Pledge: To put paint to my commission pieces. I think that there might be hope for a quick turnaround. I just need to wait for a replacement part for one that I dropped. I might’ve also ordered Reaper’s Kabaka K’wana as a future project as well. Eh, what am I to do? That big chunk of metal spoke out and said it needed to be modified.

• When is too much hobby too much?

I’d say whe it stops beig fun. I thik that the dopamine rush of creating these pieces gets to a point that we just keep doing it to attain a certain level just to meet a plateau and then do more to get our “high”. I go back and forth with building and paiting for that reason. Life gets in the way enough that I step aside and put it all down to rebalance. I guess also the appreciation of the work also is part of the appeal. Kick up the levels whe you get positive feedback. Its pretty much the ‘gamification’ of the whole XP system that we have here. Its also just a good motivator not to end up with a house of lead that some people ** cough cough @avernos ** might be able to survive the Fallout universe in without ever having gone to Vault Tec.

• Did you every experience a “oh I totally forgot how much fun this is” moment with a game/system you’ve abandoned long ago?

I fell in love with Blood Bowl again from the videogames and came back to the tabletop

• Where have all the flowers gone?

:::looks at the suspicious llama lurking around the room and narrows eyes in accusation::: you

So where do I put this? Here? Or tag it onto last week’s thread? I haven’t made a pledge (for what it’s worth, I’ve not hit any of my pledges in about three weeks) got any cool music or answered any questions.

I have, however, got a moving Jabba’s Throne for my up-and-coming diorama:

Well, after this music recommendation came up on my YouTubes, I think YouTube has reclassified me as a dirty old man;

I’ve had to watch all their content on YouTube to make sure I was disgusted and subscribed to their channel to ensure I remain disgusted…

@damon No, sir, you are NOT a dirty old man. As the Internet likes to say.. you are a man of culture, as am I.

Now, on that note, I add music for some synthwave fandom I last heard about.

Now to make the 80s even more 80s

Get to tha choppa!

Have you ever fired your gun up in the air and gone “Augh!”?

Now about your motorcycle @sundancer… I raise and call

@sundancer my brain doesn’t feel old, it’s the meat popsicle it inhabits that keeps letting me down.?

Nice ‘cut & shut’ job on the bike, looks like it can make it over speed bumps now.

@horati0nosebl0wer culture?  green, furry and full of bacteria? About right I suppose…?

Okay, it’s taken nearly a year (I did virtually no traditional “hobby” between Christmas 2019 and August 2020), but I finally have these 15mm Iraqis complete.

I have already talked about the tank conversions, kit bashes, etc (15mm Battlefront originally from Fate of a Nation and Team Yankee).  So I won’t bore everyone again.  Suffice it to say I have three tank platoons of three tanks, two ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” SPAAGs, and a platoon of five BTR-6o infantry carriers.

So now I just had to finish up my infantry.  I used PSC’s Cold War Soviets as a base.  A staggering 141 figures come in the box, way more than I need for this this project, so I just used 70, saving the other 7o (and the better support weapons) for a future Soviet project.

Now the force (86 pieces in all) is complete.  Note this represents the units, uniforms, and equipment used by the Iraqi ARMY, not the Republican Guard (so no T-72M-based “Lions of Babylon” or BMPs).  This is because the project is specifically aimed at 1991 Gulf War battles between Iraqis and the United States Marine Corps, who fought battles further east of where the Republican Guard was deployed (Al Khafji, Kuwait City Airport, etc).

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I’m very pleased with the PSC Cold War Soviet infantry box. Includes snipers with Dragunov rifles, RPGs with RPG assistants (AK riflemen carrying additional rockets), AT-3 Sagger ATGWs (AT-4 Spigots and AGS-17 “Plamya” auto-grenade launchers also provided, not pictured here because I am saving them for my actual Soviets), PKM GPMGs, SA-7 MANPADS missile, and of course plenty of AKM riflemen.

The whole force.

So with 16 AFVs and 70 infantry, I basically have an understrength mixed-arms battalion here, actually VERY understrength … which works given the six weeks of air pounding the Iraqi Army suffered before the ground war started in earnest on 24 Feb 1991.