Dilemma

Now that I actually have my army, I have a dilemma. Actually, several of them. And that in addition to trying to figure out how to transport a metric buttload of miniatures back home to Brooklyn.

See, usually I rip open all the boxes and put everything together first. It's like I never got over the Christmas Morning effect. I like to look at my desk and see an entire army waiting for my attention. However, I sipmly don't have the space for this approach in my tiny, NYC apartment. So I'll have to resist the urge.

Which brings me to a different problem. Generally, I assemble my army based on it's position in the force organization chart. I start with troops choices, then move to command, because I can't actually play the game without them. Neither do I like to play with my army until it's all painted. This generally keeps me painting. But this time, I want to paint on the sprue.

Normally, you assemble the minis, prime them, then paint. Yet I've always been intrigued by Games Workshop's technique of painting everything while it's still attached to the sprues, then putting everything together. I've wanted to try it because it allows you to get at hard-to-reach spots, and it seems like the painting process would go faster.

So my problem, in a nutshell, is that I want to bust open and assemble all these miniatures, but really can't. It's like putting heroin in front of an addict and not letting him cop a fix.