Distracting Myself From... Myself

So the world's on fire, but you're tired of hearing about that, and so am I. Instead, I thought I might talk about things I'm doing to keep busy while stuck at home. I have a lot of hobbies, and rarely get the chance to indulge them, so here goes...


Miniatures I've worked on previously. That's a dime in the foreground, for scale...


First, I've been painting miniatures again. Mostly, I've been working on my Napoleonic (historical) miniatures, painting up some Austrians, French, and Russians. These are very small: 15 mm scale (meaning a figure of a 6' tall man would be 15mm tall). Surprisingly, they are slow to finish, and I get frustrated at the lack of progress and lose momentum. I've also been painting a few Warhammer Fantasy miniatures; I've just finished some goblins and wood elves. These are 28mm scale, so almost twice as big as the Napoleonics. Games Workshop's sculptors have a technique to make the details of the figure really pop - kind of like a caricature. This style makes highlighting the details easy, though I still have trouble...
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