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Hi All and welcome to the weekend! And by extension, another edition of the Hobby Weekender!
Invoking my spell of Ctrl+C…
This is a collaborative, chatty thread. Not an exclusive thing or elitist. Please join in and enjoy a friendly welcome. Make a hobby pledge, post some tunes, let us all know how you are getting on. No religion or politics but otherwise discussion and chatting is encouraged. Points awarded for entertaining posts, being engaged or getting hobby done and there is a winner declared at the end.
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Questions! Questions that need answering!
1. Do you have a successful, tried and true, plan or approach to tackle hobby projects? If so, how do you go about it?
2. Props in gaming – do you use any bolt-on game hacks like customised or scratch-made turn counters, objective markers, condition markers, tokens, deployment points, dice towers, or visual aids? If so please post pics and info on how you use them and how they assist in gaming
3. What part of hobby gives you the biggest uplift? I.e., does playing a game give you the endorphin hit or are you happier building and painting? Any elements of the hobby that you don’t enjoy or that feel like a grind or a chore?
1. Plan or approach to new projects ? – As I mostly build WW II vehicles I usually get inspired by a photograph . It also helps if the subject of the photo is sitting unbuilt on my shelf , as by the time I order a kit and it arrives , I’ve usually been inspired by something new . Example –
2.NA – don’t play
3. Hobby high ? – I think it’s managing to modify and kit bash your basic plastic kit into something that’s unique , that no one else has . Most plastic kits give you a minimal choice of options , built version 1 or version 2 out of the box sort of thing . Where as with a little research , some bits and pieces from the parts box , and a little skill , you can build pretty much whatever catches your fancy ( within reason ) Example – knocked out KV I
Its your basic Warlord plastic KV with some resin bits ( GasoLine 1/48 cable ends ) . I scratched the open fender box adding bits from the parts box . And played around with the track to make it look battle damaged .
@mage yes first blood goes to you 🙂 So your preferred approach is to grind through projects with iron determination – well played 🙂 I do know that switching things up a little does tend to help me, although the output I get through isn’t anywhere near as much as you seem to complete. Interesting idea having a main project and dedicated mini projects to switch to. I did the hobby pledges thing in 2017 and got a tonne of stuff done as a consequence. My only issue was that by the end of the year I was painting stuff I didn’t really want to do then as it was stuff I thought I might need 10 months ago rather than my current priority. Anyhow, this is what I managed to burn through in 12 months using the ‘hoby pledge’ approach:
So it does work from a ‘volume’ perspective but the focus tends to waver a little. Maybe I could look at some sort of compromise approach and make pledges in 3 month blocks? Actually that sort of makes sense as projects could be tailored to prevailing weather conditions (even with a wet palette you just can’t paint in 40 degree heat…).
Doing anything fancy with theming your Frostgrave warbands? Do you have a miniatures range decided on? Ha, nice coincidence re the prop. I’ll post some photos of my healing potion props later on. Yes gaming just seems a lot more fun with well painted forces on a nicely presented tabletop. I have heard that the dice gods always favour the prettiest painted army, but in my experience it’s my nicest painted units that tend to fail morale checks and flee of the board or get shot to ribbons by turn 2… Maybe I need to do something to appease the deities of dice?… Hope the thumb starts to behave itself soon 🙂 30 points for question responses, and a bonus 5 for first post.
@a27cromwell nice to hear you have an inventory/stockpile of stuff on hand for when the inspiration strikes. I have to confess I’m somewhat similar – I see a kickstarter for half a dozen fantastic minis and see the possibility for a group of dungeon delvers, a warband, ships crew etc but by the time they arrive they tend to get shelved as I’m busy with whatever else I happen to be in the middle of doing. Still, I suppose it’s better than living right next to a well stocked hobby shop – not sure I would have enough self control not to just grab stuff as inspiration struck me.. Yes can definitely see where inspiration struck there with your tank riders 🙂 Ah yes can see how customisation would give that sort of buzz. As I’m not really well versed in wielding greenstuff etc most of my conversions are just straight up parts swaps, with the occasional ‘heat and reshape’ at a knee or elbow joint. Customising really is an aspect of the hobby that I should focus on more. Really like the track damage on your KV-1, in my mind I can almost hear the thing flying off and hitting the ground 🙂 30 points for question responses.
@rickabod41 welcome! Wow, that’s a nice dilema to have re projects. If it was me I’d probably do the conan one first as it seems a lot less intimidating 😉 I haven’t had a really good look at Strontium Dog yet, which is probably for the best – any time I start thinking about getting involved in a new gaming genre I tend to get heavily distracted making terrain for it and never quite get stuck into the game proper. Yes I think we all have project ADHD – in our collective defence though there are that many amazing games and minis rolling out every month that it could possibly be argued that we are all showing a great deal of restraint in collecting as little as we do. Is anybody else buying this line of reasoning? Nah, didn’t think so but it was worth a shot… 😛 Do you have photos of the BB team you can share or link to? 15 points.
@evilstu yeah I have a project up cunningly entitled The Chaos All Stars 2018, but for quickness I will just add a few pics here.
Yeah I probably stick to painting some of the existing hundreds of figures I already have, well at least until payday…
My hobby progress for today – fished my ‘potions’ props out of storage only to find all the water had dissipated through the cork at the top of the jars. So refilled a couple and coated with superglue to form a seal. Small craft jars form a ‘pound shop’ or your local equivalent, with water and food colouring. Obviously blue for mana and red for a healing potion, but you could add or mix other food colouring for more complex potions (green for poison, yellow for an antidote, purple for a strength boost, orange for a resistance boost etc etc…). @warzan something worth considering for your fighting fantasy escapades?
Also (finally) made a tiny bit of progress on my Orktober ‘Long range Dakka Group’ – some base colours on my custom Kommandos and a few of the vehicles. Feeling better as at least I have a start made.
And finally some more of the base colours down on my Perry Dragoons.
Hoping to get a bit more progress done tomorrow.
Also I made a healing potion
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