Progress report

Painting:

Judges are a pain.  Their gloves and pads and boots and belts are fiddly to paint.

Still, I am getting there.  I painted gloves, pads, boots and belts this morning and helmets this evening.  I still need to edge the helmets in red, do the visors and and paint the yellow shoulder pads.  The girls need their hair doing too.

Why do female judges not wear helmets?  I guess they don't like having hat hair.

Then I have to tidy them up.  I am a messy painter, so I have to tidy up where I haven't quite kept in between the lines.

Meanwhile the lawmaster is black.  I should have undercoated it black, but I did it white.  That was a Doh! moment.


Job hunting:

I have an interview.  It is for a Project Co-ordinator for a double glazing company.   This is my first interview in months.  Wish me luck.

Depression strikes

So its been over a week since my last post. That was New Year's Day - so happy new year!

I have been pretty depressed.  I haven't blogged, I haven't painted, I haven't done as much job searching as I should have.  I have slept a lot.  Surfed the web a bit.

This was pretty mild depression.  I have had a day or two of feeling down since redundancy loomed.  I suffered really bad depression years ago and this is nothing like that.

Things are better now. I applied for three jobs on Monday - even had a call back from an agency about one.  Which is the most positive thing that has happened on the job front in months.  I did a little bit of painting on Sunday night.

It is the local games clubs first session of the year tonight. I have a game of Judge Dredd - my robots vs an ape gang.  Expect a few pictures.

Day of the Robodogs

We played the Judge Dredd miniature game today.  When the Sovs promised that all worker robots would become equal citizens of conquered Mega City, my robot gang joined with their Sov allies to help crush Mega City resistance.

The Resistance

Robots

Ruins of Mega City

The game began with me sending my robodogs after a Citidef guy on his own. They were  getting close, only for him to run out of ammo! So they turned their attention to the Judge who had come to assist. After several attacks, the dogs finally triumphed.

Robodogs attack!

We have a Judge down!

Ready to pounce.

Another one bites the dust!

Robots advance

Resistance fighter takes cover

While the rest of the robots were felled by the flamethrowers and spit guns of the resistance, the dogs went on an unstoppable rampage, apparently impervious to bullets. Finally, it came down to two dogs vs a resistance sniper in a tower. The sniper finished them off as they charged toeards him. Result - resistance won, with one surviving punk and one citidef guy out of ammo.

Meanwhile...

My lawmaster is assembled.  I decided to paint the rider separately, so I didn't glue her down.  It was tricky to get the rider assembled to fit the handlebars of the bike without actually gluing her legs in place first.  In the end I glued the handlebars, then glued the rider together holding her legs in place on the bike and getting her hand as close as possible to the handlebar.  I should be able to bend the handlebar to fit her hand when I attach her to the bike.

Interview at the Job Centre

I had my semi-regular interview at the job centre today.  The adviser wanted to know how I had been getting on with my job seeking.  I told her I had been finding plenty of jobs to apply for, but I hadn't been getting interviews.  She asked why I though that was.  My immediate thought was 'Because there is a recession', but I bit my tongue.  Instead I told that I thought it was because I hadn't any recent experience.

If this was a movie, this is the bit where the screen would go wobbly to show that this was a flashback.  I have worked as an order processor and the as an office supervisor for companies that manufacture windows (not Microsoft, double glazing).  But in the last seven years I worked at a cinema - first selling popcorn, then as a projectionist.  But all good things must come to an end.  As film projectors were replaced with digital ones, so projectionists were replaced with computers.

So now, I am falling back on the admin experience from years ago.  Which is one of the reasons I believe I'm not getting interviews.  Her suggestion for this was to seek voluntary work which would potentially give me current experience.  So that is something to look into in the new year. Watch this space!

Jobs applied for today: 3

On the Painting Bench

With plenty of time on my hands, I have several projects on the go on my miniatures painting table.

I have a box of zombie vixens - 30 plastic female zombies.  I have made 10 so far. More on these later.

I have painted around a dozen WWII ships.  These are in the process of being based and labelled.  These are 1/3000 scale but quite easy to paint despite their size.  Again, more on these later.

And ready to start, more Judge Dredd judges.

From L to R: Space Corps, Street Judge, Street Judge, Street Judge with Day Stick, Judge Giant, Tech Judge

Unassembled Lawmaster bike

He is the Law!

Here is the Judge Dredd miniature I have just finished painting:

He is for the Judge Dredd Miniatures game.

Some others for the same game:

Dredd's faithful robot Walter

A Pyrokinetic - a firey mercenary babe

The evil Zombie Mistress