First Blog !!!!

So... the blogs now up, so what to do?

Well, I'll just randomly explain my painting life thus far!

Well, the hobby for me all started around 4 years back. I was browsing the web for random Lord of the Rings things, and what did I come accross?! A Knight of Minas Tirith made by Games Workshop. So being the Lord of the Rings fan I was, I ordered it without hesitation.

On the day of arrival I went out and bought some superglue then stuck it all together. I then (liking the figure detail a lot) checked out the rest of the GW website and thought... AWESOME! Obviously, I eventually checked their stores and realised there was one in my local town centre, so I just had to check it out.

After going and talking to some guys there, I decided the army I wanted to collect and spent some money on an OK army for them (I believe that army was Mordor).

After some time (around 3-4 months) of doing nothing to them I decided to get some more!!!!! And realised that was a mistake when I later came to the painting side of the hobby but that doesn't matter does it.

After about another 5 months, they released the new rulebook and Mines of Moria set. Because I now wanted to get more into the gaming side of things I bought both of them (not realising there was a ruddy rulebook in the MOM set!). They helped me out a lot and also gained me a painting lesson with the manager of the store and so I attended that.

On the day of the painting lesson (about 3 years ago) I then entered the madness of... painting!

Obviously, I started out a bad painter, but then again most people probably do and it's just a fact that we all have to face really.

It's not really until quite recently that I've started to become 'Happy' with my overall results. I experienced my unhappy times of 'too thick paint', 'too much ink' or 'not watered down enough ink', 'not enough paint' or maybe 'oops, wrong colour' - but I got over it and learnt from my mistakes (which even the best of painters are going to make sometimes).

To this day I am still learning from those who are far higher in experience than me and all I can possibly do is take their advice and use it to improve! And so that's what I shall do...

More from me next time (hopefully including some pictures of my latest work...).

Thanks,

Jake