The weeks keep flying by...

...And with this post I mark the ending of yet another week, without the finishing of my first core Night goblin unit.
This weekend I had to go shopping with my in-laws on Saturday, and after that me and my Father-in-law did some repairs on the house (or rather he did the repairs with me as a helping hand holding the Mag-light and fetching tools. I think that is for the best though... Letting me replace light switches is like praying for a short in the near future).
After that both my In-Laws and my parents joined us for a wonderful dinner (thanks to my wife for coocking), but after they left I got some paint done.
Sunday went flying by with a trip to my sister-in-law and her family. Celebrating her husbands 42nd birthday and spending some time with my nice and nephew (spoiling the kids as usual).

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to painting my core night goblin units. On saturday evening/night I managed to finish the fixup of the skin for 30 of the 40 little green rascals. The remaining 10 will be fixed today, and hopefully there isn't too many other faults on the paintjobs. I know of a few minor flaws, but they should be fixable tonight as well. Then they need basing, but I will use my standard flock mixture along with some sand. This will take one evening to finish.

I have never been good at finishing projects before starting new ones, so I started on my Goblin King on Saturday, and have painted his skin so far. He is quite an easy model to paint, so I don't expect much trouble. Still it will take a little time, as the amount of details demands more colors than usual for a Goblin. The Golbin King is a model from the Avatars of War studio, and is an option to use for friendly games and diorama purposes. It is a fantastic sculpt, and I have a few more of the AoW models to paint in the future.

My mounted Chaos Lord of Khorne is comming along nicely. I have started to assemble him, and hopefully he will be ready for basing in a few days. The base will require some thinking, as the model clearly is sculpted to stand on an elevated base. The elevated platform was not a part of the kit, so I have to figure out some nice material for this and sculpt it before I can finish the model. The plan is to make some sort of a rock, perhaps with some extra detail, and then I need several skulls to detail it with. I'll go down to my local GW store in the afternoon to get some tips.

The Chaos Champion only need the same brush-up as the night goblins, and then I need to use some greenstuff to keep the miniature attatched to the base. The base will need some skulls, but apart from that it is quite simple to detail and will be done along with the night goblin core unit.

I made myself a mobile paining studio on Saturday evening. I got the idea after reading an article in the November issue of White Dwarf on how a mobile workshop could create more time to work on the minis while still spending more time with the family, so I thought I should try it out. The enitre thing is made out of a cardboard tray that used to contain 24 cans of Coca-Cola products, so the cost is non existent and something everyone can afford.
The mobile studio will not replace the workshop, as there is a lot that needs to be done there. Cutting new minis from the sprue, removing mould lines and the groundwork on the bases are typical things that will need to be done in the workshop no matter what.

When I don't spend time in my workshop, chances are quite good that you'll find me sitting on the couch watching TV or a good movie with my wife or sitting on the same couch playing with my laptop. The laptop is placed in my lap on a cussion that works a little like an American TV-dinner tray. So I found that this same cussion also can keep a mobile paint studio steady.
The mobile work studio isn't exactly large, but I have found it has room for my water glass, some cans of paints and washes, some brushes, glue and the models I want to work on at the time.
It is clear that I can't work on too many models at the same time, as there is limited space for models and paint cans, but at the moment there are 40 Night Goblins with spears, 1 Dreadnought (decided to give the base a little more detailing), 1 Champion of Chaos, 1 mounted Chaos Lord of Khorne, 1 Goblin King and 5 Night Goblins with nets or hand weapons (including one small squig) on the box along with the paint nessesary to finish these models.