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Being an adult warham is kind of a mixed blessing, at 19 I had no money and all the time in the world, at 36 I have no problem affording my plastic addiction but little free painting time.

At least now with the virus I'm 100% work from home, which gives me an extra 90 free minutes a day from not commuting.

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Yeah, I've the problem that I can afford what ever I want, though I think I've done a pretty good of keeping the majority of it painted. Probably got about 20,000 points of Age of Sigmar painted. Oddly I think my time spent painting has gone down since I started working from home a year and a half ago. Probably because I now work at the same desk where I hobby, so I don't want to sit there after work.

I think what I'll miss is having 20-year-later eyesight, so working on intricate details with artificial light will be less appealing. (By now I know what my dad would mean when he'd say things like "how can you see that in this light?") Once I've finished a more important assignment, I'll push my work-from-home hours to the mornings and evenings, leaving the afternoon free.

If the isolation should somehow continue to the winter, I'll also miss out on evening daylight, since I live 4° further north.

Add lots of light. Lots. Good for the soul and good for the eyes. Check the research coming out of China over the last 10y regarding eyes and light, and there are lots of studies on mood and light levels from the Nordic countries.

Back in the day I built a 6x40w flourescent ramp right above my work desk, 3 phase staggered for effective 150Hz to eliminate the flicker. Worked wonders to get me out of my Murder-Winter-Zombie state during my PhD Up North.

Nowadays there are sooo many good diode ramps available. And fortunately I can take lots of time outside nowadays as well. Still 20/20 vision :)

get a loupe!

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