Although I know that I don’t have to paint as well as the box art…

It can put me off buying the miniature if it’s expensive and I know it will look awful. I would really like the Morathi miniature by GW, but I know I couldn’t do it justice (and it was £80 last time I checked… so way above budget) and mistakes on a small mini are more…[Read more]

Don’t hold yourself to the box/promotional art. Done is better than trying to be perfect. Plus the videos are so relaxed and laid back that it feels like a total 180 compared to many other YouTube videos.

Thanks for sharing these.  I really enjoyed the approach and that so many different perspectives.  It was fascinating to me that hobbyists across a broad range of interests and experience still come to broadly the same conclusions about techniques that helped.

A key point to realise is what works best for you.  So knowing yourself is so much mo…[Read more]

Hereo’s 3 Crystal Dragon done: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1958929/

On to the painting competition entry…

*hmmm* … that ‘AI ethics expert’ was a woman.
Surely he isn’t cheating on his current girl friend with that one, or is he ?
I mean … when you hire/consult an ‘ethics’ expert you are supposed to prevent mistakes like that and you have done something similar in the past …

And yeah … curse all ‘influencers’ and send them straight to hell.

I…[Read more]

Pledge: work on the last of the Harryhausen Hellenics (and finally finish the army) and my addition to this month’s chonk fest.

I can’t say that I’m very good at the admitting I may have screwed things up sometimes but I do try to apologize as soon as I think that I was at fault.

One thing I can say that I have fucked up right now is…[Read more]

@zoidpinhead thanks for the Reddit link; what a total turd. Deserves all the bad karma he brought on himself…

“influencers” 🙄

My pledge is to make my Spores playtest terrain more appealing.

Most recent cock up, I used a pot of sand i had on a shelf behind my hobby desk to texture a terrain board. I used some left over woodland scenic glue (like mod podge) the sand sucked up all the moisture and went lumpy. I pressed it down and it looked ok. It took an age to dry, they…[Read more]