My family is moving out of the condominium where my wife and I have lived for 17 years, and my kids have lived their entire lives. It involves a lot of tape, a lot of stuffing things into boxes, and a lot of people complaining when I've inadvertantly packed up something they still wanted access to, like medicine or food or the family cat. I could have decided "well, I'm moving, so I'm definitely not doing a project this month" but then I decided after taking the entire year of 2021 off, I do have some catching up to do, and I definitely don't need to get into the habit of making excuses every month. So, I packed up everything in the workshop except for my work bench and model paints, and I managed to build the Mage, the tricky tentacled trouble-maker with a taste for... uh, trouble? Terror? That's as good as it gets. My thesaurus is already packed away in a box somewhere. Now, however, I really do need to pack up the model paints and paintbrushes. I'm not sure what April 2022 is going to look like yet, but I'll certainly make a solid, half-assed effort to come up with something in about a month!
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These are not the elaborate, in-depth projects I was hinting at last month, but I've already gotten these cool cats photographed and ready to unveil first, so here you go. The Panther and the BlackCat (yeah, I know, he's actually blue) are two of the more tricky enemies from Final Fantasy IV to dispatch properly if you encounter them before you're ready to actually fight them. They were a little easier than some of my other Final Fantasy IV projects because cats are something that exist in the real world, so there were figurines that I could buy off the shelf and only required a new coat of paint to bring them to life. I did, however, spend hours painting all those leopard spots by hand. (And then had to completely redo one of these projects a second time because my daughter decided to mess with it, only one day after I finished it!) |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
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