The free hand started as an experimenting project since I was really, really bad at doing transfers (still am). But it soon became a monster and consumed much of my painting time. I ended up doing freehand on chapter symbols, skulls, liturgy, and various designs that I contorted myself. It is just another example of how I turn something that was suppose to help me to save time (I was almost as fast at doing chapter symbols as someone who is doing transfers) into something that wast even more time.
It is due to the above reasons that this army have and forever will have a special place in my heart. And it is also for that reason alone I found it hard to do battle damage on them – it goes against my prior military training to send damaged equipment to the theatre of war. Sometimes I wonder if I’ve spent almost as much time as I did on them as I did on my kids (okay… maybe not that long).
