I'm Leigen_Zero (not my real name obviously, but I like the whole mystique of existing behind a 'handle'), and this afternoon I discovered that at some point in 2011 I created a blog, but never actually bothered to post anything, or check it regularly, or remember it existed. So today I decided to change that. I don't remember what the original purpose of the blog was going to be, but I've decided, as a self-confessed, card-carrying nerd (no seriously, they make us carry little cards around here to distinguish us from the rest of civilized society), I've decided to use it to blog the various interesting and geeky things that have been going on in my life.
Some things about me:
- Firstly, in January this year my wife gave birth to our first child, who I love dearly, despite the drool stains that are marking the left shoulder of all my t-shirts...
- I got into miniatures gaming way back as teenager through Warhammer 40,000 (which sadly, due to various reasons on both consumer and producer side, I no longer engage in), but I've got a fairly broad mind and I've expanded into several other miniatures games, board games, and other nerdly pursuits.
- I have other interests outside of little lead people, I play the ukulele and the guitar (badly, on both counts) and I'm a software engineer by trade.
- I have a concentration span that can be measured in femto-seconds, which kind of leads onto why I am bothering to start this blog in the first place.
Long story short, I have a large number of unfinished projects sitting around my hobby room, currently it stands at:
- Infinity: Jurisdictional Command of Bakunin
- Bushido: Savage Wave
- Mordheim: Undead warband (pirates of the vampire coast themed).
- Hordes of the Things; Ratmen and tomb-kingish-undead-construct-things.
- Dystopian Wars: Empire of the Blazing Sun naval fleet.
- A rather large quantity of scatter terrain for Infinity.
- A bunch of miscellaneous stuff.
So, anyway, what I would like to introduce you to is this:
The Shelf of Shame
This is the shelf for my finished miniatures projects, as you can see, it's pretty sparse and desolate, currently it contains:
- 2 objective markers for Bushido.
- A 'Professor Plum' Cluedo piece I painted out of boredom.
- My Shadowrun character, who I will get around to finishing some day.
- some random reaper bones I picked up as practice models.
- And a pair of pliers...
(note: my wife and I share bookshelf space, which is why Fifty Shades of Grey is on there, I'm not really into novels about mild bondage with wealthy businessmen)
Anyway, much like Homer Simpsons encounter with the Stone-Cutters, I wish to unshackle myself from the shelf of shame, and become chained to the shelf of triumph!
So my intention is to use this blog to document the progress of my various projects, and hopefully fill the shelf with finished projects I can be proud of. I intend to post updates roughly every week or so (probably on a Sunday), but my 'hobby time' is a little limited, so I may wander off-topic on occasion to document forays into my other interests, sometimes I may just post some sort of rant about first-world problems or something, or whatever I get a chance to do that particular week.
So anyway, that's the first post out of the way, hope that has piqued your interest enough to make you come back in a week or so and check out what's been going on in the nerdy world of Leigen_Zero!
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