I am back! One problem I have been having with using a blog to keep myself on task in my hobby is keeping myself on task in the blog. Luckily I have managed to keep myself working on my Grey Knights (if not the blog) despite a myriad of distractions. My first squad is just about finished, and they look almost good.

Keen observers will notice that one model is missing a face and none of the eyes are painted. This is not that I am lazy (for once), I swear. I don’t have the skin colour or blue and I felt wasteful buying it for just those little bits so I will go to GW and finish those parts there.

I am pretty pleased with how they turned out in the end. There is still some work to be done on them but I always feel that way about my models and sometimes I just need to call them done or I will keep painting and repainting until the model is twice it’s original size with all the coats of paint I have applied. I probably will spend a fair bit of time touching these ones up but for gaming purposes they are done(ish).

I mentioned a myriad of distractions and I wasn’t kidding!

I discovered a lovely little bus that runs from my house, by my work, then straight to the lovely Coogee Beach. That is a interesting novelty to one who has never spent any of his life living within spitting distance of the ocean before.

There was a closing down sale at a nearby book store so I finally broke down and bought myself a copy of A Dance with Dragons which I couldn’t put down until I finished it. That 900 pages that left me just wanting more, I hate George RR Martin, his books are too grabbing. After finishing it I was so distressed that I couldn’t focus the next day at work and spent a lot of my time looking to see if I could find any hints on when the next book will be out. Which led me to an interview in which he says he is going to focus on other projects for the moment and take a break from the Song of Ice and Fire series. That left me deeply hurt.

The final distraction I have created for myself was a bakery. Steph and I have started a bakery. Currently I am only selling to a single colleague who is willing to pay exorbitant prices for our baked goods but we are looking to expand throughout the entire office. It is kinda labour intensive running a bakery with only a toaster oven too cook things and a fork or spoon to mix with! We are having a lot of fun with it though. We call it The Microbakery, I think it’s gonna be big.

That’s all I have to add even after my hiatus. I WILL (probably) be back next week!