…been several hours since I last checked in and only  a small handful of new posts lol

having checked the ref on Shopro’s old site…I think all I really need to do is paint the wing guns silver to match the one in the show…that always bugged me about the model, those guns where clearly a conventional metal color…but they didn’t bother with coloring it despite how conspicuous an inconsistency it is. they just left it red plastic.

…I may or may not have enough good silver paint left to do it…by the end of the Sheba project, it was clotting up for some reason, so we’ll see if I can get anything out of it.

at drawing on paper that is…

…that has been the tradeoff with going digital, certain things, certain “internal” skills have gotten better, I produce a lot more work…but because of giving into the temptation of various shortcuts in digital programs, my ability to properly set up proportions etc on my own on paper have weakened horribly.

it also feels like whatever small muscles etc. used to controlling my hand and stuff specifically in the pencil-to-paper environment have also gone funny…like it actually felt weird after a little while, like tiny things in my arm were tiring out because those specific little areas or fibers hadn’t been used in forever…

…so yeah…if I want to get back to the place where I can freely sketch on paper again, it’s going to be a long process of reprogramming…or maybe I should say “re-installing” lol, I’m obviously not going to stop using my tablet, I just want to be able to take a sketchbook to restaurants and…just…doodle crud like I used to. seriously…it’s been kind of embarrassing realizing that if I tell someone I draw a lot and they happen to want to see me do something, just randomly in a casual setting, I’d have to be like “I can’t because I don’t have computer.”

“…because I don’t have a computer.” THAT. Right there. pisses me off. I dunno, it just really does, it’s like some leftover anti-modernness pride. I mean I was never against technology in most ways, but drawing…yeah, I should be able to freaking draw on paper, or on a rock or even in the freaking dirt with a stick. at least a little…It’s like a matter of personal pride as an artist lol even just as a hobby artist 8/

lol we went and visited my sister and brother-in-law’s place prior to going for dinner, and then we bantered about zoids…and then my brother-in-law gave me his Fire Pheonix 8/

…score! XD Apparently he has actually been intending hand it over for a while after I had mentioned that my original FP had gone hopelessly missing, but kept forgetting to bring it with him when he visited. and no I never asked him for it, he’s just cool like that lol

so…yeah! looks like all the bits are there, including connecty bits for the liger. it’s in really nice condition too, it’s a little rough as in there’s lots of barbs from when the parts where snipped from their trees…and I think I might do some customizing in the way of detailing little things here and there, but otherwise stellar condition, so one zoid down on zoids-I-want list. :D

…now to get my hands on a Buster Fury…or a berserk fury and a Buster eagle…however I can manage it…oh…and five more lightning saix…and a houndsoldier …and maaaybe a Konig Wolf to customize into the black one from Battle Legends.