PLG
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Hi. Guys
its been a while since I posted anything. Back in January I was a plonker, cutting my thumb while using a circular saw. Fortunately, after one and a half hours in surgery they reconstructed my thumb and after 7 weeks of my thumb and wrist in a cast it is healing nicely. i still have very limited mobility with the thumb but a regime of daily exercises will (hopefully) get some movement back. At least I still have a thumb, so I am lucky. I am also lucky that I am left handed and it was my right hand thumb I cut.
Unfortunately I have not been able to hold anything in my right hand so no modelling or sculpting. But I did find that I could paint flats by fixing them to some wood using double sided tape.
I also had cataracts removed from both eyes, all good so far but it will be a few weeks before I get new glasses which means my close-up vision (modelling distance) is not brilliant - that's my excuse for some of the mediocre painting!
here are some photos of the results:
firstly; Crossing the Styx:
next; St George fighting a dragon:
finally, I decided to up the anti, and produced a box diorama of a beer cellar. The frame is only placed in front, I will make the box case when I am able to get back into the workshop.
and here is a photo without the frame and at an angle showing the layout of the flat figures:
What i have learned i a new level of respect and admiration for all of the guys who can properly paint flats - it is so much more difficult than I expected - enjoyable, and satisfying but difficult. A whole different ball game to painting round figures.
Peter
its been a while since I posted anything. Back in January I was a plonker, cutting my thumb while using a circular saw. Fortunately, after one and a half hours in surgery they reconstructed my thumb and after 7 weeks of my thumb and wrist in a cast it is healing nicely. i still have very limited mobility with the thumb but a regime of daily exercises will (hopefully) get some movement back. At least I still have a thumb, so I am lucky. I am also lucky that I am left handed and it was my right hand thumb I cut.
Unfortunately I have not been able to hold anything in my right hand so no modelling or sculpting. But I did find that I could paint flats by fixing them to some wood using double sided tape.
I also had cataracts removed from both eyes, all good so far but it will be a few weeks before I get new glasses which means my close-up vision (modelling distance) is not brilliant - that's my excuse for some of the mediocre painting!
here are some photos of the results:
firstly; Crossing the Styx:
next; St George fighting a dragon:
finally, I decided to up the anti, and produced a box diorama of a beer cellar. The frame is only placed in front, I will make the box case when I am able to get back into the workshop.
and here is a photo without the frame and at an angle showing the layout of the flat figures:
What i have learned i a new level of respect and admiration for all of the guys who can properly paint flats - it is so much more difficult than I expected - enjoyable, and satisfying but difficult. A whole different ball game to painting round figures.
Peter
