A weekday break in Penang with my family

 It has been eight long years since I last visited my hometown of Penang. In fact, that was the last time my family and I went on a mini vacation of any sorts. For the uninitiated, Penang is a small island off the west coast of north Peninsular Malaysia. Anyway, we finally went on a short break after all these years and spent less than a week just relaxing and enjoying the food paradise that is Penang.

A view off the coast of Penang island, from the balcony of Hilton Doubletree

 So these past few weeks have been a period of enforced hobby downtime, of the positive kind. All I did that was even remotely hobby related was to watch some online portrait drawing tutorials to keep in touch with a skill set that I have ignored for six years and counting. My last two significant practice pieces were pencil portraits of Babydoll and Rey. It has been so long that I have forgotten how to draw portrait pieces. Well, hopefully I can start drawing again soon ... this time digitally, to complement whatever scale model kit hobby projects I have going on. Speaking of which ...  

 Because of the aforementioned positive hobby downtime, I haven't really had any chance to work on projects, new or old. So next up in the hobby blog post will be to revisit a project that was inspired by my last visit to Penang all those years ago i.e. the vinyl figurine duo of SpongeBob and Patrick which I had painted with Vallejo Model Color acrylic paints. This time around though, I will be doing a short video of the painted piece to showcase the details a little better. That should be uploaded to my YouTube channel FourEyedMonster Miniatures before year end ... I hope.   

Coming Soon ... a video of the painted Patrick and SpongeBob vinyl figurines.

 Well, that's it for this super short blog update. I hope the holidays is treating you as kindly as it has me while 2022 winds down. Until my next post, may you and your family, be well and happy.