Hi everyone :)
No matter which way I look at it neither gluing nor glueing seem right, but I'm going to stick with gluing! As I've mentioned elsewhere, unfortunately my health hasn't been great recently, and I haven't been able to paint nearly as much as I'd like. In the absence of painting I often turn to preparing miniatures, primarily gluing them together. I have a lot of Games Workshop miniatures coming across my painting desk soon, so in the last few days I've put together around 50 of them. Here is a small selection of them:
Now I know that for a lot of people gluing together their minis is their least favourite part of the process, but generally I actually find the process quite relaxing. While I'm not painting, gluing feels like I'm still achieving something, and I can do it pretty much anywhere and anytime. Essentially I don't need to be sitting at my desk while I'm not well.
OK, so it's not exactly building a house from the ground up or anything, but I find something quite satisfying about creating something which was previously in pieces. These minis are sufficiently easy that it's calming, and still give me the satisfaction of completing something.
I did specifically say above that I *generally* find it quite relaxing. It turns out that their are definitely miniatures which try my patience! I had a few of these ghosts (Nighthaunt, I believe) and they were definitely not zen...
Here is a sample of the build instructions. Note the warning on the left...
So these miniatures not only have many, very fiddly pieces, but the connective surfaces are hard to see! Putting these together seriously tried my patience...
Not only is it hard to see the connective surfaces, you have to attach each piece exactly right because many of them connect to multiple parts. That means that if one attachment is off it is likely impossible to build the miniature as intended and you end up in the realm of converting the miniatures just to make them work. I imagine you have essentially no chance is you have issues with your eyesight or your hands aren't steady. Of the around 50 I put together, though, only three were like this. A few others had small parts, but at least it was obvious where they needed to go and they weren't structurally vital! For the most part I still found the experience positive, but I will have to be sure that in future I carefully select the miniatures I'm going to build while I'm away from painting :)
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