Memories of a Lost Adventurer

  From Imagination To Reality   So, this is the heart of what this blog is, it is a short series of articles explaining how I have taken a Character sheet and turned it into a 3d model, as a way of remembering my friend in a way which was special to me. So what remains is the path of the process, I tend to waffle so I apologise in advance, I felt that a blog post would be a better place to share this information on the off chance that someone was interested in the process, but it is pretty boring so if this is of no interest to you I’d suggest you check out because that’s all that this is going to be about. So how does one produce a painter’s scale model of a Character? Well in modern times it’s actually pretty easy, you 3d print it, or hire a company to 3d print it for you. 3d printers for this kind of purpose come in two types, filament printers and resin printers. There are many far more advanced forms of 3d printing currently and it’s an industry that’s growing exp...

  How To Remember Thee   I realised that I wanted, perhaps needed to do something outside the normal to remember Tom. He was a huge part of my young adult life; we were inseparable for years. Flowers, a bench, and some nice words would do little to echo or remember who he was to me.   Tom's 20th/21st birthday, I'm the handsome young man at the front. We did many things together, Raves, Festivals, countless drug and alcohol-fuelled adventures, sitting up all night discussing politics, philosophy, climate issues and how to fix the world or what we could do to improve our own lives and circumstances. We talking about girls we liked and how to approach them, we talked family and futures, we dicussed what we loved and what we did not. We played Chess and Poker two games Tom was always hugely passionate about, Poker was not my thing but I’d take pleasure in frustrating Tom at Chess. Games are my thing, always have been, I see them and how they work very quickly no mat...