The last week has been very productive. I not only managed to finish up one of my Hammerheads, but I found the time to get a second one started. Right now, I’ve just finished the flats and lining stage, so tomorrow night it’s on to the edge highlighting and detail stage. I’m hoping that by the end of this week, I will have both of my Railheads done. Then it’s on to painting a trio of Deathrain suits; if I keep at it, I might be able to get them done by year’s end, and that would give me over 1,250 points of painted Tau figs.

I did have one little bit of serendipity with Hammerhead #1.

The small scratch on the hull there was due to a minor screw-up during the priming process, leaving me with a (primed) gouge in the paint job. Fortunately, it was a nice straight gouge, so I painted it black, edged it in silver, and am going to pass it off as “minor battle damage”. There’s a good lesson in that – don’t be afraid of imperfections. Find ways to make use of them if you can. You may just surprise yourself and like the results!

On the actual gaming side, well, I haven’t had a game in two months, so painting’s been the only action my minis have gotten in the interim. I have a resolution for 2010, though – I want to get at least two games in every month. That shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve. Besides my friends, there’s a local 40k gaming group that I can hook up with. My schedule never seems to mesh with their activities, but hopefully it would at least be a way to meet people and set up games.