The one with hedges and speedpaint.

Last night I managed to get some hobbytime but at the end of the evening I was knackered and headed straight to bed instead of making a blogpost about it. There isn't anything particulary exciting or innovative to show or say, since this blog is more about me keeping a journal as opposed to have a "blogging-influencer-career" as it were.
I mean, sure.. The reason anyone of us puts stuff out there in the ether (showing my age here) is to bounce thoughts back and forth with fellow humans. Be it on blogs, the youtubes, Facebook, Instagram or any of the other social media platforms that are around. Maybe we do it to learn something new from people who comment, maybe to try to make a living if you get successful enough, or maybe to only try and keep a journal.
But noone can deny that it's also about the dopamine surge from getting (positive) feedback. Even a small thing like looking at the number of "likes", views or visitors gives a bit of a tingle. 

A few years ago I went back to college to grab a few courses in psychology and psychiatry. One thing that really stuck with me when we discussed addiction disorders in a broader sense. Ofcourse drug dependancy was part of it, but the main focus in the course was addictions not related to drugs but stuff like gambling, gaming, porn, anorexia/bulemia and so on.
I believe it was Prof. Robert Sapolsky (might have been Steven Pinker actually, again, this memory of mine) that explained it like, and I paraphrase; "Humans are lizard software running on monkey hardware, of course it's easy to hack us!"
And boy are we hacked by the tech-giants to spend time on their platform as long as possible just to get those micro-sprays of dopamine into our brain. It's interesting to look at ones behaviour regarding screentime once you realise that fact and start using "the net" in a mindful way.
There is alot to talk about when it comes to mental health, especially coupled with artistic hobbies like miniature wargaming. I will surely return to the subject many times in the future as I have alot to say about it both from a professional standpoint and from my personal journey thru life. 

Ok, enough rambling about that. 

I need hedges. Lots of hedges!
While they do have some mechanical advantages in FFT3 (saves/LOS due to concealment), hedges are a great way to make the landscape look more realistic. My terrainbuilding for 6mm at the moment is aimed towards getting a small table, maybe 3'x4', up and running by the time I have enough germans painted. They are in the pipeline, but maybe a few weeks out still at this point.

My method for hedges this time around is to glue brown wool fabric (had no felt at hand) on 0.4mm thick PLA-plate (Tamyia, and again, we work with what we have). On this, more glue and clump foilage. Same procedure as my fields from the other day really.

In hindsight, I could have used hot glue, but I really don't like the look of it when it shows thru on places where the foilage falls off. I might do it to make the hegdes around the fields taller tho, we shall see when I get to them again.

   

Nothing truly exciting or innovative maybe apart from the glue-inspector.

Apart the hedges I got my Sea People base-coated and actually managed to get the first set of buildings from the Neufmarche Kickstarter under the spraycan aswell. 
When it comes to basecoating with a can, I like to be able to hit the model(s) from all angles and a gamechanger a few decades ago was that I started using surgical gloves while spraying. Nowadays there are latex and nitrile-gloves readily available and I tend to use them for most "dirty" tasks around the house and my workshop, be it when massaging in some herbs on a chicken or when doing some mechanical work on my cars and mopeds.

This is why I need them gloves.

After drying for 10 hours or so I got to applying some skintone on all infantry while giving the horsies, boat and chariot a brown coat. I use Armypainters Speedpaints for this and am very happy with how they perform. I bought the small starterset as a try-before-you-invest and have gone thru a few hundred models in all scales with them. I will replenish the colors when they are about to run out, and have slowly begun to get more of the other ones. It's big words, since I only really gotten Speedpaint Medium and Holy White added. But hey, that´s the way of armypainting I guess. I always work with a fairly limited pallet for my armies and there isn't much use to buy stuff you don't use amrite?

Skintones done with Crusader skin, the Teresh javelinmen (Ps) got a drop
of Hardened Leather mixed in for a bit darker complexion.

A bit of a closeup on the wooden and horsey models in the army. The boat in particular is a bit light for my taste, but that's nothing a drybrush and some Agrax won't sort out later on.

Tonight, I continue painting!

Cheers

/Fred
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