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2016/12/20 14:17:15
Subject: The Bloggit: 18th Dec - Lo Phat Chinese Restaurant build, and further modifications
Dr H wrote:Good job on the boarding up and shutter-ing down.
Cheers! It's now finished:
Even some broken glass
Theophony wrote:I really like that set up. Any zombicide figs nearby for scale?
The name is great too , now I want to make a Chinese massage parlor named Hung Lo massage
I'm totally going to suggest that to the designer. Or may just add that to the top.
No Zombicide ones, but here's a TWD one -
omnomnomnomnom Dead Outside
Solar_lion wrote:Now I'm hungry for Chinese food while telling everyone " I am da Law!"
That'll be this guy Ink's still wet but you get the idea. Probably going to mark the bag "dice" Bringing the law of d6 to the cursed earth!
Joker's now got a fedora (apoogies for blur, holding a wriggling 10 month old at the time!)
Automatically Appended Next Post: So plodding on. Need to weather up my set of 6 air vents made from baby smoothie lids, the very first thing I appropriated for scratchbuilding (baneblade wheels back in Oct '09)
Onwards!
graven
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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2016/12/21 18:46:48
Subject: The Bloggit: 21st Dec - Lo Phat Chinese Restaurant wrecked, Judge Dru, and Joker's found a fedora.
Maybe you don't need a whole building for the massage parlor, maybe just a small sign tacked onto the lo phat sign saying hung lo massage around back
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
2016/12/21 22:58:02
Subject: The Bloggit: 21st Dec - Lo Phat Chinese Restaurant wrecked, Judge Dru, and Joker's found a fedora.
definitely a plan Meanwhile, the other sample building - The Pale Moonlight nightclub:
I am considering not attaching the roof so I can add lights to the interior of this one (it is a club after all).
Must be crazy.
Boiler has packed in :( merry bloody xmas. Just the pilot light/ fan, and engineer will tend tomorrow; still, irksome. But, WOOOO school holidays so taking wife and kids to Rogue One in the morning so not all bad Later dudes (and any dudettes, of course)
Graven
Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2016/12/22 18:41:50
Subject: The Bloggit: 21st Dec - Lo Phat Chinese Restaurant wrecked, Judge Dru, and Joker's found a fedora.
Thanks, and the same back at ya! Now that we have heating back things are certainly looking up here. You all set?
So. Family loved Rogue One, and we went to our favourite burger place which has relocated across town for vast and tasty lunch. Great day, all in all.
And just about done with the Nightclub.
Love the etched detailing.
Debating whether to do my Joker crew as mimes...?
Nearly Xmas folks, hope Satan is good to y'all?
Graven
Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2016/12/23 13:47:15
Subject: The Bloggit: 22nd Dec - Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
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2016/12/23 18:14:25
Subject: Re:The Bloggit: 22nd Dec - Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
I'm all ready to light up the Kwanza shrubbery here , Satan just better keep away from my harvest festival unless he brings s'mores
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
2016/12/24 02:19:55
Subject: The Bloggit: 22nd Dec - Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
I think Christmas in the UK must be a bit different than Christmas in the US...
You say Potato, I say Tuber. It's what I say to the kids at school, very few realise
Dr H wrote:Good judge, good hat, good progress.
Happy Easter to you too...
Good good good merry robonukah!
Theophony wrote:I'm all ready to light up the Kwanza shrubbery here , Satan just better keep away from my harvest festival unless he brings s'mores
That's the spirit! In his excellent poem 'Trio', about Christmas in Glasgow (look it up, kids) Edwin Morgan perfectly, to me, encapsulates all the feelings of this time of year, and that friendship during the season conquers all the ills of the year. Definitely what I feel about dakkadakka (d'awwwww)
Camkierhi wrote:Buildings are looking fabulous.
Heres hoping Satan Claws brings you lots of naughty little gifts.
Cheers mate! Storage is decreasing, however!
And yes, yes he was:
Heroes of the Resistance from the kids. Suicide Squad boxset w. Batfleck and TT Combat abandoned building from parents (they are definitely learning!), TT Combat police riot truck and bus shelters from erithromycin. Oh and OTT light from the wife! (RiTides recommendation, I believe)
Not pictured are Obi wan dressing gown, star wars gingerbread men T-shirt, HC TMNT Batman and Gotham by Gaslight. Very geeky xmas indeed!
