You’d better not pout, you’d better not cry...

 Happy Christmas to everyone, in this strangest of years!

I’ve managed a festive paint job too to honour the occasion:

GW Sanity Claws, from 1986, the same as me! 

I’ve coveted one for a few years, but generally left it too late to get one for a reasonable price in time to paint for Christmas, and then I would inevitably forget about it until midway through the next December, and the cycle would repeat... this year though, I found one for a reasonable price on eBay from a nice seller, and here he is, joining my pulp Santa from four years ago.

He’s a lovely miniature, although when I was photographing him I did find a few awkward spots that I’d somehow missed and so frantically fixed them up by the light of my photo booth! I made a couple of mistakes when doing the snow too, such as forgetting to base coat the base white before applying the snow flock, as well as just applying it rather than making a paste to allow me to get better ‘texture’, but in my defence we realised a pipe from one of our radiators was leaking when I was basing him, so I had to hurry off to see to that midway through!

The pictures haven’t come out particularly well, disappointingly, as the red and green are much brighter than they look here, so you’ll either have to take my word for it or nip round to have a look once we’re out of Tier 4...

Painting him brings the Tally to:

47 vs 134 = -87

Or it would, if I hadn’t bought a magazine with free Halfling miniatures on the front:

(Yes, I bought a £5.99 magazine to get a £5 sprue free, what of it)

Leaving the Tally at 

47 vs 139 = -92

So I’m not going to get it back into the positive, barring some sort of temporal anomaly, but I could still hit that ‘average one miniature a week’ challenge right?

Can I paint 5 miniatures in a week? I mean, I’m furloughed, so maybe, but my children might have other thoughts about that!