Dessicated Thoughts: blimey

Helolo! Bonjourono!

Its' been a sweet lovely second, which is truly par for the course. There's roughly two things I need to do an update on so I'll do that now!

The Festival Rumpus 2! came to a close at the start of this month. I didn't finish my entry, I started too late and bit off much more than I could chew when it came to terrain. I did make good progress very quickly but I underestimated my skill and speed when it came to painting! It didn't help I'd decided to sculpt a fairy as well. I felt a lot of guilt for not getting my fairy sculpted for last year's competition. I'm just a bit too lazy to post these in the right order so it looks like we're starting with...

Good Patrick Mumpoker

Good Patrick's name comes directly from the rules of Rumpus. You roll some dice and generate a name. Unlike last year (though I could have still used them) there wasn't descriptive rolling prompts for fairy design. Nothing wrong with that, I've got a brain so I let it run for a bit and came up with this froggy gentleman. The sketch is much better than the finished sculpt, due to my own limitations at miniature sculpting and just due the fact that a sketch, when pure of heart and creativity, will always be better than the iterations derived from it. This is always true. Despite that I think I did a decent job with the sculpt. In my mind, Good Patrick is the warden of this place, or something.

This was the sorry state of my board by the time the competition had ended. Hell, this was where it was a week AFTER the competition had ended. I'd reached a point of burnout and was loathe to push it to complete burnout. It looks fine, I wanted more moss on it. I'm still debating whether to flock it or paint the moss. There's no rush, hobby has no deadline even competitions have no deadline. I'm trying to not psyche myself out!

there he is in the middle of the rumpus board

a few of the rumpus terrain pieces

I'm not UNPLEASED with the board by any stretch. In fact, I'm rather pleased with it. In another year it might even be finished! That would be a delight. Anyway, how about some process pictures? This was all built with pink foam, foam core sheets, cardboard, sticks, and stir sticks. I used some old basil for pre-flock texture and some dried moss for bushes. I think it sort of worked and I think it sort of didn't as well. That much basil and moss smells crazy, which I didn't enjoy.


gathered sticks innit

quite fond of this room at the top of the tower

very early on trying to figure things out


the first bricks

Now, this was two things but actually this is NOT the two things I was talking about. Festival Rumpus itself was the first thing and now I will talk about the second thing. That is:

Dopes for Sale

This is a bit overdue. There was a bit of pewter trimming what needed done and it was daunting to sit down and do, so it took me a bit to finish! But now it's finished and I got a set all painted up and looking pretty and WOW you can buy them now!