Blog update! And a question about the Golden Throne diorama...
Blog Update:
Hello everyone, it's been a while since I updated the blog... My apologies, not gonna make excuses. Just had a lot of other things going on in my hobby time and spending more quality time with the kids over the summer holidays.
But I finally got around to finishing off all the posts I had sitting around in draft-limbo, that I had previously mentioned on the post with the sneak peek of the almost finished Golden Throne diorama, more on that later in this post...
I apologise for my wave of posts that probably gummed up your blog feeds, but I wanted to get them all written and dealt with while I still had the drive to do so.
Also it seems I had done goofed somewhere down the line, while editing the posts I noticed that I had deleted my hobby tips page without a back-up. I still had them backed up in the old school way of images and a text doc in folders, so I went about rewriting them. I've tried to backdate them when the images were first taken and hoping they appear in my blog feed that way, who knows, what's done is done.
But that's it, blog is more or less back up to date as of right now!
My Question To You About The Golden Throne:
It probably hasn't escaped many of you that have me on other social media platforms, that the Emperor on Golden Throne diorama just exploded in popularity when it was first posted.
I was inundated with questions about it, request for more images and hobby advice and generally tons of questions on how I made it.
If I'm being honest, I was really taken aback at it's reception and stepped away from it for a while because frankly I'm a big bag of nerves.
But I told everyone I was just waiting to get my blog back up to date and to take some better pictures of the finished diorama. I have done those things now...
So my question is:
If you are interested in seeing how the diorama was created, how would you like to see that done?From the position I'm in now I can see a couple of options:
It's probably better to post it all here on the blog, then it doesn't just get lost in the void of social media feeds and will be easier to find and/or link back to.
I could do one huge article, from start to finish on the project (the less desirable option).
or I could break it up into 2 or 3 articles, something like:
Hello everyone, it's been a while since I updated the blog... My apologies, not gonna make excuses. Just had a lot of other things going on in my hobby time and spending more quality time with the kids over the summer holidays.
But I finally got around to finishing off all the posts I had sitting around in draft-limbo, that I had previously mentioned on the post with the sneak peek of the almost finished Golden Throne diorama, more on that later in this post...
I apologise for my wave of posts that probably gummed up your blog feeds, but I wanted to get them all written and dealt with while I still had the drive to do so.
Also it seems I had done goofed somewhere down the line, while editing the posts I noticed that I had deleted my hobby tips page without a back-up. I still had them backed up in the old school way of images and a text doc in folders, so I went about rewriting them. I've tried to backdate them when the images were first taken and hoping they appear in my blog feed that way, who knows, what's done is done.
But that's it, blog is more or less back up to date as of right now!
My Question To You About The Golden Throne:
It probably hasn't escaped many of you that have me on other social media platforms, that the Emperor on Golden Throne diorama just exploded in popularity when it was first posted.
I was inundated with questions about it, request for more images and hobby advice and generally tons of questions on how I made it.
If I'm being honest, I was really taken aback at it's reception and stepped away from it for a while because frankly I'm a big bag of nerves.
But I told everyone I was just waiting to get my blog back up to date and to take some better pictures of the finished diorama. I have done those things now...
So my question is:
If you are interested in seeing how the diorama was created, how would you like to see that done?From the position I'm in now I can see a couple of options:
It's probably better to post it all here on the blog, then it doesn't just get lost in the void of social media feeds and will be easier to find and/or link back to.
I could do one huge article, from start to finish on the project (the less desirable option).
or I could break it up into 2 or 3 articles, something like:
- The Finished Golden Throne Diorama
- Building The Golden
- Painting The Golden
or
- The Finished Golden Throne Diorama
- Building & Painting The Golden Throne
You see I'm not terribly sure how I'd like to approach it, I took many pictures all the way through the process, but how to publish that, not a clue.
So I thought I'd open up my problem to your scrutiny and fish for a little advice on how to approach it.
So I thought I'd open up my problem to your scrutiny and fish for a little advice on how to approach it.
