Morning all you lovely hobbyfolk 🙂 Tis good to be back in the old country. Still getting all settled in but the new studio (was orginally my Dad’s studio when he was a watercolourist) is up and running – still needs a few (lot) of tweaks but am finally getting back into painting and a routine. Getting some good study in as well; which is kinda my hobby pledge for now  – studying up on some new techniques and going back and practicing some old ones 🙂

@querion – cheers matey. not so much reverse culture shock coming home barring the fact that i can now get decent bloody sausages and cheese easily!!!

@evilstu – nice. my first two years in korea i was working in a hagwon. they are basically like after school private academies. I shifted into the public school system after that for the following 11 years. There are some decent korean restaurants in dublin but pricey as hell  – thankfully my wife, who is korean, is a great cook and makes some of my favourite dishes 🙂

@mage – i havent gotten around to looking into any gaming clubs yet in the area. I live out in the countryside but will definitely will check out the FB group. SK is a wonderful country. For the first 8 years i was based on the east coast in a city called Sokcho and then for 5 years in a bigger city called Wonju, about an hour from Seoul. Being there for 13 years I saw so much and many changes esp with regards to being a foreigner there. I wouldnt say it was ever weird being a foreigner there  – when i first lived there there was a lot of staring as foreigners were pretty thin on the ground. so could be kind of annoying at times. you got used to it though. the hardiest thing was always missing some of home’s food comforts (see above note re: sausages and cheese!!)

@elessar2590 – cheers muchly! I play a lot of electroswing when i stream on twitch as well as  – find it good for paintign along to – keeps the pace upbeat and energetic. Some music i jsut cant paint to as it distracts me or makes my blending sloppy – weird i know!! Thx re: cherubael & eisenhorn – I’ve always really loved the dan abnett books on them and so the minis when i eventually got my hands on them were always going to be pretty personal. I really pushed myself on them and tried out to paint outside of my usual comfort zone and wheelhouse, esp with the skin on Cherubael. My levels have probably (hopefuly!!) improved since then but those two will always be my favourite and in many ways, my best models ever 🙂

time to get the newest part of @oriskany ‘s prep articles for the bootcamp read and then some morning painting. Trying to finish up the White Lion from KD:M so I’ll finally have the prologue minis done.