The Unrealistic Artist - 1 year old today!

It's 1 year to the day that this blog was born...



















Wow, that's gone quick! Yes, my little corner of the internet is 1 year old and I thought I'd write a special post to celebrate.

Thank you

I wouldn't have kept going with this blogging thing unless I thought someone out there in the t'interweb was actually bothering to read it every once in a while.  With that in mind I'd like to thank everyone who follows the blog.  It's a very real psychological boost when you see your readership and pageviews going up and I really appreciate it when somebody takes the time to stop by, especially with so many other quality blogs around.

I'd like to give special thanks to Ron Saikowski who writes the From the Warp blog who inspired me to start my blog in the first place.  Ron also took the time to offer me some advice too when I was first starting up.  Ron's taking a break from blogging but I hope he decides to return at some stage, I know he's missed by many.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to say a huge extra special thank-you to Mordian who runs the amazing 40K blog Mordian 7th Regiment.  Mordian, you've been a supporter of The Unrealistic Artist, virtually since the very beginning (you actually were the very first to ever leave me a comment!) and I'm always cheered up by your infectious enthusiasm and encouragement. Many thanks my friend.

Other notable contributors include (in no particular order):

Tael who runs Eastern Empire
oink
Tim Toolen who runs Miniature Tim
Marco
The Responsible One who runs The Responsible One's wargaming blog
Itsacoyote who runs Itsacoyote Workshope
Inkub who runs Wojna w Miniaturze
Max von Deadlock who runs Max Von Deadlock's miniature madness
Gary Therkildsen who runs So,...I play this game
Zab who runs Almost Perftec

I'm sure I've missed a couple of people so I apologise if I have!

The favourite...

My favourite project over the last 12 months was definitely the completion of my Ork Bommer.  It's easily the best model I've ever produced (until the Valkyrie is finished anyway...) and it marked a turning point in how I want to continue modelling and painting.

Apparently 'your' favourite project from TUA is my spray booth.  To date it's generated by far the highest pageviews of any other post I've written.  With that in mind I'll try and include an airbrushing post or 2 in the coming months.

To summarise...

I've very much enjoyed exploring the world of miniatures, model making, war-gaming and airbrushing over the last 12 months. Here's to the next 12.

thanks everyone

Paul

PS I haven't finished the Valkyrie, which has dominated the last 3 weeks or so of posts.  I didn't want to do a rush job right at the end so I'm hoping to have her all finished up by the end of the week.

Stay tuned...