01/12/2024
This year been getting back into an old loved hobby of mine - painting minis. Admittedly this year has been kinda s**t - with the main s**t part being to have a 40kg stell truss fall on my head 6 weeks ago......its stopped me from being creative, struggling to do music production or lighting production......it has left me with severe depression and speech issues. It's left me with emotional instability and high levels of anxiety. Sometimes I can't process thoughts entirely even now, plus a whole myriad of other issues.
In gaming - I'd zone out - only to find my character died. Couldn't do music production because I couldn't remember what key, genre, tempo, anything. Even staring at Ableton I couldn't do it. Couldn't do movies coz I didn't know what I was watching half the time. But this hobby is different.
I didn't have to worry about losing a character or pi***ng someone off in league coz I zoned for a few minutes or worry about what the story was in a movie. I didn't have to think about what's the next step. Just glove on - grab a brush, grab some paint, go. Chuck on some music or YouTube and we good. No guessing what I was doing - if pain on brush, and same paint in wet pallete and same paint is fresh on model - continue with paint on model or next model in the squad.
This all being said - it's helped with a lot since the beginning of the year and still tremendously helps and is satisfying to me now. And so I present my latest additions this year - my take on the chapter with some Terminators from the ) I finished them on stream on @ (www.twitch.tv/BigDaddyRico89) the other day and I'll keep alternating between mini streams and gaming streams.
Point of this to a) be proud of my brain for not being completely useless after the accident and b) be proud of my efforts despite yes I didn't drill the gun hole, I know! I've lost my drill 🤣 c) share a hobby of mine with the wider community and d) spread awareness of safety at work. Just because it might not affect you, does not mean it won't affect someone else. Be safe.
