How is it already July? What happened in June? 

Let's get the elephant in the room out the way. This is going to be a short blog entry. Next to nothing hobby related has happened in June. The best photo I had for this month's cover is an unpainted Land Fortress. I haven't completed a single model this month, representing a bit of a stall in my mission to remove the pile of shame/opportunity.

But that's not to say it's all for bad reasons. It's largely down to the fact that we welcomed our second child into the world this month and discovered why people kept laughing at us when we said we were going to have 2 under 2. Three weeks in and I'm still running on about 3 hours sleep a night if I'm lucky. Painting, as you'd expect, has taken a slight backseat.

I have also discovered that my work situation is likely to change (for the worse) in the coming months, so that's given me a real incentive to cut down on the incoming models as well. The only additions this month were from a distant galaxy (and a long time ago) and so I won't go into those here. They are represented in the numbers below though. Next month will see a small bump for the AoS 4.0 launch, but no more than that.

So yes, a short entry. To go with my sleep-deprived, unfocussed brain and impending poordom. Fingers crossed though that a slowdown of work next month will at least free up a bit of hobby time to get some painting done. Goal for July is some more SA and then maybe some Votann.

I've painted one squad of Votann before the entire army got put on the shelf. I'd built 2000 points, which was suddenly worth 2400 points and then 2000 points again and then 1500 points and then......

It got boring and frustrating and so I left them alone.

Now when I look at the squad I painted I like the paint job. However, they're red and white and so many of the other projects I have are roughly in those 2 colours. Clearly I like red and white, but a bit of variety would be nice. So I'll be potentially redoing them in something new and slapchoppy. Maybe orange. That's (almost) not red.

Anyway, the numbers, such as they are:

Models IN: 16

Models OUT: 2

May TOTAL: +14

YTD TOAL: -94

So yes, a small backtrack, but under the circumstances I don't mind. July will be better.