Summertime Update and discussion

As summertime comes into its full fury, I find I have had less time for painting minis. Since the last post I have only achieved base coating 14 Bloodletters and sculpting a cyber mastiff for the Arbites in our Dark Heresy game (I refused to pay for the lame looking Forge world one). In my next post I intend to have pics of both projects in their completion, as well as a recap of the exciting annual trip to SLC for Larrycon. I also wanted to put into words here a little thought/discussion that has been bounced around in our group lately. Something I had discussed at length with the great Larry himself. It seems the more releases GW puts out, the more I get sad about the range and the direction of sculpting as it moves away from art and more towards computer generation. CAD design works great for things like tanks and mechs, but using it for anything organic seems to drain all the personality out of the miniature. This must be why I love most Reaper models so much. They are still the work of natural artistic talent and carry an aesthetic appeal that strikes the right chords within me. When I look at the new Eldar wraith Titan thingy or some of the new Chaos kits they just look- well pretty terrible if you ask me. Food for thought as I look around for a miniatures game that can have staying power in our group and stand the test of time.