Trying to master Sketchup is easy…so says everyone, so why am I finding it almost impossible? I follow the video tutorials, stopping them whilst I do my bit in the program, great, I think I am there, then I go off to practise and it all falls apart!
However I am determined this time, that I will stick with it, it is just going to take longer! in the mean time I need a diversion.
Today I went out to buy some laminated oak, I am going to make a couple of old fashioned marble board games. I thought I wouldn\’t be able to do this, because I couldn\’t find anyone that sold just marbles, until I was in a \’Todo 2000 COP\’ shop the other day, and found nets of 50 marbles for 2000COP each (UK 42p) , so I bought three. They are multi-coloured marbles, but that is not a problem, where a game calls for specific colours, I will spray paint them.
My first games is going to be this:
Yep! you guessed right first time…Chinese Checkers, how I am going to do it, I will leave until I get started.
An Englishman in Colombia 