Well, first of all an apology for the delay in posting another item on this blog - I have been rather consumed with real life, rather than attending to the labours of my hobbies. In addition to which, I have begun a Blood Bowl league at work and this has rather consumed a considerable amount of my hobby time - but some team photos should be forthcoming in the next few weeks (I hope!).

I've not been totally happy with my photography recently so last night I changed the exposure compensation on my camera back to +0.7 and tried using the custom White balance mode rather than the automatic setting. On the D40 this involves jumping to a setting in the menu and simply taking a calibration shot of a white (or grey) piece of paper under the lighting you intend to use.

I think the results speak for themselves!

Bit of a minor landmark this weekend!

...no, it's just these trousers.

Bit of a landmark this weekend since I've finished painting all of my pirates, even the two that came wednesday with the Legends of the High Seas book!

Here's my WIP entries for the Wyrd Games Femme Fatale painting contest. Ugh, it is just too cold outside to spray-prime these, so I've brush primed them.

The return of Cheddar Chat! Some of us have been missing the Custom Hobby forum, so here's another place for casual discussion about gaming and hobby related stuff.

Enjoy!

As some of you may have noticed, bit of a gap on uploads recently. This would have been ended sooner, but ironically for someone who has just written an article on photography, I didn't like the photos I took. I actually scrapped two loads. Then it was a lack of time to upload and caption the photos.

So, I had a fun birthday; got an amazing present from my wife... got a new camera! And this is related to gaming...???

On some forums I regularly see members who are curious about learning to sculpt and the materials needed, particularly epoxy putty. Having had some experience with different types of putty, I usually pipe up, and usually with the same long description; so I decided to post it all here

Let's see how this blog thing goes. Ta for the space, Big Cheese!