darthpayback

I haven't been around here much lately, "life" has been very busy, plus I've lost my work access to this site.  I used to get on dA during lunch, but recently some friends of mine at work have been fired for visiting web sites that are frowned upon, even though they won't tell us any details of what we can and cannot do online.  SO - with all the mature content on dA I've decided to not browse at work anymore. Unfortunately I am very behind on saying thanks to all of you who have supported my work here in the last few months.  I hate that because I appreciate all the comments and favs that I get here, they mean a lot to me.   I hope to be a

I'm so stoked and I had to share: I recently put all my old Transformer toys up on ebay, my first time as a seller.  My cousin had recently made a few hundred dollars selling old toys, and with the new Transformer movie out, we thought it was time to sell those as well.  I had a pretty big collection that I kept in great shape for my kids someday (as if once I have kids they'd want to play with those old things!), so I put them online and waited to see what I would make.  My hope was to make about $500 so we could buy a cheap camcorder. Well, it passed $500, lol!  The total after one week was $2000!!  So not only do I have a new Canon HV20

I did something similar to this in the thumbshare forum, but I didn't get the responses that I was looking for :cry:, so I thought I would try here!  I have always been fascinated by the Lord of the Rings, and one of my ongoing series has been to photograph my sword replicas and alter them to make them look like they were taken somewhere in Middle Earth.  Here are the ones I have so far: Gandalf's sword in Rivendell: Glamdring Foe-Hammer The Sword of Gandalf Aragorn/Elendil's sword in Gondor: Narsil The Sword of Elendil Frodo's sword in Shelob's Lair: Sting The Sword of Frodo Arwen/Elrond's sword by the ford: Hadhafang Ok - now f