It's all about how young you feel 

I think I'm between 25 and 30*.....Though what passes for my body, laughs hysterically at that.....and goes "No you're not !"

Cheers - Phil. (* as far as being a cynical barsteward is concerned......I'm even older than Nobby & Ian believe I am. )

Well i think your real name is Methuselah Phil, and there is I am informed that that makes you the oldest man in the world ! (well the JW's on Grange Road keep trying to tell me their book is the literal truth, wuz the world created on 4th April 4057 BCE ?)

ianS

No......I was here LONG before that. 

Cheers - Phil

Come off it Phil - I'm sure you appeared after politically correct Before Cryogenic Experiments

He's Cain and Able's long forgotten brother, cursed to immortality and immorality...

Don't !.......I wished we hadn't started talking about how short sighted Peter & I were.

I've been trying to do some teeny weeny detail on a figure......First by using my reading glasses along with the Optivisor.....Then with the awful mega magnifying lens with the Optivisor.

I've ended up with 'fixed focus' and a blinding headache.....So I've given up. (The computer screen is about the right fixed focus distance...which is why I can plonk this out.)

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 06 September 2018, 02:48:08 PM
Don't !.......I wished we hadn't started talking about how short sighted Peter & I were.

I've been trying to do some teeny weeny detail on a figure......First by using my reading glasses along with the Optivisor.....Then with the awful mega magnifying lens with the Optivisor.

I've ended up with 'fixed focus' and a blinding headache.....So I've given up. (The computer screen is about the right fixed focus distance...which is why I can plonk this out.)

Cheers - Phil

I have that when i use the smaller magnifier in my "looking glass".

I paint under one of these:


Helps stopping for half an hour and just relax!

Quote from: petercooman on 06 September 2018, 03:27:07 PM
Helps stopping for half an hour and just relax!

That's what I've found is the best, Peter.......Though usually for a bit more than half an hour.
Just lie down, with my eyes shut, perhaps listening to the radio...... so my eyes aren't trying to focus on anything.

They'll be fine tomorrow.
It seems to happen a couple of times a year, when I've been really concentrating on the wee men......and my eyes go....."Sod off !....We need a rest."

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 06 September 2018, 03:50:52 PM
That's what I've found is the best, Peter.......Though usually for a bit more than half an hour.
Just lie down, with my eyes shut, perhaps listening to the radio...... so my eyes aren't trying to focus on anything.

They'll be fine tomorrow.
It seems to happen a couple of times a year, when I've been really concentrating on the wee men......and my eyes go....."Sod off !....We need a rest."

Cheers - Phil

I get it when i'm too tired. Must admit i've only got it when painting smaller scales though. Poor lighting can be a factor as well.

Just applied texture paint to the lybian spearmen and the gaul slingers. When i finish those bases, that will put me over 500 models again for this year 

 

Good man, Peter !! 

Cheers - Phil

Got the gauls and lybian skirmishers based up!








The force so far (with one elephant backwards   ):




So,adding 24 model means: 503 models painted and 13 forces done:

1) pirates   20
2) privateers 10
3) British forces to battle the pirates 19
4) bolt action USMC  33
5)  bolt action IJA 33
6) bolt action germans 21
7) bolt action US airborne 30
8 ) deadzone marauder warband 13
9)  deadzone plague zombies mob 30
10) terminator force 31
11) resistance force 39
12) soviet additions 30
13)ACW additions