Reply To: [unofficial weekender] VIDYAGAMEZ!

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I’ve had the grandchildren over for a few days recently (it feels weird writing that, but my wife’s son has two four-year-old twins and a five-year-old so I’m officially “Granddad Chris” to the little ones). They’ve turned the house upside down, had us on the beach for two days (in the piss-pouring rain and howling gales) so after they left this lunchtime, instead of tidying the house and catching up with work, I thought “sod it, I’m going to do some painting”.

I put the XLBS on and got started. On the theme of this month’s thread, video games, I thought it’d be fun to finally paint up my Earthworm Jim miniature (from Thingiverse). He took me about two and a half hours – I’m getting quicker!

Gratuitous Lloyd shot:

I can feel another diorama coming on…. some kind of underground lair, populated with flying crows and mutant pirranhas or something. Nothing fancy, just a bit of fun. I’ve given up on Gold Buttons – even with @sundancer promising to put a good word in for my Cylons, I didn’t even get a mention this week  – absolutely not sulking  😉

Music? Of course it had to be the Moonlight Sonata, Third movement. Until Earthworm Jim, most people were only familiar with the most famous first movement (which, let’s be honest, is a beautiful piece of music). Long before I got a PC, I always thought the third movement deserved more recognition. Thanks to EWJ, now it finally has it (albeit for the “wrong” reasons!)