My last post was shortly before the May 2013 Eurobash and just a few days after I returned from Belgium my 88 year old mother was taken ill.
She caught shingles which can be intensely painful and she got it in her one good eye, which was even more upsetting. She went into hospital for most of that summer, coming back to stay with me at the beginning of that September.
So my hobby room was sacrificed to give her a bedroom on the ground floor, and we waited to see if she would recover enough to go back to her flat.
There had been some incompetent managing of her medication during her hospital stay where her underactive thyroid medication had been cut by two thirds, and she was lethargic and always tired and her partial blindness meant that 'going home' became impossible.
With my wife and I both working she seemed to lose motivation and her recovery was very up and down. She went for a break to a retirement home and after 10 days she said she wanted to stay there - she had a routine, 24/7 monitoring, and most importantly all the company she could manage, and she was happy.
She just hit 90 - we had a family party and she was almost back to her pre-illness sparkyness.
So those pics at the top of this thread were replaced by this:
and after mum moved out, Midaski lost out Big Time - the wife decided we needed a "Front Room" as a second living room so my son and his young lady had somewhere to go if they didn't want to share our taste in TV programmes.
So now it looks like this:
My son has been in there once I think, and it's become the 'default' TV room if I want to watch football.
However I have managed to reclaim the other end of this room and so I decided I needed some new 'infrastructure' to reinvigorate my hobby interest.
So I found some old bits of chipboard and such, that used to be the shelf units in the gaming room, and out came the saw and the drill and we started cutting drilling and gluing ......................
and Hey Presto
You can see 135 holes ..............
But then when I had used a bit of caulk filler, and gave it a coat of grey primer you can see the rear view ..........
Behold another 52 holes for back up.
Then I thought an idiot's guide to arranging things would help a bit so out came some base paints to start it off .........
and here is the finished article in situ and with several paints in place.
Now that is a proper Paint Station
So this is my painting area.
It must be well over three years since I tried to paint anything seriously, and those who know me well will point out that I have thousands of unpainted figures, and still keep buying new stuff.
I am planning for my retirement.