My pledge:
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> Work on some ‘The Hobbit’ miniatures: Bifur, the Goblin Scribe and Radagast. If I finish them, excellent, if not no harm.

> Post pics of work I completed during the week (Hobbit stuff again)

That’s it! Pledge small, work big and do some add ons.

My answers to the questions:

1. Since we Hobbyists tend to get a lot of mail, how do you “deal with” a parcel coming to you? Are you checking the tracking details constantly. always running to the mailbox or are you content to just sit and wait?

Try to make sure I am home of course! HAHAHAHA!!!! I order it to a friends house or to my parcel motel account. It’s the easiest thing to do. Nobody was too pleased when my huge-ass Game of Thrones kickstarter arrived.

2. What’s your favourite leftover food to eat straight out of the fridge?

Indian. Specfically a Chicken Cheese Kofta. It’s a kind of curry like dish with Indian meatballs, chicken, no veg and a layer of cheeses on top. It is freakin glorious. Glorious I tell you. I had it reheated for breakfast one morning, much to the disgust and naysaying of my parents when I was at theirs for Christmas. I intend on making a tradition out of i.

3. Are you a fan of Tournaments or Organised Events?

I am, but not win at all cost tournaments or overly competitive events. Sometimes smaller events are better. I hate unpainted, or badly painted bare minimum armies at events. Doubles tournaments are the best imho. Id love to try a BoW hobby weekend thing. To me, it is an event, and it is organised! Though it is not organised play, per se.

As for real tournaments, I need to enter more martial arts ones. After I get back into training more and lose some weight. I need to cut my teeth again with fighting.

4. What’s the best “Socks and Jocks”/”Stocking Stuffer” gift for a Hobbyist?

Small things that fit in said pockets. Land Raiders, Thor Heavy Walkers, and a game of Thrones army set will not fit. Small blind bag space marines, easy build kits and blister packs do. As well as dice, gaming supplies, tokens, cards and such. As an Orc would say ‘hobby gibbinz’.

5. You’ve just been given a new rulebook, assume it’s a fantasy/sci-fi genre, what’s the first thing you do? Do you read from page one, look at the artwork, read the fluff, learn the rules or maybe something else?

Flick through it quickly paying attention to the font, structure, consistency of titles, example diagrams/photos, colour pages showing off the faction, fluff, and if there are designers notes or thoughts at the end.

1. Since we Hobbyists tend to get a lot of mail, how do you “deal with” a parcel coming to you? Are you checking the tracking details constantly. always running to the mailbox or are you content to just sit and wait?

Most stuff I buy is from my FLGS but when a parcel is inbound I track it “permanently” via app 😉

2. What’s your favourite leftover food to eat straight out of the fridge?

What are leftovers? And even if there was something left, it usually get’s munched the same evening. Seriously I never have frozen leftovers and very rarely do I need to put it in the fridge *g* (Yes, I eat that well and I don’t cook in to big quantities)

3. Are you a fan of Tournaments or Organised Events?

If they are well done and not to far away. Otherwise I’m happy with any opportunity to game 🙂

4. What’s the best “Socks and Jocks”/”Stocking Stuffer” gift for a Hobbyist?

A voucher/gift card for his favourite store. That money then *must* be spend on the hobby 😉

5. You’ve just been given a new rulebook, assume it’s a fantasy/sci-fi genre, what’s the first thing you do? Do you read from page one, look at the artwork, read the fluff, learn the rules or maybe something else?

First look at all the shiny pictures. Then read the intro text. After that flip through the pages. If it has a “introductory fight/mission” that is read more in detail.

And now, it’s 11pm here, off to bed! Huzza!

Hey guys, things are getting better now so i’m going to try to get back into hobby over the next few weeks. May be a bit here and there for a while though.

Firstly thanks to @elessar2590 for hosting.

My pledge, albeit a very loose may or may not happen pledge (the wife cant be left unattended at the moment so hoping my eldest girl will be around for a few hours over the weekend) , will be to try and get a game in of something. Probably Warmachine or WWX.

Anyway on to the questions

1) Actually i’m pretty patient with my parcels and dont mind when they turn up…..as long as its next day and before 10 am 😀

2) Pizza or spag Bol. My granddaughter is five and makes a pretty darn good Spag Bol. OK she needs some help with all the actual cooking, but she makes the sauce herself. Have no idea what she puts in it but its really good and her dolls love it too.

