Glueing is done. Oh boy, is it done. Let’s just say that we made it and no one is glued to anyone else, or any furniture. I’m calling this a win.
Paints have arrived but after hour glueing expedition we’re going to play a game instead and wait for the glue to dry and our collective blood pressures to normalise.
So, I may have miscalculated the financial impact that paint day would have. Miss Griffin is fixated on painting everything varying shades of pink without regard for faction or fashion and Master Griffin is keen on Space Wolves. Not much cross over here. With Mr Griffin already heavily invested in Raven Guard I feel like we’re heading down a dangerous path full of storage issues in our already cramped house.
Luckily (?) for us our local Frontline Hobbies sells an inordinately large number of paints and despite some issues with shipping from overseas (thanks COVID-19) they still seem to have most of them available. Drawn to the high fantasy elements of Age of Sigmar Miss Griffin had picked out some Gryph-hounds a few weeks ago and under her watchful eye we’ve picked out some bright pinks and blues to start her painting journey. Master Griffin has reviewed Chapter colours and is intent on reproducing them as faithfully as possible.
In the cart they go!
Note to self: Miss Griffin does not care about mould lines and will not have a bar of removing them.
Always fans of a good board game our Little Griffins have developed more of an interest in painting miniatures and playing tabletop wargames. Their Dad has had a long time love of all things miniatures/40k but I have to admit that, being more of a console gamer, I’ve never really trekked that path.
Being busy with work, school, sport, music and fitting in time to eat/sleep we’ve not had much space for additional hobbies; for us or the kids but here we are in the school holidays, at what appears to be the beginning of a once in a lifetime pandemic (please, just the one will do).
We’ve been working from home and recently home schooling as well and I have to say kudos to any parents and/or guardians who do this kind of thing full-time it’s definitely an ever changing challenge. On those of use thrown into this at the last minute I know it is certainly taking it’s toll, but the overriding feeling is one of gratitude that we are all safe, well and currently still working – which makes us very lucky in the scheme of things. The only real downside seems to be that the competitive nature of our Little Griffins has been diverted into a constant battle to see who can lose the plot earliest in the day.
So we’ve started a new family tradition which, for want of a better title, shall be known as Paint Day. On my roster day each week we’ll all break through the monotony, crack out the paints, try new techniques, (badly) follow some Youtube tutorials and generally pretend that we know what we’re doing.
It’s likely to end badly.