Comparing to your self - over time
In 2021 I felt confident enough to paint my very first miniature again. That’s definitely nothing super-innovative-never-happened-before thing, but it was an inner demon that told me:
“Listen - shitface, you painted 114 of these little dudes - when you lay down to the grave with such an odd number, the lord of the dead will let paint you another 114”
Nah - jokes aside, it’s a fun exercise.
The color sheme should be the very same as the first mini - and that’s it. A basic Games Workshop Lizardmen Skink from the warhammer fantasy starter box back from ~1999.
So... what's new?
So not much to say - I used more cautious paint, more patience and that is one key aspect I couldn’t understand back in my youth. Spending more than 30 minutes on a single troop was neither helping to get an army painted nor of any use. And I didn’t listen to any good advice. “Why do people paint shadows and highlights - that doesn’t make sense, cause these are cast by the light anyway”.
At least I tried once highlighting - but what to expect when you put a thick white blob of paint on something and call it Highlight. I just wasn’t open minded enough to try at that time.
The minis from 1998/1999 wers pure basecoats with unthinned paint. Then in 2004 I already used thinner paint so that even countours were visible, but otherwise there wasn't much progress during that ~5 years - there was just no need and desire for that.
That revisited skink was painted 2 years after starting to “paint, just for painting sake”. Sure - now that I write a post about this another 3 years later, I’d do things differently and wouldn’t say it’s a mini “to show off” … but when looking at it now, it contains a key message for me: It doesn’t take an impossible amount of practice to improve. It’s more about the will to invest more than 30 minutes on a mini and take advice from other people seriously. Even such simple advice like: shadow painting makes sense.
So without further ado:
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