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​Well it seems like ages since the lost time I updated my goals, and yet time has flown by! That is the side effect of my profession I guess- blocks of time go by where I am totally immersed in the job. so much so that everything is put to one side throughout each course....I really do apologise to my friends and family as I know I don't really speak to them for up to six weeks at a time!! I hope you all feel a like you are communicated to a bit better than that.....?!

  So heres the progress for the last months spare time around courses; Soviet Naval Infantry. You can see above 29 Painted, and ive just tonight based two more - the twin officers you can see just to the rear right of the painted squads! They received basing and a final layer and varnish in order to get over 30 and make up for the missing 3rd man from the MMG crew that Rex is printing up for me in the near future.

  Once again I have enjoyed painting these units in their distinctive uniforms, and it was a timely change of colour palette from German Field Grey 'A change is as good as a break' they say, and so it was with these. only five of these figures were 3D printed, the rest were Warlord Games' metal figures. I really like most of the poses, but they are probably due for a re-vamp, such as a re-sculpt or something. Quite ragged castings in some parts, some short-shots in the casting, and a few faces that look like Voldemort....but with some love and some ears painted in that didnt have sculpted detail (and half a nose on one!) the majority of the detail is pronounced and lovely to paint, especially in the shirts...

​...However, it also reminded me of how great the definition is on the Flank March Miniatures 3D figures! I'm happy to have the mix and I'm looking forward to getting some more Flank March figures in my hot little hands in the near future.

So; where does that put me vs. my hobby goals? Well speaking of the Naval Infantry I have a heap on this list that I dont even have yet so we shall see if they stay on the list or not...remembering why I was doing this in the first place ( to get the stuff on my shelves in the wargames room painted!) id predicted I would get those onto the shelves, but maybe not and I will certainly have plenty of other stuff to concentrate on! I wont post the progress report on here as Ive only ticked a few things off recently...I shall wait until I have more stuff in Green as "DONE" before I post it up next! 

One thing I have noticed- such as moving the 29 to 31 finished in this Batch of painting- I now feel like if ive not painted a batch of at least 30 at a time I feel a bit like id wasted an opportunity....weird but that seems to be my mental default for batches now. 

Hope everyone elses hobby is going well. Let us know what you are up to in the comments.

Regards,

Dan