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Time to Resolution Failure = 1 Month…

Well, I missed my new years resolution after only 1 month.  I was painting on the 30th trying to rush and get 12 points done, but it wasn't going good and painting out of stress just made it unenjoyable.  I did get a nice basecoat of Blue on my Cygnar warjacks, but that's about it.

I'd love to blame this on work; with the past 2 months consisting of mosting 11 and 12 hours days, it wouldn't be hard.  But even on the weekends, I've had a hard time getting motivated to break out the paints.

With that in mind, I think I know what I need to do.  Watching Julie and Julia with my wife helped give me a bit of an idea.  I'm going to look into getting a 'To be Painted'/'Been Painted' counter on the site.  Also (and more importantly, I'm going to have a new feature on the site.  Every Thursday, I will have a 'State of the Paint' post with where my painting status is with pictures of the work done.

The 1st one will be in 6 days, so I need to get a bit done for it before then.

There haven't been any Battle Reports either b/c I've only played 1 game all month in January.  I'm hoping to get in some Warmachine games (since it's shorter) in February while my work schedule returns to normal.

Questions for the you: How to you get up the motivation to paint? And, what do you do when you want to paint a bit, but just can't seem to make the time?

About Rob

Just a Wargammer in general. Mostly skirmish-level, and not big on historicals (although I do like some Flames of War now and then). I play Daemonhunters/Imperial Guard in 40k and Daemons in WFB. Outside of wargames, my wife and I enjoy all sorts of boardgames from Alhambra to Zombies!!!