Weekly Geek Number 4

I had such a delightful time haunting people last week that I have chosen to join the Weekly Geek meme again this week. Welcome fellow Geeks! Ah HA HA HA HA HA!

#1. What are you passionate about besides reading and blogging? Tell us why you’re passionate about it… Post photos of what you’ve made or of yourself doing whatever it is you love doing.

Past readers of my blog will know that, besides reading terrifying and weird books and reviewing them (and also having my own army of winged monkeys) I love to slave feverishly on paper models. Especially delightful are paper models of monsters, mummies, or antique cars. I guess it combines so many things I love. First there’s the things a monster can build, like bats or robots. Second there’s all the cutting. I can really get into the cutting and cutting and slashing and CUTTING AND HACKING. A-HA HA HA!. Or pretending I’m a scientist in his lab performing experiments with dead pieces of paper that no sane man would attempt. Third, It’s nice having all these paper friends all lined up, staring at me diabolically from their shelves on the walls.

Here’s a picture of a diorama I set up with a paper model of an antique car I made. The original car model template I built it from was actually a Disney car (Donald Duck’s) so I had to get my crayons out and make it scary.

Nosferatu's Ghost Car

#2. Get us involved. Link to tutorials, recipes, Youtube videos, websites, fan sites, etc, anything that will help us learn more about your interest or how to do your hobby. Maybe you’d like to link to another hobbyist whose work you admire…

There are many places to get haunted models. Here are two that come to mind immediately:
Ravensblight: Haunted Houses, mechanical bats, evil tomes, and graveyards.
Haunted Dimensions: Paper models by Ray Keim of Disney haunted houses.

For the faint of heart, here are two great not-so-haunted papercraft blogs: Paperkraft.blogspot.com and Jaime Zollars Paper Forest. (Incidentally I’m a big fan of the artwork of Jaime Zollars.)

#3. Visit other Weekly Geeks. Link in your post to other Geeks who’ve peaked your interest in their passion. Or maybe you might find a fellow afincionado among us, link to them.

Nymeth wrote about music, which is one of my great passions. Bogsider shared his passion about Egyptology. Gavin on Page247 wrote about his adventures as a volunteer naturalist.

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