Return of the Painter

Hello! I’ve been gone from WordPress for about seven years now when I decided to stop painting miniatures to go do other things, but the itch to paint and play with little plastic dudes has returned. *

The gentlemen above, particularly the guy in the middle, were the catalyst that caused me to rekindle my interest. I got invited to play in a huge game using a one-page rule set called The Laser and the Flame, which uses a deck of cards for resolving combat and was simple and a lot of fun.

There were six of us and for some odd reason I was made the Commander of the “Not-Tau” against the “Not-Tyranids” on a planet full of resources and terrain built cunningly from aquarium pieces. ***

My command style was to mentally divide the board into three sections with me taking the center, and when we got activations, I’d suggest a unit to my sub-commander and say, “Go kill something.” I might make a suggestion but usually in the spirit of the highly trained Not-Tau I depended mainly upon individual initiative. We were professionals after all.

It was a great day, and I decided to get back into the hobby post-haste and go back to what I enjoyed: painting Nurgle-based dudes. ***

So for now I’m going to post something new that is hobby related when I have something to report and maybe comb through my old blog and refresh and repost some of the old tutorials and such that I think are still useful.

And the great thing about this new start is this time I actually spelled my name correctly before I paid for the new domain, so there’s that.

* A lot to tweak on this blog from stuff to get it back into shape.

** Also, stayed on my ever-present diet!

** Though I’m favoring some Nurgle-debased Death Korps of Kreig too if I’m being honest.