Stuck at Home; Keeping myself sane

I was furloughed and sent home late March from work due to the growing Pandemic crisis. As a way to keep myself occupied I decided to try and get as much of my grey army painted as humanly possible.

During this period I didn’t set a goal such as finish an army, that would have been to sensible. I just basically grabbed stuff from my boxes and painted what ever took my fancy.

I did managed to get my German Flames of War army finished, and all the US tanks from the Hit the Beach starter set. Yet, all my other projects just got bits and pieces painted. Though when I amassed everything for a one big photo, I did noticed that I’d painted quite a lot of Bolt Action stuff, but not from the same army. Though I did manage paint a full unit of Chinese infantry, a unit of British Chindits.

I was overall quite productive during the last few weeks and managed to get quite a haul of miniatures painted, though I’ll be honest it’s not really made that much of a dent in my grey army which has made me realize how much I actually have. I also realized I’ve probably got too many projects on the go at any one time. So I’ve decided to try and not start a new project until I’ve finished one of the ones I’ve already started (I did say try).

One project I did manage to finally finish was the Walking Dead starter box. All I had left to finish were the zombies which I finally did, and I also finished off the scenery pack for Walking Dead as well, but I still have some additional expansions to now start before the Walking Dead is complete.

Projects I started earlier this year, also got a sizable chunk completed, for instance I started painting up some of the buildings for my various terrain projects. Mortal Gods and SPQR minis were started, I painted a selection of Roman and Greek infantry.

The one project that kinda has been neglected during this crisis have been the Team Yankee armies. I only painted three items, one of the tanks (T-55) for my Chinese army and an M109 self propelled gun along with a command post for my BAOR British army. So my plan before the end of the month, which is when my furlough officially ends is to finish building and painting the four other T-55’s I have.

So I 10 days left before my furlough ends, and I’m planning to get a fair few more models finished by then, which includes some more Greeks, the T-55’s and possibly the post apocalyptic Scooby Gang by Hasslefree.