So as far as my own hobby progress goes today:

– Stop getting distracted by other things and get my terrain challenge project finished this weekend.

Yep, made some progress. Might be a bit sketchy with regard to hitting the end of August timeframe but it’s probably still doable… Need to finish painting 5 cultists (speedpainting, so not too much of an issue), paint the portals (herein will lie the time sink) and then just glue everything together thereafter. then a write-up and we’re done. Sounds simple in theory…

– Almost immediately get distracted by historicals (keep painting the next batch of French, matt varnish all the minis that have had an Army Painter varnish, start baseing if I have time).

Again, yes. took me all of 20 minutes to get distracted by the historicals. put a quick coat of flesh on the skin areas then stopped at that.

Further, varnished my redcoats, skirmishing voltigeurs and the French line infantry in trenchcoats. They will need a touch up to bring them up to tabletop standard but that might need to wait until next weekend.

– While I am varnishing, varnish the Sharp Practice counters and some Bretonnian archers I have kicking about.

Got both these done. Tried to use a cheaper varnish on the backs of the Sharp Practice tokens but that reacted badly with the paint I had used so will need to re-paint. On a positive note, I did trial this on the backs of the tokens, and the varnish that is on there should help with the application of a smooth, even coat of paint (I couldn’t get the paint to go on evenly earlier, so could be a blessing in disguise).

– Finish my trap markers (this is a fancy way of saying – put stickers on primed poker chips…)

Behold, the trap counters in all their glory:

A pack of cheap plastic poker chips, a can of cheap green primer and some coloured stickers. Will use these on the tabletop as markers for potential traps. Depending on the game I am playing the traps will have different effects based on the colour of the stars (pit trap, snare, explosive, fire trap etc). No star obviously meaning that this particular counter is not a trap. I had considered texturing the other side of the traps with flock but was concerned that if there was any differentiation between the flocking it would eventually be possible to ascertain which markers contained traps and which did not (a tabletop version of a marked deck of cards?), so have left plain.

– Paint base edges on the orcs

Yup, 150 bases again… Still need to add a few colours on in batches and can then call these clowns tabletop ready.

– Work on my foot knights

No progress yet.

– Progress Skaven

A fair bit of headway today. added colour to a lot of the cloth areas. planning on doing the armour in copper and brass and lost of rust effects and verdigreen on the metals. The rats themselves will be grey/black rather than brown. Might make the leader an albino to make him easily identifiable? And the mandatory warpstone on the heroes weapons too… These guys will all be dipped in AP varnish so not too precious about being neat. Leaning towards quick on this project.

– Paint terrain

No joy here yet…