Pledge this week is to start work on The Greatjon, though depending on what comes up he may be my last mini before school starts, we’ll have to see.

Questions!

Did you have your regular “week of from work yet” (if you still work regularly) or is that still coming up for you?

Doesn’t really affect me, sadly. I’ve had a LOT of time off and it’s not the great to just sit around doing nothing.

When you have time of work (not counting these pandemic off times) do you get to get more things hobby related done or less?

I usually get more done, as will be seen by my hobby work dropping off with school looming on the horizon.

Do we need or want an emergency substitute “drug” for this weeks Weekender and XLBS?

We sort of make our own in whatever way we feel, I think, either through Discord or just this thread.

Arrgh … incoming package was delivered to a pickup point last week, but I can only get to it tomorrow.
No info on what’s in it, but I hope to have something tomorrow 😀

1) Did you have your regular “week of from work yet” (if you still work regularly) or is that still coming up for you?
One more week of work and then it’s two weeks of sitting at home and trying to do some hobby.
At least that is the plan. Not sure if I manage to get anything done if the current heat wave persists.

2) When you have time of work (not counting these pandemic off times) do you get to get more things hobby related done or less?

3) Do we need or want an emergency substitute “drug” for this weeks Weekender and XLBS?
There’s the ‘unofficial hobby hangout’ on tuesday … maybe an extra weekender episode ? 😉
I’ve got a few XLBS shows to watch, so I’m not bored yet ..

I see a disturbing lack of tunes … needs fixing.

And one more to fit the current weather :

After a couple of weekend of no real hobby time, my plan is to finish off the elves I have in the paint table. We’re also expecting good weather tomorrow so I’ve a bunch of priming I’d like to get done.

Questions of the week:

1. My usual week is in June to combine for E3 press conferences at ungodly hours due to time zones and my birthday. I’m not really working right now though so it’s been 7 month holiday at this point

2. Usually less, I cram in a lot of seeing friends and family. Hobby time is built into my normal weekly schedule to make getting through the week a little easier!

3. I’ve got a bunch of audio books and the last two weeks of pirate radio show to catch up on. I never say no to more miniatures content with fun people. I’ve really come to appreciate how much I miss a good hobby night where I can just listen to other people chatting nerd

@horati0nosebl0wer I’ll swing from the chandeliers when I want to  :p
It is kind of weird to see GW make a new Bloodbowl game again.
At best I was expecting them to just make a new production run, but new starter teams ?
And those haloween themed undead ?
Why can’t they update the bloody orks (and all the other non-spacemarine factions) in 40k instead ?

oh … and speaking of 40k
They finally fixed the pop-up that kept me from ‘enjoying’ the app.
And I can not believe that this thing passed even basic UI testing.
You’d think that the flockin’ core rules would be an integral part of the app, but instead they really do link to Google drive document … which is stupid as f*ck on a mobile device that isn’t an A4 sized tablet.
And it is pretty stupid given even with a proper sized screen it lacks all the basic quality of life features that make electronic books ‘better’ than hardcopy.

The app doesn’t even allow you basic access to troop profiles like the AoS app does.

And because they want to sell you the subscription … they chose to make the ‘subscribe & unlock app’ buttons actual big buttons, but the ‘skip this nonsense give me the free stuff’ button is a hyperlink.
ie : the thing is invisible …
OTOH … given the fact that the app is basically useless that kind of makes a weird kind of sense.

Did I mention that there currently is no way to unlock codexes ?
Or that the army builder is  “coming soon(tm)” … (another sign the app was released before it was done)

If it wasn’t for the copyright restrictions and the fact that it would be impossible to keep an unofficial app up-to-date I’d be making one myself. However given that I don’t quite grok the rules for listbuilding I can’t do that.
(I wonder if the dev team responsible for the army builder is having similar issues … it would explain a lot)

I mean seriously … post launch updates that basically turn a bunch of data into a semi-functioning app kind of prove that it didn’t work when it was launched. It might explain why they did not launch on the Apple App-store.

This week’s pledge is to paint another set of Kingdom Death survivors. Probably the raw hide set as they are next in the game progression. I finished the unarmoured survivors last night and you can see my project entry for them here: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1467945/#snav

1. Did you have your regular “week of from work yet” (if you still work regularly) or is that still coming up for you? – I had three days off last week, and have a full week booked at the end of August.
2. When you have time of work (not counting these pandemic off times) do you get to get more things hobby related done or less? – About the same, sometimes I might be able to squeeze a bit more in. Usually though I’m either away from home or fill all the extra time with DIY tasks.
3. Do we need or want an emergency substitute “drug” for this weeks Weekender and XLBS? – It’s a shame the shows were cancelled but I’m sure I can survive until Tuesday’s Unofficial Hobby Hangout.