I don’t know if I have ADHD in real life, but in my hobby life I tick every damned box. I struggle to stay focused on any one project for more than a week, and I start getting antsy and resentful when I DO manage to buckle down longer than usual. Luckily, our hobby spoils us for choice, so those moments of crazed manic outbursts tend to be short.
I do, however, get cranky, too. When responding to Kuribo on my previous post, I appear to be really angry at the Ork project that I wanted to finish before the end of October, being Orktober and hoping to ride that wave of themed-project goal endorphins into the next month.
Well, I might still make it. But, to keep myself from going insane and binning the entire project right when it was getting close, I decided to take a couple of days to distract myself with other stuff.
Old World Wood Elves
One of the classic armies from Warhammer Fantasy that I always wanted to paint up, and I managed to get a pretty good deal on a sizable number of the old model range. They’re really showing their age, but I really love taking that trip to nostalgia land. The first thing I finished up was a test model for my Glade Guard:
While I was working that out, I remembered that I have some Warhammer Quest models that haven’t done anything but sit in boxes for a while, and decided that needed to change. The first one done is the Elf Outcast from Cursed City, and I decided to paint and base her to be a Waystalker for the army. I freaking LOVE this model!
This centaur is another cool mini from the Darkwater box, and he’ll be leading my Glade Riders. I think both of these models will go a long way towards adding some variation to the army, and the autumnal theme will help them stand out a little (although a ton of people are doing autumnal wood elves right now).
Fantasy Skirmish
Bren Tylis is a knight from the Darkwater box, and I love how disheveled she looks. Like she’s been on the road for ages and can’t be bothered to fix her armor because there’s too many monsters to kill. I painted her to look like she’s given everything a fresh scrub before entering the city, inspired by Ser Duncan always cleaning up before entering the lists on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
She’ll be another good mini for my fantasy skirmish collection, which will be used for Pulp Alley, Five Leagues from the Borderlands, Frostgrave, and Black Death City/Mordheim. That’s a lot of utility for one miniature!
Now, I need to buckled down and finish these orks before Saturday night! I have three Grots and four big command models to knock out, and maybe I’ll get the half-track and stomper finished if I really focus!
