{"id":525,"date":"2009-02-11T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=525"},"modified":"2009-02-11T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:04:00","slug":"all-hands-on-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/all-hands-on-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hands on Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Guess what? We’re going to get to do one of those new Brass Scorpions from Forge World later this month!<\/div>\n
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Let’s get started shall we? The last two days I’ve actually slept through the night. I like that. I’ve noticed that no matter how well things are going I find ever-smaller things to gripe about. I need to break that cycle.<\/div>\n
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We went to a dinner in my brother-in-law’s honor on Monday (did I mention that already?) and we got home late. There’s something magic about carrying sleeping kids in from the car. I can’t believe we have four children. It feels like our family is complete. The two older kids were sick.<\/div>\n
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I have two new Artists down at the studio training. Well, that’s not quite the word since both are already an accomplished, award-winning miniatures painters\/artists in their own right. The first is a real geek, jumping in to quote Star Wars or Monty Python with the rest of us. So, not “training” really, but more like cross-pollinating with other artists including myself so that their style will merge with the studio style in a cohesive way.<\/div>\n
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I usually<\/em> don’t present new artists for the first three to six months. We monitor carefully for “implosion”. New artists tend to crumple under the strain, and I’ve found it’s a good bet to reinforce them with a lot of mentoring and careful follow-up. You’ve got to see some of their stuff. I’m going to have some pics up in the near future. I couldn’t even believe the talent that came through on this round of hiring.<\/div>\n
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I got in sixteen vypers on a trade. I will probably be able to salvage eight or ten of them. Many are missing cockpit covers, which I would be thrilled to trade in if somebody has any, any at all. Two of them are being prepped for painting right now. I hope to have prototypes up soon. That’s for the Teal Eldar.<\/div>\n
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Yesterday, Tamie took all the kids, dressed in Sunday best, to the dedication of the Draper Temple<\/a>. I very much wanted to go, but there was absolutely no escape from my duties at the studio.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Picture: an Ultramarines Captain with lightning claws. See more pics here. . Guess what? We’re going to get to do one of those new Brass Scorpions from Forge World later this month! . Let’s get started shall we? The last two days I’ve actually slept through the night. I like that. I’ve noticed that no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}