Share a hobby you’ve picked up recently — what got you into it?
I suppose my Oil pastel scribbles would count here
Why did I start… Was away on training and on a whim bought some cheap oil pastels and a pad of black paper. Haven’t done any for a while…must carry on…
The other thing is maps…drawing them…
Each town on the large map is drawn too.
Why maps. Well during long COVID I lost my fine motor skills among other things and drawing random maps was easier than the written word.
Today was the day I was going to get the militia a long way done… Ha Ha!
Dad’s taxi, helping mother in law and sleeping in caused my plans to falter.
On the upside… They are now in the house.
Tomorrow is another day lol.
What’s the weirdest coincidence you’ve ever experienced?
Well not sure if it is a coincidence or just a very small world. So this is me in about 1991 on my first day as a reenactor. The weird coincidence is that my future wife is sat on the slope behind me. I didn’t know her and she didn’t know me.
Found the photo after we were married and she told me then.
Here she is in Poland…the short lady in white trousers next to the big horse. She got the largest and I got the smallest 😂. Obviously we are not Romans in the second photo.
What’s a book you never finished but still think about?
To be honest there are quite a lot. Some were accidental and others deliberate.
One that I would like to reread and finish one day is ‘A Boy and his Bear’ by Harriet Graham.
Years ago as a class teacher we read this as part of our topic on the Tudors and Stewarts. For some reason we never got to finish it…
Basically set in Tudor England..Dickon lives in a cruel time when wild bears are made to fight by men for sport. He meets a recently captured bear cub, and is determined to set Nounou free. But the path to freedom is littered with danger for both the boy and his bear.
A second one was a western I got out the library as a kid and some absolute Arse had removed the last page with a scalpel or something… I can’t remember the book, but the fact the last page was gone is what reminds me.
Well that is what my wife calls it (oooh err missus).
Today we had a shoe rack collapse. Sadly the thing we paid £1 in a charity shop…err didn’t make it.
So this afternoon I made one out of wood. It was designed to fit in a certain spot and actually I am quite pleased with it …
This cost pretty much nothing as it utilised a pile of wood I had lying around.
I was a bit pooped after sorting this so no model making or painting this evening.
This just popped up in my Jetpack Memory thing…
Hopefully, I will be adding to this blog as I work my way through my lead mountain. I will be adding posts as I build my terrain or get some painting done.
26th August 2017… This blog has been going nine years…zoiks!
Which fictional world would be the most fun to vacation in?
Well there are a few I could think of… What about the Wizarding World… But as I seem to be a Muggle then errrrr maybe I am already in it…
So that leaves me with Middle Earth or Diskworld…
I would be happy to visit both, but as Tolkien has a world riven by strife then off to Ankh Morpork I go….
Luckily I have my map of the city to help me avoid the Shades!
So I am attempting a new regime. A a big word for trying something new… lol.
Basically I have decided that even an hour to do some painting can feel like a lot. So I am going for about half an hour daily. Obviously if I achieve more…yippee, but providing I do the half hour or use up one colour of paint then I am happy 😊.
Here is the yellow/brown on them. Faces and hands next. That shouldn’t take too long then it will be the buff coat. Now the buff coat is often seen as a golden brown or a light yellowy/brown.
Now as I have a similar colour then my buff coats are going to be pale bone colour…. More like this…
The above is a 17th century version, but the colour will work for me.
The thing with the half hour sessions is that if I feel up to it then I can easily decide to do so
I am now feeling the urge to try the colour out.
Well go me!
Buff done with a bit of time to go…
Not exactly the last three seconds like a film. But in two sessions I have got a bit further forward…
Tomorrow skin and weapons.
Well, I am back in my own house and decided to slap a bit of paint on the militia.
Reddish, blue, green and grey so far. Got a yellow/sand to go then onto the buff coat…
I am knackered at the minute so not feeling the love of these lol.
This was my famous Geek Wall display from 2014. I used roleplay to help secondary school kids write better prose.
It just popped up on my Facebook feed lol!
