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Gaah! Just had one of those paint session that completely fails to satisfy...you know the one? Just couldn't get my eye to focus in and my brain to engage with what I was doing. Essentially I was suffering a sort of Brechtian Alienation from the Scout Squad I was painting. Now, as much as I...

Right, well I've been away from the paints for over a week now and the withdrawal has been dreadful. I've been in holiday, that thing where you go away and have to have a good time. LIke it or not. I couldn't take my mini's and gear with me so I've just had to withdraw. I took a sci-fi book...

Okay, so I'm pushing on trying to improve. I'm pretty sure that my most recent mini I've posted is my best yet, but I just can't get my cameraphone to translate the way the eye does. I did what I reckon most of us do, and started research. Now the problem I've got is I probably know too much...

I've been posting some updated mini's, I find it helpful to respond to the score I'm getting as a way of improving the minatures. IT tells me if I'm going forward in the right direction. But if there's one thing I know you can't move forward with out checking your mirrors...right? (okay okay...

I've been posting some updated mini's, I find it helpful to respond to the score I'm getting as a way of improving the minatures. IT tells me if I'm going forward in the right direction. But if there's one thing I know you can't move forward with out checking your mirrors...right? (okay okay...

There's somthing strangely therapeutic about starting again. When your brush chucks a hair out of place and smears paint across the edge you were highlighting. Well.... You just have to start again! I've just started again, like this blog from that ancient awkward entry back in May 2012 and...

Anyone there?.... Any survivors respond please?.... Any minature painters surviving from the maelstrom of the mid nineties? I have returned to the bunker of my memories, dusted off my skills and returned to the hobby. But believe me, my skills are rusty. You know that moment, when the tip of...