It gets
most war gaming hobbyists from time to time, you either find a new gaming club,
a new group of friends or simply a new army perks your interest but for some
reason you start playing much more games than normal. Now I don’t know about you but this really
makes me want to paint my stuff up more than I usually do....
I would guess a
fair few and perhaps for the majority of players (or at least ones I see online
through various blogs) do already paint their armies however for the slack of
us out there with full time jobs and social lives, it’s often a nightmare of
grey plastic and at best, undercoated models.
So the question is, how with limited time to ourselves, do we split that
time between actually playing the game and painting up models for the hobby
side of things.
It’s
safe to say there’s no right or wrong answer, what is good for you isn’t necessarily
good for everyone else, with only limited time per week for either, you may say
just do whichever you prefer more and that sadly leads to lots of games with
unpainted stuff. What I have found
though is a good balance definitely isn’t always the right way either as you
end up doing the one you like less much more, causing resentment towards your
poor plastic friends.
No one wants to look across the table and see this, grey and unpainted is ugly for sure
Another
danger I personally find with having games is it makes me want to play
different armies for more variation in my playing, this in turn ruins my
painting focus completely, so do I want to paint my Nids today?, nah I played with
them last week I wont again for ages so back on the shelf they go, resulting in
not a single fully painted army, just a few models of each.
Honestly
if there was a magic potion you could buy that gave you painting motivation and
focus, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
So how
do you achieve that balance between getting games in and finding time to paint?
Or do you struggle with is as much as I do? If you have the secret please feel
free to share it!
