At the end of last year I entered an online painting competition run by Juan Hidalgo on his YouTube channel. We had to take an unpainted or barely started mini, paint it over the course of a couple of months, then send pictures to be judged. I was entering just for fun since I’ve seen …
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Books in 2023
For a while, I’ve wanted to have somewhere to track books I’ve read, want to read, get recommendations and the like but wanted to stay away from GoodReads until Amazon start paying taxes. Right at the end of November, I found an app/website called Storygraph which does all that and more, and has even been …
Podcasts in 2023
A neat feature in Pocket Casts is one of those Spotify-esque ‘year end’ wrap ups. Here’s mine! I listened to 373 episodes of 19 shows and it took fifteen days – the most listened to was Penn’s Sunday School (probably since it was two episodes per week) at 62 episodes over 57 hours. Second place …
Haunted Mansion (2023)
I’m not going to try and keep spoilers out of this, so be warned. I haven’t seen the Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion film but I have seen the Muppets Haunted Mansion. Overall I wasn’t a fan of this film. It had a lot of ideas that didn’t feel fully developed or connected. For example, the …
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
I’ve never been a massive Star Wars fan – it’s worth getting that out of the way up front. I’ve been recommended a lot of the recent non-core Star Wars content though, like The Mandalorian, Ahsoka and Rogue One, and I’m always happy to try out a friend’s suggestions. I’m going to try not to …
October Painting
More Fyreslayers – I based a couple that fell off the temporary bases, and getting them slowly moved towards done… finishing up final details, tidying messy bits, and generally getting excited about moving onto the next project. I’ve been playing more Age of Sigmar with the eldest child, so will be good to get onto …
Painting September 2022
More progress on the Fyreslayers, I’ve finished the skin on all 21 (minus needing a couple of cover-ups). Next up, all the teal bits (charms, scales, etc). I’m still doing my appalling uber-batch painting on these but when I get to the Idoneth I think I’ll tackle them in smaller chunks. And I remembered a …
Painting August 2022
After a very slow spring/summer, I started to push myself to get back to painting regularly. For one thing, I’d like to get our Age of Sigmar models completed to take to the local club! So I’ve been plugging away at the gold bits of Fyreslayers. I’m in my old pattern of batch painting All …
Painting Q3 Retrospective
The end of the last quarter trailed off a bit – I got behind and couldn’t make it back up. It was only a near miss though so I think the target is just about in the right place. No updates for a while because I gave myself October off of painting. Since the beginning …
Painting Update #6
I finally got the large deficit off the edge of the graph! Still bouncing up and down a little, but got it under control. I’ve nearly finished the slopper now, just some eyes and small highlights to do. The pot has been darkened and the slop painted, but the tentacle needs more highlight and probably …