Your fun has ended, Dungeon Master...
My office is currently overflowing with miniatures after Vapnartak. Probably not helped by picking up some Wargames Atlantic goblins for more Lord of the Rings shenanigans and some big Tau robots for Gamma Wolves, which I picked up recently... Many a really useful box has been purchased, as well as more sticky-backed basing magnets and ferrous rubber sheeting than you can shake a stick at to help me store the burgeoning pile.
While I worry about the situation I have managed to get myself into and whether I'll see my office floor ever again, I have been progressing with painting the beautiful Forge of Ice Warduke miniature that I picked up from Fenris Games recently. It has been a very fun process, interspersed with shooing my cat, who always seems incredibly interested in everything I am doing, off the painting desk. I did start it off as a challenge to see if I could paint it all by mixing up my own colours from the Rogue Hobbies Pro Acryl set, and I did manage to do this for the skin, the blue armour and the nmm gold on the sword hilt. I'm pretty proud of those! But I caved eventually and went back to the usual broad range of paints, purely for speed and knocked the mini out over last weekend. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and I took all of the things I learnt about mixing my own colours and applied them to mixing shades up out of the base colours I wanted to start with, which I think has helped with the highlights I've managed to achieve. So, it wasn't a wasted effort in challenging myself in this way and I do feel I have learnt something that I will be able to apply in the future!
Anyway, here's the finished article...
Next, I've got a lot of sorting out to do and I really do have to build all these Early Saxons and Normans that I'm going to be using for my Lord of the Rings project. On the painting table, however, is going to be the version of GW's Provisionally Prepared diorama piece that I knocked together out of some cork and a few Wargames Atlantic Sneak Feet minis.
The climb continues...