No, I’m not dead (yet). I’ve just been busy. Got called back to Azeroth for Pandaria Remix (if you know, you know) and I’m good. The war room got so overwhelmed with junk over time that I couldn’t even photograph my monthly round-ups on the table anymore – especially with that game of Pandemic set up for three weeks. Combine that with work… and more recently a pretty intense week-long clean-up and rejigging/upgrade/clean out of the war room (still tons more boxes and crates in there to sort out, but the table is like 90% clear and we even got a rank & flank game in last weekend!) Anyway, I’ve been checking in on the odd blog post when I can, and in Faust’s latest post that I was reading yesterday, he mentions that Dave Stone’s annual Season of Scenery challenge was on again – which I’d missed due to not being super active.
A couple of hours later, while moving some stuff from one place to another, I spotted these five hatches in a litlte plastic tub along with some other stuff. I might ave separated them in order to have them for glue onto other pieces, or another project (typing this now I think I might(?) know what I’d intended to use them on….)
Anyway, I had that “I could paint these quickly” thought, blu-taced them to a spray stick, sprayed them in three different primer colours, let them dry, sprayed them in “proper” base coat colours (Desert Yellow, Gunmetal and Copper), gave them another hour or so, and then just worked on them on and off over the rest of the evening while farming bullion ingame, ending with spray varnishing them around 10:30pm in the cold outside. Nice to have that “started and finished in a day” feeling – even on something as simple as these pieces.
I figure I’ll be back posting regularly in a month or so (maybe two). Still got lots on to do in Azeroth, and getting my posts between the previous one and now in order will take a bit of time to figure out (that I don’t really have). If and when I finish more terrain stuff, I’ll just try to post them up as they come. See you then!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
First off, always glad to hear that someone’s not dead! Haha! Those are some nice hatches and turned out really well for a day job. I like the chipped paint on the lighter ones.
I’ve got some recycle trash I’ve been saving for scratch built terrain and your post made me think about making make hatches too. But alas, things are too busy at the moment. My entry to Dave’s Season of Scenery challenge is going to be quite lame this year. Which is a bummer, because that stuff can be fun to build.
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Thanks Faust! Seems the chipping on the red ones doesn’t come through as well in photos. With a bit of luck I’ll (eventually) get some more pieces finished in each of the three schemes. Remember, if you don’t finish this year, you can always aim to complete them next year! 😀
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Or the year after! 😉
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I am so pleased to hear you are not dead (yet)! 🙂 I even checked that I hadn’t accidentally unsubscribed from your blog (I hadn’t)! Nice work on the hatches! You’ve now finished four more pieces than me for the current Season of Scenery challenge!
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Thanks John – let’s not pretend that the stuff I’ve gotten finished so far (barricades included) are anything either big not special, though!
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The hatches look suitably weathered mate, and good to hear you’re okay and making headway in the war room as well, hopefully the hatches will still work for the idea you had for them, now you remembered what they were earmarked for.
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Thanks Dave. I may have a few more of those hatches around somewhere anyway, but I doubt I’ll be back to the bigger project anytime soon because space issues. War Room has slowed to “we’ll see if I have any spare energy on the weekend” but at least the space is broadly usable again.
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Good to see you back, same as John I checked to see if I had messed up.
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Thanks mate. I’ve still been doing a little painting most weeks but not much until recently (and still not a ton) but posting has been a bridge too far!
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Congratulations on your continued existence! I think there’s something really nice about seeing simple pieces of terrain finished like this, especially when they look that good, too!
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Thanks mate. More simple terrain to come, and hopefully I can finish off a few of the more involved bits before August comes to an end…
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They look great. Best wishes with work, clean-up and gaming! I loved Pandaria – I’m tempted to go back!
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Thanks mate. Still close to a month left on the event if you still have a sub and easy enough to get levelled and then geared (with a bit of grind!)
I’ve enjoyed it a lot!
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As others have said, I’m glad you’re doing well and that WoW is treating you well. The terrain is perfectly weathered just as I would expect too! 🙂 I look forward to your proper return when the time is right.
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Thanks mate. I’ve been spending more time now unshackling more of my older post from Photo Photobucket given their latest shenanigans! 😒
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That’s no good. They’ve really screwed people over a couple times now 😦
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Nice to see you back posting. I always love to see terrain getting done.
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Just saw this one now! 😮 😡
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