Haven’t taken part in a while, but those of a certain vintage will remember me building lots of tanks, not painting very much and having great taste in heavy metal . The only thing different is I’ve ran out of tank kits… Anyhow, going to make a very conscious effort to make an effort and take part more.

My pledge

Well, one thing is different.  I have moved house, so I have now a hobby shed, rather than a hobby room and a bedroom I stored everything.  Shed used to be where my dad and myself had a train set.  So having taken the train set down, I have been moving and storing all my hobby stuff plus lots of other crap from the house move.  My hobby this weekend will be getting the shed sorted.  I might even take pictures when I have it done (which given I can barely get in the door of the shed at the moment, might be in a very future weekender 🙂

Questions

1. The first thing I thought of was a hand I played in online poker many, many years ago (not hobby related but it has been a while since I have played a game of anything).  It was at a very low stake… but I had the King, Jack of Hearts… flop comes down… 9 Hearts, 10, Hearts, Jack Spades… 4 people in hand, one person put in a raise, everyone calls.  I think the turn was the Jack of Diamonds… there is a raise, I go all in (probably wrong mathematically) and everyone else calls… I know I am beaten… only one card can save me…river was the Queen of Hearts… Straight flush… go baby… I won about $23 dollars, which was about 5 or 6 buysins at the table…  Other people had the nut flush, a fullhouse, a straight… Chances of a straight flush is something like 0.003% or something.  Can’t remember all the exact details but it is the only straight flush I ever got, very close to a Royal Flush.

2. Not one instance, but two companies I am massive fans of is Sarrisa Precision and 4Ground.  They continually blow me away with what you can do with MDF (and sometimes a piece of card).  Ruins, trains, buses.  Love them both!

3. I’m not that familiar with Transformers but I don’t see why it couldn’t work as a wargame (there is already a Robotech game, I think).  You’d need two models for each character e.g.  BumbleBee in car mode and in Transformer mode.  Would be interesting but the lack of factions would probably hurt it in the long run with good guys v bad guys (though x-wing has been ok with 3 factions). The licence might be prohibitive though.

Knightrider would be a hard one to make interesting as a miniatures game. Same with shows like Airwolf and StreetHawk.  Would be fun computer games though.  You could play a lot of TV shows with 7TV.  I do have some A-team and Ghostbusters look-a-like models.

He-man and Thundercats might be fun, and I want a Thundertank!!!!  Make it so!

Music
I’ve mentioned trains twice so…