Number One Son and I spent a few hours at ReaperCon in Texas today. Might as well, we only live about 10 miles away from it, and we both needed brain breaks from school. He's getting more interested in painting and gaming, so I'm using him as a lifeline to keep my interest going too.
As always, Reaper has one or two "Paint and Take" tables set up, which is always a favorite of NOS. As he worked his way through a Bones sea hag of some sort, I picked up a vicious rat man, made of the same stuff. I didn't really have a plan for him, I just noodled around him with the paints and brushes that were available. This is the horrible result:
Truly dreadful, even for me. I'm not a fan of painting away from my comfortable work area, and certainly not a fan of limited paints, well-used brushes, horrible lighting and crowds all around as I work. I'm by no means an award-winner, but I've done better.
In all honesty, I was going to just abandon the beastie then and there at the convention hall, but when my son looked at it, he said, "That's good Dad! Take him home with you."
Well then - there's no way I'm going to leave it behind when one of the most important people in my life honestly says that they like it. Remember how I said I'm using him as a lifeline to stay interested? Well, that was a pretty fekkin' obvious one right there.
So here is my latest entry to my painting history - terrible to me, but not to a 14 year old whose opinion is worth the world to me. I'll seal the mini in dullcoat, and add him to my "dungeon crawl games" collection of monsters and bad guys.
Sappy post aside, it's always good to finish painting something - even a smaller Reaper Bones miniature, which I'm not a fan of. They're getting better in the detail department, but when they have mold lines - ugh. Near impossible to remove. I prefer to have large monsters, dragons, giants, etc. in Bones though; it's where the material shines through.
Will painting happen again, soon? Who knows? I have a month and a half before I graduate from Radiology school, so my free time - as usual - is wonky, and I tend to spend it doing stupid things like computer games and crap. Time for an intervention, I think ;)
