A quick update on the blog and my new hobby space.

As the title suggests this is just a quick update on the state of my clean-up/update of the blog and my personal hobby space... Well... since these two things have been going on hand-in-hand.

The Blog:
I had to delete a lot of old articles for various reasons, I think a rough estimate is somewhere between 30-40 posts gone. Some were just really outdated or I didn't like them anymore after reading them. Others I lost all the images for, because they weren't backed up online or were on old phones/hard drives that died a death some while ago.

I believe that I've managed to fix all of the broken images from my early posts that remain, not sure about links on all these posts unfortunately. I've spent the last month or so going through old hard drives and SD cards and organising all my hobby images properly for backing up safely and uploading etc.

The benefit of this is I have found quite a lot of things I never posted up before, so they will be going up in their own articles soon. Along with some of the things I've posted on Instagram over the last year which I want to write articles about to flesh out exactly what I'm doing with those projects better than I can on that type of media.

Hobby Room:
As you may already know from earlier posts, I had to move house rather quickly at the end of last year. A lot of my time has been spent unpacking, cleaning, organising, downsizing belongings to fit into our new home.

And my family's comfort came first so my hobby room was put off until last. I've finally been able to get to grips with it and go through the same process as the rest of the house, unpacking, cleaning, organising, downsizing etc. But I'm finally a bit more comfortable in my new hobby space in the cellar:

My working area over by the window, with plenty of light, ventilation and lots of space for all my paints, tools and my airbrush station.

Organised tubs of miniature parts, tubs of metal figures and basing materials on shelves in the alcove behind me.

Space for all my games, books and other assorted hobby gaming paraphernalia.

And I'm happy with the open space so it feels less claustrophobic down here. 

Plenty of floor space to set up a 6x4 table for my general gaming needs.

I can even set up 8x4 of space with a minimum of fuss if I need to.

Those shelves at the back-left (there's 2) will be getting populated with my terrain as it's completed.

And behind that little cabinet is a set of 6 folding chairs for my RPG/Gaming buddies when they visit.

Just to the left of the terrain shelves I have a little nook that goes under the stairs.

The perfect space to store all my hobby and terrain supplies out of the way.

It extends about 8' under the stairs, that's where my polystyrene sheets and loose materials live.

So mostly organised except for some small things, but my hobby space is pretty much fully functional now. And not a minute too soon, the stress of organising it was driving me nuts...

Projects:
So... Projects...

Although I left the blog in an apparent limbo for quite some time, I was still working on quite a few things. I just didn't have the drive to write about them and but for the odd post on Instagram and Facebook my social media was... Well dead really. But here's a look at some of the things I've got lying around:

With space being a premium I've started organising bigger projects into their own project boxes. They get stored in the hobby nook under the stairs but can be pulled out quite easily.

I'll be buying foam trays to put in so that the boxes will double as storage once figures are built and painted. You might be able to spot a few things I haven't even mentioned before that will come up in future posts.

Games I haven't even played yet, plus all my Rogue trader/40k 2nd ed and specialist games,

so many things i want to play :(

I popped the top on one to give you a peek. Clan Pestilens for my ever growing Nurgle horde.

Speaking of which:

I'm using my glass cabinet more as a "working projects" space right now.

There's a decidedly large Nurgle bias going on in there. 

Plus a few other projects I keep nibbling at and dipping into...

Actually there's probably quite a few things in there i haven't shared on the blog yet, consider this a sneak peek ;)

That's where I am at the minute. I'm pretty much playing catch-up right now with the blog. There'll be some posts to follow shortly of things I worked on over the last year or so. At least now the images are organised and the hobby room is done it should be a whole lot easier to get back on track.

I hope there's something in there you're looking forward to seeing, I'll be back soon once I get some of these posts written up.

Until then, take care.