Productive Afternoon

Well the Missus was away earlier this week so I had a whole day to myself. No work, no interruptions, no muckin' about then!

 I decided to throw everything I had into getting as many small projects finished as possible, so once the house work was out of the way it was down to some paint stripping in the shed and then on to varnishing the completed parts of the Stompa.

The big fella is coming along beautifully if I do say so. All that's left to paint is the smoke stacks and the chainsaw arm. Then I need to find a way to get him to the shop.

After melting a few brain cells with paint stripping and varnish work, I felt it was for a cuppa and some light reading. A quick brouse through the Kill Team book has me eyeing up my Night Lords army again. That particular project has been in painting limbo for a while so with new Chaos Marine stuff in the near future I think it's time to get some more paint on the gang of late night murderers. More on that another day.

After a break it was time have a chat with Kev from Deadstar about the upcoming events and releases for the year ahead. Plenty of good work from various creators in 2018 and 2019 looks to be more of the same. We're hoping to get out and visit some stores for signings (both myself and other creators involved with Deadstar) as well as our usual appearances at Cons across the country. Kev will be at CFCC in March, but I won't be about until Swansea Comic & Gaming Con in April. Keep an eye on Deadstar's events page to see where we'll be throughout the year. The main reason Kev and I had this meeting was to talk about the next step for Age of Savagery. The first call for submissions was a success and a proved a great example of Indy talent brought together. So naturally we always intended to do a second volume. Stay tuned to Deadstar's website as anyone interested in getting involved as an illustrator or a writer will have a chance to submit their ideas early next month.

Once Kev had left, it was time to get back to the painting board. I admit I've been dragging my feet with New Wasteland Fairy Tales the last few months. I could blame my hectic work schedule or real life concerns, but the truth is I've been procrastinating on other things (see giant stompy robot above). Well it would be mad to miss out on this continued bout of productivity and with that, two more pages coloured and finished and two more taped up ready to start. Finally looking at the first black & white pages against the coloured updates really shows how much better this comic would have been released in colour first time round. The reason it wasn't at the time was purely due to cost. Now, it's time.

To say nothing of fixing all of my spelling mistakes XD