A Tale of a Lazy Painter

 A Tale of a Lazy Painter

    I have always loved building and painting the great models Games Workshop produces.  Hours spent in careful attention to style and detail to get each model perfect.  Unfortunately, this careful attentiveness has often led me down the path of burnout and many a half finished plastic army has been sold off never to hit the tabletop. 

This blog is hopefully a tool to motivate me into finishing a full army without allowing myself the chance to be burned out or scared off by mounting model kits on my desk.  I have set a very strict rules system in the building of this army.  The rules for this are as follows:

• At the beginning of the month, I will purchase ~$50 worth of miniatures for this army.
• Throughout the month I will work on  assembling and painting the models purchased this month, with the generous one month time table.
• At the end of the month, I will post the finished models on this blog to log my progress.

• If I am unfinished by the end of a month I haven't finished this task, I will skip the next month's purchase until I get these done.

I considered carefully which game I'd build an army for, and being that my last failed project was Warhammer 40k, I decided I'd throw another bone to the Fantasy battles.  I knew I wanted an army that had a current army book, as this project could take a bit of time, and I'd hate to get an outdated army before it hit the table.  I would feel like a cheater if I chose Ogre kingdoms and  abused their low model count to finish the job. That left Vampire Counts and Orcs and Goblins, the latter of which was just too uncivilized for someone of my taste and sophistication (lol..no, seriously).  I am much more a classy Lord of some dark and dreary manor, who by moonlight feasts on the poor peasants of my lands.  With my decision made, I absconded to the Nearest plastic crack shop and grabbed these Beauties:

This is my progress as of day 1.  20 skeletons assembled (the shields are left off for painting.)  They are armed with spears.  I haven't made an army list yet, but I am sure I want these models in it.  total expenditure so far: ~$44.00.  Tomorrow I plan on adding sand to the bases and tuesday I hope to have these primed and ready to dig in on painting.

Tune in next time for the exciting conclusion!

Andre