In like flint for a change 😉

Pledge for the weekend – 1st I’ve got to finish up the latest Rivers of London novel, Lies Sleeping, a series I really cannot recommend enough. Then my hobby plan is to try and finish up on that unit of Fenrisian Wolves, and then either start in on another Space Wolf pack (I still have like 80 of the mad buggers to get painted) or something that’s already in progress. i’ve various 40k bits I could go back to, or I might just work on some Infinity for variety…..

Questions:

1. Yes it is and I picked up the first bit of this week. Knowing me though I’ll still be doing it right up to Christmas Eve >_<
2. My Grandfather still does them but I havn’t in many a year.
3. Maybe Mexican?
4. Oh so many possibilities. I admit to being jealous that my niece & nephew get to experience the likes of Transformers with some of the best engineering around (not that I still buy them for myself, nosir…)
5. Beef steak & gravy, closely followed by chicken & gravy. No ale, no onions, no peas 🙂

Ohh new weekend, new weekender 😀

Pledge ? I am expecting anywhere between 1 and 3 kickstarters to arrive within the next few days based on the tracking e-mails/messages I’ve got.
The only ‘problem’ is that I could only identify one as being Carnevale as it was a message from TrollTrader Ltd which is TTCombat … I think.

There’s also another one that mentions “mdf terrain 4mm” … which may or may not be the habblock kickstarter (all 10 kilos of it … )

1. Seasonal gift shopping – For those of you in regions where it’s a thing do you still bother? If so, have you started yet?

Saint Nicolas is about to arrive saturday … except it’s not the fun kid-friendly affair it used to be, because a bunch of *beeps* have been extremely disruptive.  It’s gotten to the point that we’ve got police with bullet proof vests running security and all rest of the security theatre that modern society demands … 🙁

This is how it used to be :

And this is the pc version that kids get to suffer as a result :

Anyways … on to happy thoughts.  When we were kids we still had presents and associated shopping by our parents.
These days we’ve moved it to Christmas. Shopping isn’t easy when no one really knows what they want. Add to this that my nephews and niece also get presents from Saint Nicolas I can’t start shopping until I know what they have been given.

2. Jigsaw puzzles – have they ever been a thing in your household?

nope, although I do remember my parents having one puzzle framed as a picture.

3. Name a type of food you wished could just be delivered to your door on demand in the same manner that pizza is.
that’s a trick question, isn’t it ?

4. What kids toy do you wish had been available on the market when you were younger?
I’d say Warhammer 40k and all the other miniature wargames we’ve got these days.

5. Favourite pie filling?

Difficult. I’d say cherries, but there’s also apricots and gooseberries.

hmmmm

A pledge huh? I will finish the next phase of model building in my current project to sculpt detail/prime/block colors. I might finish out the basing as well since it is for a week.

Seasonal gift shopping is something I try and have done by July/August to avoid anything crazy with the holiday ramp up from Halloween onward. Typically some January sales to clear stock work well enough to address those things that people will appreciate but never saw until opening it on Christmas.

Jigsaw puzzles were not a thing for entertainment in my home. There was too much activity going to devote time to a sedentary pastime like that.

Korean food delivered on demand would be great. Bulgogi/galbi/dolsit bibumbop (difficult as its served in heated stoneware) at my beck and call would be wonderful. Since we’re going all out on it I’d have the namul added as well.

Kids toys that I wish had been around when I was young? I can’t say that there is one. LEGOs have been a pretty strong brand that has weathered time well.

A favorite pie filling… hmm… Chocolate creme or cherry. Then again Shepard’s pie or chicken pot pie are pretty good. It depends on the meal and how I feel for the menu.

@querion Egad, so much music out of the gate? I’ll need to get home from work and listen.

@limburger Carnevale… I missed the KS as my wallet wept out of emaciated agony. The figures were well done for the traditional Italian costumes I remember seeing as a kid.

@evilstu : lack of any terrain was why I backed the habblock kickstarter … so with that and the cardboard terrain I got from the battlesystems kickstarter I can probably build a spacehulk and the town it crashed in 😉

Which kind of gives me the opposite problem : not enough storage/display space. *eep*

I’ve also completed the pledgemanager for Anno Domini 1666 and some of the stuff in there should fit in the Carnevale universe.
At least depending on actual size of the miniatures when that thing ships.

I reckon I can fill two rooms with hobby stuff if I unpacked everything *grin*
I am totally not suffering from ‘shiny syndrom’ … LOL

The gift shopping usually sorts itself out, but I would prefer it to not be so last-minute.
And the little ones have been happy with the gifts they’ve gotten so far. So I’m doing my part as a god parent by spoiling them.
Need to think of ways and means to get them into this hobby. The oldest one is just about the right age for 40k … but I’m not sure if he likes building stuff.

@evilstu : gift registers ? that wouldn’t work for my parents as they literally say that they don’t want or need anything.
I am also unaware of any such things existing in my region (it would have to be in Dutch).

I usually try to get them to make lists of stuff and then the rest of us decide who buys what.

Because the lists tend to be 2 or 3 items it’s not much of a surprise and thinking outside of the box is tricky.

Hey guys,

Im a tad late to the party. Was a little busy yesterday.

My pledge:

Work on, and try to finish, my Goblin Town Goblins. There are like 38 of them. I need to do their loincloths, straps, and backpacks. Some have wooden handles and weapon straps but not all of them. The ones with more details I shall put off to the end as not all of them have that step.

Im also assembling a floor plan for Call of Cthulhu, assembling some 40k stuff and priming some A Song of Ice and Fire stuff. Im also priming Star Wars miniatures. I need to get posting pics. I played some Arcworlde during the week and will post up pics of that game. Tonight is also D&D night.

1. Seasonal gift shopping – For those of you in regions where it’s a thing do you still bother? If so, have you started yet?

I do, of course. I started, kind of, by ordering something online for a relative a few weeks ago. I will be starting properly soon, very soon! I love it, its great to express friendship/family/caring than exchanging of gifts.

2. Jigsaw puzzles – have they ever been a thing in your household?

They were, but never a big thing. I remember putting them together as a kid, but they don’t really have any appeal to me now sadly. I don’t think they are bad, its just the amount of time one would spend doing one, as an adult with a busy enough shift pattern, shared custody, friends, training and other hobbies its just not something Im willint to a lot time to.

3. Name a type of food you wished could just be delivered to your door on demand in the same manner that pizza is.

Sushi. A thousand times Sushi. Dragon Rolls, Spider rolls, sushi bentos, california rolls, sashimi, gyoa dumplings, prawn sushi, tempura… The nearest place opened in my town a year ago but went out of business. They had several health code violations. The nearest favourite is in Limerick city.

4. What kids toy do you wish had been available on the market when you were younger?

Lego. Now while there was lego when I was a child, the lego now… is wow. I mean, Marvel, DC, Lotr, doctor who, lego. So many different lego properties! Star Wars too!

5. Favourite pie filling?…

Im not a huge pie fan. Ill go for the classic apple, all warm, gooey and tasty. Which is weird because I love pastry.