And generally a good get together, at that. Wife did awesome desserts (chocolate twist Xmas tree, panettone blackberry bread and butter), mum did starters (lots of salmon and prawn things) and my Bacon wrapped turkey is the way the truth and the light
Speaking of light, here's a test, on many levels:
Not tried to do this on dakkadakka before!
This is for my red beam nightclub, The Pale Moonlight, now with purple Windows (yay Decepticon packaging!)
So there's a Joker theme going on in 2017 to be sure I've been stealing all the tiny card packs out the crackers just in case
Merry Xmas gang
Graven
Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2016/12/26 13:41:54
Subject: The Bloggit: 26th Dec - Merry Geekmas, everyone!
Whilst it's been professionally frustrating, I've now got 3 kids, which is just perfect if unexpected. Keeping our heads above water financially, and feel pretty secure. Mrs Graven is tolerant of the geek and my general randomness, clumsiness and muddleheadedness, and rather lovely too (cake is added bonus).
I have had a great year in geek, with my column on bigcomicpage.com really starting to take off. I've got my kids playing x-wing, and my parents buying me geek gifts at long last. Plus, I've got an awful lot of stuff built (rebuilt in some cases) and painted.
Spoiler:
I said farewell to my 40k and repurposed my Sanctum Sororitas with some tags
And did my first really big scratch build of the year, which I was very proud of:
Then onto a Bat
And more street junk
On to some BMG kitbashes, a fat cop from Tweedledum (or was it Tweedledee?)
And Slade Wilson from Benjamin Orchard
Then, onto a bad pic of another bat
And a working batsignal
Tricked out a swat van (started at end of 2015!)
And struggled to take photos of Batwoman
By April the reviews were starting to take off with scenery and brass etch headed my way.
Deathstroke's crew continued with new heads for... Cyrus Gold
Brother Blood
And some goons
Plus Azrael, in a more comic scheme
More subtle conversion work, and trying to raise my paint game on Killer Croc:
And Solomon Grundy
Switched tack for some x-wing
Did a warehouse for a gift
And a contest entry for Gitsplitta
Back to BMG with Clayface-
And a toe in the water of Armoured Syndicate
Into the summer, built a very large crane:
And the scenery continued
Plus street furniture and objectives (5 sewer grates not pictured)
A commission YT2000 conversion got me back into xwing
And a couple of custom ships of my own, a Tie X7 and shuttle
In the Autumn, I started a shelf of shame challenge with a couple of guys on the BMG Facebook group.
Including a fairly elaborate flying hawkgirl conversion
Fun with signs
And other scenics
A wonder-ful boy
And the court of owls
Some blackgate prisoners
And the rest of deathstroke's crew
CW Zoom
And a big plant!
For variety, some scenery from Multiverse
And x-wing
Did a couple of Xmas goodies
And charged on with the rest of my original gang - Penguins!
The home straight, starting with a great big boat
130 - That's quite a few! So thanks to you all, gentle readers, for nudging poking prodding encouraging berating and generally being in my corner. I can't single out any one of you, so thankyou all once more. On to 2017, where the joke's on you... Happy new year gang,
Graven
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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2017/01/01 00:24:30
Subject: The Bloggit: 31st Dec - A very geeky new year, one and all! and, a review of 2016
Happy new year! Mighty impressive 2016 you've had hobby-wise, the sheer volume of terrain work is amazing, the paintwork is great and if you don't mind me saying, there is a clear progression from the already-good earlier stuff to the awesome recent work!
2017/01/01 08:16:47
Subject: Re:The Bloggit: 31st Dec - A very geeky new year, one and all! and, a review of 2016
IceAngel wrote:I must say Knightley, I am very envious of your squiggle ability. I mean, if squiggles were a tactical squad, you'd be the sergeant. If squiggles were an HQ, you'd be the special character. If squiggles were a way of life, you'd be Doctor Phil...
tipios wrote:Love all the new Batman Stuff, long time since I checked your stuff out.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Hey buddy, good to hear from you, happy new year indeed, and thanks.
