Ronnie on August 27th, 2008

There I was, sitting having my breakfast this morning (tea and some porridge before work) when suddenly my KDE4 crashed. I mean crashed, corrupt looking screen, and needed a reboot.
PC reboots and I’m given the evil flashing-prompt-of-death ™. No login screen.
After much tinkering and typing of commands I eventually gets a God awful, 640×480 login [...]

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Ronnie on August 23rd, 2008

As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve added links to my Etsy shop on the side bar, and a new feature: a mailing list.
All you need to do is enter your name and email address, and click Subscribe. You’ll be notified each time I post to the blog, and I can also send out special emails to [...]

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Ronnie on August 23rd, 2008

Yes, I finished painting them a while back, but they were mounted to some old hardboard using bits of wire and folded paper (to balance them). Hardly presentable!
Now I’ve finally made the nice bases I mentioned early in their creation.
Have a look at the bottom of the Freddy and Pinhead pages to see more about [...]

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Ronnie on August 22nd, 2008

eBay - once called fleaBay, it’s now feeBay. The cost of a basic shop (from September) will rise from £6 per month to £15 per month!
And it’s not even April 1st!
I’ll be damned if I’m paying feeBay £15/mth for a basic shop especially since more frequent sellers (ie: powersellers) are to receive higher search result [...]

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Ronnie on August 3rd, 2008

Based on a photo taken from BBC Wildlife magazine. It’s a Lammergeir which, as far as I can gather, is a type of Vulture.
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Not bad for my first attempt at digital painting. Still trying to get used to the gazillion different brushes available in Corel Painter X, but I’m getting [...]

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Ronnie on August 2nd, 2008

Finally, I managed to get round to finishing my Pinhead (Hellraiser) model kit.
A photographic, step-by-step, is on my Painting the Pinhead Model Kit page. And don’t forget I also have the finished Freddy Krueger model kit too. 
Also, as you’ve probably noticed from the image above, I’ve added a watermark feature to the site, [...]

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