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Winds of Change

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I was planning to do this pic for a while, based upon an old painting. But there is a specific reason I did it today.

I had a wristwatch, had it for more than twelve years. It wasn't a Rolex or a Schaffhausen, just a plain old Casio. It was with me for most of the high school, throughout the university and continued to give me temporal guidiance up till today. It was a solid little construct, throughout its service time, it never even had to get its battery replaced. Imagine that, folks, 12 years on the same battery. It wasn't its tiny electric heart that gave way, but its plastic casing that holds the straps. I have glued it together, more than once, but the little plastic thread was finally worn out beyond repair. So I had to buy a new watch and put my little old friend to rest, to a well-deserved pension. I put it in a large paper box that houses my tangible memories.
I know it's silly, getting so emotioal over an old watch, but it's the keeper of many memories. It was with me at my first kiss, first and last exam, first day at work, and yes, even my first 3D render. But here's to another successful twelve years, with a new chronometer on my wrist and the memory of its predecessor in my heart...





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I had the AMT A kit (fourth kit of the refit/A), the last thing my grandmother got me before she died. I spent SIX months doing my damndest to accurize it, put the lights in, ect. it was likely the best work I've ever done on a kit, certainly for the time. a few weeks later, a friend was hanging out with me, and he knocked it off the shelf and the warp engines broke off... I was a basket case. I could've killed him, even though it was an accident. Never really got over that.