Whilst it may be old news to some of you more veteran painters out there,i've discovered a way of making the big battalions more fun to paint.
I'd fallen in to the trap of setting myself targets to have a certain battalion painted by such a date.
It was becoming a chore to paint, and then i felt frustrated if i fell behind, i always wanted to start the next unit before i'd finish the last one.
When a friend asked me to paint their unit for them , i gladly took the project on to escape from the tread mill! Then it dawned on me, i wasn't painting for fun anymore. So I painted a few of this unit and then something else,a officer here a poor footslogger there. It total broke the dark cloud i was painting under. Sure it takes longer and my friend probable regrets giving me his figures now as i'm only painting a few at a time , but hey, I'm enjoying painting again.
If i want to start a new unit i do, sod the last unit i'll return to them sometime later! It might well take longer to finish my WSS French than the actual war lasted. Never mind i'm happy
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please let me know if you had a system or a timetable and broke free the surly bonds of robotic painting!
Vive le painting Free style!!!
(The historical evidence that God comes from Lancashire is slim, however he's definitely not from Yorkshire)