It has been a few weeks since I last posted here. Hobby took a bit of a back seat while I have been taking care of the home-front as one of my dogs had some surgery and required an extended recovery. It was looking a bit bleak for her although things seem to be trending in the right direction for my little fur-covered family member.
After a few weeks from painting, I decided to ease back into things by tackling some of the 10mm Azincourt English longbowmen. I figured these would be easy enough to speed paint and get back into the flow of things. Painting seemed a bit disjointed but I ultimately got back into a rhythm of things and transitioned back into resumption of my 6mm Solferino project; I had four battalions of French infantry partially started and am nearing completion of these.
While painting all of the above, I am beginning to come to grips with something that has been happening for the past year or so...my eyesight is deteriorating. Some days and some times, I can see as sharp as ever and others not so much...I am more painting by assumption and intuition as to where things should be. I will probably never paint to the same quality as the past. I will have to accept that. Hopefully I can continue to chip away at my lead pile as there are many more projects I want to tackle sooner rather than later.
Anyway, enough of the depressing stuff...I hope to post some eye candy soon as I finish up these 1859 French infantry. I have also ordered some scenery (I have also come to the conclusion that I need more scatter terrain to block line of sight for various rules) and also some 15mm modern vehicles for Krapistan and some 10mm SCW and fantasy stuff.
Me too..after years of painting without any trouble I'm now wearing reading glasses for even the big stuff!
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