What is happening at the moment. Not a lot, I seem to be
suffering some sort of nervous twitch in my left thumb which makes painting and
holding figures steadily almost impossible. I did try however, but I would go
to paint an Ansar’s rifle, twitch just as brush bristles touched led and then
end up painting brown on his clothes. I had to revert to basing (for spraying) and undercoating new figures and painting the
base coat on completed bases but based figures suck up a lot more space than
when they are new in a bag so I’ve actually run out of storage boxes. There has
also been some grumbling in the camp by my civilian camp followers about the
space I am taking up in the kitchen, and I have been warned that a mutiny may
occur.
Before the dreaded twitch I was going all out to finish my
15mm Zulu and Dervish armies and I made some headway, but alas I am now laying
low until I can’t paint twitch free again. The Dervishes are Peter Pig and they
are such a nice figures, I whinged to myself
that one of the figures had flash on the front and back (I’ve never seen flash
on a PP figure before) so got out the old knife and pruned away. I then decided
to engage my brain and realised as this particular tribesman was nude, then
perhaps the “flash” at the front was actually his crown jewels and so I only
pruned the flash at the front. I guess I just assumed it was flash and didn’t
really have my 15mm figure penis check mind set on.
So I am currently just reading blogs and doing paperwork for
solo campaigns I intend to run. One of those campaigns is to redo my Jaxonia
Ubongo campaign as the last time I did it I seemed to have tremendous luck. On
rereading the rules I found I had made a few mistakes and left out jungle
encounters completely, but as I now have a bag of Jungle animals from Irregular
Miniatures it looks like gorillas, crocodiles and various others beasts will
also pray on the poor soldiers.
Its pretty boring with a twitchy thumb !
Its pretty boring with a twitchy thumb !
3 comments:
Bummer, Man! You might have to learn how to paint one-handed, which seems to involve fastening figures in rows to something fixed (say a batten clamped in a bench vice), paint front then paint back. If it's only the thumb that's twitching you can still steady things with your fingers.
Have you seen the quack about it?
A twitchy thumb sounds like a right pain in the ..... Had a good chuckle about you "pruning" flash too.
I only went to the doctor last week, I think its just from some DIY I was doing so I'll leave it few days and then get back into the ACW. Good idea on the painting stands, Ive seen others do it I might use milk bottletops and toothpicks
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