Noooooooooo…
I’m in a mild hobby slump but I don’t have time for such things! I only have about four weeks to get this diorama done but I’ve found myself watching telly instead of tinkering.
However, despite some lack of motivation, my daughter (13) and I did manage to make and paint a little table setting together for the treehouse.
This 1/35 scale cafe kit was the most fiddly, fragile and annoying thing I’ve ever put together haha. First world problems I know. The first chair I completely destroyed just clipping it off the sprue! My daughter found this quite funny. Luckily I had three more in the box but only made two because I only needed two. The table was easier but still a bit of a bastard to cut free of the sprue. My big stupid hands combined with my current lack of enthusiasm were the main problem I feel.
Anyway, I got them done and my daughter painted them. The kit also came with these nifty little bottles and glasses etc.
Here’s the end result.

In other news I’ve rediscovered my love of obscure T-shirt’s haha. This is a throw back to my youth and clearly a midlife crisis but meh I’m happy hehe.





Cheers
IRO
Well done on the table and chairs IRO, they do look fiddly even when stuck together and painted, the glass and bottles are a great touch.
The retro T-shirts are awesome, not that I’d call them retro, just cool !
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Haha thanks man. A little retro-ish I’d say
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Table for two? certainly monsieur, spaghetti and meatballs with no knives and forks? Oh sir you old dog you! (sorry don’t know why it made me think of that 🐶🐺.
Nice work on the table and chairs, and very cool T-shirts (I like the second one best but I am biased! I see the last one was so cool it made your beard drop out!! (now that is seriously COOL!!!!).
Cheers Roger.
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Haha very observant and yeah I can now see that icon I’ve scene too hehe.
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In my opinion, you can never have enough horror movie shirts. Especially Evil Dead ones. I recently bought Mr. C&M several; Halloween, Return of the Livingdead and Nightbreed. 🙂
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Ohcooooool. I haven’t seen Nighbreed in years
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Wow! strangely I watched Nightbreed for the first time yesterday! Spooky!!
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Brilliant movie. Did you like it or was it a bit too scary for you?
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I really enjoyed it and don’t know how I missed it the first time, I love these older horror movies back when the monsters were proper models or make up before CGI was king!
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I definitely prefer practical effects and costumes/models but I think there’s a place for CGI. Hey your posts aren’t coming up in my feed?!
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Oh yeah, we also both got Trick ‘R Treat hoodies too. ^.^
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Love the Mad Max and Evil Dead shirts! What’s the last one? Get yourself a Reservoir Dogs shirt, and will be mates forever, haha!
Doll houses…so we got one of those things..for our 5 year old…opened it up and HoLy €#CK!! I’d rather put together the hardest, most complex damned model GW has ever produced! I took one look and told the Wife “Nope, you bought it! Enjoy!”. Two hours later she *almost* had a sink done. Insane. Not surprisingly, it found a new home shortly thereafter, haha!
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The last one is mug shots of famous singers. Elvis, Jim Morrison etc. I have a reservoir dogs one haha. I’ll include it in the next post, just for you 😉😊
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Ah, nice! Well, if you ever lose your job as a professional mini-converter, you can always fall back on clothes modeling, haha!
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Haha that’s true. As long as they want a Middle Aged big kid salt and pepper bearded tattooed heavy set bloke haha.
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I’m sure there’s a market for that, haha! Someone other than the Jared Leto’s in the world, have to buy clothes too!
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Sometimes you have to take time out on dioramas, it’s a modelling fact of life. That said the cafe set looks excellent and I like the lighting for the photo, very romantic! Like the fashion shoot but the Oddball one wins for me. 🙂
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Haha 😉
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Nice job on the cafe. Need a place to unwind after smashing the undead. Cool Tshirt shots, loved the last one a lot. Surprisingly Bowie was arrested?
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Haha surprisingly? He was just as wild as the rest. Thanks Marky
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I found this. Thought you’d enjoy. Btw Springfield, MA is just 45 minutes away from me. https://floodmagazine.com/59228/on-this-day-david-bowie-and-iggy-pop-got-arrested-for-weed/
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Great Tshirts. I really like my Thriller/ They call her one eye one.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Ohhh I haven’t seen that one but just looked it up. Sounds very cool
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Quite a bleak film. It is what Tarantino based Kill Bill on. Worth looking up if you can find it.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Oh cool, definitely going to try and find it
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Perhaps we could all post a pic of our favourite T-shirt, along with our next post? We could call it “IRO’s fashion February”, or perhaps not, what do you think.
Cheers Roger.
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Hahahaha brilliant. Even if you just post a pic of you in your favourite T I’ll be happy.
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You’ll have to wait till Saturday then, Friday is wash day! 😉
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That sounds like a nice mid-month challenge! Time to root through the old dresser and stop rotating through the 5-7 old cycling and hockey tees!
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Do it man
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I (nearly) built a detailed scale model of a cake shop with my daughter once. It had lots of fiddly little tables, shelves, lights, etc. etc. The model was made in China and the cafe was called “Cake Love”. It was very tricky and we had a laugh often failing to get it right. We eventually changed the name by adding a comma and a question mark to “Cake, Love?”
Much respect for the t-shirt collection.
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Hahaha that’s cool.
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No mate, don’t fall off the hobby wagon now! Seriously, don’t sweat it, the odd hobby slump here and there is to be expected, and you’ve still got plenty of time to play with. Creativity can’t be forced, it’s not like squeezing toothpaste from a tube (actually that’s a lie, professionals do it all the time, but we’re gentlemen hobbyists and if we’re feeling rested we produce our best work – or so I tell myself when I’m watching telly!). Table and chairs are looking good though, excellent T-shirt collection too. 🙂
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Ahhh Wudu the wise. Your words have fallen on two very open and not deaf ears. It’s come back a little and I’m having the weekend off so I hope to do a whole lot more than just a couple of chairs haha.
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Well I wasn’t expecting a fashion show in this post but I certainly got one 😉 The furniture all looks great and those pieces really do look tiny. I can definitely see where that would be frustrating. For what its worth, I have suddenly embraced wearing graphic T-shirts for things I like such Star Wars and Marvel so I must be going through whatever mid-life crisis you are too 🙂
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Hahaha excellent. We will have to compare. Maybe you could put up a tshirt pic in your next post. Let’s make it a revolution!
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Some pretty cool shirts and nice that your daughter helps with painting mate. Telly can be evil at times. Ive been binging on Better Call Saul🙈
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Haha Better Call Saul is great!!! Did you watch Breaking Bad?
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Long time ago, planning on rewatching it soon as i Finish Saul. Our lock down has been extended too 2 March…
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I watched BB for the second time over Christmas and it was just as cool. Stay safe brother
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Brilliant shirts. It just made me watch the evil dead trilogy 😁
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Excellent haha
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Somehow WordPress stopped showing me your posts, so I am just seeimg this. Cool little models. And awesome shirts. Love the Mad Max tee
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Bugger, not sure what happened bro. Glad you like the T
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