Moving on...

...or trying to anyways.

I love this T-Shirt, and plan to wear it when I vote
in the presidential election later this year...

My hobby mojo has more or less up and wandered off. With my whole world in a current state of flux that's easily understandable I guess. I've painted a bit on the Coyotes' Razorback and the contrast on a large flat sided box netted the predictably bad results that I've had in the past with washes on rhinos. 

Bleh. When next you see this it will be predominantly black...

I've spent a fair bit of time on the ol' blog here of late waging a war of deletion vs. the fucking link SPAMMERS! In the past week or two, close to if not more than 300 SPAM comments have been deleted. Three spam blogger's blogs reported to blogger (try saying that line fast...), and one particularly annoying spammer's blog has been forwarded on to a hacker friend of mine who knew My Wolfy for decades and is rather annoyed that they took this particular point in time to bombard me. So in the highly unlikely event that said spammer actually reads any of this: have fun with my old and your new friend!

I've been browsing thru the various minis, bitz and bobs in and amongst my hobby area...the whole house really, but nothing draws me to want to paint on them (the above Razorback isn't helping either). Digging thru the piles, tossing out real life old stuff that honestly ought to have been sorted thru ages ago, I've managed to uncover a pair of hidden gems.

First up is the long buried (SEVEN YEARS?!?!...don't anyone tell Neverness ok? Great thanks) Pig Tank which, I'm inclined to just send to my buddy John at White Whale Studios Miniature Madness with the simple instructions of 'have at it'. I've mentioned the idea to him in the past, but will have to wait till I get all of my finances sorted out first. 

So much truth.

More to the present, I've also recovered my (probably equally long buried) Ork Fighta Bomma kit, all still new on the sprue. So...with no want to paint maybe I'll try gluing my fingers to some plastic instead. We'll see I suppose. 

Also a follow up to my last post: My Beloved Wolfy is both home and enshrined in our living room. As I told folks on Facebook, whilst she never quite explained her attachment to the Samurai display swords, she absolutely adored them! Also her beloved 'familiar' (kitty) Kiya is at her side, as well as the antique hourglass her late grandmother gave her.  

Just as she did in life, her urn now wears 'my heart' as well as two beautiful pendants that her father gave her. Sadly though, the dog tag styled one on the right was a recent gift that he wasn't able to give to her before she was gone. A casualty of the quarantine. 

Other than that, the only thing of recent note is I got a hair cut and will be donating my 17" pony tail (when straightened out) to Wigs for Kids. 

Till next time. o7

Bring out the pigs...

o/

Hobby time was non-existent this past weekend aside from a little bit of Dark Heresy RPGing Friday night. The rest of my time was spent (with quite a bit of help) moving my GF in and various pieces of our redundant furniture out to their new homes.

As such, the house looks like a bomb went off inside! Anything that we didn't immediately know where to put went into the dining room. As a result that room is now impassable terrain, aside from a walk-thru lane to connect both ends of the house. Her kitties seem to be adjusting to their new home...however tonight we'll pick up my dog from my grandparents' house and on her return, I'm sure a whole new level of chaos shall ensue...

I do have one bit on the hobby front though. My GF has a coffee table that is essentially built around/out of an aquarium (sorry, no picture of it as its buried in the dining room). Wanting to keep it she suggested we could put terrain in it and display battle scene-type dioramas in it! Awesome idea!  The dioramas will change periodically, but one project we've already earmarked for it is a 1/72 scale, super-heavy anime-inspired tank which was originally drawn by Miyazaki Hayao. 

I'll be honest, the addition of the crew of pigs is what really sold me on this...somehow they make this monster kinda 'cute' (which sold my GF on the idea as well).

'I first spotted this tank on a google search for...something some ways back, but it was out of production. Drooling over the kit and instantly wanting it, I checked on it periodically to see if it was ever reissued, and lo and behold it was! So I used last week's ebay sales to finance virtually all of it, and with shipping from Japan it came to about $55. Which, to my surprise is less than a Space Marine Whirlwind!

Speaking of which, can somebody please explain to me the justification of $57 for a $37.25 rhino with one extra turret sprue and a different box??? Insanity.

anyways...

My order was ready to ship and so I paid for it Friday (that site has a bit of an odd process for ordering...) and so we should be good to go in a month or so when it gets here. At least I hope so...I see today it is listed as 'back ordered'. It was still 'in stock' when I paid for it, so I can only hope I got the last one. Kindova worrisome development though...

Edit: I got the shipment notification last night, so apparently I did get the last one, whew!