Paradigm wrote:Happy new year! Mighty impressive 2016 you've had hobby-wise, the sheer volume of terrain work is amazing, the paintwork is great and if you don't mind me saying, there is a clear progression from the already-good earlier stuff to the awesome recent work!
means a lot mate, and much appreciated. And always a pleasure getting to know new folk hereabouts
Knightley wrote:One heck of a year Graven!
Cheers, but I've got a long way to go to match you in quality or quantity!
Solar_lion wrote:Very Impressive.. How do you top that!
Thanks - how indeed? Well... I guess... With...
HOBBY GOALS 2017 !
Okeydoke, what's bubbling up from the Depths?
1) BMG: Joker - obviously my main focus will be the huge Joker crew my friends and family have given me this season. As well as the built crew there's Laugh Gas cannisters, a jack-in-the-box, and all of the Suicide Squad stuff to build, base and of course paint also. I'm debating doing the more recent Harley crew ones as mimes from Burtons batman.
2) BMG: Suicide Squad - of course, there's the other half of the box, plus Batfleck to do. I'm going to TRY for no new BMG acquisitions till all of these are done.
3) Small terrain: shameful admission - I still have something unfinished from last year, the radioactive container. In my defence I'm still not 100% on the scheme for it. From the nerd loot, I also have more bus shelters and lampposts now, plus a riot van to do. I've been hoarding toy cars that have passed their best also from the boys, though whether I repaint them is another matter.
4) big terrain: technically, I know, I started the Chinese Restaurant and Nightclub before 2017, but still. There's also now an abandoned building to go with them, along with anything else we come up with in the short term - though we are looking at acrylics for BMG as a sideline.
5) X-wing - I'm not going into the year with much, just a falcon and Poe's xwing to do (well I might do a couple of TIE repaints also but still). More may materialise though I'm not going to go crazy with X-wing, I feel I have plenty tbh especially from the imperials (rebels are still my focus), so other than a U-Wing I think it's going to be quite quiet there.
6) The Walking Dead: All Out War - I am considering an odd idea: a monochrome paint scheme, as if from the pages of the comic. Actually what's stopping me is that all my terrain is obviously coloured - plus, it might look just weird?
7) Other stuff - I don't really have any other big plans, though helping Red Beam Designs off the ground and growing Geeking Out over at bigcomicpage.com are important. I don't do new year's resolutions as a rule but looking forward, not dwelling on the past, seems to me to be a good priority.
No doubt there will be other nerdery ahead but for now - that's all! Cheers
Graven
Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2017/01/02 15:13:43
Subject: The Bloggit: 2nd January 2017 baby! hobby goals for the year ahead.
Cheers mate, really appreciated and great to have you along.
So, of course, my first hobby project of the year isn't even one from my list that is all...
*sigh*
Turns out I'm in.
And I'm vaguely thinking of this
Spoiler:
Automatically Appended Next Post: (Alternatively, and equally it could be the daily planet).
Pesky inspiring cardboard. Once you geek, you just can't stop
Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven.
2017/01/03 23:27:03
Subject: The Bloggit: 3rd Cardboard curiosity, courtesy of the League
Well it's going to have to wait, because an idiotic idea has presented itself to me:
I love Burton's Batman. So, clearly, my Joker crew needs to consist of Mimes... The other motivation for this is that I'm organising a 6-player (gulp) game to teach/reteach the game to some friends - one has never played, but wants to be a bat-chick, one has played once and is determined to be the Flash, and the other 3 have played twice.
The long and the short of it is, we're doing a Cops and robbers game (Flash, Batwoman, Black Canary, cops vs Harley, Hush, Capt Boomerang - who I also need to build and paint - and Joker goons). Madness Joker's fedora is now a topper, looks better for it, and I've gsd his cravat a bit larger - that knife works for the lethal quill in the movie. Checked trousers though.
Bringing the law of 
unless he brings s'mores 
means a lot mate, and much appreciated. And always a pleasure getting to know new folk hereabouts 
