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Five through Eight of the Dirty Two Dozen

February 25, 2010

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From left to right: Remus, Hades, Spike, and Romulus

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Moving

For the time being, I've moved all my blogging to here: https://strangevistas.wordpress.com/

Scenery Forge Gothic plaster and resin build

I decided to try using the Scenery Forge Gotic mold again, but this time using regular Plaster of Paris for the casts, then infusing it with resin. It is a pretty simple build, requiring only a few casts. I used the Hirst Arts Wooden Plank Mold (#220) to make the second story floor, gluing the pieces onto a scrap of Taskboard. A piece of wood served as the base. I used Envirotex Lite Pour On High Gloss Finish resin, thinking "this will never work." I was shocked then, when the plaster absorbed all the resin, and after a few days to cure the plaster was surprisingly hard and I wasn't able to scrape any with a finger nail. So, after the same kind of paint job I used on the previous piece, and this simple (but surprisingly durable) bit of corner terrain is finished. I may have been made a believer in the resin-infusion method. More to come, but comments always welcome!

15,000 views and creative flow

My little blog hit 15,000 views yesterday, which is very cool. I looked at bit at the stats, which show that I am on the whole getting more traffic as time goes by, but there is distinctly a connection between how many or how steadily I am getting miniatures painted and how many people want to check out the blog. I am also reading a book with the unfortunate title "Kick Ass Creativity" with the subtitle "An Energy Makeover for Artists, Explorers, and Creative Professionals." First I have to say that, in my own somewhat starchy way, I despair over unnecessary profanity, particularly in a professional work with ones own name on it. That's not to say I refrain from profanity entirely--I don't--but it seems cheap and desperate to employ it in such a context. But the book caught my eye not because of its title but its content, namely its attempt to help artistic people be able to create a better creative flow in their work. I'm one of those people who s...

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