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Apparently, its a sign of old age, but after nearly 45 years, I finally need glasses. By no means is it an extreme prescription, but my eyesight has always been excellent. However, I have been noticing headaches and blurriness in recent months. Most noticeably, it has become an issue with my recent painting efforts. So after visiting the doctor a few weeks ago, I finally broke down, and purchased some reading glasses. Prescription strength is a whopping +1.0 (almost non-existent), but its more the situation that I need to wear glasses rather than the strength. My ability to read fine…
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Continue to backlog on the various videos and podcasts from our recent gaming sessions, something that keeps nagging me, but that I have not had the time to dive into to get caught up on. In the meantime, we have another Pathfinder sessions scheduled this weekend, which should finally wrap up the intro to Chapter 4 and conclude the Battle of Sandpoint. The group has been doing fairly well dealing with the assault of the giants, though they seem unsure of how to deal with the dragon. Should be able to finally finish up the fighting early in the session,…
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The final figure of the latest batch to be finished with highlighting and detail is Baldric the Wizard, one of my personal favorite characters of the game (who doesn’t like the wizard?). I particularly like how the cloak turned out, rather worn and dirty, and the light grey hair and beard turned out nicely as well. Overall, I enjoyed painting this fellow, the figures detail was easy to follow, and it didn’t have too many overlapping or difficult spots to reach, which meant that my eyesight could follow the detail.
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Second of the recent set to receive highlighting and details. Nelly had a bit more challenge and detail, which overall worked out pretty well. I am a little disappointed in the contrast between the dress and the apron, I tried to overly dry-brush the apron to try to whiten it up a bit more, but the two final colors are closer to each other than I had hoped. The hair ended up a bit more orange than I had hoped as well, I had intended for more dark red, but it does make for a nice looking brownish-blonde, and is…
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Finished the highlighting on Ann the Nun, and added the other details. Not completely happy with the face and head – my eyesight isnt clear enough to have noticed the poor quality of the habit around the face – but from a game-board distance the figure is rather detailed and nice. Overall, the figure is rather plain (which is no doubt intentional), but it really is only a couple of dominant colors, which makes it rather basic.
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So I found that my auto-linking to Facebook (visit me here) was having difficulties with the various thumbnails I had been posting. Apparently there is a restriction on Facebook that images need to be larger than 200×200 pixels, and my thumbnails were sized at 150×150. As a result, each post would get an error on the picture, and then Facebook would randomly select the next qualifying image from the page. As a result, it would either post my Patreon icon, or other irrelevant images. I have now corrected that issue, and although the thumbnails on the site will be a…
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Third of the current set, again just at the point of base coat and washes. Baldric wasn’t too difficult either, though as before the detail around the face suffered from my eyesight and the paint obscuring the detail. I had some difficulty with the necromancer cloak color used for the cloak, which again was a little too watery, but not nearly as bad as previous figures, and I suspect not an issue once the highlighting is finished.
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Second of the current set of survivors, base coated and washed, but no highlights yet. Nelly was a bit more difficult – I spotted at least one section of her hair that was hidden and missed during the base coat. And the white shirt and apron blended into the light colored dress a bit too much following the wash – hopefully it will have more contrast after the highlighting. The hair was not as strong as I had hoped either – the “mythical orange” was a bit too watery (I believe I didn’t shake the bottle enough), so the initial…
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