Tonight, I decided to paint an attack bike instead of another box. I think this makes 6 or 7 of them now. I'm not sure. Took a little longer than I remembered, but not much. I think I'm getting my painting fu back. Well, maybe not. I've been noticing lately that I have much more of a "publish and the rest be damned" mentality. I don't care about a lot of mistakes because I know that most of these will never be seen at much less than arm's length anyway. I'm less interested in "pretty" than I am in "painted and done with". I guess that's always been the great strength and secret of my army: even though I have some nice minis, most people like to play against it because it's painted and uniform. How many people can boast a painted 15K+ army? Not many, I think.
In line with my curiosity about how many attack bikes I have, I think it's about time to pull everything out and look at it. I'm not even entirely sure what all I have anymore. I have some good guesses, but I'm not entirely sure. Besides, when I see chapter elements incomplete (I'm probably two or three squads shy of three companies [and one of those is the Termie quad that will complete my Terminator Company]), I get inspired to actually complete them. I already know that I have a couple of Dev squads that need doing to fill in a company. I'll probably put the unpainted Predators and Rhinoback on hold for a while... There's a small chance that I've already made a dent in a fourth company. Yeah, I think I'll whip it all out in the next few days. Of course, I'll post pics. Not often I have it all out for viewing. I may even pull out my new allied Templar force. It's probably good for a thousand points on its own. And once I have that done, I may try to take an inventory of what I have unpainted. I've never done that. And I know I could make an entire new Marine army with the stuff I haven't painted yet.
Most importantly, when am I going to find the time to do all this?
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