My first blog post in a while in relation to the hobby. Number of reasons for this but the main one was a simple one. I’d grown to absolutely hate painting and being part of it. After nearly two decades (not always painting admittedly) of being in the hobby I was done. The cause? The cause is below:
Yep. The Silent King broke me.
This model was one I’d own since it was released and I had deliberately used it as in incentive to work on skilling up. Finally I reached a point just after Christmas 2021 where I felt ready to give it a go. So, filled with hope, optimism and a degree of confidence I started the kit.
And it broke me.
Previously when people had asked me what was the worst kit I had ever worked on the answer was easy. Worst was a B17 flying fortress kit I had as a kit followed by the original necron monolith (seriously GW how did you make a four sided pyramid with so many panel gaps?). The key phrase there is ‘was’. Right from the start this was a pig of a kit. Even built in sub-assemblies it was a nightmare; tiny points of contact, misaligned parts and fundamentally unbalanced. Then the painting became and after three days of edge highlighting one sub-assembly I was nearly ready to cry. After three weeks I was ready for throwing the damn thing at the wall but finally it was done.
And I hated it.
Nothing looked how I wanted it to and all I could see was every imperfection. As you can tell the base was a rush job and maybe one day I will come back to it. Never before have I been intimidated by a model kit but this was the most expensive I have ever worked on and I wanted it to look good. I knew it was never going to be like the box art but I did want it to look good.
Fortunately after a break of a few months I managed to get over it and am hoping to be more active and maybe even get a few games in this year.
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