List just one thing you did today

[Judge]

Oh wow, well, SO isn't sure that being a doctor is a good choice for him, so who knows, maybe this is his actual calling, and he will move into sculpting later! He does like creating things with his own hands.

I did know another accomplished modeler who loved his regular job. As a creator of various kinds of dental prosthesis. Another one I knew was a first rate car model painter. Which just happened to be his real job painting real automobiles.

Ok no banana, but I used some reading glasses for scale of the most recent figure I painted. Not my best, but for being away for five years takes its toll I suppose:

 

[Tired]

I did know another accomplished modeler who loved his regular job. As a creator of various kinds of dental prosthesis. Another one I knew was a first rate car model painter. Which just happened to be his real job painting real automobiles.

Ok no banana, but I used some reading glasses for scale of the most recent figure I painted. Not my best, but for being away for five years takes its toll I suppose:

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Ahhh wow love how you painted the uniform, very detailed. And aww it's smol!

 

[Judge]

Ahhh wow love how you painted the uniform, very detailed. And aww it's smol!

And relatively accurate in the historical sense. But that's always been an aspect of my modeling when I discovered high-grade model building.

With the Germans' uniforms being the most colorful and interesting. When late in the war their sense of uniformity itself vanished, and you could see all kinds of weird deviations to what they war in combat. (The tank operator depicted in the smaller Panzer IF tank above is wearing Italian camouflage. A very popular choice among the SS.)

Yeah, so small that to paint them I need a pair of 2X reading glasses on top of my prescription glasses I use for the computer.

 

[Mary Terry]

I walked around outside today surveying some of the damage. The best tasting mango tree was in full bloom with lots of tiny fruit. All killed.

Most of the rest of the mangos were in bloom and all the blooms are dead.

No! Not fair.

 

[Mary Terry]

I’ll probably get a few. There’s a few trees that haven’t bloomed much yet and sometimes a tree will bloom a second time, but more sparsely.

We have another weekend of freezing temps forecast. Mango trees will tolerate a couple of hours of near or at freezing, but not many days of hard freeze like we’ve had. Basically we’ve had some six days in a row already.

My bananas are frozen to the ground.

I haven’t had weather like this for 14 years.

It's 21 degrees here and the high today is only 31 so, yeah, ongoing damage here.

I gave up on my greenhouse yesterday and moved the potted lime and lemon trees into the house. We were running 3 heat lamps and a small propane heater in the greenhouse and the temp still kept dipping below 40 degrees in there, so I was just wasting electricity.

The blueberry bushes haven't bloomed yet so maybe we'll get some this year.

 

[velociraptor]

Finally got the back end of the new photoblogging package I am writing working to my satisfaction. The core of the app is done and I am now adding a feature at a time and fixing what breaks. When that's done I'll start creating some basic theme packs for the front end. Started this last week. Calling it SNAPSMACK (smack your snaps online).

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

It's 21 degrees here and the high today is only 31 so, yeah, ongoing damage here.

I gave up on my greenhouse yesterday and moved the potted lime and lemon trees into the house. We were running 3 heat lamps and a small propane heater in the greenhouse and the temp still kept dipping below 40 degrees in there, so I was just wasting electricity.

The blueberry bushes haven't bloomed yet so maybe we'll get some this year.

Before one of the hurricanes flattened my greenhouse, I had a couple small heaters in there and also thermometers at different spots. You also soak the floor if it is an earth floor or put in a large garbage can and fill it with water.

The temperature got as low as 30 inside, but even the very sensitive tropical did well. All crowded together, high humidity.

So your greenhouse may do better than you think.

 

[Judge]

Monthly grocery shopping and paid rent. Both unavoidable...

 

[Aproudmom]

Dad and I had our dad/daughter time this morning. I admit he has been one awesome dad although he is not my bio dad

 

[Jonn]

Part of my hobby....plastic models and their 1/35 scale figures that give viewers a sense of scale.

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I just finished another figurine this week, after what amounted to a five-year hiatus of modeling. Hoping to resume my oldest hobby since I was nine years old.

I got back into plastic modelling a while back, now, for nostalgia reasons, after an emotional setback.
I haven't touched it for years because there is too much house/property maintenance to do, and I started serious YouTube viewing daily.
My ADHD is a major problem, also.

 

[Jonn]

I'll post it when I give the one I just finished a matte coating with my airbrush. The last step I do with figures- and model vehicles

Some ppl add a small amount of semi-gloss in the matte paint.
What is your opinion on this?

 

[Judge]

Some ppl add a small amount of semi-gloss in the matte paint.
What is your opinion on this?

That's correct. Some people do indeed.

However with my modeling I've always walked a tightrope between authenticity and artistic aesthetics. That said, I've always preferred to keep my creations with a uniform matte finish. Purely an aesthetic consideration on my part.

 

[Judge]

I got back into plastic modelling a while back, now, for nostalgia reasons, after an emotional setback.
I haven't touched it for years because there is too much house/property maintenance to do, and I started serious YouTube viewing daily.
My ADHD is a major problem, also.

I can relate. My OCD continues to present issues with my plastic modeling. At one point it overwhelmed me and I put it all aside five years ago. Having been exposed to high-quality deadly serious modelers changed my whole trajectory in the hobby. And as I got older my OCD took it's toll, particularly given I have seen some incredible work well beyond my capability.

At this point I'm just doing a few figures and redoing my Panther diorama. Not sure if I'll continue, but we'll see. LOL...yeah I spend way too much time on YouTube myself. Even though there's so much that irritates me about it. Far too much clickbait compared to solid presentations.

 

[Mary Terry]

Before one of the hurricanes flattened my greenhouse, I had a couple small heaters in there and also thermometers at different spots. You also soak the floor if it is an earth floor or put in a large garbage can and fill it with water.

The temperature got as low as 30 inside, but even the very sensitive tropical did well. All crowded together, high humidity.

So your greenhouse may do better than you think.

I think the greenhouse will be useful in "normal" winter weather but not this arctic ice gale we've had the past week. We put in a concrete paver floor on top of bare earth in hopes that the floor would retain heat at night. I'm realizing that it's a greenhouse - not a hot house where I could grow exotic tropical plants year-round with tightly controlled temperature and humidity levels - so the plants I should put in there need to be winter-hardy enough to withstand temperatures slightly above freezing.

It's a learning curve and I'm having fun with it. I plan to start my own vegetable seeds in there this spring rather than buying bedding plants like I usually do.

 

[AprilR]

Went to see a real estate agent.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I think the greenhouse will be useful in "normal" winter weather but not this arctic ice gale we've had the past week. We put in a concrete paver floor on top of bare earth in hopes that the floor would retain heat at night. I'm realizing that it's a greenhouse - not a hot house where I could grow exotic tropical plants year-round with tightly controlled temperature and humidity levels - so the plants I should put in there need to be winter-hardy enough to withstand temperatures slightly above freezing.

It's a learning curve and I'm having fun with it. I plan to start my own vegetable seeds in there this spring rather than buying bedding plants like I usually do.

Yes, well…I must agree. It was 26 degrees last night, same for the next two nights. Most of what I have will not survive, except what I could bring in. I took cuttings of some plants, like the vanilla orchid, the bamboo orchid and the dragonfruit.