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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Argonor on April 01, 2007, 10:24:31 AM
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How do I get over my painting-blockage-depression-thingy...? I haven't painted on my pulp project for more than a week now :(
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Rent or watch a good pulpy film, if you are painting gangsters watch Dick Tracy or the Untouchables or you cant beat a late night Indiana Jones fest :D
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Putting on a game might help also. Or team up with a friend and paint together. I get most of my painting done in Vikotnik's basement, drinking fruit tea and listening to cheerful, positive music.
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The problem is - I can't get my game on, before I've finished painting the figs...
But I'll try to get an afternoon off to play some other minis-game with a pal of mine during the easter holidays. Maybe it helps.
I've decided to skip Tonka and the Evil Hooded Minions for my first pulp game, so as soon as I get the Brits finished, and sanded, and painted my first attempt at a dune, and mocked up a square, flapped paper tent for the archaeologists, and finally painted a lot of plastic bases to use as encounter markers.... arrgh... I also have to paint a mini and rebase some others for encounters..... :D
Edit: If only I did not have to go to my in-laws 3 days right in the middle of the vacation (tuesday to thursday) my prospects of getting anything done would be so much better... :twisted:
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Edit: If only I did not have to go to my in-laws 3 days right in the middle of the vacation (tuesday to thursday) my prospects of getting anything done would be so much better... :twisted:
Shouldn´t THAT at least have given you some ideas on how to do Evil Masterminds(TM)?!?
;) :lol:
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clean up your painting desk, only one mini must stay and some brushes, nothing else, that always takes positive effect on me :)
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Could you take a few figures and some paint with you when you visit the relatives ?
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Buy more minis! New troops always inspire me to paint up the old stuff. Creates a backlog, yes, but what can you do? :)
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Zaf is right!
I have never seen it the way he described it...
Nothing happened as long as i watched 'Troy' which ran on TV this night, drinking beer. As soon as it was over, I changed to tea and some groovy tunes and:
WAP!!! See me paint like hell!
:)
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When I have a 'normal' blockade; usually between two large projects/ commissions, I single out THE ONE miniature I really wanted to paint for quite some time. Normally, I have lots of ideas about that one and they just keep me going, That worked for a few years now, at least in my case.
Aaah, and do not forget the right tunes...
:) :)
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Buy more minis! New troops always inspire me to paint up the old stuff. Creates a backlog, yes, but what can you do? :)
Backlog.... I think I may never get all the minis painted, that I have stashed away in boxes, in the cellar on old GW blister-racks, in boxes, in shoeboxes, and in boxes.... :D
I'm not affraid og backlogs, but I really don't need another (my wife firmly assures me) mini at the moment, and as cash runs low these days....
But I actually managed to paint a little yesterday... maybe it helped just to get some of it 'out of my system' by writing about it.... :roll:
Tea...? I dunno, I'm not much of a tea-drinking man, and coffee in the evening ruins my sleep.... Maybe some Russian Earl Grey.....
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Could you take a few figures and some paint with you when you visit the relatives ?
I may do just that, if I can get place in the car for that big cardboard box I'll need for all the necessary paints... we have to take our.... (what's it called in English??)... baby cart...??? for our youngest to nap in, and that leaves little room, even in a stationcar.....
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Or team up with a friend and paint together. I get most of my painting done...
Every time I try this the only thing I get is drunken and not painted anything! :roll:
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Or team up with a friend and paint together. I get most of my painting done...
Every time I try this the only thing I get is drunken and not painted anything! :roll:
It helps if you live somewhere in the middle of nowhere, where you have to go by car to get anywhere :lol:
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I do that (live in the middle of nowhere - fields on 3 sides, a farm on the last... OK, we are separated from one field by a road, but still)! Maybe I should pack up the stationcar when we get home from Haderslev Thursday evening, and then crash on my closest gaming pal's new appartment friday morning.... :lol: I wouldn't get too popular by that, as he is a real B-person :wink:
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You don't need a huge box - stick to the 5 colour method and just take 5 basic colours that will do 90% of the painting on a small group of figures, possibly just one unit.
Take a small group of ready undercoated figures.
Paint them to the 90% stage whilst you are away, and when you get home you finish them off, do the ink washes etc.
Baby carts are generally called prams, pushchairs, or buggies- partially depending on style and part depends on how old you are (pram is quite an old fashioned word)
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I've heard "babycart" hundreds of times. "Babycart at the River Styx" for instance (which I suddenly got an immense urge to re-read, BTW).
Wish I could help you with the painter's block. Truth is, I've never been able to deal with it myself. My only solution has been to lower my painting standards, so I can get the miniatures finished with less effort. I use a lot of drybrushing in place of meticulous highlights, for instance. It means I tend to end up with ugly-ass miniatures (especially when compared to the stuff that gets displayed on this forum!), but at least I get them finished.
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Hi,
I fully sympathise with anyone suffering from the dread painter's block.....especially as I'm sort of in the same position.
About two weeks ago, it hit and it hit hard.
I even went a full 7 days without picking up a brush at all.
However, I am working my way out of it.....albeit slowly.
My current block started when I became totally bogged down in a couple of projects.....15mm WW2 Finnish infantry and Copplestone's Gurkhas (is it just me or are these really hard to paint?)
Anyway, I've put both of these projects to one side and given myself a few juicy odds and ends to paint just to get the enthusiasm back.
There's nothing like doing a solo really nice figure (Artizan's Thrilling Tales for starters) to get the juices flowing again......or even a quick bit of terrain.....something that isn't too fiddly to paint (lots of heavy dry-brushing) but which delivers above average results in a very short space of time (Snapdragon and Ainsty stuff ?)
Good luck.
Squint
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While suffering from 'da block' (yo!), I like to do terrain or vehicles. Reorganize your desk. Put away some unfinished projects.
Just paint one figure completely. Even if you don't want to. Afterwards you'll feel much better :)
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I decided on an easier solution for the stay at the in-laws'; I brought my 2nd blister of Westwind Cairo civilians, and some Pulp Figures, and a handful of Uruk-Hai + some needle files and craft knives.
I managed to get 12 minis and a cart ready for basing and spraying - and with about 15 other minis sitting around in my 'ready for spray'-box, another full batch can be sprayed as soon as I get the 12 fully ready...
I hope to paint some more tis evening... but 'A Knight's Tale' is on, and as I have never watched that one... (it's on from 21.20, so I have an hour...)
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Deadlines help me very much.
It spurs me on if there's a deadline I have to meet.
I haven't done anything this week. But I have 2 weeks left to finish my tavern and 15 swashbucklers. Because I want to use them for a participation game at a convention.
This really helps me to get my stuff done in time. Otherwise I'd just say "I'm going to use this figures somewhen so it doesn't matter if I paint them today, or tomorrow...".
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A week ain't painter's block! It's not even a tea-break! Sometimes I can go for months without being able to face picking up a brush.
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I also haven't painted anything last week... But I don't think anybody here needs to know how lazy I am. :oops:
If you don't mind not to paint for months it's ok. I think this "painting blockage" is when you know you should paint some minis but can't encourage yourself to do anything. And that's how it is most of the time in my case.
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Well, I went back on the downer after Eastern... and right now my work takes up too much of my time (going to Copenhagen for meetings several times a week) and my two little daughters have discovered, that the sun still shines at bedtime :cry:
I'll probably not get much done in the near future, which really bugs me, as I'm so close to be able to stage a pulp game. I even managed to get my first attempt at a sand dune done during Eastern (not a convincing piece of terrain, but useable).