Five Minutes a Day

I lead a very full life. It's sometimes tough to find a large block of time to devote to just sitting down and work on miniatures. I really enjoy painting, but I enjoy time with my son and my girlfriend even more.

I have for a long time recommended to my fellow miniature painters (usually people who had some excuse for unpainted armies) that if they have a workspace set up, they could sit down at anytime to paint, even if it is for only five minutes a day. The idea is that they only need to spend a few minutes a day, and whatever they did will add up in the end.

I decided to actually take my own advise and spend at least five minutes a day working on my Thousand sons. Some days it was hard and all I could do was exactly five minutes. On some days it was impossible, like when I went out of town this weekend. Other days, I was able to squeeze fifteen or thirty minutes. Working on this Schedule I now have four Thousand sons glued and ready for priming, the remaining pewter helmets trimmed and filed, and one flamer ready for gluing. This may not seem like a lot, but if I had waited to try and find a spare hour or two, none of it would have happened.