Thursday, 9 March 2023

Catching up!

 I'm really grateful for all of the comments on the last two posts and I'm gradually replying to each of them so I'll catch up!  I tend to mostly do computer stuff in the mornings with my coffee and then try to keep focused once I start painting when I listen to lots of YouTube videos as I paint - taking out YouTube 'Premium' ad free was the best thing I have done for a while, the ads were annoying the hell out of me when trying to paint! I play a wide range of  videos from historical, Thames mud larking, painting tutorials, DBA battles, true crime the list is endless but I need something in the background when painting I find. Another thing I'm doing is to revisit some old Vinyl albums via YouTube. It struck me recently that I have lost the pleasure of putting an album on and playing it through from start to finish as it was intended to be enjoyed complete  with crackling as it begins. I have spent years playing odd tracks and I'm really enjoying this. I'm very much a 70's hard rock man who got drawn into the whole Punk movement before going back to heavy rock again and then into the 80's. I'm finding some true gems again, James Gang 'Bang' a real blast from the 70's and the wonderful T.Rex * 'Slider' album that bought back so many memories, how could you not love a track like Baby Boomerang :)

Anyway I digress, here are more 3mm Hoplites, there will be 8 elements of these which should look quite solid when complete. 



* Nostalgia corner! 
Quick funny story re Marc Bolan - my late Uncle Ted and my Dad knew his father from drinking in a pub in Putney South London  where his father lived in a council flat. When he became wealthy he bought his Dad a Rolls Royce which made quite an impression on the sprawling estate of high rise flats!