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Well, it’s been the better part of two years since my last update. I’ve added another human to the family, and had a long-overdue surgery on my foot — both of which basically put EVERYTHING on hold. Now that the newest addition is toddling around and the family no longer requires two pairs of eyes constantly on alert to maintain everyone’s survival, I can start thinking about (and working on) updates again. I’ve added an airbrush to my hobby tool arsenal, but figuring out how to use it has been a challenge despite hours of YouTube research. Beyond that, I’ve finally started painting again. IRead More →

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It occurred to me that people probably know how I’m posting — I generally don’t post to the website more than once per day. This is intentional, because sometimes I can hammer out tons of painted miniatures, and then I won’t be able to get any done for a week (or more). As such, I’d rather have a consistent post going out every day rather than flooding my Twitter people with mini pictures sometimes, then not posting anything about it for a long time. Since I’ve been painting more consistently, and started with a whole bunch of little bitty miniatures, I was able to getRead More →

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Hobby Room Setup as of Jan 2019 Just for my own future reference and/or nostalgia, here’s the paint station setup in The Dungeon, as of my hobby re-start: And here is (some) of the D&D collection, as of December 2018: First up is the place of honor… Hardback shelf & antique display cabinet. The Hardback shelf holds most of my prized hardback books. Bookshelf:AD&D 1e, 1e & 2e special limited re-releases, 2e & 2e revised, and 5e. Not pictured: 3.0/3.5/4.0 hardbacks – due to (obvious) space constraints on the shelf, they’ve been relegated to the normal bookshelf in the larger library in another part ofRead More →

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I recently built myself a lightbox using the method @tabletopminions recommends in his video, Photo Lightbox: Build or Buy. I need to get brighter bulbs, it seems, but a good first attempt. Photographing the miniatures is a little different using the lightbox rather than my painting spotlights & improvised backdrops. I’m going to need some practice. And/or a better camera. As a side note, this is after I used Mod Podge Acrylic Gloss Sealer on the musician and non-bejeweled dudes. The guy with jewels in his beard is still unsealed. I was playing with various sealants to see what I like & don’t like. I thinkRead More →

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Now that I have two of an identical model, painted over a year apart – I thought it would be neat to do a side-by-side comparison of the two and evaluate how my painting skills are progressing (or not). In both April of 2015, and August of 2016 I painted this version of the Dwarf Slayer. Old one on the left, new one on the right: For some reason, the left eye on both of them are a bit wonky… Other observations — The skin looks a bit better now. The contrast on the metal is better & clearer. The hair is significantly brighter andRead More →

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This is mainly to test my Twitter integration again. Hoping this will post to twitter as well, but we’ll see. Still trying to tweak these settings. Anyway, I have a wide variety of brushes. All of them useful for specific purposes, but there’s one brush that I use far more than any other — The Citadel Starter Brush. It came with the starter paint set with like 8 colors in horrible pots. Colors unlabeled (but they are on the box), 10 Night Goblins, and the Citadel Starter Brush. I almost immediately replaced the paints with actual paint pots (though I did plow through the blackRead More →