Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Friday…. finally!

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I wandered over looking for this live Inifinity Playthrough that was trailed on Twitter and stumbled on the forums instead. Everyone seems to be saying “hi” to @fcostin and it’d be downright rude not to – welcome to the party, Free. Where all the cool kids get to hang out and talk about cool stuff like the cool cats we are; no, it’s not an online collection of Roy Croppers – *we* are the cool kids. The rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet….

@bali has stepped up nicely this week to keep the conversation going

1. When painting do you start with a plan in mind for your color scheme, go with the flow, work off reference material, enjoy the look of grey plastic/metal to much to ever cover it, etc? Sometimes I go with the flow, but it invariably ends up disappointing so, where possible, I slavishly follow an existing design – usually GW box art (those guys seem to know what they’re doing)

2. What’s your favorite month and why? May. It’s (usually) the month of Brighton’s Fringe Festival, artists open house weekends, it’s still spring so everything is new and fresh, but it’s also quite warm (and on a good year, warm enough even to take the first dip in the sea of the year) the days get longer, everyone just seems happier and friendlier when the sun is out. Having a nice day out in May, knowing you’ve still June, July, August and September still to come is a real spirit-raiser!

3. Do you have a permanent spot to hobby at, setup and tear down prior to getting your craft on, have a mobile station to take your creativity on the road, leave a trail of rubble in your wake, etc? I have a (permanent) shelf set up with paints and lighting etc. in my wife’s “artist studio” (it was a downstairs bedroom for when her mother came to live with us, but having built an extension on the house it seemed silly to have an empty spare room once she was no longer with us, so Nick turned it into her art studio). I have a workshop at the bottom of the garden where I do 3d printing and laser cutting and terrain building, but for mini painting, nothing beats sitting indoors in the warm with the radio on!

Pledge – I’m working on something electronic for a project one of the other nerds OTT members is working on, so I reckon it’s only fair I get that finished this week. Spoilers? Nah, you’ll see…..

Music? It was very nearly Soul Asylum and yet more 90s rock. But I’ve been playing guitar this week and really listening – like actually listening, almost note-by-note – to a lot of bluesy tunes. So here’s just a lovely tune: