Thursday, 5 March 2015

When my Mojo stalls.

 Like a lot of wargamers, my painting mojo will struggle, and I will stop painting units. What I have found helps me to restart the painting process, is to paint up command and single figures just to get things moving again.
 Its quite amazing just how many single painted figures I seem to now have, which either means I lose my mojo often, or I should consider going in for skirmish games. Either way I do find it helps me.
 I was very kindly sent a box of Willie horses the other week, and I have found that Front Rank figures fit them very nicely. Front Rank aren't my favourite SYW figures but they do go well with Wiilie. So I am now going to paint up a unit of French Gendarmes of the Guard, it would be daft not to use the horses.



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  1. Graham C6 March 2015 at 00:28

    Robbie,
    I think painting the vignettes or characters just keeps the imagination going, I don't class it as a mojo stall, more of a productive time out whilst you gather the energy for the next unit or three

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    1. Independentwargamesgroup6 March 2015 at 10:17

      Thanks Graham,
      Like anything, if you dont have a break you make mistakes and lose momentum.

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  2. Colin Ashton6 March 2015 at 03:05

    It works for me too, although not with the same impressive final results! Happy Birthday by the way.

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    1. Independentwargamesgroup6 March 2015 at 10:17

      Looking forward to the next battle, only Seven Years to go.

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    2. Colin Ashton7 March 2015 at 10:46

      hopefully we can concertina them into less time seeing as we're not any of us getting any younger lol!

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  3. marinergrim6 March 2015 at 04:33

    No harm in having the entire French staff college on the tabletop.
    I usually get my inspiration from blogs like this to get back to the paint table when I'm in a funk.

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    1. Independentwargamesgroup6 March 2015 at 10:18

      Paul,
      Im past the college stakes and now doing the staff at Versailles.

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  4. Phil8 March 2015 at 08:50

    Great looking vignettes, very nice job!

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My 6mm Napoleonic set up.

My 6mm Napoleonic set up.
Austria 1809.

Austrian Hussars

Austrian Hussars
Hinchliffe figures

Austrian Grenzer

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