Saturday 31 October 2015

What's on my palette

Bless me readers for I have sinned, it's been over five months since my last confession. Obviously I was a bit busy with Man Caves, Dangles and Lancers but what now?



I've blog wars in a few days and as I'm no longer taking the Dangles they've pretty much gone off the boil. However I will not foresake them but I will be refocussing my efforts. First up I'm going to finish off my Teleport Homers/Energy Field/Objective markers. They're on my To Do List, so they're sin free and given I'll be weathering them up with Verdigris it will help build confidence for the weathering ahead on the Lancer.


The Lancer is the next priority. I need to be decisive about choices to be made and crack on with him. He could be so close to completion if I manage to put in some concerted effort in getting him done.

 
I will also fish out the Tactical Squad, see if I can crack on with them and perhaps finish up on the Bastions while I'm at it. Again these are potentially 'quick wins', I mean they're not, I'll obviously take forever doing them but they're considerably more progressed than a lot of other projects so it feels liek I should be able to finish them up quick[ish].


No real surprises here but it's what comes after that's the big question and to be honest I don't know. Of course I do have my list of things to do but I'm not looking at that as priority order. I do have the second Knight to paint but I still have to full magnetise him first which I think may be a Winter job, y'know prepare stuff during the cold weather ready for a Spring surge.

One other thing I want to get better at is 'brevity'. I was recently at a seminar where the head of Government Communications highlighted brevity as extremely important nowadays. We live in a society where twitter and it's 140 character limit has shown that people don't want tomes of text. He quoted Mark Twain

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

And I know I'm guilty of doing just that, which is odd as quite often I find myself railing against other people doing just that. I've talked abotu this before and 'micro-blogging' but this time I'll endeavour to be more succinct [as I'm failing to do right now ;) ] Anyway, if I get the hang of it it should make the blog better maybe help other bloggers too. Towards that end if you didn't know of it already and I only looked it up recently I'd advise checking this out if you needed convincing of brevity TL;DR.

3 comments:

  1. That lancer is going to be a thing of beauty when it's completed. Getting the quick wins out of the way is always nice. I have a unit of 10 80% finished horrors glaring at me right now. Though I have a hellbrute to finish first.

    Do worry to much about waffle longer posts are oftern more enjoyable, and if you're posts suffered because of it I and many others would never have followed you.
    Keep up the great work.

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    1. Thanks Daniel, hope you can cracking on with the Horrors and the Helbrute, I feel a huge sense of achievement having completed OOEs, so I know getting something done is major positive and helps build momentum.

      And just to say the Lancer went 'next level' the other night. The damage has begun and I really think it's going to make it the best thing I've painted to date! So excited to see it finished.

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    2. Thanks Daniel, hope you can cracking on with the Horrors and the Helbrute, I feel a huge sense of achievement having completed OOEs, so I know getting something done is major positive and helps build momentum.

      And just to say the Lancer went 'next level' the other night. The damage has begun and I really think it's going to make it the best thing I've painted to date! So excited to see it finished.

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