All comments and conversation are welcome
Take care.
I vote for three articles, so that you can reference building and painting specifically, and then haev a show off post for the final thing.
ReplyDeleteI'm leaning more that way myself. I feel that I could probably get the information across better with dedicated posts for each. also anyone who is just interested in looking at pretty pictures can just click on the post of the finished diorama.
Deletethanks for the feedback :)
I'm with Lasgunpacker ... it'll be great to see how this piece was build and painted. It looks awesome just from this sole photo on this post. :)
Deletethanks for the feedback FourEyedMonster, you think it should be in that order too; build/paint post first followed by finished piece/gallery post?
DeleteYes, definitely. But then again I'm bias cause most of my posts are in this order. LoL :)
DeleteAnd you were not kidding about dumping out a number of articles at once! Maybe schedule them for one a day next time, if you do not want them to get lost in a feed.
ReplyDeleteI just felt I had to get them done and published, they've been sat in draft taunting me for a while. getting it all finished almost feels like a clean slate and I can stop them getting so backed up from now on.
DeleteI'd personally go with one even if it's too long, people can come back to it but otherwise, doing a finished model post then a WIP post makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI don't know my friend, it would be a pretty huge singular post :D
DeleteI took an awful lot of pictures, I think realistically, people might get bored viewing/reading it.
Hello Sir. Anything new cooking for the blog? Anything hobbywise cooking generally?
ReplyDeleteHello there my friend, my apologies for the silence around here.
DeleteI went through a pretty rough patch toward the end of last year, the hobby (and related things like blogging) was the furthest thing from my mind as I tried to get myself back from the precipice as it were...
I hadn't actually touched a miniature since around Sept/Oct or thereabouts...
That has changed in just the last couple of days fortunately, you can see in my Instagram sidebar that there have been a handful of new posts.
I painted one of the new Mephiston miniatures as a gift for a friend (come to think of it, I should probably post that on the blog).
And I'm taking up the Lord of Blights Masterclass by Darren Lathem on YouTube, I thought it would be a nice change of pace and a chance to get some technical practice in. And it seems to be having the added effect of pulling me back into hobby work and building my enthusiasm.
So hopefully in short order I'm hoping that positive energy feeds back into me finishing off some of the projects I left gathering dust and into blogging about my hobby work too.
Sorry to hear the black dog had made an appearance - but also happy to hear that its away and you've got some focus restored and cooking up hobby again :) After all, what is the hobby for, if not to take pleasure in and enjoy as respite?
DeleteI don't actually use Instagram, but I'll have a look and see about an account to be able to follow. I also see you've a youtube channel, so will get stuck into that tonight as well, in my "post family, post hobby, wind down" 30 mins before kip.
Looking forward to seeing some new work - especially as I find myself in a GWish mood for stuff lately, so will be checking in :)
Yeah I really hate times where the dog is biting so hard I can't even bring myself to do the things I enjoy, but fortunately things are looking up :)
DeleteInstagram is a... erm... "Different beast"... The only reasons I signed up and started using it were that I could quickly snap photos at my hobby desk of my work in progress shots and upload them and keep on going. And it seems a majority of the hobby community have moved from blogs over to Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. And to be fair I found Instagram the least distasteful of that gamut of social media, it just seems to be the easiest way for me to keep up with whatever the people in the community I follow are up to at the moment.
In an ideal world (and what in my inner voice I keep telling myself) this blog is actually what I consider my hub/home base. When I post here I can take my time to write in depth and actually share my thoughts that will stay in place recorded, unlike the other places where there is limited space and even time as posts constantly cycle and move on at a quickened pace.
Whatever I've been working on generally does come back to being posted here when complete. I wouldn't have any great expectations for that YouTube channel right now, I have one short video that my kids had to step in and show me how to upload/edit :D
I have been pondering if I want to try making any videos due to a few requests from several people, but that is still up in the air at the moment.
Thanks for popping by ;)
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