New Job, A Special Commision, and Back To The Workbench

Ok, been a crazy six months since I’ve posted anything. I took a second job as an adjunct instructor at the local technical college teaching web design and development. Although I’ve always been told “You would make a great teacher!”, I’ve never been one, until now. Sooooo….

All of my free time has been taken up with learning how to be an effective teacher and what my teaching style would be/is like. I also needed to generate all of my own content as the previous instructor was not forthcoming with their materials. Double drag there. This, all on top of my normal 40+ hours job at the advertising agency.

Granted, I’m only teaching 3 credits this semester but will be picking up more in the spring. I know there is more time in the first year or so in “getting things set up” so the first class will already have been established. Now that I’m getting into the swing of things I can start settling down a bit and move slowly back towards doing some of my hobby stuff! Yay!

Besides, I can’t let Uberdark be the only one to have a “comeback” from the Big Mek graveyard – even if he is including Tau…. (btw, this all started with Uber asking if I was up for another Big Mek Showdown…..)

Since it’s bad practice to resurrect a thread without photos, I have to admit I wasn’t completely stagnant in the intervening months. I was “commissioned” to paint a very special gift for my best friend. His little brother, who I know as well, retired from the Marines this last summer after 22 years of service. (F#&% I’m old..) He also plays 40K as Blood Angels. My friend got ahold of a T-hawk and asked me to paint it for him. So that ‘s what I’m working on now. I haven’t touched it in three months and will be trying to complete it by Thanksgiving. Here’s the pics I have so far…

I know, sorry for the flood of shots. These were taken over the course of a couple of months. I have completed the metallics but haven’t taken pics yet. I need to do the iconography and the front set of heavy blotters (which I forgot to do at the same time (face-palm) ).

I can’t wait to wrap this one up and get back to reds on orks instead!