This month I've been taking care of the new house quite a bit (touching up the paint, murdering the dandelions in the lawn, etc.) so I wanted to do a fairly simple project this month. I decided it was finally time to tackle the Beamer, who is a little different in that it's a piece of technology from Final Fantasy IV and not a traditional "monster" per se. But, you encounter it and get into battles against it, so it's a monster for all intents and purposes. I've been putting off building the Beamer for a long time, partly because I had no idea how I was going to build the thing. I knew that it had sort of a vaguely acorn-shaped piece, and a spherical piece, and a disk-shaped piece, but I didn't know how to put that all together using parts I had laying around. My subconscious mind must have been working on it for me, though, because once I started, everything just seemed to come together on its own. I think you'll agree it turned out rather nicely!
0 Comments
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! |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
Illustrator, writer, painter, sculptor, collector of toys and cats, observer of things. Categories
All
|