Halp. I've stumbled once more into a dusty, forgotten pit lined with the skulls of heretics and xenos, with the deafening roar of the Omnissiah's children pervading above all... and the chanting... it beckons...
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I shouldn't... I mustn't... I just bought a new computer, damnit...
But, fuck is it hard to resist!
I keep trying to convince myself that maybe... only MAYBE... if I can get my lazy arse into gear and take a crack at my pile of shame. Only if I do SOMEthing with my mismatched and failed painting attempts...
I mean, I'll confess that part of the problem is how expensive the minis are... expensive enough that a part of me has always been too scared of making a mistake and "ruining" them with a bad paint job. But, if it is possible to strip the globbed on paint off my older space marines... I can begin again...
... I'm just also too scared of ruining the models or something, but it seems fairly straightforward... I mean, I figured out a use for the old sprues; slather them with paint, and then see how both the paint and the plastic reacts to whatever the recommended product is for stripping them.
The next step, of course, would be restoring my old paints; I apparently last ordered something online from GW in 2016, so uhm... I'm not exactly sure how long ago I last used them, considering I was trying to make it a habit to watch a regular stream while painting, but they all still seem to retain some liquid. I haven't really looked any closer than shaking the pots, because I'm afraid of what I might find with closer scrutiny...
Fear... I must not fear, fear is the mind-killer... ah, you know the rest.
The glue will be absolutely fucked by now, though. So I'm just gonna order some more, aaaand... shoot. I just had to order some new models, didn't I. Well F---- at least I didn't go crazy and buy one of EVERYthing... not to mention the rulebooks, considering I'll probably never play the game, haha. Now to see if I can keep myself from opening them until after I've done as I promised myself I would do and stripped/painted the models I already have...
... well, at least some of them, right? I also have a couple of incomplete Skaven regiments... and then there's that Tomb Kings army I impulse purchased in 2016 as a "last chance to buy" thing... so many skeleton boyos... and that ridiculous necrosphinx... 's pretty, though. Haven't been game to even consider assembling it... and then, well... life happened. You know how it goes.
I mean, it'll be at least a week, maybe two, before they arrive, so that should be plenty of time to stop being so god damned LAZY. Or depressed, or anxious or whatever the funk I'm in right now. ARGH! I feel like I'm trapped in a cage, and my weak, feeble limbs are unable to break free.
I'm weighed down by my constant, inexorable fucking job, and with it stealing so much time from me I keep staying awake too late to try and take back what I can. Speaking of... after the last few hours pining over Warhammer minis, and being completely lost as to what paints to buy because I've never known what chapter of Space Marines I want to paint... I need to be up for work in about 4 hours, so I really think I need to call it here.
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