Anyone crafting during the shutdown?

[Ryujin]

Like the title says. I've been doing a bit of leatherwork and also made a chainmail pot scrubber for a friend. Just wondering what everyone else might be up to.

 

[Fenris-77]

Dude, that is so much cooler than anything I've done with my spare time recently. Lovely work. Sadly, my deteriorating eyesight has made painting miniatures quite difficult, and I haven't replaced that with another crafty sort of thing yet.

 

[Ryujin]

Dude, that is so much cooler than anything I've done with my spare time recently. Lovely work. Sadly, my deteriorating eyesight has made painting miniatures quite difficult, and I haven't replaced that with another crafty sort of thing yet.

Thanks

My eyesight isn't what it used to be either, so I've got two large lighted magnifiers for when I'm working on small details. Helps a lot.

 

[Fenris-77]

Thanks

My eyesight isn't what it used to be either, so I've got two large lighted magnifiers for when I'm working on small details. Helps a lot.

I tried that, but the fine detail on 1/35th scale models still defeats me. I can still paint, it's just never quite as good as it used to be, which is frustrating. I just some materials to make costume armor and whatnot out of, so we'll see how that goes. Lots of time until Halloween.

 

[trappedslider]

I finshed the two projects German Hanomag 1/35 scale and 1/35 Matilda mk III/IV WW2 i'm currently working a japanese tank.

 

[Richards]

Nothing quite along those lines, but I've been continuing to work on a few caricatures for departing unit members. I've been doing this for the last couple of decades: generally a pencil sketch that's inked and then colored in with colored pencils. Depending on the style, it's then either "fake matted" on a piece of poster board with a caption below it and the comments/signatures of the other folks in the unit all around the "fake matte" and then framed; or there's an alphabetized list of squadron personnel around the borders of the caricature, which is then framed. I started doing this for people in my flight/squadron when I was active duty Air Force and it's continued on now that I'm a DoD civilian. And word's gotten out that I do these, so I've been "adopted" as the caricaturist for another squadron on my base and for my own front office, as well as for my own six-person branch and five-person "sister" shop.

I just finished one up last week of an Air Force General and will likely finish one for my AF immediate supervisor this weekend. Then I'll be starting one up for one of the front office admin executive officers.

Johnathan

 

[Umbran]

The Rolling Stones put together their first single since 2012 while practicing social distancing:

 

[Retreater]

Game-related crafting was a big hobby of mine until recently. Assembling and painting minis. Making 3d dungeon terrain. Now that I'm not gaming in person anymore (and likely won't be for the foreseeable future) I just can't work up the desire to do it.

 

[Ryujin]

Nothing quite along those lines, but I've been continuing to work on a few caricatures for departing unit members. I've been doing this for the last couple of decades: generally a pencil sketch that's inked and then colored in with colored pencils. Depending on the style, it's then either "fake matted" on a piece of poster board with a caption below it and the comments/signatures of the other folks in the unit all around the "fake matte" and then framed; or there's an alphabetized list of squadron personnel around the borders of the caricature, which is then framed. I started doing this for people in my flight/squadron when I was active duty Air Force and it's continued on now that I'm a DoD civilian. And word's gotten out that I do these, so I've been "adopted" as the caricaturist for another squadron on my base and for my own front office, as well as for my own six-person branch and five-person "sister" shop.

I just finished one up last week of an Air Force General and will likely finish one for my AF immediate supervisor this weekend. Then I'll be starting one up for one of the front office admin executive officers.

Johnathan

Do you have any that you're able to show?

 

[Zaukrie]

I just started a YouTube channel on this topic.... But none of the videos show crafting yet. Next week I will post a video of me making a ship. The ship is a cardstock model, from a Dragon magazine.... December, 1986. For some reason, I kept it and never built it. And I can find no picture of it online....

Next up, I'll be building stuff with corks....