Birthday Unsurprise

Today is/was my birthday, and as part of my gift from my wonderful family, I was given the rather fetching cake you see in the picture there! Yum yum! This was along with some other Lego, that I may or may not have chosen myself! I hide nothing, it's a great toy that all the family gets the benefit from!

I was also given a rather nice set of brushes, as pictured below. Yes, there are some Windsor and Newton series 7 in there, yes that is the most money I have ever put out for single brushed, by about a factor of 10. I do believe they will be worth it, indeed they are a required purchase for what is to be my Christmas present. I am heading along to the Montreal Masterclass, run and taught by Meg Maples in December, and I am rather looking forward to it.

 

Before that, I guess I better get my brushes broken in. Well, maybe broken in isn't the best term to use here, I think I'll be rather careful with those brushes...

Colore ton Monde: Anniversary Edition

This is less of a painting post, as there are no pics of any of the minis I am currently painting, but Tuesday night was the Club Chaos's Colore ton Monde 1st Birthday party. There was cake, and prizes. I was extremely fortunate in that i ate cake, complete with Unicron-poop flavoured ice-cream, AND I won one of the prizes, just for attending ($5 store credit to be spent on painting supplies, generously supplied by the hosts, Gamers' Vault). I chose a little tub of Secret Weapon  weathering powder. This time a blue one, to get away from all the browns and rust colours I previously bought and loved.

The event had a great turn out, with over 20 people of all ages turning up (the youngest being I think 11, and she seemed to enjoy both the painting and the cake!). Here's to the next year of events, and a growing club with a great athmosphere.

Anyway, enough with the parties, and back to the painting table, I have a Mangler to finish!