Last week I wrote a lot about Man of Steel and almost immediately after I clicked Publish, I realized there were some more things I wanted to cover. Oh well, I guess you’ll never know what I thought about Superman’s actions in the final battle (In a nutshell I didn’t have a problem with them).
On to this week’s blog!
I start my three day work weeks this week until the end of July. I’m hoping to recharge the ol’ batteries and get back to drawing and writing more. I’ve been a little complacent lately as you may have noticed. The mash-ups are getting harder to do as I try to decide on themes that will inspire me to big bursts of creative output. It’d sure be nice to get a buffer of mash-ups to post instead of scrambling to finish one on Tuesday night. Just need a little more discipline. No doubt, the extra time off each week will help as it did least year.
Not all that long ago, I vehemently announced that I didn’t care for painting miniatures and that I’d probably never paint them again. What happened? No more than a week later I was painting miniatures again. In 2011 I bought Super Dungeon Explore which is a minis board game. I loved the chibi design style they used for the characters. I was so jazzed by them, I was all set to do something I hadn’t done since my foray into Warhammer 40K about a decade ago: I was going to dip back into painting miniatures! I bought a whole mess of supplies (fortunately the dollar store sells paint that’s plenty good enough for minis) and…well that’s as far as I got.
A couple of weeks ago, I found a video on the Watch It Played channel on Youtube about Super Dungeon Explore. I love Smith’s videos as they give you a great overview of the games he’s covering. I shared the video with one of my gaming groups and they were interested, so I’d finally get a chance to play. One of them wondered if I was going to paint the minis. Well, that got me to thinking about painting minis again and now I’m close to a third of the way through painting the minis in the base set. It’s not really stellar work. I lack the patience and technique (mostly patience) to knock them out of the park.
Mostly I’ve been toiling on getting the multiple done. There are multiples of each sculpt and I figured they’d make good practice before tackling the heroes minis which I’d like to do a decent to good job on. Today I finished one of the ogres which is one of the bigger minis in the game. I wish they were all that size as I’m actually pretty happy with the way he turned out. Of course, if the heroes were that size, the ogre would have been HUGE and the game would have been a pain to lug around to play.
I bought a couple of the expansions for Super Dungeon Explore and I’m naturally inclined to buy the others in the near future (as well as any future expansions). I’ll be painting minis forever!
Hey! It’s a non-Animus pic!