A couple days ago, I posted something on a Facebook group I joined (Super Cheap Wargaming). It was some new ships I made for pre-dreadnaught era gaming and one of the other members asked for work-in-progress pictures. I did him one better and directed him to the post I made in this blog where I spelled it all out step-by-step. Then I got looking at some of my previous posts. I knew it had been a while since the last post, but was still kind of surprised to see that it's been over a year. Not only has it been a year since my last post, I think it's been even longer since the last time I had a game on my table.
Ack! My table. Which I never got around to cat-proofing and just let stuff pile up on over all that time. Well, we went on a three-week holiday in July (another story in and of itself involving a used RV, a suspension bridge, a moon snail, and getting pulled over by a state trooper at 2 in the morning) and when we got back, I found what I can only assume are pee stains on my table mat. Yaay...
So I've started slowly organizing the stuff on the table. To help this endeavour, I built some shelves to sit on the back of my hobby desk and put up a larger shelf on the wall. All of it costing nothing as I used wood, reclaimed screws, and even shelf brackets found at the local dump.
While I may not have played on my table, I have played board games with family and friends and also stolen some moments here and there to paint or craft miniature related stuff. So, I think now I'll just perform a photo dump with captions.
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| The image that caused me to come back here. |
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| A cheapo Halloween decoration spider. I beefed up the abdomen with layers of green stuff left over from other projects. Then I painted. |
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| The motorhome being torn apart to get rid of the water damage. |
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| Tyranid hatchlings(?). Then from Blacklist Fantasy: a dwarf druid, halfling bard, and an elf paladin |
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| Some type of warrior from Wizkids Mage Knight miniatures. I removed some doo-dads from his helmet and armour before re-painting. |
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| A church from Dave Graffam's line of paper models sitting atop the top shelf I made for the desk. |
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| Blacklist Fantasy knolls. Because of how dark my wash ended up being, the photo doesn't show the slight variations I made to their skin colours. |
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| A cousin-in-law's son asked me to repaint his Plymouth Cuda. After the Trial and error that went into getting the last car I painted to look decent, I searched for a different thinning medium to dilute craft paint for use in an air brush and came across a guy who uses windshield washer fluid. It worked so much better! |
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| An elf magic user from Blacklist Fantasy and above her in the blurry background, my hole board to hold paintbrushes and tiny files and whatever other slim-body tools I use. |
If I did any more than what's pictured, I don't recall it and I don't have pictures of it anyway. Hoping to be able to take time enough for this wonderful hobby to post here more regularly again. Bye!
