Last year I was burned out from trying to paint Gencon entries. I never got any of my planned entries done, and while I was doing that, I was slowly getting annoyed at any progress I did make. A friend suggested that I paint something for fun. I found this little Shrike sitting on my desk and cleaned him up while I was watching a moving. Then glued him to a base with texture, and undercoated him. Cause "Surely I'll paint him when I am back from the States...", I thought. An hour later I had done a wash on him to bring out the details, which I had recently heard of again and wanted to try out. Two days later I messaged my friend that I was painting a bit more of the model each night. It broke me, in the best of ways. At first glance, this little fellow has an insane amount of texture on it, which makes it a bit daunting at first. But that's pleasantly not the case. The bandages on this model (I openly admit to a hatred of bandages on mod
