Older Work

Older Work, 2002 to 2005

Like many military modelers and figure painters, I pursued the hobby throughout my teens; fell away from it in college as I started to indulge in sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll (or at least the latter), and then returned to it a few years ago because I wanted to do something with my hands that might help me regain a little bit of sanity after all those hours in front of this infernal computer.

Of course, most people would probably say that trying to do a decent job painting a 54mm figure three inches tall and with a face the size of a pea is a quick way to lose your sanity, and now, looking back at the pieces I did as I was just starting out again, I can see how that might seem valid! And of course, when I look at these pieces, all I can see is my (many) mistakes. But, hey, I share these photos here regardless of all that because maybe you’re just trying to get back into the hobby again, too; maybe you’ve never seen the work of real masters like Sheperd Paine, and because everybody has to start somewhere!