About
This blog is my second attempt to begin a blog to chronicle and document the various fantasy painting and modelling projects that I undertake. The first blog died after being subjected to more spam attacks than was manageable and I gave it up as a bad job. Thankfully technology has come on and this kind of attack is no longer as crippling as it once was. Although I have used the phrase ‘fantasy’, I mainly paint Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 (aka 40K), however every now and again you will find something completely random within the posts.
I currently work as a Web Design Developer for a small publishing company in Wiltshire, starting off my working life in Engineering and over the course of a four year apprenticeship time ending up in I.T. My main area of speciality is Application Development with a bias towards Web Applications. As with many people who work with computers I have always been interested in fantasy in it’s various guises. For me, it provides an essential form of escapism, which stops my brain from becoming too boggled with the real world.
I’ve been messing with fantasy miniature’s since 1992(ish), but it’s only in the last few years that I’ve been interested in improving my skills. Better quality brushes, improvements in paints and better access to tutorials and videos by some of the worlds best miniature painters have meant that this hobby has become an artform in it’s own right – despite the fact that many still see it as playing with toy soldiers. I’ve considered myself as ‘above average’ painter and modeller for quite a few years now, but one day hope to reach the heady hights of classing myself as a ‘below professional’. My justification for being above average is that although there are many brilliant painters there are actually more who are truly rubbish.