Another night when I am only doing something just to say I did something - certainly NOT an hour! In my defense, the reason I had no time tonight was because I was running a 40K RPG for some friends. Does that count? I suppose not - it is hobby, but not hobby, you know?
There will always be days like this - days when you simply cannot get to the workbench for any meaningful length of time. Yesterday was like that, so was today, and so will this weekend (I have a full calendar). I suppose it would be perfectly fine - and make no real difference - to simply do nothing, to miss a day. I mean; really? Sticking four sets of legs to bases and putting four torsos on them will make a difference in how quickly these models will be finished?
Well, no - but it will make a difference to me. If you don't do anything, you didn't do anything - you made no progress. You might be able to say "Well, I will do more tomorrow - or did more a few days ago" (I've spent much more than an hour a day during the early part of the week). But we are told to pray "give us this day our daily bread" - not give us bread to last the week on Monday. Like religious devotion, painting is a discipline (and, for some, a religious devotion!) and needs to be worked at.
At least, it is for me (a discipline, not a religion). I know if I don't do something I will fall back into the habit of doing nothing.
So, there it is - four legs-and-torsos assembled. They are Dreamforge infantry, and are going to be some Dredd-inspired Arbites. For now, however, they are just armless torsos. Perhaps they can start a Black Crusade?
=][= Danforth Laertes
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