I am currently on what I can only describe as a "Finishing Spree"...
Before moving onto anything fresh, I am tidying up some loose ends... This may take several months. Who knows?
Anyway, I have started with a regiment which has been half finished for something like a decade!
The Classic Collection is really just a shelf-parade these days for me, although that may change soon.
But the Constantinov Regt needed to be finished, just to tick a box on my hobby project planner... So here are a couple of snaps as they rolled off the workbench (figuratively) at the weekend:
There are a few more images and further details on my other blog - Classic Wargaming.
Other items in the finishing pile range from Ancients to TYW, to Marlburian (Wars of the Vaubartian Succession), to many more.
I'm not sure what precipitated the desire to tidy up such loose ends... maybe it was the fact that I have been in hospital for a small procedure relating to my Prostate Cancer. It's been almost 5 years since my first diagnosis, and I'm still here... a couple of things from most recent surveillance (blood tests and MRI scan) were causing the medics some concern, so more prodding and poking was needed (I think they just want an excuse!). Nothing to report back yet, but perhaps that is what has put me in the mood to finish up some things.
Who knows... but to the many who have enquired about my well-being, thank you. The big message for me, and from me, is to just enjoy your hobby - it is the most glorious escape, especially when you do it your way!
Finishing spree? I would have thought a wargamer of your intellect would know there is no such thing Phil. But its good to see more Stadden grenadiers. One of my favourite figures and like you mine are more for shelf parade than for fighting which is a real shame.Beautiful figures Phil, so well done.
ReplyDeleteYes, the idea of "finishing" does seem a bit alien, to say the least!
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Phil
Your decade old half completed unit made me smile.
ReplyDeleteSad thing is, Norm, I don't think it's a record... I have other half-finished units older than that.
DeletePhil
Nice to see the grenadiers finished. I have oddments stuck on the painting table - I am trying to clear away the existing log jam - then I can focus on the Samurai project and then get distracted again :)
ReplyDeleteHope all goes well with the results of the medical investigations
Thx Tidders. You are a paragon of prolific productivity. Your 'distractions' are always interesting too.
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Phil
Lovely looking figures, those Staddens are really super.
ReplyDeleteThx Donnie. The Stadden figures are really works of art... so well proportioned and elegant.
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Phil
Marvellous looking troops!
ReplyDeleteRegards, James