I’ve gotten to pick up my paintbrush and hobby tools a lot less this year than I would like, in part because my professional life was particularly hectic this year. Combine that with my paint desk being occupied by old computer parts for a few months whilst I was testing them and either fixing them or listing them for sale
An old X-Box that broke sometime back when my eldest was just a toddler has been returned to service (one replacement HDD and one hair-clip fished out of the disc drive and it’s all good to go again). A lot of the old parts I didn’t need got listed for sale online and I’m glad to say I found homes for most of the old parts, freeing up a bunch of space and putting a modest amount of change in my pocket – I even managed to offload some defective items to someone who wanted to have a crack at repairing them. Working through it all was a PITA, but I’m glad I did it this way rather than just dumping the lot and adding to the e-waste problem.
But of course, while this was happening I didn’t have my paint desk to use, and so having freed it up again I was recently glad to be able to get back into painting.
I eased back into things for the first paint session in awhile, starting by finishing up some Hell Dorado Westerners that had been languishing in a mostly completed state for most of this year. Two are now finished up, one is very close and two more are on their way but still need a bit more effort.
Pretty happy with that, and already looking forward to the next time I get to pick up a brush.