Holidays

Holiday Time, as illustrated by "On The Beach" from the Britannia Model Village shoot, for want of anything more suitable.

Bit of a hiatus with the blog at the moment- work and holidays interfering somewhat.  Still, model-making might occasionaly feel like I'm wasting the precious gift of life gluing bits of plastic and card together, however it is my form of stress relief (and Airfix kits are marginally cheaper than narcotics) so who cares.  As regards model making, some work has been ongoing in between housework, actual work, and freelance work, just nothing in quite an advanced enough state to post on here at the moment. 

Mainly because it might motivate me to finish them, here is a list of the projects I'm working on at the moment (all of which ought to appear on here over the next 6 months or so):

*Warhammer 40K scratchbuilt Thunderbolt and Marauder aircraft (for use in an experimental photography shoot, trying to do all movement effects and explosions etc in-shot without resorting to photoshop).  For this one I'm also building a couple of special camera rigs too, which is adding to the complications and the build time somewhat...

*Dalek Kevin (a few of my mates who look at this blog may remember this from waaaay back as concept art, the miniature is nearly done).  Name altered from the original Chav-Dalek to appease the sensitivities of my friend Beth, who along with surprising me somewhat for reading this blog, has -perhaps rightly- accused me of participating in the act of Demonising the Working Class Youth of Britain.  Having been on the recieving end of more than one casually thrown brick from a member of said person whilst living in Carlisle, I stand by my demonisation, but for the sake of not starting a riot, I shall accept the namechange :)

*Project: "S-H-E-D" (large ongoing build for a comic)

*Project: Provisionally entitled "Here the Forgotten", abandoned vehicles built to resemble animals.  Trust me, it will make more sense when I post the concept art.

*Project: "Sunken World" (a return to some underwater shoots I did a few years back, with some better kit)

*Project: "The Angel" (Something I'm working on for a competition brief, leading off from the angel imagery I was using for Britannia/Steampunk stuff).

*Project: "Space" (unimaginative title I know, but I'm experimenting with shooting miniatures of spacecraft, in the best Red Dwarf/Space 1999 tradition)

*Project: "The Century Survey" (I've odd bits and pieces of Steampunk designs still to be made, but the project is kind of on the back burner for the time being)

*On top of these, theres also a small model railway built to represent some of the stuff I did for the Britannia Model Village, as well as a couple of modifications of some CJ Ward 3D-Printed loco bodies, which I'm going to heavily hack around just to show what kind of levels of modifications can be carried out with these starter-kits.

So rather a lot there going on- most of the models are part-built, so hopefully now we've got the house sorted, I can find the odd hour here and there in which to finish models and actually do some productive photography with them...