3) Well I would be but have never managed to get to one. I can’t take Matty because of his Autism and he panics in crowds and it just wouldnt be right to go off and leave my best buddy behind.

4) Mmmm for the past few years I’ve gone with single figure boxes of what Matty has mentioned he wants, Unit attatchments and the like.

5) errrrm sniff it…. Yeah i’m a sniffer. I just love that unique smell you get from either new rulebooks or from opening a new boxed game. Wife thinks i’m mad.

@biggabum : a book sniffing club ? LOL … that’s just so wrong.

I do love the smell of freshly printed books in the morning 😉

Now I really need to count some sheep and sleeeeppp.

Classic British comedy (Doctor House ;-)) :

ooh … and 1/6 scale tanks …

https://www.armortek.co.uk/elefant-tank/

I wish I had the skills and tools to commit to such a project.

just finished unwrapping all the bubble wrap … soo many lovely bubbles. *pop* *crackle* *pop* …

*eh* .. the art in the Carnevale art book is amazing.

The ‘gift of the harbinger’ scenarios all involve a single exclusive npc that is part of the kickstarter.
They may not be the best, but they provide an interesting story.
I think the one with the funeral gondela (an escort mission with a twist) is probably one that is the best of the bunch.

https://carnevalegame.com/scenarios

So for my birthday next week we will be playing a Mordheim campaign marathon. I might have bitten off more than I can chew with trying to convert up, paint minis and paint terrain as well. Not sure I will get it all done. But I shall try!

Here is a slightly converted poxwalker to be use as a Possessed

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So far there is Witch Hunters (yours truly), Possessed (the misses, awkward LOL), Undead, Orcs and Goblins and possibly Middenheimers. More to follow.

Hey All, hope your collective weekends are going well 🙂

@elessar2590 thanks for hosting!

1.    Since we Hobbyists tend to get a lot of mail, how do you “deal with” a parcel coming to you? Are you checking the tracking details constantly. always running to the mailbox or are you content to just sit and wait?

I tend to be fairly ambivalent about things arriving. I used to get really excited and sweat on the arrival of a particular package, but I have a much more relaxed approach now. As long as it arrives in due course then that’s fine. There are some courier companies that I would prefer senders didn’t use as their collection points are difficult to get to outside standard business hours, but as most places don’t announce their preferred locally partnered courier for international orders I guess you just have to roll with it. Not too much of a concern in the grand scheme of things 🙂

2.    What’s your favourite leftover food to eat straight out of the fridge?

Leftovers?…. Nope, all the food goes into my tummy after I make it 🙂 OK, leftover fried rice maybe…

3.    Are you a fan of Tournaments or Organised Events?

I used to be (WHFB 6th and 7th eds). Nowadays I can’t settle on one rules system and don’t really want to invest the time in keeping up with what all the new units mean for all the armies in a particular game. Also, while I have had pretty good luck in the past, there are a certain type of gamer that you tend to run into at tournaments and they are not by and large the ones that I would seek out socially.

4.    What’s the best “Socks and Jocks”/”Stocking Stuffer” gift for a Hobbyist?

Greenstuff! No wait, Glue!, No, brushes! More paint! Basing material! Dice! Scenic elements! MDF carts! …ok there are actually a fair few, and that’s without the ubiquitous mini in blister packaging…

5.    You’ve just been given a new rulebook, assume it’s a fantasy/sci-fi genre, what’s the first thing you do? Do you read from page one, look at the artwork, read the fluff, learn the rules or maybe something else?

For ‘rulebooks’ as in the core rules of a game I’ll flick through and try and get a quick handle on the layout of a book and what’s contained within as far as the size/weighting of relevant sections. I’kk then start at the front and go through the intro, opening lorre and core rules. I’ll then usually skim the additional special rules, detailed lore, spells/equipment sections before coming back later on to do a proper read. For ‘supplements’ such as army books I used to end up going straight for the ‘crunch’ as I got annoyed every time a factions backstory was rewritten for the narrative of the current games system…

No formal hobby pledge this week as I have a bunch of stuff on- will keep chipping away at what’s on my painting desk when the opportunity presents and post progress as it happens.

Responses to everyone’s posts later 🙂