Khorne Cares Not . . . for novelty?

 

 Hi all,

Been an odd couple of months in Monkeyland.  We are all well, everyone's healthy, and I'm still working, so everything that matters is okay, but I have to admit, the ongoing slow-burn catastrophe that's been 2020 seems to be finally grinding me down a little, leaving little motivation for pictures or posts.

Khorne Daemons, about to unpack a can of whoop-ass

I've been picking away at a range of painting projects, mostly GW related, but have really struggled to muster the energy for anything historical.  While medium to long-term prospects are still good, in the short term, it's been hard to coordinate games (this time of year is really busy for me), and I find I need that impetus to get painting finished.  It doesn't help that my main chance to read, my transit commute to work, has disappeared due to working from home.  No games plus no history kind of cuts the legs out from under historical projects, it seems.

It looks like a Ghorgon, but it's pretending to be a bloodthirster.  Was, sadly, unimpressed.

Despite having a range of historical projects in 6mm and 15mm I'm at least theoretically interested in pursuing, I keep musing about some kind of Big Boy project in 28mm.  This has been, for those of you following, a running theme here for about a decade, but never quite seems to get off the ground.  While I picked up a box of the Victrix carthaginians a while back, and was quite excited when I did, they haven't caught my imagination the way I had hoped they might.  Might be early winter doldrums, might be a reality to confront.

Salamanders seconded a Blood Angels rhino.  Didn't help ;)

With Christmas coming, and my associated annual guilt-free hobby indulgence opportunity coming with it, I've been musing on a range of possible projects.  One, which has also been a "one day" theme here for a while is something SAGA-ish.  A bag each of the Victrix vikings and saxons is in budget, are nice figs, and are useable in a game system I know I like - if I can get games.

Cub's salamanders are coming together.  I think our most recent game was fully painted.

Another project I've mused on is something pike and shot era.  The Cub expressed interest in ECW, and I may have sold him on it as a 6mm project, but the reality is that he'd have to paint a side of this, and I don't know if I have the bandwidth for yet another project in 6mm - especially if I eventually want napoleonic French to go up against my Russians.  I could do this in 28mm; a local(ish) game shop has a pike and shot starter box that's appealing, I quite like the Warlord Black Book games, and the books themselves are generally gorgeous.  If I succumb to temptation, however, I have the same problem as with the little guys; it means taking on a whole new painting queue, and I don't know if that's realistic, given that I have a backlog on everything I'm already doing.  

Obligatory "Last Valley" picture with every discussion of a 30YW project.

This of course, raises the question of why start anything new at all - why not just concentrate on what I'm already doing?  This would be sound advice, but takes me back to the original problem - the slow leaching of energy and enthusiasm.  I know this is a seasonal thing; based on past December posts, I feel like this pretty much every year at this time.  I suspect that I start looking around for something new in December in the hopes that the thrill of novelty will help me over the hump.  Over the long-term, however, this does rather compound the problem via project bloat.

Hope you're all well, and weathering the crazy as well as can be expected.

FMB