MS Paint?! I don’t suppose I’m much better though, sticking to Paint Shop Pro 7 for almost all my image manipulation! GIMP is a great drawing tool, though (maybe a bit much for chopping images and resizing etc. but brilliant for actual digital art).

When posting images to this site, I try to stick to around 1024px or so (height or width depending on orientation). It’s more than enough to show the core details of what you’re working on – any higher resolution, and every tiny mistake and brushmark shows up in the photo 😉

@crazyredcoat we were on the Caldon canal, which starts in the relatively industrial part of Stoke but very quickly becomes more rural and “countrysidey” (yes, that’s a word). The CRT has really put a lot of money into improving the towpaths in recent years, and they’re quite popular with walkers and cyclists (though, sadly, it means some of the actual waterways are a little under-cared-for and much of the canal is silted up and very shallow). Still, a very enjoyable five days or so!

@demonsub – have you photos of your Frankenstein’s monster? I bought some .stls a few months back from – I think it was – Printed Obsession – a full lab with crazy scientist and a really grotesque monster. I always fancied printing it and painting it just for a diorama, rather than as gaming pieces. As a teen, I thought the later Hammer Horror movies were amazing, but watching (parts of) that one back, I realised that they’re absolutely awful (and it was only the heaving cleavages and chance of a flash of nudity that made them so appealing as a boy in the 80s!). Is that Worzel Gummage dressing up as Draclea?

@limburger – a few days ago, I noticed that Bonnie Tyler was trending on Twitter and thought maybe something terrible had happened. Seeing your earlier post and everything clicked!