There has been a lot of time fucused elsewhere and lots of hobby missed or partially done. With the death of a close friend and mentor who i adored like a kindly grandfather, i had to step up and help clear his house as his remaining family live in new zealand. 70+ years of hobby nearly killed me but i learned that modern charity shops will see valuable furniture go to landfill and be destroyed all for the lack of an appropriate sticker.
His Daughter told me to take what i wanted as a reminder so all his hobby hand tools came home with me, Then the near destruction of his hobby desk and setup forced my hand i was going to have to move my hobby room from its then location into the biggest room in the house to accomodate his desk  i uploaded it as a project on the beast of war website to show the progress. with my health issues it took months to do and again didnt help my health but boy was i leased with the finished article..

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1721951/

https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/community-spotlight-scatter-terrain-assassins-creed-dystopian-tabletops/

https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/community-spotlight-titans-sagas-of-symbaroum-a-military-bust/

there are also a couple of links to community recognition for a few little things ive done and finished im wolf320f

Well as the title suggests things haven't been going to plan of late in fact at one point i sincerely felt like captain chaos.

i got flooded out at Christmas with a large hole in the living room ceiling and all my electrics tripping, which exhausted me to the point that i slept through Christmas completely, no Christmas dinner, no Christmas TV and no Speech from my old employer her majesty the Queen.

Since then Ive struggled to remain on top with my health and every step forward has resulted in two back, all very depressing. on a positive note i have managed to get some painting and printing in with some good results and recognition.

i am a backstager on the website Beastsofwar.com and received a golden button a weekly feature recognizing  painting posted within projects on their site. it wasn't even for one of my own figures but one i had done for a mate of mine and his son 

The golden button is only a bit of fun but the feedback and feature on the website i like was a real lift. ive a couple more titans to paint and my local store manager has asked me to paint some rare Earthdawn troll enchanter figures hes managed to get hold of. Considering the sheer volume of tea i drink at his store while we are gossiping like little old ladies its only fair.

My 3d printer has been very busy though and as well as many Adeptus Titanicus buildings and scenery pieces i have been making some buildings from the Printable Scenery lost islands Kickstarter and the Dwarves and Demons kickstarter. Mainly towers  one of which a wizards tower i sent to beasts of war who are now doing a feature on painting and finishing it ready for games.

As the title suggests the terrain odyssey continues whilst my printer is awaiting spares. It would already be up and running had not the mosfet sent be faulty.. I wasn’t too happy having to wait again for a replacement but shit happens as the French say.In the meantime my dining room looks like a workshop.

Well with the purchase of a 3D printer comes the excitement of being able to print great stuff for pence whilst watching the TV, painting ones figures or anything else for that matter. It keeps printing for hours on end and it’s like plastic crack so addictive and a hell of a buzz when it’s all goes well. You tend to finish a project then start another in seconds all the while building a backlog of things to paint for the tabletop.

I only really noticed how much stuff I had made when I needed to put up a bookcase and several shelves to accommodate it all. Even then it didn’t really sink in until the dice God’s intervened and cursed my printers motherboard with Nurgles rot causing it to melt and go up in smoke. Yes I am totally serious the motherboard melted and while I’m down awaiting spares I had to get painting. In truth these painting projects have been done over many weeks in small increments as I’ve simply not been well enough to go at it hard and blitz the to do pile.

I am pretty pleased with the results though and they look great on the tabletop.

firstly I had to do these gun turrets for my cygnar force as proxy Block houses, the source files were from Rocketshipgames who do a number of free stuff on Thingiverse and have had a recent successful kickstarter of which I was part. I loved playing about with the weathering powders for the rust, but ended up with an orange Jack Russell as he’d been layed down under my desk.

All of the above designs were free on Thingiverse my thanks to the creators Dutchmogul & Rbross as all I had to do was resize them for what I wanted. These will be a great edition to my Wild West Exodus table.

Well the wait continues to just get a date for my tribunal with the DWP. Life in the meantime continues at a snails pace only interrupted by hospital visits, medical tests periods of chronic pain, fatigue and the usual. As per the age old saying "same shit different day" some of my symptoms have really flared up and had me off my feet feeling very low but with a Jack Russell in my life that doesn't last very long before he brightens me up enough to put best foot forward.
i would like to write that i have done lots of painting and gaming with my friends however, that has not been the case.  Life has been pretty shitty and with the  drop in overall weather conditions my body responds like its a bloody barometer. It has been days wasted to a medication induced haze a myriad of symptoms and broken sleep compounding the whole situation. For weeks now my mood has been very low and i got to the point where i could have just given up were it not for my dog. i don't mean do anything silly but just getting to a point where all i wanted to say was fuck it in a big strong voice to everything and everyone. to make matters worse my best friend, confidant and the only one i will let near me to help with the more embarrassing symptoms, was taken ill herself and after several weeks up in the air needed to move county for better medical treatment and family support. This was perhaps my biggest blow and only served to feed that feeling of isolation that comes with dealing with a chronic health condition.
That said in true Phil style i plodded on and kept my 3D printer going making all the gaming terrain i wanted but never could afford. Hour after hour busily printing away until i had quite a backlog of stuff to paint. i suppose it would still be going now were it not for a slight hiccup as boy is it a buzz when you get a project done. i have made so many pieces over the last weeks between blog entries that i had to put a plethora of shelves (all car boot finds that have been in my shed for ages) up in my gaming room to house them all tidily.
So what was my hiccup? nothing short of sending my printer up in flames. yes you read right, i am about to set the printer to print the finishing piece of a project when i smell burning plastic and see wisps of smoke coming from the motherboard. luckily i was sat next to it and hadnt wandered off so it was an easy save, but scratch one printer motherboard that was now dead. i suppose the upside of this is that i have a window of opportunity now to catch up painting the backlog and when done i will post pics crediting the owners of the design which is only fair..