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(Disclaimer - below is referencing something from the olden days of podcasts where we used to write fictional complaint letters to companies to try to get free stuff...it's not just sudden madness - I do appreciate it may not make sense but the podcast is still accessibl...
2022-06-15 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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You know that thing I’ve mentioned before about cursed posts? Yep…if I believed in such a thing then this would be one of them.
Finally getting to the point of sitting down at my desk and writing this has been a proper fuss and battle – lots of non-w...
2022-06-14 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's time for Episode 11 of the Reboot podcast, where we are back to full strength in the studio.
Sinister things have been afoot though, which we have a very grown up chat about, before talking about when we performed in strip clubs. Also, finally,...
2022-06-13 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Wanna hear me at 9am after being up all night ticking off my to do list? Yeah course you do.
So many mysteries in today's Cabin Fever podcast, including a very anxious wait to see if I do the autoharp or not...It could go either way...I'm revealing nothing here, y...
2022-06-11 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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So...after the outpouring of love for the Bat-poles beauty shots last week, I thought "Oooooh I've made other dioramas that I could take cool pictures of and that will be another popular post". Not that I'm cynical.
They haven't come out as well as the Bat-Poles.
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Now, it feels a bit like a filler post this, but I'm absolutely wiped out from the prep of the last three posts. Been burning the candle both ends on them, and desperately wanted to do a post that wouldn't take me from dusk till dawn to prep.
Also, I have been thinki...
2022-06-09 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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This is kind of an off-shoot post from the All The Fun Of The Fair posts I forgot I was doing ages ago, and it has a bit of recent back story.
So, a pal of mine was visiting Walt Disney World in Florida last week, and - as she had some gentle shopping instructions...
2022-06-08 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Short intro from me today, mainly just to apologise for telling everyone it was a bank holiday yesterday when it wasn't (I definitely was told it was), and to introduce the latest full story from the forthcoming collection "Tales From Castle Diablo".
I'm pretty su...
2022-06-07 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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A very happy (UK) bank holiday Monday to you, and here is the latest episode of the Reboot podcast.
It's Episode 10, which is traditionally a monumental episode in my work. Most of the series' I've done have culminated with this episode. Not this one though,...
2022-06-06 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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What lovelier thing to do in the long (UK) weekend than to tolerate me blabbering on in podcast form?
Yes, it's this week's Cabin Fever, and I give you fair warning right now, after all the chatter about gardening mishaps, televisual recommendations, dissecting th...
2022-06-04 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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As it is a bank holiday over in the UK, I am today going to have a nice relaxing post of images.
By relaxing, I mean I got all the alternate hands and faces for the figures, and just spent the last three hours trying to take proper pictures of the BatPoles with my proper c...
2022-06-03 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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I was once contacted by a TV company who were making a show about conspiracy theories.
This wouldn’t have been too long after the culmination of the final series of The ParaPod – “Conspiracies”, and they’d either heard it, or been told about it. Either w...
2022-06-02 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's been slow and steady this week, as I've been trying to muddle through on Tales From Castle Diablo progress.
I was getting a touch on the overwhelmed side, as I've several different things going on at once which are requiring attention, but I've also been coun...
2022-06-01 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Earlier than expected, I today conclude the Bounty Hunter ink portraits.
So that's two week's on the bounce that I've reached completion stage (not like that) and finished something off (not like that).
Basically, after drawing the last one, I just cracked on with th...
2022-05-31 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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A brand new week brings a brand new Reboot podcast for you, with myself, Rob and Jon continuing to work through our differences.
I think it's Episode 9. I can't actually remember if there was a week that we decided was non-canon. Either way, we persevere, en...
2022-05-30 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Now, for some reason, I found this to be possibly the most enjoyable Cabin Fever I've ever recorded.
I honestly don't know why, it's not like it's particularly fun or funny or anything, but it was a pretty deep dive into some emerging "processes" in work stuff, as...
2022-05-28 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Slightly late job here as I bring you the penultimate Bounty Hunter portrait which I have just completed at 6.30am this morning.
I'd considered skipping today and replacing it with Sunday, but I honestly thought it was going to be an easy one. It wasn't. There'...
2022-05-27 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHello there
Today I bring you another podcast, in part because the one yesterday was so short ON PURPOSE...
Today I have a conversation with Stuart Bray, a special make up FX wiz who is - as I mention several times in this -"proper".
Here's his IMDB page if you don't belie...
2022-05-26 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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You get back here this second and hear me out thank you.
Today I bring a very special one-off podcasting event where I shall be attempting/trying my hardest to sing four ditties originally popularised by Los Angeles music combo, The Doors.
Not only will I be "singing...
2022-05-25 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's a rather celebratory moment today as we reach a rare thing here; An actual conclusion.
Yes, it's the packed - and I really do mean that - season finale of the 1:6 scale Bat-Poles build.
Will I finally finish? (yes) Will I be happy with it? (yes) Cou...
2022-05-24 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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A very happy Monday to one and all, and here is the latest instalment of the Reboot podcast, where we are back to full capacity.
It's a change of pace this week, and really rather heartbreaking as we discuss Rob's absence from last week. It ended up dominati...
2022-05-23 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here I come, brandishing a Cabin Fever podcast in your face as is the tradition for a Saturday morning.
In today's fun-filled marvel of editing, I wax lyrical about wandering along the canal, group sex, patron bits, singing, email marketing and other stuff that I ...
2022-05-21 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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But Ian, surely Boba Fett should have been the last one?! He's like the main one, we thought it was all building to Boba.
Nope. I don't need to play by your rules and expectations. Here's Fett, with two more still to come.
Now, I found this oddly difficul...
2022-05-20 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here we are at the penultimate week of the Bat Poles build.
If you want to see me start bright as a button and then endure a very subtle gradual dip in mood, then this is where you wanna be lookin'.
There's a load of painting and weathering and all that kind of...
2022-05-19 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Right, this is going to get tiresome - I'm getting a message from Patreon every time I post about this project as it thinks it's pornographic content. As I explained yesterday, it's not that. They're just cartoon characters talking about it.
I mean, I don...
2022-05-18 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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No wait, please come back, that title isn’t a new patreon perk, it’s the name of a project I’ve had on the go in the background for a while which I’m going to explain to you today.
It’s just a working title at the moment, and the fact that Patreon has already fla...
2022-05-17 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Well, two out of three ain't bad...
Due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, we are at 2/3 capacity this week, but myself and Jon soldiered on and did a companion piece to the Reboot podcast, and that audio file up there is the result.
Plenty of ground ...
2022-05-16 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here I am, bright eyed and bushy tailed, with my delivery sack full of a new podcast.
Yup, it's the latest instalment of my weekly update blabbery podcast, Cabin Fever, which today regales you with tales of my mum's visit, a day at Stratford-upon-Avon, some very r...
2022-05-14 10:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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After a brief hiatus for a warranted week of Gilbert, I return to the Bounty Hunters vintage figures portraits.
This week we have... well...there's a slight discrepancy here. The name on the card of the original figure was Zuckuss. Years later, Lucasfilm announced th...
2022-05-13 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(Header description: Me nervously stealing prop popcorn on the set of Red Dwarf during a recording)
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It’s time for me to conclude the two-parter about professionalism that I accidentally started on Tuesday.
My original plan was to just carry on writing, whi...
2022-05-12 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post