2012 - A Year in Review

What a year eh?

Was it good? Well.....50/50

There were a few bad parts, mostly just the last few months, though that incident that forced my mother and little sisters to move house (psycho next door neighbour....I know, cause he threatened to kill me too). I guess apart from those things, it's been an alright year.

Got through a lot of projects this year, including Skaven, Chaos and of course my Brothers Army Challenge. While I have wound down from all it, I did get some great models done. Certainly Skrag the Gatekeeper is a  popular choice for some. Character wise, this was the year for Storm Spear, Sparky and Lord Corrupticus Fellwing. These three seemed to have a great focus and were well fleshed out character wise.

This leads to a big THANK YOU to all the Artists who I commissioned work from. The pieces they produced were fantastic and I will continue to commission more works as long as I have ideas and the money to get them done. Extra big thanks goes to SupaCrikeyDave, who has done a number of the commissions I've requested. Thanks Mate!

So what does 2013 hold. Well....13 is apparantly my lucky number....and the sacred number for Skaven is 13...sooo...

In all seriousness, I plan to get back into other forms of art. I'm already set up to begin oil painting and should receive my microphone soon so I can begin practicing voice recording. I'll get back into photography and of course, will still continue converting and painting models. I've also started a Tumblr account, which was ment just to watch other Tumblr's, but I will do something with it depending on what you guys think. So in truth, it looks to be a good year to come.

So a Happy New Year to you all and hope 2013 proves to be an even greater year.

New Years Eve Update

Got night work tonight, but finish before midnight so I guess that's good. Not sure what I'll do tonight to celebrate the new year cause I don't see how next year is going to be better.

Actually, let me rephrase that: What I ment was January is going to be a nightmare for me, but if I can pull through it then perhaps 2013 will be good (should be, seeing as the number 13 is actually considered a lucky number for me.......maybe that's why Skaven appealed to me?).

Speaking of those ratty devils, nearly finished work on that GD model. Had a gap behind him when he was glued to the base, so will add a big rat behind him (which, in my opinion, actually improves the model). After that? Well, I might paint up that Genestealer Cultist model thingy I got off Ebay (it's been tempting to start work on it, but I have other projects to finish first).

Also, can't wait to start oil painting again (it's been 10 years since I last did it.....wow, now I just feel old).

Finishing Games

So, just finished both Monkey Island 2:SE and Bastion. I gotta say both games are very good, but Bastions final level really got me good. Not only does the full weight of the story really hit you, but you're given choices on what to do. For the choices I made, I felt the emotion that it gave (it was deep enough for me anyway). As for MI 2, apart from Dinky Islands jungle part and the constant going back and forth (a trademark of point and click adventures) it was good and the voice acting for the most part (the game itself was text talk based, not ment for actual speech) was brilliant.

Not much else game wise, though while typing this I got a text offering more work, so tonight I work.

Update and a little MI

So, got brushes, paints and canvas's......not all I need is for my flatmate to go back to work so I can start painting again. Also, Microphone ordered and projects have started up again, though somehow all this gaming is distracting.

I can't help it, it's Monkey Island. Just finished the first one and nearing the final part of the second. Not sure why, but this series is just fantastic. The characters, story, humor and music is what a great adventure is all about (even if the damn thing gets too repetitive). I admit I did play these two years ago and I've also played MI 3 and the telltale game too. In fact, MI 4 is the only one I haven't played, and from what I heard it was the weakest of the series. If you haven't played it, then go do it (or at least look it up on Youtube).

Actually, that gives me an idea.......

Back from Christmas

Just got back from mum's place after a great Christmas there. I admit I didn't have much hope that Christmas this year would be good, but it was (for the most part, with the exception of the idiots in her street setting off illegal fireworks and upsetting the kids and pets...and waking us up).

Moving on from that: Bananaman (yep, completely different). A classic old show about a less then intelligent super hero, some rather idiotic bad guys and the worst puns you'll ever hear......which is why most of us love it.

 OK, so not my most favourite of episodes, but I had to put this one up because of the final part with Bananaman playing the piano and the police chief singing (or whatever you call that). For some reason I can't get that scene out of my head.

Steam Shopping

So many great deals on Steam at the moment. So far I've got myself Terraria, Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2.

Steam at least has some decent sales on, better then most gaming companies at the moment.

Update: Just got Bastion. Great game too.

Tumblr

I set up a Tumblr account just to follow a few people, but now that I have one I have to ask, what should I use it for? Just general stuff? An 'Ask me anything here' page? Maybe one of those pages where you ask my characters questions and they respond to them?

Is it worth even using? Have I just opened myself up to abuse from random people for their amusement? What have I gotten myself into?

Perhaps I should have looked into Tumblr more deeply before I through myself into it. Maybe I should just ignore it and leave it for the moment, see what happens, that sort of thing (unless anyone else has any suggestions, which I'm willing to listen too).