Oh dear

"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley".  I was on schedule to finish the Scorpions in time for Fields of Blood on the 29th.  But that's all thrown into a cocked hat now.  On Tuesday evening I sat down to edge highlight the second squad of scouts and had a mini nervous breakdown.  My favourite brush (Daler 00 pure red sable) was frozen into a stiff, paint encrusted point because I had forgotten to clean it.  It's basically useless. I managed to get the dried paint off but somehow the magic had gone out of it.  I can't even seem to apply a base-coat cleanly with it now.  My other brushes weren't really up to the task so I threw the brush pot across the garage in a fit of pique.  20 minutes and a large glass of wine later,  I felt a bit better but then I noticed that I had accidentally knocked Captain Precarius off the shelf in my infantile rage and this had happened to him:

I had a complete tanty at my workstation. Cursing roundly and obscenely, I think I made a few new words up.  Looks like I picked an apt name for my captain and I still haven't found his Iron Halo.  The 40k fairies have apparently taken it.  I definitely wasn't in the mood to patiently add pencil-thin lines all over a bunch of models at this point.

A much needed break from Adeptus Astartes was required.  So I opened the Kill Team starter set which was an impulse buy from 2 weeks ago and all my happy thoughts flooded back in.  Completely ignoring the models and rules, I spent the next 4 hours building scenery.  Now I want to take it to the tournament.  This is madness.  I already have a completed gaming board with enough terrain to spare and that's what I was planning to take to FoB.

I haven't even played a practice game with my marines so there is no reason whatsoever to add to my hobby workload.  There's just no way I can finish all these extra buildings in time given the speed at which I paint.  On the other hand, I'll probably never get round to painting it without a hard deadline.  Maybe an orgy of dry brushing is just what I need to counteract the painstaking, delicate process of highlighting scouts.  We'll see.  I'm already thinking I need a new neoprene mat to go with it though.  Maybe everything happens for a reason.