Dear Chelley,
thank you so much for reaching out, it means a lot. Corbin made it really easy to be friends with him and this community is a better place for having have had him here. We are so sorry for your loss.
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Thank you all for your help. It gives me a little more insight into his last hours. Corbin loved this community. He even got my husband involved in painting and his girlfriend was able to rescue some of his figures (which he threw into the rubbish) on Sunday 28th. We have some of those figures now - but I can’t bear to look at them yet.
Thank you all for being a part of his world xxx
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Those models will keep and will still be there for you when the time is right. While they may look odd and weird (my wife certainly thinks mine do) those pieces you have still represent something that was positive in his life - they brought him some small measure of joy (not to be too corny), fun times spent with friends (on-line and in person), and I’m absolutely certain that the creation and painting of them would have brought calm to his mind and some inner peace. I don’t think about these things when I look at the things I’ve made, but I do have a sense, deep down, that those things I’ve made are a manifestation of the hours of calm enjoyment, fun personal challenges, and the inner peace I experienced while making them. Those are all positive things and I promise you they were present in his life and he experienced them too. He was a wonderful member of our community.
P.S. About a year ago some of us were working on a project and discussing if we should get Pyro involved.
Corbin, better known as Pyroven, has been dilligently building his various archives and data hoards over the past year or so.
We haven’t had community awards for 2023 but I do think he was our best newcomer. He’s a patron, a dwarf collector, a frequent poster, engaged in projects. His heart’s in the right place.
Here’s a snippet of people’s responses:
Yeah he’s a good egg and a good recommendation
I agree on all accounts!
Yep 100% . Bring him in!
i concur. Dude has given of himself gleefully and tirelessly, and has been nothing but exuding positivity.
Once he had joined the project, there were still positive messages coming in after he was able to read them:
Long overdue!
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We’ll be remembering our friend and community member Pyroven July 29th with a special hobby hangout
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Thanks for posting about this. Are there any details yet, like timing, etc? Is there anything in particular that goes on with one of these things? I’ve never participated in one before. Do we just join by voice and chat while we’re working on hobby stuff??
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I’ve just set the time to 8pm GMT for the time being, but the general idea was just to have hobby hangouts throughout the day, actually. There’s a few people to the east, a large chunk of us in Europe and then a US based group. Getting everyone together is next to impossible anyway…
As for what happens - yeah pretty much as you said! People joining in the audio-chat on discord, some even enable video, people just painting, building, 3d-sculpting, basically anything they want! Some just hang out and don’t really do anything 
For this occasion we could for sure think about doing something special, though. So far I just announced it so people could mark it in their calendar.
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My wife and I just had a small craft ‘shed’ build on our summer property on the East coast (completed a few weeks ago). We have not used it yet, but I’ll be there on the 29th and we’ve got wifi out there… sounds like a great way to christen the new hobby diggs.
I’ll need to give some thought to what I want to work on! Maybe a nice easy unit of 20 Axemen or something? I have a few such units kicking around that I can pack up to take out there and the paints are easy to cart along or just buy when I arrive 
Can’t wait!!
~N
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Oh that’s so lovely! Sounds like a plan 
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Hope to see/interact with some of the community on the 29th… not letting the unfinished craft space go to waste - I’m all setup and ready to roll!
~N
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Hey @Jasko - is it possible to generate a new link? This one has since expired.
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Yes of course!
This also serves as a reminder for tomorrow’s hobby hangout to remember our friend Pyroven.
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I missed out. 
Went on discord when the wife went to bed but by then the hobby thread was empty. 
Hope you had a good hobby session!
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There will be more! We should do that more often anyway.
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Same - these damn time zones!
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