What Minis Are You Painting?

Got inspired to paint this weekend. Or maybe I was just procrastinating about getting stuff ready for the holidays. Anyway, we finally finished our Tales of the Arabian Nights minis, which we had started back in January. We had gotten four done, and then lost the muse. We also painted about half of our Castle Ravenloft minis. Maybe pictures soon. Or maybe later. I really have to clean and pack and do other boring stuff that sucks now.

Well, I didn't get the cleaning or the packing done. I'm such a slacker, although I did get a load of laundry done, so we will have something to pack. Packing for a trip is kind of a pain because I don't believe in owning more clothes than we really need for weekly wear. The Spawn wears a uniform and I have to wear boring work clothes to my job, so neither of us owns a lot of casual clothes. To pack for a five day trip means all the casual clothes need to be clean. I'm usually doing laundry right up until the last minute so I can put what was worn the evening before into the suitcases.

Anyway, as I said, I was a slacker and spent the evening painting again. Painting gives me a feeling of serenity which is rare in the hectic, noisy, business of every day life. Nothing but music and total focus on the tiny thing right in front of me. I should paint more. It would probably make me a better person to be around.

THe Spawn and I put the finishing touches on the Tales of the Arabian Nights minis, put felt on their bottoms, and carefully packed them into their box. It's a really tight fit in that Tales box with the addition of 8 figures. We also put the finishing touches on couple of the Castle Ravenloft figures. I taught the Spawn how to do a wash. Her figures turned out quite well. She likes to paint the heroes. She base coated another one of the heroes before bedtime. I started and finished two more of the villians - the Howling Hag, and the little muppet looking dude. I think we just have Strahd, and the big monsters left to do. And also the heroes that the Spawn has claimed, but until she finishes them we are just using some pre-painted other D&D minis we already have.

We spent some time this vacation painting Invasion from Outer Space. I got stuck with painting all the Martins. I usually get stuck painting the dudes that are a lot of, that are all basically alike, because I can paint faster. Finished all the touch up to day (I also have a steadier hand for the finer details).

Now I just have to get the damn helmets glued on. The dude at the hobby shop recommended "window" glue, which I guess is used to glue clear plastic windows to things like airplane models. The glue is really thin and a huge pain in the ass.

I figured out one of my problems with getting the helmets to stay on. The helmets don't seat correctly in one of the sculpts. There's a tiny bit that is preventing the helmet from making full contact all the way around. So now I have to very carefully cut and scrape that tiny bit away. Wish me luck.