Not much to report to be honest, apart form that I myself and this blog are still (semi) alive. For several past years unfortunately I had very little time for any hobby activities, taking some heavy blows in personal life that required some major life priorities reshuffling. Hence the loong pause on the blog. Things seem to be a little bit back under control, so I will try a little bit to revive but also restructure my hobby projects. This will affect what will show up on this page in many ways.

First I have recently received my Anycubic resin printer so papercraft hobby now shares competition for my hobby time with 3d miniatures modelling. This new gadget opened new area of possibilities and prompted me (together with nagging from my friends) to start a bigger fantasy themed project, spanning multiple hobbies and drawing me further away from papercraft. I do not intend to drop papercraft completely but It will shift somewhat out of my focus and most likely my upcoming models will be mostly connected to this big project. (More on that soon).

Secondly I will try to dust off my papercraft workshop as I have several projects almost completed on terms of geometry, textures and options. Such as this riverboat below, based loosely on archeological findings from Germany and Poland dated between XV-XVIII century. (Here tested for displacement weight by the trusty vauglaire crew.)

Unfortunately however, preparation for publishing and drawing/writing instructions and/or fine tuning mechanical elements takes anything between five times to forever more time than designing the model itself. Not allowing me to finish them off and publish them. Therefore in foreseeable future I will be focusing more on small simple models (like e.g. Manesse church) or 2d flat papercraft minis, connected to this new project, with some random inserts of next Manesse Miniatures which I still quite like to make (with maybe some guest stars from other manuscripts e.g. Maciejowski Bible).

Speaking of Manesse Miniatures. All the dead links for manesse miniatures on models page should be now up again. Individual sheets are now collected into multipage PDF’s that will be updated if I will add some new pages for particular themes. For now unfortunately, without the cutfiles, ase these not survived many computer crashes, and it seemed i failed to make any backups. Anyway, hopefully you will hear form me a little bit sooner tan the last time :P.