a Load of Old Toby

Mid-Year Check-in: The State of the Blog & A Huge Thank You! Welcome back to A Load of Old Toby! Between working through the 10mm Mordor Host, wrapping up the 12-part Empire series, and painting up Dwarven Kingdom, I took a look under the hood at the blog's back end stats today. I was genuinely blown away by how much this little corner of the internet has grown, so I wanted to share a quick update and say a proper thank you. Some Gretchen that I painted a while ago. 📊 A Quick Look at the Numbers & Growth 9.4k+ Total Views: We've officially crossed 9,430 total views and fact approaching 10k! Looking at the trajectory, the blog went from averaging around 200–300 views a month early last year to breaking 1,000+ views a month recently. I just wanted to say thank you to you all, its truly mind blowing. 126 Comments: A special thank you to everyone who takes the time to leave feedback, share painting tips, or just chat about Middle-earth and Old World lore with me. It ma...

a Load of Old Toby Hello all, I hope this article on my little hobby corner finds you well. This is my first foray into the written article for the hobby so please be kind…. since 2020, throughout the Pandemic, I have been more conscious at work and in the hobby to look for opportunities to give back to the wider community. I wouldn’t say that I am very active within the community, I only have one online Twitter account, and I certainly don’t find as much time to interact or play games with others as I would like. In addtion to this I coming to the conclusion that all social media presence needs to be removed. For now I can be found only here: @freexerjin.bsky.social But I need to keep in contact, in some fashion with the great community of artists gamers, and imaginary creatures. So I have decided to start this blog, with a very unoriginal name. If anyone else is using it please do tell me. So where do I start?......Having been posting on the aformention social media tu...