An Ancient Blitz - a more upbeat post!

I have been taking time to think about my recent period of painting malaise (better than the term 'burn out' I think). I have had some useful feedback, especially on my YouTube channel where other painters have expressed going through similar experiences and it's impact. I think I understand the root causes now and so will be able to address them going forward.

That said I have been taking things easy over past weeks but I did manage to put in a solid nine days work on the batch of Warlord Epics you see below. It was a push but I think it did me good mentally to know that I can still do it! Alongside these I also pushed myself to finish off the last of the large sci fi figures for David which I was doing for the Battle Cry game exchange. As I said to David I had clearly hit the wall on these too but was determined to get them completed for the Summer. In the  same 8 day period I have thus painted the final figures, 4 more Space Marines, 15 Space cadets  and the last 4 Tyrranids. This completes the 60 odd figures and it feels really good to have cleared the decks a little more. David will have them by end of this week but I'll do a photo post of them all together before they go this week.

For the rest of August I'm taking things easy!

Warlord Epic figures painted for Leo - 12 bases (24 strips) of Libyan heavy infantry, decals applied to most shields as supplied by Warlord. A good 4 hours work in this alone as the decals need to be carefully lifted from the backing sheet in water and applied with a brush removing as much excess water as possible from the shield. When dry sealed with matt varnish. 4 elephants assembled and painted. 7 days painting, 1 day on the decals and 1 full day basing all in. It feels good, a sense of achievement that has given me a mental boost