Hello!
Welcome to my miniature painting/wargaming blog.
Before I delve into anything interesting I would like to start with a introduction and why I am creating such a blog.
My name is Sam, I live in South Australia, and have been in the miniature painting hobby for around 7-8 years roughly. I am only 20 (well nearly 21), so started when I was around 13, give or take a year, so the first few years of my hobby might not really count :P. It was probably around 4-5 years ago when I started actually getting into it a bit more seriously and developing it something I actively did in my life.
I more of a painter and modeler over wargaming as a game. Not to say I don't wargame, its probably more I'm not much of a social person, and don't really know anyone in my locality who shares the same hobby to really game much. I started in the Games Workshop ranges, and as I've gotten older started taking interest in Historicals as well.
But over the last 2 years up till around July last year I had gotten little done in my hobby in terms of getting anything assembled or painted. In 2008 I was diagnosed with Ulcerative colitis/Crohns disease, which at first wasn't overly an issue, but as time went on and I went into High school it started to affect me greatly. I was frequently sick and lost most of my motivation. I still hoarded models and expanded my armies but few items ever left the box/sprue.
However, over last 6 months I have begun to overcome a lot of my medical issue and get it under control. I haven't been ill directly due to the disease in around a year now, and as my body has repaired itself and my health has gotten up to scratch my motivation has risen closer to what it once was. I also moved mid September last year, and was able to re-set up my work space with a new desk which allowed me to do pretty much all my work from it rather than separate areas for painting and computer use. I am also currently working on some models which a friend of mine commissioned me to do, which has been a great way to light the wargaming fire.
So my reasoning for creating this blog is to help keep myself motivated, to share my hobby and my collections with others, but also I am almost starting a new. Many of my older collections I sold off since I was no long interested in them (My old Space Marines I first started with for example) and many of my current collections under went a lot of stripping of old paint jobs from years back or are still in the box/sprue.
Within the next day or two I would like to post up an overview where I will show you my work space, and go over my armies/projects that I have reving to go. I would also like to get a post for each project specifically and lay out what I have currently and my plans for each one, and since many of my models are on the sprue or in the box I will try to review all those items before I start assembly and painting them.
Well this probably is a good point to end this ramble of a first post :P
So join me as a rekindle the fire, pick up the brush and start off a productive year
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