Getting back into mini painting

Back when I was running a weekly D&D campaign, I was very into painting minis. It was a hobby that worked with with an NYC apartment and there were a lot of exciting kickstarters at the time. Everyone playing in my campaign appreciated the minis and I got decently good at them. But as with all hobbies (at least for me), interest waned some, I got busy and put off painting more and more. Then covid came along and while lock down would've been a good time to work on painting… I just wasn't feeling it. I basically stopped painting for about 5 years.

Then my friend got into Blood Bowl, commissioned someone to paint her team and I jokingly said why not ask me? One thing led to another and well, she asked me to paint her new team. But I haven't painted in years. Some of my paints have separated, some have dried out, and it was kind of a mess. So I'm starting over! I'm going to use this blog to track my progress.

First things first, I needed some new paints. I did approximately zero research and bought some. Army Painter was all over Amazon when searching for mini paints, they seemed to have a good amount of engagement so I figured, oh, that's probably where it's at! So I got the Mega Paint Set off Amazon, picked up some new primer (also Army Painter), and got started.

I didn't start with my friend's team. I want to do a good job with that so I figured let me get back into the swing of things with some other minis. I've got quite the backlog of mini based board games to paint (Zombicide, Stuffed Fables, Dark Souls, Frosthaven, Kingdom Death... the list is effectively infinite and still growing as we're adding Kill Team to the mix).

Follow along for ups and downs as I work through this backlog of projects!