Zero unpainted miniatures: good while it lasted

So I lasted less than a month with no unpainted miniatures! Some mail arrived for me today while I was wokring from home:

That’s three imported issues of Imperium magazine, each with one miniature. For curious Australians, I ordered these from Forbidden Planet in the UK, and they took two weeks to arrive.

For anyone outside Australia wondering why I did this; here we are up to Issue 4, and I didn’t want to wait.

I now have 4 unpainted miniatures, as a fourth issue showed up after I took the above photo, and I have one more issue still to come – but it hasn’t been released yet.

My new rule is to paint everything I buy within 6 months of purchase. This should give me time to experiment and try new things (important!) but also stop me from accumulating a pile of stuff similar to the last one.

We’ll see.