{"id":1841,"date":"2014-11-05T22:33:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T03:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2014-11-05T23:03:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T04:03:55","slug":"half-assed-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/?p=1841","title":{"rendered":"Half-Assed Philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to do three nice things that require almost no work on my part, because that pretty well sums up the kind of guy I am.<\/p>\n

1. Anyone wanna sculpt at Templecon? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

This year will be my fifth Templecon, and the first where I’m not planning to play much Warmachine. I’ll be playing in whatever Infinity events they have and probably getting in a few games of Grind and Thunderdome, but otherwise I’m mostly just planning to hang out and do whatever. During this period of whatever-doing, I was thinking that it might be fun to sit in a hotel room for like twelve hours straight and sculpt an army man. I mean, I’m paying enough for the bloody room, I might as well get some use out of the damned thing. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Would anyone be interested in such an activity? Twelve hours is enough time to get a dude from wire to partly dressed; I’d be covering things like armature-rigging, fimo mechanics, useful tools, basic anatomy, faces, and clothing, with lots of random pointers in between about general technique and good habits.<\/p>\n

People would be welcome to work along with me, or just to hang around and burn away productive con time. I’m thinking that either Thursday or Sunday would be best, as they see the least real gaming activity.<\/p>\n

Let me know in comments if this sounds like something you’d be down for.<\/p>\n

2. Fabulous Prizes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Speaking of Templecon, I’ll be donating a pair of models to Gday’s raffle thing<\/a>. These fellas have been sitting in a display case collecting dust since I finished them years ago, so I figured I might as well offer them to someone who might get some actual use out of them.<\/p>\n

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If you want a crack at them, you’ll need to pretend you’re a good person and buy some tickets to support whatever we’re supporting. (I think we’re taking a position on brain disease, though I didn’t catch which direction we’re leaning on the issue.)<\/em><\/p>\n

3. Free Sculpted Models<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I was cleaning off one of my desks recently and found a pair of models that I converted and sculpted (respectively) one and four years ago (respectively) and never got around to painting. Looking at them now, I don’t see myself ever working up the careitude to change that, so I’m looking to give them away for free to anyone who’s a pretty good painter and would be willing to send me back some decent pictures<\/strong> of them when they’re done.<\/p>\n

The Sharktopus<\/strong> was a silly model I made ages ago as a bizarre Warpwolf proxy for an underwater Circle Orboros army I never ended up assembling. Now it’s a paperweight that makes my tiny desk shelf fall over.<\/p>\n

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Fiona the Black<\/strong> was a warcaster I intended to lead a Merc army I bought. However, I picked up the models about six months before I had my gaming crisis and decided I was bored with Warmachine, and at this point I don’t think I’ll ever be bothered to paint any of the other models in the army, let alone finishing all the dozens and dozens of conversions I was planning on. So, whatever. If anybody wants a snazzy custom Fiona with a custom spear, coat, and spell effect, she’s yours.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/p>\n

(I never posted the Fiona project because I was waiting to paint her. So whoever volunteers to pretty her up will get the dubious honour of being featured in a post on a blog that averages twelve daily hits.)<\/em><\/p>\n

As mentioned, both of these have an eligibility requirement– I’ve sent a fair number of my models off to be butchered two-layer painters over the years, and I don’t think I can take that heartbreak anymore. If you and I aren’t acquainted, shoot me an e-mail<\/a> with some samples of your work so that I know what kind of home I’m sending my babies to.<\/p>\n

Actually, “Not wanting to paint stuff” has started to be more and more of a roadblock for me lately– I’ve killed several potential projects that I was excited to sculpt because I knew I wouldn’t want to paint them at the end. I’ve managed to pass one such project off on a truly wonderful human being, but I don’t think I can keep leaning on other people to finish my projects like that. Going forward, either I’m going to need to figure out how to make myself like painting again (hopefully my upcoming painting class with Meg Maples will rekindle a bit of that drive…)<\/em>, or I need to make my peace with posting unpainted sculpts.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

Knowing that your angst is caused by first world problems doesn’t make it any easier to bear. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

-Spud<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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