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A week off.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 12:22 pmWith all this not going out anywhere or doing anything other than hide in the house – more so now as it’s raining all the time – it’s becoming harder and harder to think of anything to write on here. I mean I could go on about the pandemic, or the incompetence, nay corruption of the Government, but I decided some time back not to engage with all that as they are morale-sapping subjects.
We took last week off just so that we wouldn’t need to get up and log on to the office servers for a few days. Initially it was supposed to be a trip to Shropshire for my eldest niece’s wedding, but that’s now been put back a year. We decided to have the time off anyway.
I have had a 1/8 scale model of Adam West’s Batman for a number of years, sitting in its box, unbuilt and unremarked. I’ve been working on that. The best part of getting back into model-making is the same as with any hobby – obtaining the kit. I have a new airbrush, various pincers, scrapers, prodders, sanders, fillers and paint brushes. I’ve also had to buy a number of new paints. I could do a khaki drab Batman, but not a blue and grey one, so there you have it. Anyway, I’m at a bit of a hiatus with that right now. It will have to be a largely weekend enterprise, since painting under artificial light is a problem. It looks great until you see it under natural light and realise that *everything* is too yellow.
I’ve been taking photos as I go along, and in due course, I might bore you with a selection of progress pictures, leading up to the completed model. Of course, that will depend upon me finding and remembering a cheap (viz. ‘free’) picture hosting site. Dreamwidth has some capacity, but it’s limited and awkward.
We also took the time to box set Game of Thrones from start to finish. It’s interesting to rewatch it and realise how early some of the events occurred, and just how much foreshadowing just sailed by unregarded at the time. I still think the resolution is fine in plot terms, but there is no doubt that the final season could – should – have been longer. There was no real feeling of the passage of time and everything happened with unwarranted haste. I understand, though I might be wrong, that HBO offered to stump up the cash for two or three more episodes to round the final season off properly, but the producers decided against accepting their offer. A mistake, I think.
We are currently indulging in viewing Scandi Noir. Seasons 1-3 of The Bridge are on iPlayer and it’s all good stuff, though it does rather dispel the general understanding that Scandinavia is a nice, law abiding place with little crime beyond jaywalking.
In other news, despite all this isolation, I seem to have become an intermittent snot monster over the past couple of days. Grudd knows how that happened. We haven’t seen anyone.
We took last week off just so that we wouldn’t need to get up and log on to the office servers for a few days. Initially it was supposed to be a trip to Shropshire for my eldest niece’s wedding, but that’s now been put back a year. We decided to have the time off anyway.
I have had a 1/8 scale model of Adam West’s Batman for a number of years, sitting in its box, unbuilt and unremarked. I’ve been working on that. The best part of getting back into model-making is the same as with any hobby – obtaining the kit. I have a new airbrush, various pincers, scrapers, prodders, sanders, fillers and paint brushes. I’ve also had to buy a number of new paints. I could do a khaki drab Batman, but not a blue and grey one, so there you have it. Anyway, I’m at a bit of a hiatus with that right now. It will have to be a largely weekend enterprise, since painting under artificial light is a problem. It looks great until you see it under natural light and realise that *everything* is too yellow.
I’ve been taking photos as I go along, and in due course, I might bore you with a selection of progress pictures, leading up to the completed model. Of course, that will depend upon me finding and remembering a cheap (viz. ‘free’) picture hosting site. Dreamwidth has some capacity, but it’s limited and awkward.
We also took the time to box set Game of Thrones from start to finish. It’s interesting to rewatch it and realise how early some of the events occurred, and just how much foreshadowing just sailed by unregarded at the time. I still think the resolution is fine in plot terms, but there is no doubt that the final season could – should – have been longer. There was no real feeling of the passage of time and everything happened with unwarranted haste. I understand, though I might be wrong, that HBO offered to stump up the cash for two or three more episodes to round the final season off properly, but the producers decided against accepting their offer. A mistake, I think.
We are currently indulging in viewing Scandi Noir. Seasons 1-3 of The Bridge are on iPlayer and it’s all good stuff, though it does rather dispel the general understanding that Scandinavia is a nice, law abiding place with little crime beyond jaywalking.
In other news, despite all this isolation, I seem to have become an intermittent snot monster over the past couple of days. Grudd knows how that happened. We haven’t seen anyone.