{"id":9595,"date":"2020-03-22T08:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T08:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=9595"},"modified":"2020-03-22T08:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T08:14:44","slug":"some-covid-19-painting-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/03\/22\/some-covid-19-painting-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Some COVID-19 Painting Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since most of us are &#8220;social distancing&#8221; and avoiding personal contact &#8212; sort of like Millennials with cell phones sitting in the same room texting each other &#8212; I have been painting a little.  My daughter is home from school, and we&#8217;ve been doing things with her, so I haven&#8217;t gotten as much painted as I would normally.  As we all work on our &#8220;lead mountain,&#8221; many mail-order business remain open, so make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7433-1024x319.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9594\" \/><figcaption>Make sure this doesn&#8217;t happen to you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At Cold Wars last weekend, I purchased some the Black Sun &#8220;Deep Ones&#8221; from Pulp Figures.  I painted them this week, because they weren&#8217;t very complicated, and I could easily pick them up and put them down as I was interrupted.  I primed them white, painted them with Contrast Creed Camo, and then painted in the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7436-1024x579.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9593\" \/><figcaption>Dark Sun Deep Ones with rifles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7437-1024x890.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9590\" \/><figcaption>Another view of the Deep Ones coming to get you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7435-1024x462.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9587\" \/><figcaption>A final view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I supplemented these with the female lizard warrior from Bad Squiddo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7438-906x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9588\" \/><figcaption>Female lizard warrior from Bad Squiddo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I return from a convention, I usually very quickly file, prime, and base any purchases so that when he muse strikes me, I am ready to paint.  I have four Really Useful Boxes dedicating to holding my ready-to-go lead mole hill.  Recently I re-discovered these armed frogs that will supplement my frog and turtle armies from Eureka Miniatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7440-1024x450.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9591\" \/><figcaption>Armed frogs.  No, not Frenchmen.  Real frogs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7439-1024x324.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9589\" \/><figcaption>I painted a normal GASLIGHT ten-figure unit of them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_7441-1024x357.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9592\" \/><figcaption>I decided to get a little fancy with decorating their cloaks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s 0400, and I can&#8217;t sleep.  So back to the painting table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since most of us are &#8220;social distancing&#8221; and avoiding personal contact &#8212; sort of like Millennials with cell phones sitting in the same room texting each other &#8212; I have been painting a little. My daughter is home from school, and we&#8217;ve been doing things with her, so I haven&#8217;t gotten as much painted as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/03\/22\/some-covid-19-painting-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some COVID-19 Painting Progress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}