Pledge is  more wild west scenery building. Had another pack of mdf today and already built most of it.

When it comes to photography I reduce the size of images taken to conceal my crappy painting 🙂

In my youth I used to enjoy 35mm photography and I still have an SLR camera that I use occasionally. I do feel that digital photography has taken the skill out of it.

When you use film you have think about the exposure and you don’t know if you got it right until you get the photos back, but with digital photography you can just take multiple images to get it right… which makes it so much easier.

I’ve finally got time to turn my 1:1 scale terrain work into a OTT project, because things are getting to a stage where I can show things in the real world. It is set to ‘private’ for now, because I want a few more bits done. At this stage I don’t know if I will update the desktop light-project or integrate it into the big one. They are definitely related, but for now they are two stand-alone projects.

Pics from ‘in progress’ stuff or generic unboxings are done with my phone, because it’s less work getting them online and the tools are good enough to clean up the worst bits.

This reminds me that I need to reserve space for the light box too. I may end up moving it into my computer room instead, but we’ll see when I get to that part.

With a bit of luck I can get the entire thing assembled today. If not then it’s the next weekend.

I think it’s roughly 4 weeks since I ordered my new bike and they said it would take 4-6 weeks for it to arrive. I hope that includes time to ship and re-assemble it at our end, but time will tell. “Soon(tm)” is a thing 🙂

I made a mess while using the ‘poly max’ glue which made me think this may be useful to create a bit of texture on terrain.
It is flexible too.

And a tiny preview of the work in progress :

If I can’t complain then I’m not alive 😉

By the sounds outside today I think the kickball thing was happening and balls went into their designated spots.

Why is it that when something says “18mm” and the boards are supposedly ’18mm’ too … that those things don’t fit?
Maybe I need some sort of fluid to make it fit better ? Lard could do the trick, but it sounds dirty.

I will ponder this a bit more tomorrow, but I really wished I could have finished that part of the project today.
Really want to get this done so I can do some proper hobby in the near future.

*Pokes head in*

Pledge: Paint more minis!!!

Now about the headband stretching… will we see a full retro dance off XLBS episode?

Now with Kenny Loggins and Archer

What do people think about these goods? I’m particularly happy with how these models came out.

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