I got distracted. Ugh. I hated this model. For a long time now I've been wanting to have a go at painting some Eldar (Aeldari? What are they even called now?) models from the Craftworld Iybraesil, inspired by  Stahly from Tale of Painters . The other day I was watching a YouTube video from Sonic Sledgehammer Studio where he painted a  Celestial Vindicator  in a similar, turquoise scheme and it made me think "maybe it's time I finally had a go". Here's the thing about me though, I'm lazy, and I hate mixing paints. I don't even like thinning paints. To me it seems like a faff and knowing I'm going to have to do it a lot is the sort of thing that puts me off picking up a brush. This is why I love the airbrush paints that Games Workshop do these days. I do use them in my airbrush but I also use them with a normal brush straight out of the pot. The problem is, they don't do airbrush versions of the whole range. So I jumped in the car and drove dow

Well, where to start? 2019 was the year I properly got back into the hobby. My interest was piqued way back in 2011 and I dipped my toe in and out here over the next 8 (?!) years without ever fully committing. That all changed in 2019. One of the biggest reasons I finally managed to become a fully-fledged miniature painter again was clearing out the spare room in our house. We have a box room that was previously just used as a dumping ground. It was the room where we put everything we didn't know where else to put. I changed jobs back in February and had a week off so I cleared the room out, put a shelf up and set it up as my hobby room. Having a dedicated space really made a difference. One of the reason's I never used to have the motivation to do any painting was because I couldn't be to get all of my stuff out of a cupboard and put it all away again once I was finished. The other big thing this year was setting up this blog and my Instagram account. Being able to t