Thursday 29 October 2015

5+ Happy Blog Day


I usually add a Legion heraldy badge to celebrate my Blog Day, but in this case I couldn't really find a decent White Scars Legion badge. Then I looked for Dark Angel 5th Company badges and many of those images I found were just pictures from my blog, of my own 5th Company marines! However, I did find this Blood Ravens banner which I thought would do.

Anyway, 5 years a Servitor! Who'd have thought? I know I've posted quite a few arbitrary milestones recently but I think we can all agree this is the big daddy, the non-arbitrary measure 5 years of solid blogging. Sure the 1,000 posts one is important too because a five year blog with 5 posts isn't much to shout about and the followers and comments are also fantastic measures of how people feel about the blog which helps lift it beyond just shouting into the the void.  But 5 years! That's like time man! Time spent chatting about little plastic men.

Looking forwards though I can't see the blog ending, I worked out I had about two years worth of miniatures to paint, or more like three or four the speed I paint. I'm a little sad this year will deliver the least amount of posts since I started but the Winter slump hit me hard and hobby progress was more important than blogging about it. In time I think I'll try and get a bit more feedback from you all about what you like, don't like, what I can do to improve things; not saying I'll act on it or anything but the best of intentions and all that. Feel free to start the ball rolling, criticism equally appreciated I know I waffle on, not sure I can stop it but if it really is too much sometimes I'll aim for brevity as it makes writing the darn posts easier anyways. So thanks for popping by and we'll reconvene in 2020!

12 comments:

  1. That'd be me void-shouting then, haha!

    Seriously though, congrats man, your blog is one of the most inspirational that I follow - I'd love to see more posts on your Dark Angels though, hehe!

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    1. Cheers Nick, right now that means an awful lot. I'll do the best I can on the Dark Angels, I'll try and finish the things I've got started but there may have been a reassessment of what I enjoy doing that might put them on hold. I'd rather feel confident and productive than demotivated and just deliver a handful of completed models.

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    2. My pleasure, and remember - it's your blog. Write about what you want to write about, because that's when writing is at its easiest and your enjoyment of it comes through.

      Heck you don't need to talk to me about demotivation - I've got a cabinet full of Iron Fists that have made very little progress since the varnish incident a year ago - I've only today started re-touching the ironclad to go over the faded paintjob. I probably should have finished them off before starting Tau - oh well, that's not how the hobby works is it!

      Next job: trying to decide what to get when my birthday comes around - we'll be half way through round three of the tale of 4 gamers series so I'll have a month to get delivery of models and get them painted. I'm thinking the less I have to do the better, but I really want to use the new retribution cadre formation (from which I have 1 model currently, so would need to paint 6 crisis suits, 2 broadsides and a commander in 4 weeks).

      Hmm, decisions, decisions.

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  2. Congrats Dave, I'll second Nick's comments on the blog being an inspiration.
    Thanks for your example and your advice when I was starting my own blog.

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  3. Thanks for the hard work, keep it up.

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  4. Go Dave! Your blog keeps me sane at work. Love seeing the pics and hearing about your life/hobby :)

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  5. Awesome! Happy blogsday, man - keep up the great work!

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  6. Congratulations! I love reading your blog, especially the updates on your big projects (double-digit updates FTW).

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  7. Happy Blog day Dave! Your blog is not only an inspiration, but some of your early posts about mine gave me some of the key followers which keeps me going each week!

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  8. Happy Blog Day! Great work and I hope to be reading in 5 more years.

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  9. Pretty damn incredible and an awesome resource and inspiration to everyone in the hobby. Long may it continue.

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