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Quarantine Roundup 1: March 20 - April 26

So far, despite the hardships throughout the world, my own experiences with the Quarantine have been very productive. Painting miniatures is very therapeutic.  I painted a lot of characters that have been sitting on my shelf and they've been a great palate cleanser and also cleared some big wedges from my backlog.

April 1: This rad rocker is done in my pink Emperor's Children scheme except without the mad motley of other colors. The purple does such a better job that I am considering dragging out the rest of my Noise Marines to repaint them.


April 2: This Anvils of the Heldenhammer Leena Stormspire was another personal challenge to take time and have patience during the work. I almost succeeded. I mean, I was done in a day, so I clearly didn't truly give her the time she deserved.


April 4: My swamp-dwelling Defenders of S'val Necrons force have a new Cryptek, The Hag. She says "peace out!" This is another one thatd' been sitting around for some time.


April 5: I bought this fella with the intent of using him in Hero Quest, but we recently wrapped our game up. Still, I thought it'd be nice to give Slambo the paint job he deserves. This is also my go at Contrast over metallic.


April 12: I wrapped up these 56 old Saurus Warriors, a fun ebay find, in about a week. I am very excited to finally try out  two giant blocks of Saurus as these are in addition to forty others that I've already got.



April 16: I painted a fourth Weirdboy. Because sure, why not? And the "Red" Gobbo had to be added to my army!



April 16: I painted a couple of models for a charity auction that 1 Hour a Night is doing and they were a lovely palate cleanser. First, I did the Exorcist...


April 20: Then the Praetor of Orpheus.



April 25: I had a load of Gretchin in my backlog because my friends are jackasses.


April 26: After painting the Gretchin, I took the squad of 19 I already had done with blue guns and repainting them, turning their white clothes yellow and highlighting up their skin a bit.



After all that, this is what remains of my Warhammer hobby -- 3 Titanicus Knights, Tech Priest Grombrindal, two Squigs, old Ghazghkull & Makari, the Unmade Warband, the Splintered Fang Warband, the Elucidian Starstriders, the original Blackstone Fortress models, two Inquisitors, a couple of Victoria Miniatures models, Huron Blackheart, and a giant turtle dude.


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