Category: Personal
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Year of the Bigature: Part Three – In Strange Moods
October has, for as long as I’ve been back in the hobby, been Orktober, the ceremonial month in which Ork/Orc/Orruck players simultaniously celebrate the wide array of ways in which they enjoy and embody their chosen faction, and also lament their apparent abandonment by Games Workshop. Many other hobbyists, myself included, take October as an…
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2025 Recap
2025 has been a year of conclusions. Professionally, it’s been manic. I’ve taken on new responsibilities, become a proper manager again and taken on a shiny new even more senior job title. Personally, with the big milesone of “buy a house” complete, the year felt a bit like catching up, making the house my own…
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Year of the Bigature: Interlude – What isn’t a Bigature
In the first interlude, I explained that the key to a bigature is that it must be a model of something large relative to a person, and also be physically big. The 1:1 version of a bigature should have a sense of scale to it already, but then the scale model should be large and…
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Year of the Bigature: Interlude – What is a Bigature
A bigature is a big miniature. As a term, I first heard it on the making of featurette on the Matrix Reloaded, talking about the miniature set for the Zion docks, and later in various ILM and Weta making-of features for stuff like the Lord of the Rings. I’m not quite in the space to…
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2024 Recap!
2024 has been a good year. I write this, bundled in a nest of blankets, in my new house, between festivities. It feels like a good time to look back at the year and make plans for the new year to come. First, a few highlights: And now a brief recap of the year: January…
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Virtual Conferences, Virtual Rewards
2020 has been a wash for conferences and conventions, and I’m not sure their virtual alternatives actually help.