Ah, that would have been an ok picture without the washing line in it. Oh well.
This blog started over a decade ago. I was embarking on my 40K project - Devos IV to provide a backdrop for my games which had a touch of realism to it, even if it was a Forge World realism, rather than a real realism.
My internet searches showed me blogs by other hobbyists. Encouraged by feedback from Karitas and Admiral Drax, upon whose blogs I commented, I began the creation of the armies and scenary for Devos IV and the story of the rebellion or insurrection, depending on your point of view.
The next few years put me touch with hobbyists from elsewhere in the world, notably the USA and Austrailia. I've been helped and encouraged by others and hopefully have managed a bit of helping and encouraging myself along the way. I won a Liebster once for Devos IV, so that's a highlight.
I suppose the height of 40K blogging was the From The Warp blogging circle. But the guy running that burned out or found something else which sucked up more of his time. Gradually other bloggers stopped blogging, overtaken by Real Life or other games systems which were not as cartoonish and awkward as later editions of 40K seemed to be. Like most the FW books, Devos IV is rooted in 5ed.
I think a lot of people transistioned to Instagram and so on.
It's been over a year since I posted on here. I'm still modelling and painting and obviously had an idea of where the Devos IV was going. If you've been a long time follower, hopefully the sense of 'impending acheivement of imperial war aims' will have come through the writing. Not as expensive in blood and treasure as Vraks, but nowhere near as long, either.
Why am I writing this ? If there's anyone out there who was interested in this blog, perhaps you might be interested to know that the hordes of little men grow every bigger and that the cadres of giant killer robots are still getting inadequate but homogenous paint jobs. Or they will, once I get around to it.
I may end up posting again. And do hope that anyone who ever read this found it interesting or amusing or it gave some small spark of pleasure or inspiration.
And of course, an annual post keeps it where I can find it, in case I win the lottery and can afford to turn it into a book.
I was also lamenting the slow erosion of the hobby blogging space to myself recently. It's something I'm also hoping to get back into over the next year (Real Life depending!) I've always hoped that as people get more and more disillusioned with social media they would (re)turn to blogs to post their thoughts and pictures instead.
ReplyDeleteBlogging takes more time than a photo on a smartphone and adding a hashtag... unfortunately. I like the thoughts and even recipes or bits and a window to the soul of the hobbyist... I continue to post at WeeMen, but also cross post the same to IG, less so now Reddit as that was always so toxic for some reason... but yes I also lament the loss of the blogger community, hopefully they don't pull the plug before I can save it all somewhere as its my entire hobby journey!
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