Okay so I have had the models posted here painted for a while I think date on the pics is the 8th of July. These are the last models I have finished, I still have the 10 Phalanx Warders sitting with paint started to be applied. So here is the finished work.
I painted these up for some upcoming encounters in Iron Kingdoms Requiem, a 5th edition version of the roleplaying game for the Warmachine/Hordes setting. These are all for ma long ago Kickstarter for the Widower Woods. Paint was a mix of coat and wash and Contrast paints, I actually started these about 3 years ago while in Korea and they had been sitting with the first coat on them since then, As a wargamer I use miniatures very heavily in my RPGs. I even custom build or convert models for my players. Such as these...
The three on the left were painted by me and the two on the right were paitned by my wonderful wife who is also playing in the game.
Here it is a month later and these are all I have painted, why? Well I am pretty much just done with everything. I am desperately scrabbling to dig myself out of the pit of depression that I have been slowly sinking into the last lets say two years. Painting used to bring me joy and was one of my major stress relievers and when I can bring myself to do it it still is. That said so much hate has been directed to me and people like me that I struggle to find the energy to put paint to models. Combine this with a propensity to find it all of a waste of time when I am not playing the games it is not helping much. I have not been able to get a game in since I want to say maybe December for Wargaming and since March for RPGs. The state of affairs in my home country is bleak, I may have 3 months I loose coverage for my Hormone Therapy depending on which way things break down in the committee to determine the NDAA for FY 24. This is probably TMI but I don't produce my own naturally any more and never produced the ones that actually allow me to think clearly and feel more than a constant state of stress.
Combine this with people in my home State ramping up to start the stupid "If we pass this anti discrimination law for LGBTQIA+ people, rapists are going to use it to molest women in the bathrooms" B.S. I am not really in a great state right now. I love to see the progress other people are making on this challenge and as a plus I have been so depressed I haven't bought anything since the Leviathan box which was only purchased because I had finished up the Gatormen. I think I was a week or two passed when I finished painting them when I took the pictures. Even as I am writing this I am glancing at the Warders trying to determine if I have the energy to put any more Leadbelcher on the remaining 5 that need that color.
