• Did you notice 2021 has only 10 months left? Really?! I mean, I can believe it, but hadn’t really noticed it as such – it just slipped by and suddenly we’re at the end of February. I thought some bugger was slipping an extra Friday somewhere in the middle of each week, because it feels like every time I check my emails, there’s another one to say “new thread started”. I can’t believe it’s Friday again.

• If you could have your favourite sculptor do a one off mini for you free of charge: what would it be and what scale? I’m not quite sure what of, but it’d definitely be 32mm. I like little tiny fighting dudes. I don’t understand – for example, 3d printing Patreon supporters – who want ever bigger minis like Titans and massive spaceships and giants and things. It’s called tabletop miniature wargaming. I like the idea of 15mm but in all honesty, they’re too fiddly to paint satisfactorily.  32mm is just chunky enough to be able to paint lots of lovely detail, but still look cute and small on the tabletop. I actually prefer 28mm scale, but 32mm is the sweet spot for painting yourself (just that bit easier to create blacklining and painting eyes etc).

• Would you then paint said mini yourself or would you be willing to pay a high level pro to do it for you? I would give the mini a go myself. But I’d make sure I had three or four copies of it (my favourite sculptor would undoubtedly be a digital sculptor, so I’d drop a couple of copies onto the 3d printer). One to paint, one to leave in a black and white zenithal highlighted state (so you can see all the lovely details before I’ve obscured them with 2mm of paint and nuln oil) and one to send to an expert painter, once I had the readies.

Are we still doing pledges? Mine’s a bit “etheral” this week – to do some hobby once a day. I can’t find the thread now, but recently joined in with pick-up-a-brush-for-an-hour-at-the-end-of-the-day scheme. I’ve had a lovely couple of hours just edge highlighting a couple of Blood Bowl orcs these last few evenings and I rather fancy keeping it going for a little while longer. So this weeks pledge is just to paint a bit every evening. That still counts, right?

And if we’re going to be playing awful pop tunes from the 90s just because they make us all nostalgic for simpler (hell, I’m going to say it, even better) times – ka-pow, take that: