods to master - undercoat, wash, drybrush - but now you have base coats, shades, layers, glazes, highlighting, inks, technical paints and more. Fucking air brushes for minis! Anyway, what I lacked in acute eyesight from 18 yo me, I make up for now in disposable income, so I have been steadily noodling away at the figures I somehow have acquired around the house.
And in so doing, I have unleashed the Demon of 1989! That horrible self-doubt that sits on your shoulder and taunts you for not being as good as other people, especially those internet people, and those Youtube people and .... oh f**k off Demon of 1989. I'm not some wet-behind-the-ears 18 yo anymore.
So I asked the Guvnor if he had any figures he wanted painting, so I could practice on something other than Stormcast Eternals and Orks. And he did. I knew he did. Bwahahaha. Notice the word there though - practice. Free painting as I tried some stuff out.
He delivered in one of those doorstep COVID handovers that wouldn't have looked out of place in East Germany in the 70s, a couple of sets of Universal Spacecraft by eM-4 miniatures and some Hobgoblins by local good eggs, Midlam Miniatures. And I painted, and he was pleased.
And then he let me loose on them. And then he suggested I post the pictures here. I was initially reluctant (see above Demon of 1989) but you know what? f**k it.
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