I’ll add photo links here as I create the galleries. Day 1 photos are in the gallery, click the link below.

Day 1: 3 Galleries

Home sweet home! We are home now, we didn’t do much yesterday (Day 7), but I’ll write it here anyway.

Day 7, our last day in Tasmania was an easy going day. We left Swansea just after 10am, and headed to Launceston where we arrived at about 12.30. We had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, then had to fill in time until around 5.30pm when it was time to go to the airport and return the hire car. We walked around the shops, and stopped at coffee shops a bit to fill in the time. We filled in more time at the airport until we boarded the plane at 7.50pm, just surfing the internet on our iPads and drinking more coffee (at least I did, LittleB is not a coffee drinker) and eating snacks. It was a lot of time to fill in, but it felt like it passed quickly.

The flight home was good, we arrived home earlier than scheduled.

I’m getting started on photos now, I am transferring them from my laptop now to my main computer. I should have some Day 1 photos up later tonight, I’ll post a link here when I do.

Today started with a drive to the top of Mt Wellington. From there we had clear views of Hobart and the landscape for many miles, in many directions (Photos soon). The wind was very stong and extremely cold. The wind chill factor certainly had to be below zero degrees celcius, I can hardly remember feeling air so cold in the Swedish Winter. We photographed all of the views as quickly as possible and ran for the car. We were frozen to the core.

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I’m updating my blog for yesterday and today. I couldn’t do it last night, I was very tired and had a long sleep instead. I’m really tired again now, I’ll soon be heading off to dinner and suspect I’ll be straight to bed when I get back.

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After checking out of the lodge, day 3 soon provided us with the best view of the trip so far – lemonthyme lodge in the rear view mirror, behind the dust of course. I should have taken a photo, it was beautiful.

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I am updating the blog with day 2 info today on day 3 of our trip, because we had no 3G reception at all, and no Internet. Today I still don’t have Internet access with my laptop (Optus) but do have Internet with my iPad (Telstra). So using my iPad I can type into my blog, but can’t post photos. Tomorrow night (day 4) I’ll be in Hobart and will be able to post some photos then.

With that out of the way, I can write about day 2!

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Very smooth and comfortable flight to Launceston today, we arrived 15 minutes early at 12.30pm. We got a hire car from the airport, somehow the Yaris we’d booked became a Nissan Micra. The car is a bit of a toy, but does have some get up and go. Hopefully we’ll get up the mountains in it. At least it’s in better shape than the car behind it (click photos to enlarge):

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I have finally updated my very old iPhone to the new iPhone4s as well as got an iPad2, so I needed to create a wallpaper for my iPhone and iPad backgrounds. I created a moody wallpaper of Marilyn, which I am sharing with anyone who wants it. The iPad has a different aspect ratio to the iPhone, so you have to use the right image for the right device to avoid black bars. If the fog looks a bit severe, don’t worry, with your icons over it, it looks fine.

I have also included a re-encoded (better) video of “Midnight with Marilyn”, and the already crystal clear HD version of “Igor Live” in the pack, both are iPad/iPhone ready. If you are only interested in the wallpapers, just save them from the wallpaper page.

To view wallpapers, go here: [Link]

To download iPack1 with the videos (also suitable for viewing on computer), click here: [Link]

iPack1 has also been added to the downloads page (see link at top of the page), so it can be easy to find in the future, as this page gets buried with older pages after future posts.

Not much to say here. It’s a broom, but it’s very very modern, it is the fastest moving man-made object there is. It has a jet engine for when there is a need for extreme speed (imagine a green flame too). It also has a more conventional engine for the usual cruising (imagine it putting out smoke as the fat witch climbs altitude). It can hover because inside the seat it has the same technology that Igor uses to float around, whatever that is.

I hope you like it, it’s not easy designing something new. [Click here to see the images]

I’ve modeled the witch’s cottage. It’s a little stone cottage, and is fairly old looking, but the interior will be very modern – futuristic even. I haven’t done the interior yet, but it’s coming soon.

With the images, I will start by showing my crappy concept drawing first because it’s important to do such things (I mean concept drawings, not show them – I’m very bad at drawing, but it doesn’t need to be that good, it’s just to get the ideas down). If you notice from the scan that I have drawn the picture on the back of some sheet music, then that is because I drew the picture on the back of some sheet music. Next is a render of when the scene was basically blocked out, with the final model details to be done and texturing, followed by the final images. I decided that the forest would be eucalypt trees, rather than the usual european things. I didn’t model any tree or plant or grass in the scene. These were bought. Buying grass from turbosquid means that I have much better grass now than in Midnight with Marilyn, which I can use as much as I want. I’ll need to replace the grass in the graveyard with the new grass.

Click here to see the cottage images