Sunday Sermon: Is painting your toy soldiers important?

Yeah it's still it's still a WIP... *looks guilty*

So yeah OK, I guess after Games Workshop finally announced their new paint range my Sunday Sermon was bound to have a painting theme. I'll also fully accept accusations of unoriginality at this point, given everyone else in the universe is Blogging about the paint range too. However you see, this last Friday just gone I actually ran another Blogger you may have heard of, Von, through an intro game of Freebooter's Fate. On a newly re-sanded board, with new Games Workshop plastic terrain recently assembled and with unpainted miniatures. Completely lame of me, and not how I'd choose to 'hobby'. I'm going to have to be honest here and say that in recent months that's actually not been all that uncommon an occurrence for me personally. I could throw out a thousand and one excuses I guess as to why that is the case, but the truth is that lately I've just not been able to get myself into the right frame of mind to paint an entire faction for... well... anything really.

I'm still working on them!!!

Yeah I know, utterly pathetic isn't it? I mean I used to be able to churn out pretty damn sexy looking armies at an alarming rate, yet recently I struggle to complete single miniatures in a reasonable time frame. I have though taken on the task of producing a new gaming table to fit in with a few more games that I'm playing lately. Namely Infinity, Heavy Gear Blitz, Freebooter's Fate and MoFaux, it's a desert board and I'm sure I'll be covering my adventures and misadventures with terrain building on this Blog over the next month or so. The reason it irking me so much though is that I am actually, ironically, a bit of a hobby snob. I really do 100% believe that it's vitally important to play wargames on good gaming tables, with fully painted factions. It just adds so much to the experience for me and I just think that not much beats playing a game on an appropriate looking board with fully painted factions. It's something my hobby has been missing of late and I guess it's something I really want to put right.
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